tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19218190763059433312024-03-27T01:35:41.001-05:00Faith Alone SavesThis website exists to proclaim the Bible truth that faith is all God requires to receive His free gift of eternal life.David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.comBlogger227125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-63555647651028366412024-03-14T15:44:00.005-05:002024-03-14T15:44:57.354-05:00We Are Saved By Faith Without Works<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Romans 4:4-7, “</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b> But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, <u>his faith is counted for righteousness</u>.</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b> Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom <u>God imputeth righteousness without works</u>,</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.”</b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A favorite device of the Devil is to have men look to their works for their salvation instead of looking to Jesus Christ. He leads some to trust in their morality, some to depend upon lodge membership, some to depend upon confessions to priests; some he leads to trust in water baptism. These are fatal mistakes.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />The unanimous voice of all the Scripture is that lost people are saved by simple faith in Jesus Christ, without any act of self-righteousness, and water baptism is never mentioned as a part of God's simple plan of salvation. Water baptism is an act of righteousness, for Jesus said in <b>Matthew 3:15, "Thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness." </b>Titus 3:5 says that such acts of righteousness do not save us:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><blockquote>“<u>Not by works of righteousness which we have done</u>, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.”</blockquote></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The phrase “washing of regeneration” refers to the new birth, being regenerated. It means having Jesus (He who is the beginning - Revelation 1:8) born in us. The phrase </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“renewing of the Holy Ghost” refers to being “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">renovated</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (which is the Greek meaning of the word </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">renewing</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">). Put simply, God saves us and then the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit begins His work to change us. This is in direct contradiction to the heresy of Lordship Salvation.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In a false gospel, the sinner is required to reform his or her own life either to obtain, keep or prove that they are saved; but in true salvation, a sinner doesn't have to change (nor even be willing to change) anything to be saved, the Holy Spirit lives the Christian life through us, which is exactly what <b>Galatians 2:20</b> teaches, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless <u>I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me</u>: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”</b> Do you see the important difference friend? A false gospel mandates that YOU change your own life to get to Heaven; whereas trusting in the true Gospel saves you, and then it is CHRIST who lives through you (which is the fruit of the indwelling Holy Spirit according to Galatians 5:22-25).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Baptism is certainly a good work, but Ephesians 2:8-9 likewise says plainly that salvation is altogether a matter of God's mercy and not of our works:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><blockquote>“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: <u>NOT OF WORKS</u>, lest any man should boast.” [emphasis added]</blockquote></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Salvation is a free gift of God which is not deserved, is not bought, and cannot be paid for. No church, nor preacher, nor the individual saved has any right to claim credit when a soul is saved. <b>1st Corinthians 3:7, “</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.”</b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />In fact, we are told again and again in the Bible that the man who trusts in Christ has everlasting life immediately. John 3:36 says:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote><b>“He that believeth on the Son HATH everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”</b></blockquote></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Hath" means has, present tense, in modern English. Likewise, John 5:24 says:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote><b>“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, HATH everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation: but IS PASSED from death unto life.”</b></blockquote></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The same teaching is given in John 6:47...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><blockquote>“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me HATH everlasting life.”</blockquote></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In the Bible, we find it clear that people believed first and then were water baptized. According to these statements from God's inspired Word, they were already saved before they were baptized. A man who trusts in Christ is saved instantly, before he could possibly get to the baptistery waters. It does not take baptism to save someone.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">By the way, nearly every pseudo-Christian cult (e.g., Mormons, Seventh-Day Adventists, Lutherans, Jehovah's Witnesses, Church of Christ, et cetera) all sinfully require being baptized in water to get to Heaven. Tragically, they are all hellbound false teachers.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">WHAT DOES "BAPTIZED FOR REMISSION OF SINS" MEAN?</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />In Acts 2:38, the term "for the remission of sins" is used as follows:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote><b>“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”</b></blockquote></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Some people think that this passage contradicts the dozens of other plain statements in the Bible, that a man is saved by faith alone, and saved immediately when he believes. But when you use the word “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">for</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> in this passage, just as it is used so many times in every-day conversation, you will see what Peter meant. A man is arrested FOR stealing; one is grateful FOR a favor; one is blamed FOR carelessness; one is commended FOR bravery. The word </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">for</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> here does not mean </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">in order to secure</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> remission of sins; and it is not rendered that way in any translation of the Bible that we know of anywhere. When one repents (i.e., changes his mind) to trust in Christ, he receives the remission of his sins.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />What Peter means is that people ought to repent and then, after their sins are forgiven, they should be baptized as evidence of that. Baptism is our public profession of faith. Baptism is an outward snapshot of what has happened inwardly. That is, we have put our trust in Jesus' death, burial and resurrection from the dead. This is what water baptism represents. That is exactly what people ought to be baptized for, that is, to show the remission of their sins. That Scripture, then, does not mean that people ought to be baptized in order to be saved.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRJYseYDE5I89JzuYUsjmb1LgPTDvpV9Kb-ev-PZbB46gurhrM_65OUB4e0HdkYfdv3T6w6J8MiSoJIYTQJc4RYELNsujsp1F3pOaByyH1kqKnh25vdtIdAzwxJBX5oqGo-LRzclp98zGYr3KxU_roZmGU_l37-jGWaX6DmGUw7P54UY51Imp_uMqykvo/s840/according_to_the_scriptures.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="840" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRJYseYDE5I89JzuYUsjmb1LgPTDvpV9Kb-ev-PZbB46gurhrM_65OUB4e0HdkYfdv3T6w6J8MiSoJIYTQJc4RYELNsujsp1F3pOaByyH1kqKnh25vdtIdAzwxJBX5oqGo-LRzclp98zGYr3KxU_roZmGU_l37-jGWaX6DmGUw7P54UY51Imp_uMqykvo/w400-h297/according_to_the_scriptures.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-70625513930466388462024-03-12T00:33:00.006-05:002024-03-12T00:33:54.922-05:00John Bunyan Was An Awesome Free Grace Preacher<span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pilgrim's Progress (written in 1675) author John Bunyan (1628-1688) was an awesome free grace preacher. I am so sick and tired of hearing neo-evangelical fools like Ray Comfort, Paul Washer and John MacArthur FALSELY claim that all of the old time preachers from century's past preached repentance from sins to be saved. Clearly, they did not, and John Bunyan is solid proof that there have been true and false preachers in every generation.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaXr6NHowMKK4Z0Q6wDnP3mTb013vS2fj1sZeq8ChAj14QuuVhe0ba5g6sayYMpCRW3Hz9Sicd75B9EWV-ZVBYv1jFHzj8dyl3jzg2CoDMQuoLVFQwd3ZHHI4pgkDyqVolci3zuFpuL2dqmDFouD_UpJMzmXnwMmBUWB7LnfICjIOXKrAaJ2L4NXpX3SY/s493/john_bunyan_quote_02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="493" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaXr6NHowMKK4Z0Q6wDnP3mTb013vS2fj1sZeq8ChAj14QuuVhe0ba5g6sayYMpCRW3Hz9Sicd75B9EWV-ZVBYv1jFHzj8dyl3jzg2CoDMQuoLVFQwd3ZHHI4pgkDyqVolci3zuFpuL2dqmDFouD_UpJMzmXnwMmBUWB7LnfICjIOXKrAaJ2L4NXpX3SY/w400-h366/john_bunyan_quote_02.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />In lieu of the archived wisdom of such brilliant men of God as John Bunyan, one can only wonder what is insanely wrong with corrupt institutions like Pensacola Christian College, who wickedly adhere to a works-based plan of salvation that requires being willing to forsake one's sinful bad habits in order to be saved.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Moreover, even without the astute knowledge of such godly preachers as John Bunyan, the plain and simple Holy Bible, when taken at face value, teaches a free grace Gospel. John Bunyan saw it plainly in the inspired Word of God in his generation, and honest truth-seekers see it today in the same King James Bible.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />In my humble opinion, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5shRkMFbezA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">corrupt places like BJU and PCC</a> merely follow what they've heard taught by peers in the ministry, instead of searching the Scriptures as they ought. It is much easier and less risky to merely go along to get along, than it is to buck the trend and swim against the stream by obeying God's Word. In other words, PCC are guilty of compromising their integrity for favor and acceptance by others, but they have betrayed Jesus and the Gospel.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I have heard some naïve critics on social media falsely accuse John Bunyan of teaching the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation in his classic book, <i>Pilgrim's Progress</i>. To those idiots I would like to say, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">OH SHUT UP!!! Listen, John Bunyan wrote a novel to personify the Christian life, showing how easily we can become sidetracked as saints by discouragement, lies, evil people, liars and other common pitfalls in the Christian life.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">However, John Bunyan didn't write his book to present a plan of salvation, so it is stupid to look for the Gospel in a book that wasn't intended to show you how to get to Heaven. We have the Bible for that. The inspired King James Bible is our <u>only</u> authority is all matters of doctrine, morals and faith, not John Bunyan's book. Would you look in Martha Stewart's recipe book for God's plan of salvation? No, of course not. So why look for it in a novel that is admittedly fictitious?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In sharp contrast, when we read John Bunyan's sermon statements it becomes abundantly clear to see that he taught a free grace Gospel. The following is my favorite preacher's quote, from John Bunyan:</span></div><div><blockquote><span style="font-family: Spartan; font-size: medium;">“If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the man Christ without and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the Word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the Word of God, and cast stumbling blocks before the people.” —John Bunyan (1628-1688)</span></blockquote></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Amen and amen! I have read silly debates online by religious people, who are arguing over whether the main character “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Christian</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> in the book Pilgrim's Progress was saved at the Wicket Gate or at the cross (when his heavy burden dropped off his back). Folks, who cares! The point to be learned is that Christian was saved by faith alone in Jesus Christ without works. That is the point John Bunyan wants the reader to learn. It's a beautiful story that personifies the Christian life's journey. My favorite movie based on the book is the 2008 film, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim%27s_Progress:_Journey_to_Heaven" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pilgrim's Progress: Journey To Heaven</a>.” </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Again, John Bunyan wasn't trying to present a plan of salvation in his book. He just emphasizes that biblical truth that we are saved by faith alone in Jesus Christ without works.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">At what point does a person get saved? It is at the very instant that a lost sinner places his or her childlike faith (trust, reliance) in Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. Simply receive His sacrifice on the cross as full payment for your sins, believing that He was buried, but then resurrected from the dead three days later. This is the<i> Gospel </i>(1st Corinthians 15:1-4). You can needlessly argue over where this happened in the book Pilgrim's Progress, but you're looking for something that the author did not intend. If you want the plan of salvation, then you should be reading the inspired Holy Bible, specifically the Gospel of John (John 20:31).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Shame on anyone who falsely accuses John Bunyan of teaching Lordship Salvation, when every sermon he ever preached proved otherwise. John Bunyan faithfully preached a free grace Gospel.</span></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-31037243960526918142024-02-16T17:14:00.003-06:002024-02-16T17:19:15.724-06:00Beware Of Ruckmanite False Teacher Robert Breaker<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><div>2nd Corinthians 11:3-4, “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, <u>so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ</u>.<b> For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.”</b></div></b></span><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Someone asked me today what I think about Pastor Peter S. Ruckman (1924-2016). <a href="https://www.ruckmanism.org/multipleplans" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr. Ruckman actually foolishly teaches</a> that after the Rapture, lost sinners will have to keep the Ten Commandments to get to Heaven. That is damnable heresy!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr. Ruckman also errantly teaches that this is how folks were saved in the Old Testament, by works, which is nonsense. Acts 10:32 says "all" the prophets gave witness that remission of sins comes only though faith in Christ (the Messiah). Another false prophet is Evangelist William P. Grady (another loyal disciple of Ruckman). These are Hell's Henchman, damning souls to Hell with their counterfeit plan of salvation, which is really a plan of slavation!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Dr. Ruckman had so many weird and unbiblical ideas and teachings. They idolize Ruckman at Bible Baptist Church in Pensacola, a militant cult of several hundred Ruckmanites who deceive people with a false gospel of partial faith in Christ plus turning from your sins to be saved. They're shameful Bible Baptist Bookstore (a ministry of their corrupt church) that sells deadly "Chick Tracts." Evangelist Robert Breaker in Milton, Florida, graduated in 1998 from Peter Ruckman's Bible college (aka, Pensacola Bible Institute).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Kindly said, you need to beware of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxnuqbFvBJ8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robert Breaker's Ruckmanology!</a> (in this heretical video he falsely teaches that people were saved by WORKS in the Old Testament). The prophet Habakkuk lived under the Mosaic law, yet he exclaimed in <b>Habakkuk 2:4, “</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but <u>the just shall live by his faith</u>.”</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> People were saved by FAITH alone throughout the Old Testament. <b>Romans 4:4, </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>“Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, <u>but of debt</u>.”</b> If salvation had been by WORKS in the Old testament, then God would have OWED them eternal life. Dear reader, God has never owed any sinner anything except to burn in Hell forever!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WxnuqbFvBJ8" width="320" youtube-src-id="WxnuqbFvBJ8"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Old Testament Salvation: By Works?</span></b></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Furthermore, Robert Breaker teaches in his foolish video (at about 24 minutes) that salvation required WORKS under the law in the Old Testament. He foolishly says that the priest had to do the WORK of cutting the lamb's throat, and the WORK of bringing the blood into the Holy Place, et cetera. This is some of the worst Bible teaching I've ever heard. What a butcher! Common sense tells us that 99.9% of the Israelites weren't involved with the priestly work of the tribe of Levi (aka, the book of “Leviticus” which describes the ceremonial work of the tribe of Levi</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">). So how did all those 99.9% of the Jews get saved?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Also, if Robert Breaker is correct, how did the Israelites get saved when they were taken captive 400 miles east into Babylon for 70 years? If Breaker is right, then they all went to Hell, because the Levite Jews could not perform the WORK of the priests. I am stunned at the woeful theological ignorance of Ruckmanites!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The psalmist understood that we are saved by God's righteousness, and not our own works. <b>Psalms 119:142, “Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">”</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> We find the phrase </span><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thy righteousness</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> mentioned 24 times in the book of Psalms. Clearly, God's imputed righteousness, which is by faith alone without works. The New Testament confirms this truth in <b>Romans 4:5-7, </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>“But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;"> <u>Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works</u>,</span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.”</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Hello Mr. Breaker, did you read that: <i>WITHOUT WORKS!!!</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div>Where did David describe the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputes righteousness WITHOUT WORKS? <b>Psalms 32:1-2, “Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.”</b> David fully understood that salvation is solely of the Lord, and not by WORKS! <i>All Scripture</i> is given by inspiration of God (2nd Timothy 3:16). The Apostle Paul clarifies the truth that David understood that God's imputed (credited) righteousness to the sinner by faith is WITHOUT WORKS. David calls Robert Breaker a LIAR!</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Millions of Baptists Are Sadly Going To Hell</span></b></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />I hate to say it, but MILLIONS of Baptists are going to split Hell wide open when they die, because they have bought into the lie that faith is not enough to be saved. They think you must be willing to turn away from your sinful bad habits to receive God's free gift of eternal life, but that is an entirely different mindset than grace alone. To "be willing" to give up your sinning effectively implies that you MUST try to stop sinning to be saved.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />As an illustration: Let's say that a teenage son asks his father if he can borrow the family car to drive somewhere. The father says, "Okay son, but only if you'd 'be willing' to gas the tank when you're done!" The son agrees and brings the car back with an empty tank of gas. The angry father asks his son why he didn't put gas into the tank. The Smart Alec son says, "Well Dad, you only said that I needed to 'be willing' to gas the tank, you didn't say that I had to." Obviously that son would be in big trouble and likely never be allowed to drive the car again."<br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Likewise, when cartoon evangelist Jack Chick (1924-2016) wickedly tells lost sinners that God demands they first "be willing to turn from sin" to get saved, it clearly instills a horrible mindset into that person's mind that God expects them to forsake their sinful bad habits, and to radically change their behavior, in exchange for a so-called "gift" that is supposed to be completely free. Jack Chick's corrupt plan of salvation is totally confusing BULL CRAP!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Having to forsake one's sinful ways is something that is not only very hard to do, it is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE! No one has ever turned from their sinning. At best all we can do is clean up our life of sins. Kindly said, Jack Chick (1924-2016) was an idiot in his theology. He was a California hippie cartoon artist, not a Bible preacher! God only knows the incalculable spiritual damage that Jack Chick has done, by influencing tens of thousands of preachers and churches to preach another gospel. It is not merely a matter of semantics, it is damnable heresy!!! To be willing to try to give up one's sinning has absolutely NOTHING to do with the sacrifice which Jesus made for all humanity on Calvary's cross.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Woe unto any preacher or layman who wickedly passes out Chick Tracts. The beautiful artwork is enticing eye candy, which masks the deadly doctrinal poison contained in Jack Chick's partial faith in Christ plus works counterfeit plan of salvation. The requirement to have such a radical change of heart toward sin, that a lost person must experienced a drastic change in their behavior, is SELF REFORMATION; but this is not how God's plan of redemption works, in which the indwelling Holy Spirit lives the Christian life through a saved person, and not we of our own self-righteous accord (Galatians 2:20).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Effectively, every false prophet who errantly teaches that a person must "be willing to turn from sin" to get to Heaven, is telling them that they must be willing to change themselves to be saved. That is NOT Bible repentance, it is human reformation. Matthew 27:3b says that wicked Judas <b>“</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">repented himself,</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>” </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">but this is <a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/27-3.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a completely different Greek word</a> than is used for <i>repentance</i> unto salvation used elsewhere throughout the New Testament.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Judas was merely sorry that he got caught betraying an innocent man (he even returned the 30 pieces of silver because he felt regret), but he didn't change his mind to admit that he was a dirty sinner in God's sight, nor did Judas change his mind to admit that Jesus is the Christ. Judas died in his sins and went to Hell forever to suffer, not because he was a sinner, but because he turned from his sins instead of repenting toward God in true repentance, which includes faith in Jesus Christ </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(Acts 20:21).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />The Gospel is critically important. I am sad and disgusted that roughly 85% of Baptists today are hellbound churchgoers. They have churchianity without Christianity. No one is saved who has the wrong mindset that the life we live affects our eternal destiny. No one is saved who attempts to live a changed life in order to know that they are saved.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>My Own Salvation Testimony At Age 13</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I humbly got saved at age 13 because I trusted Jesus as my personal Savior, believing that He did it all for me through Calvary's cross.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thankfully the issue of my sinful bad habits didn't come up, or else I wouldn't have trusted Christ. I mean, I would have known that I cannot give up my sinning, no one can. The very idea would have turned me off completely to trusting Christ. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I never would have come to Christ if someone would have said to me in 1980 at age 13:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote>"David, you can be saved right now by trusting Christ, believing that He died on the cross for your sins, was buried and resurrected three days later; <u>but first</u> you must be willing to turn away from your sinning from now on. You cannot continue openly committing sin. From now on you must do your best to live a clean life and not sin anymore. You won't be perfect, but you must try your very best not to sin anymore. If you're not willing to do that, then you cannot be saved. Would you still like to be saved?"</blockquote></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">To brush the person off, I would have politely said that I need to think about it first, but in my heart I would have already decided that I am not interested, knowing that I could never make such a COMMITMENT. And that's what it really is, a <u>commitment</u> do earnestly make an effort not to sin anymore. This is NOT the simple plan of salvation which Jesus teaches in the Holy Bible. This is NOT the simple plan of Salvation which the Apostle Paul teaches in the Holy Bible. Robert breaker, William P. Grady and other Ruckmanites are guilty of preaching another gospel. Peter S. Ruckman (1924-2016) pulled on the same rope as the Devil.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">False Prophets Place The Burden Of Change Upon Lost Sinners</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Do you see what they are wickedly doing dear reader? They are placing the burden of behavioral change upon the sinner's shoulder to be saved. What a heavy burden it is!!! No wonder Jesus said in </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;">Matthew 11:28, “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;">Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>”</b> If you have been lied to dear friend by a Ruckmanite, told that you must </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">turn from your sins</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> to get to Heaven, then Jesus also says to you, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;">Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and <u>I will give you rest</u>.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>”</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That sweet </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“rest” Christ gives is in knowing that your name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life in Heaven. That sweet “rest” Christ gives is in knowing that when you got saved, nothing more was required to have eternal security. By the way, Eternal Security is not a separate doctrine from Eternal Life. They are one and the same teaching.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The man who has Eternal Life also has Eternal Security, that is, a total Assurance of Salvation. <b>1st John 5:20, “And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son <u>Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life</u>.”</b> Jesus is Eternal Life. So, if you have trusted Jesus as your personal Savior, you already have Eternal Life!!! When the tabernacle of your earthly body is no longer suitable to sustain physical life (2nd Corinthians 5:1), your spirit and soul return to God who gave it (Ecclesiastes 12:7).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">False prophets are effectively putting a knife to your throat, threatening you that God won't save you unless you first COMMIT to attempt to stop sinning. Ungodly Calvinist pastor, <a href="https://stewart1611.blogspot.com/2020/08/gods-gift-of-eternal-life-is-not-trade.html" target="_blank">John MacArthur, even calls Lordship Salvation </a></span><span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: helvetica;"><u>“</u></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://stewart1611.blogspot.com/2020/08/gods-gift-of-eternal-life-is-not-trade.html" target="_blank">an exchange, a trade of sorts</a>.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The biggest problem today is that the churches <a href="https://stewart1611.blogspot.com/2021/03/like-insulin-resistance-churches-are.html" target="_blank">have become truth resistant</a>, just like a diabetic who has become insulin resistant. Even when faithful preachers (humbly like me by God's grace) place the truth directly into their hands, they reject it to side with their corrupt peers in the ministry (Hosea 4:6). They are afraid to suffer reproach for Christ. They don't want to be put outside the gate with Jesus (2nd Timothy 3:12).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Holy Spirit Lives The Christian Life Through Us</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dear reader, I know that I preach on this topic often, coming at false repentance and Lordship Salvation from different angles, but I don't want to take the least risk that someone may miss the truth of the Gospel and go to Hell, all because they were lied to by Satan's ministers of unrighteousness (Matthew 7:13-15; 2nd Corinthians 11:13-15). To clarify, you DON'T have to be willing to forsake your sinning to get to Heaven. You simply need to trust the written Word of God which says that Jesus is the Christ, the only begotten (biological) Son of God, who died in your place on the cross to pay down your massive dent of sin.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">He did that for you, me, and every human being who has ever been born (1st John 2:2). Jesus was buried, but He didn't stay dead. Three days later Jesus miraculously resurrected from the dead. This is the <i>GOOD NEWS (which means,</i> 'GOSPEL'), by which all who BELIEVE IT are instantly, irrevocably and forever saved. <b>Romans 1:16, “</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;">For I am not ashamed of <u>the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth</u>; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>”</b> According to 1st Corinthians 15:1-4, the 'Gospel' is the <i>Good News</i> that Jesus <i>died</i> on a cross for our sins, He was<i> buried</i>, and three days later He <i>raised up</i> bodily from the dead. If you BELIEVE (trust, rely upon) that 'GOOD NEWS,' then you are saved dear sinner.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Please don't miss what I am about to show you. All of the wicked preachers today (e.g., Jack Chick, William P. Grady, Marty Herron, Steve Pettit, Chuck Phelps, Ray Comfort, John MacArthur, Todd Friel, Paul Washer, Bob Jones University cult, Pensacola Christian College cult, et cetera), who say that you must “turn from your sins” to be saved, are placing the burden to change one's behavior upon THE SINNER. This is a false plan of salvation!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In true Bible salvation, you simply come to God as you are, as a hopeless ungodly sinner. You don't have to stop or start anything, nor even be willing to change. You simply receive God's free gift of eternal life by trusting what God has written in His inspired Word concerning Jesus Christ. The dear Savior died in your place on the cross, paying a debt that He did not owe (2nd Corinthians 5:21). The moment you trust Christ, God indwells and seals you with His the blessed gift of His Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9; Ephesians 1:13-14; 1st John 3:24).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Unlike the first counterfeit plan of salvation which errantly requires YOU to change your own behavior, in God's true plan of salvation it is Christ's Holy Spirit who lives the Christian life through you. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;">Galatians 2:20-21, “I am crucified with Christ: <u>nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me</u>: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b> I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.”</b> God intentionally put these two Bible verses together! Verse 21 says that keeping the WORKS of the law cannot save anyone. Yet, WORKS are exactly what corrupt preachers are demanding from you when they teach that you must be willing to </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“turn from your sins” to be saved, or “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">live a changed life</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> to prove that you're saved. They are demanding WORKS from you to get to Heaven.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Deadly Sin Of Tampering With God's Word</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In the Old Testament we read the tragic true story of Uzzah...</span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b><blockquote><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">2nd Samuel 6:5-7 “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b> And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> And <u>the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God</u>.”</b></blockquote></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I like Uzzah. He was a good guy! I see careless people leave their shopping carts in a store's parking lot. I always grab a cart when I'm going into a store, since I'm going that way anyway. I always return my cart when done, and I usually grab two carts, to return them into the store. I do that for Jesus, to let my light so shine before men (Matthew 5:16). I care! I think Uzzah was that kind of guy, desiring to be helpful. He saw the <i>Arc of the Covenant</i> wobbling like it was ready to topple over, so he reached out his hand to steady it. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">God didn't just rebuke him, God killed Uzzah on the spot! </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Some liberals no doubt think that God should have overlooked Uzzah's offence, seeing that Uzzah had the best of intentions. Numbers 4:15 plainly warns that anyone who touched the Arc of the Covenant would die. The lesson is clear</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">—God doesn't need our help to secure His Word, don't mess with God's Word!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Likewise, tens of thousands of corrupt preachers today mean well. They are good men (as far as sinful humans go). They don't want to hurt God, corrupt the Bible, or help damn souls to Hell. That is not their intent, I have no doubt. However, we read in <b>Proverbs 14:12, “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">”</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> I have no doubt that Robert Breaker is a good man. I am confident that he pays his bills on time and loves his neighbor as himself; yet, he is guilty of corrupting God's Word.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">All of the well-meaning preachers today who falsely teach that you must “turn from your sins” to be saved are guilty of mixing works with grace. Like Uzzah they have the best of intentions, but they know not what they are doing. You cannot show me one verse in the inspired King James Bible which says to </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“turn from your sins” to get to Heaven. Wicked but well-meaning religious men added those extra words to God's Words. <b>Proverbs 30:5-6, </b></span><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <u>Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar</u>. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span></b><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJnFbfV6hY7XC12QAE5_8IUVzJ3EkkNO2uiseSICWGgfZI3veOighRMYBF1Pbh0GFDJaYjOrjIa6_lg4kyhLO1bnuegELZN8PsVM17Ro-HNARO0pjJ14woJV2q-g5eqB4z2b3kcX41KyPUjnlhw0fBf0wqOa1z1joZZbIQvrKh5nKZ1zh_oD6mABt4tYk/s710/lordship_salvation7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="710" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJnFbfV6hY7XC12QAE5_8IUVzJ3EkkNO2uiseSICWGgfZI3veOighRMYBF1Pbh0GFDJaYjOrjIa6_lg4kyhLO1bnuegELZN8PsVM17Ro-HNARO0pjJ14woJV2q-g5eqB4z2b3kcX41KyPUjnlhw0fBf0wqOa1z1joZZbIQvrKh5nKZ1zh_oD6mABt4tYk/w400-h210/lordship_salvation7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgos85Og7j79yXW6SHx5EJ7-Dm_jjWQs6-xAQDIuG-jXu-Nru5KzXYHsu4E34mDZ4wzIJ25qSYwShkhuvN7w_ozFg9Pb33lpVSAl0MjqZXdohfqRtmSzbTmMGb-ZblknseD6Q2pYglJtoyAHzDpYL2gLenRlnCN1RXp5ZTJsEBcGnhdNeEp0EkaIAz72Fk/s1124/lordship_salvation-seven_problems.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="843" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgos85Og7j79yXW6SHx5EJ7-Dm_jjWQs6-xAQDIuG-jXu-Nru5KzXYHsu4E34mDZ4wzIJ25qSYwShkhuvN7w_ozFg9Pb33lpVSAl0MjqZXdohfqRtmSzbTmMGb-ZblknseD6Q2pYglJtoyAHzDpYL2gLenRlnCN1RXp5ZTJsEBcGnhdNeEp0EkaIAz72Fk/w300-h400/lordship_salvation-seven_problems.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYRSsI7mu7Y0bGkTK2ly-xxYkOYRtAx6xhfv8t9nQ5qnExcfdaPazD9zsksb4qXFZfjnDx2oBXQ1HUqZKEBh9r_QNOOQOj74drkR5324F8Tq-wu_Fbk9_Sqqi_TRKXtcpnLfW0-6ldiwkvxQOI4wSWVmoj9AmkdX-t7vkQrqfbYZCx4IqfyKw7ERpExIo/s883/lordship_salvation_prisonhouse.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="883" data-original-width="843" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYRSsI7mu7Y0bGkTK2ly-xxYkOYRtAx6xhfv8t9nQ5qnExcfdaPazD9zsksb4qXFZfjnDx2oBXQ1HUqZKEBh9r_QNOOQOj74drkR5324F8Tq-wu_Fbk9_Sqqi_TRKXtcpnLfW0-6ldiwkvxQOI4wSWVmoj9AmkdX-t7vkQrqfbYZCx4IqfyKw7ERpExIo/w383-h400/lordship_salvation_prisonhouse.jpg" width="383" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzV3Gut5RAQ3i17DxCx7QVF06ErTXWyas-o_MM0GaZrmJnzcl1BHsn5VrBIBdVbEgZZ-m8QtVp39-87BfIpdrB8ygooPbfNiclDQ5p3Eb3ThJHVZ_KKSxUG6C8usiXPxAmku-Ll49tHUV_BNJhyVQ5KnXTCOvEhasS2Rz5SRsTBgBM2eSz_wmiWmoXkbs/s835/lost_and_saved.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="835" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzV3Gut5RAQ3i17DxCx7QVF06ErTXWyas-o_MM0GaZrmJnzcl1BHsn5VrBIBdVbEgZZ-m8QtVp39-87BfIpdrB8ygooPbfNiclDQ5p3Eb3ThJHVZ_KKSxUG6C8usiXPxAmku-Ll49tHUV_BNJhyVQ5KnXTCOvEhasS2Rz5SRsTBgBM2eSz_wmiWmoXkbs/w345-h400/lost_and_saved.jpg" width="345" /></a></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-92162911052824863752024-02-14T16:36:00.005-06:002024-02-14T16:49:13.943-06:00Denzel Washington's Fake Christian Testimony<div><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">John 3:1-3, “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b> The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, <u>Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God</u>.”</b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There is much rave on social media and in the news about the Christian faith if Hollywood actor Denzel Washington. Unfortunately, I don't see it! In the following recent YouTube video you will hear Denzel speak about his so-called salvation testimony, in which he says that as a boy he, “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Gave it up</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">” and was filled with the Holy Spirit.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Dear reader, that is not God's simple plan of salvation, not even close! ...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wDAKbrsAQBE" width="320" youtube-src-id="wDAKbrsAQBE"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>WHY I LOVE JESUS! ~ Denzel Washington</b><br />(Epic & Powerful Christian Testimony)</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In a 2020 article titled, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Denzel Washington on Coming to Christ: ‘<a href="https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/idolchatter/2020/07/denzel-washington-on-coming-to-christ-i-was-filled-with-the-holy-ghost-and-it-scared-me.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I Was Filled With the Holy Ghost and it Scared Me</a>,</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">” Denzel merely says that he </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Gave his life to Christ</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> three times while growing up, but that is not the true biblical Gospel. What saith the Scripture?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b></b></span><blockquote><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">1st Corinthians 15:1-4, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Moreover, brethren, <u>I declare unto you the gospel</u> which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b> By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b> For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, <u>how that Christ died for our sins</u> according to the scriptures;</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b> And that <u>he was buried</u>, and that <u>he rose again the third day</u> according to the scriptures:</b></span><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span></b></blockquote></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As we just read, the “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Gospel</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">” (Good News)</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> is comprised of three things:</span></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Jesus DIED on a cross to pay our debt of sin.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">He was BURIED.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Three days later Jesus RESURRECTED physically from the dead.</span></li></ol></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">To settle the matter, so that you will know from this moment forward that your name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life, and that you have a home in Heaven—</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">simply come to God as an admitted guilty sinner and receive Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full payment for your sins, believing that He died, was buried, but then bodily raised up the third day from the dead. If this is your only hope for forgiveness of sins and eternal life, you are born again! It's that simple.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In sharp contrast, no one has ever been saved by giving their life to Christ. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty! </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith. There is something very wrong with Denzel's alleged Christian testimony! You don't get to Heaven by </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“giving it up” as Denzel says he did multiple times. Jesus gave His life as a sacrifice on the cross, paying a debt He did not owe because we owed a debt we could not pay.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In the introduction to Michael P. Bowen's helpful book, "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/NEVER-KNEW-Michael-Patrick-Bowen/dp/1607918102" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I NEVER KNEW YOU</a>," he writes these truthful words on page xii:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote>Here is the gospel: God says that we are sinners and that no
amount of good works or behavioral changes on our part could ever
make us holy enough to enter heaven. God sent His Son to pay for
all of our sins. Jesus paid for our crimes by dying on the cross for
us all. His dead body was buried in a grave. On the third day, Jesus
arose from the dead.
The instant you believe this, He knows it and He saves you.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on Me hath everlasting life”(John 6:47). The free gift is based solely upon your trust
in what Jesus did for you and has nothing at all to do with what you
do for Him. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should
boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9).</blockquote></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Amen and amen! I thank God for Brother Bowen, that he so beautifully clarifies the Gospel. God only knows the eternal impact that his book is making for the cause of Jesus Christ.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Denzel Washington says some excellent things in interviews. He is right that the biggest problem in America today is a lack of fathers in the home. Denzel wisely said that where there is no father in the home, boys find a father in the streets instead. The judge becomes their mother and the prison system their home.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Denzel also rightly said that love cannot be legislated. The government cannot force different ethnicities (e.g., blacks and whites) to get along with each other. Love is a personal thing, not something that can be forced through legislation. It all begins with us as individual people. It all boils down to one's home environment, how we were raised up. This is why sexual immorality (casual sex) in today's wicked American “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">hookup culture</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> is so evil and dangerous, because it conceives</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> fatherless bastards. Every child deserves to have both a mother and a father in a happy and safe home. Yet, all we see from Hollywood, television, the entertainment industry and every other media venue today is sexual immorality being promoted as a cool lifestyle.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">By the way, singer Taylor Swift is not what she appears to be! I cannot warn parents enough to protect your child from Miss Swift, who is a child of the Devil. Take a look at what she did in her despicable music video titled, <a href="https://www.jesusisprecious.org/evils_in_america/devils_music/taylor_swift_and_satanism.htm" target="_blank">'Wildest Dreams'</a>! Why aren't parents everywhere angry and rising up in protest against this evil woman? Why hasn't the news media investigated and exposed Taylor Swift as a sex pervert and dangerous bad role model for teenagers? I'll tell you why! It is because Satan is the god of this evil world (2nd Corinthians 4:4). It is because the ungodly world love and excuse their own (John 15:19). If a pastor and church would have made a video like that, the FBI would have been knocking at their doors!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A demonic spirit pervades American culture today! Having said that, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I don't believe Denzel Washington is a genuine born again believer, because his testimony is not that of a saved man. I am not talking about his acting in Hollywood movies, which has nothing to do with his direct testimony from his mouth concerning Christ. One's choice of behavior is not an indicator of being saved or lost. Most unsaved religious people are good people (as far as sinners go). The unsaved false prophets in Matthew 7:21-23 boasted to Jesus of having done "many wonderful works," but Christ denied knowing them as His sheep.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Those lost sinners in Matthew 7:21-23 were Christ followers! They called Jesus "Lord, Lord." But Jesus denied knowing them! Giving one's life to Jesus is not God's simple plan of salvation. Unless Denzel is born again, he cannot enter into Heaven (Luke 13:23-24). The new birth is by faith alone in Jesus Christ apart from all human effort, sacrifice and works. Anyone who testifies that they </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">gave it up</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> to be saved, didn't get saved. Jesus </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">gave it up</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">” so that we wouldn't have to be punished in Hell without hope, mercilessly tormented in fire and brimstone day and night forever (Revelation 20:11-15, 21:8).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thank you for reading my blog.</span></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-10396101629527263582024-02-11T09:55:00.005-06:002024-02-11T10:03:05.180-06:00Beware Of A False Gospel That Pressures YOU To Change Yourself<span style="font-family: helvetica;">In a booklet delivered to my home's mailbox in November of 2023 by Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, it contains the following damnable heresy...<br /><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“REPENTANCE — Now is the time to turn from your sin and embrace God. <b><u>The act of turning away from sin</u> is called 'repentance.'</b> This word implies an inward decision<b> <u>to follow and obey God's will instead of your self-serving sins</u>.</b> It means changing your mind about sin and seeing it as something that grieves God. The Bible says that God patiently waits for all people to make this decision.”<br /><br />SOURCE: “<a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Wolves/pcc_damnable_heresy.htm" target="_blank">John & Romans</a>,” Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, p. 60</span></blockquote></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Also this damnable heresy,<br /><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>“I repent <u>of my sins</u>.</b> I realize that sin is something that God hates and <b><u>I no longer want to hold onto sinful bad habits in my life</u>.”</b><br /><br />SOURCE: “<a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Wolves/pcc_damnable_heresy.htm" target="_blank">John & Romans</a>,” Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, p. 62</span></blockquote></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That is damnable heresy!!! You cannot show me any of those false teachings in the inspired King James Bible. Pensacola Christian College (PCC) and their incompetent Campus Church pastors are theological liars!!! Satan is using them to lead lost sinners into Hell (2nd Corinthians 11:13-15). They are giving lost people a false hope.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The "Gospel" is that Jesus died on a cross for our sins. He was buried. He resurrected physically three days later. According to 1st Corinthians 15:1-4, whosoever BELIEVES (trusts, relies upon) this Good News is saved. Anyone who admits to being a guilty sinner in God's sight (Romans 3:19-20), and they receive Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full payment for their sins, believing that Christ is risen from the dead, is saved (1st Thessalonians 4:14).<br /><br />To get to Heaven, there is no additional biblical requirement to hate sin so much that it compels us to forsake a lifestyle of sinning. That is manmade reformation, not biblical repentance. In true salvation, God saves an ungodly sinner (just as I am), and then the indwelling Holy Spirit indwells that child of God. If we choose to Walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-25), then the Holy Spirit (not us) lives the Christian life through us (Galatians 2:20).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A changed life is the "fruit" of the indwelling Holy Spirit (God living in us as believers). What Lordship Salvation does, is it forces an unsaved person to change their own life, in their own human power, to be saved. This is not the "fruit" of the indwelling Holy Spirit. It is human reformation and a counterfeit plan of salvation.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pastor Harry Ironside (187501951) said it best, I humbly think:</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“The Gospel is not a call to repentance, or to amendment of our ways, to make restitution for past sins, or to promise to do better in the future. These things are proper in their place, but they do not constitute the Gospel; for the Gospel is not good advice to be obeyed, it is good news to be believed. Do not make the mistake then of thinking that the Gospel is a call to duty or a call to reformation, a call to better your condition, to behave yourself in a more perfect way than you have been doing in the past …<br /><br />Nor is the Gospel a demand that you give up the world, that you give up your sins, that you break off bad habits, and try to cultivate good ones. You may do all these things, and yet never believe the Gospel and consequently never be saved at all.”<br /><br />SOURCE: Harry A. Ironside, from the sermon: '<a href="http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/BTP/Dr_Harry_Ironside/what_is_the_gospel.htm">What Is The Gospel?</a>'</span></blockquote></span>Bravo! Clearly, Dr. Harry Ironside taught a free grace view of the Gospel. I love free grace preachers who get the gospel right!<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“When it comes to salvation, if you're saved by grace, there's nothing to stop or start.” —Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold, “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3jZtL4MPL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Legalistic Judaism is Today's Calvinism</a>”</span></blockquote></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Amen and amen! <b>John 6:47, “</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”</b></span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5JqsArYcWkep0Wn31fUg5FiiYNG5mFPS7HsWlTU9JzU05hQqTEbGG8wesz9TEz3G7EG0JOkqDken4SBqNcOcXhIFAay6xlnUn_hPzLg8m4NTkiKviO8hmTLBIUNEoRGZALlg6uYB7u52cjasAM112wsKA3QuwQudwd3BY1x7kotH_6aEHIHHmF9mNFgeN/s960/free_grace_versus_lordship_salvation.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="644" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5JqsArYcWkep0Wn31fUg5FiiYNG5mFPS7HsWlTU9JzU05hQqTEbGG8wesz9TEz3G7EG0JOkqDken4SBqNcOcXhIFAay6xlnUn_hPzLg8m4NTkiKviO8hmTLBIUNEoRGZALlg6uYB7u52cjasAM112wsKA3QuwQudwd3BY1x7kotH_6aEHIHHmF9mNFgeN/w430-h640/free_grace_versus_lordship_salvation.jpg" width="430" /></a></div></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-24419024885862846712024-02-03T14:23:00.002-06:002024-02-03T14:23:41.742-06:00The “Turn From Your Sins” To Get To Heaven Heresy<div><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">John 3:16-17, “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I heard a wonderful sermon today from which I gleaned this edifying quote:</span></div><div><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“When it comes to salvation, if you're saved by grace, there's nothing to stop or start.” —Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3jZtL4MPLI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Legalistic Judaism is Today's Calvinism</a></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This <a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/BTP/Pastor_Ralph_Yankee_Arnold/turn_from_sins_heresy.mp3">MP3 excerpt</a></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> was taken from Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold's helpful sermon</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> titled: “Legalistic Judaism is Today's Calvinism.” Here is the sermon if you'd like to watch it...</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J3jZtL4MPLI" width="320" youtube-src-id="J3jZtL4MPLI"></iframe><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br />Legalistic Judaism is Today's Calvinism</span></b></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I love this guy! It is becoming extremely rare to find a free grace preacher in these perilous times. Tragically, I'd guess that about 85% of Baptist churches today have succumbed to the Devil's falsehood that more than faith is required to get to Heaven. In addition, they falsely teach that you must be willing to “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">turn from your sins</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">” to be saved,</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> which the inspired Holy Bible doesn't teach. What saith the Scripture? </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">Proverbs 30:5-6, “Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. <u>Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar</u>.”</b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The shameful pastor of Campus Church at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5shRkMFbezA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pensacola Christian College (Jeff Redlin) is a liar!</a> His clown sidekick Timothy Zacharias is a liar! God says so, not me. Bob Jones University today and their longtime president Steve Pettit are liars! They have ADDED man's words to God's Words, perverting the grace of God. Jesus paid for everybody's sins, He doesn't demand that you forsake your sinning to receive His payment for your sins.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gy93iaCeb3E" width="320" youtube-src-id="gy93iaCeb3E"></iframe><br /><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy93iaCeb3E" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Salvation vs Service - Truth and Love</a></span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">God is so very good dear friend. Christ died on that cross to pay for your sins. He was buried but then came back from the dead. All that God requires for you to get to Heaven is that you BELIEVE Jesus Christ did it all for you. I love this quote from Pastor Yankee Arnold...</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Christ paid for my sins. If He paid for my sins, why would I have to go to Hell to pay for my sins? All He wanted me to do was believe that He did it all for me. That is the greatest news in all the world! And no man, no preacher, has the authority to change the Gospel message. Just because you don't see </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">how</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> it works, or understand how it works, you don't have to know—it ain't none of our business; but God says there is a Heaven and a Hell, and if you want to go to Heaven this is what you do, and your opinion don't count.” </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">—Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3jZtL4MPLI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Legalistic Judaism is Today's Calvinism</a></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span></blockquote></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That's truthful preaching! We need more free grace preachers today. The Devil is very subtle, a master deceiver and imitator (2nd Corinthians 11:13-15). Satan is a beautiful liar!</span></div></div><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Jeremiah 10:21, “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.”</span></b></div></div></div><div><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsMi2_KvUsilA92BjMrSZnd4xwT3ZG92g49cJcQdoFYUroUFuf2-tgWX3uK8vGbpZ3pAhf_s1AuHry-F2hkK0Wo1PzXa4kFIj4bN1UhB-nlXHV4ZgL5Lr3Q4tQttLGilELYOuKv_raJ6s4Zjd3dw4oALeCN-Q3Ag_nh8loOk8cQWIevdviyHIZbeDOzKI/s1024/faith_versus_works.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="727" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsMi2_KvUsilA92BjMrSZnd4xwT3ZG92g49cJcQdoFYUroUFuf2-tgWX3uK8vGbpZ3pAhf_s1AuHry-F2hkK0Wo1PzXa4kFIj4bN1UhB-nlXHV4ZgL5Lr3Q4tQttLGilELYOuKv_raJ6s4Zjd3dw4oALeCN-Q3Ag_nh8loOk8cQWIevdviyHIZbeDOzKI/w284-h400/faith_versus_works.jpg" width="284" /></a></div></b></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-87566918056586848442024-01-31T23:17:00.005-06:002024-01-31T23:31:04.554-06:00My Response To A Critic Of Eternal Security<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div><b>Galatians 2:4-5, “And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:</b><b> <u>To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour</u>; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.”</b></div><br />The Apostle Paul said that he refused to put up with false prophets, not even for one hour. Paul shut their microphone down (so to speak), and ran them out of the churches!</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I received numerous emails yesterday and today from a religious man who wanted to debate eternal security. I kindly told him that I don't debate, but he persisted to pressure me, thinking that he was going to convince me over to his damnable heresy. Here first is his last email to me, and then following I will post my response. This is an important matter, which I want to lay to rest once and for all. The Bible teaches: ONCE SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED!!! If you don't agree with that, then you are not born again and if you don't repent, you will spend eternity burning in Hell, fire and brimstone. It's as simple and frightening as that!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Here is a portion of his foolish email (his grammar is so bad that most of his sentences make no sense at all). I haven't edited anything. Literally, this is exactly what he wrote to me...</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote>I won't quote scripture for I know you know them, but so do I. </blockquote><blockquote>And I have never once read the words "once I am saved I always will be saved" no mater what I do and say to others because if I do anything it is just works trying to save myself.<br /><br />If we all did not need to do anything then who is not saved by not earning Lord Jesus own death and resurrection Blood Salvation? That he has already gave everyone today even before they were born as sinners and they never could earn it, can they?<br /><br />Please take no offence, I am not trying to argue, I honestly ask, is "always saved" even Biblical, and if so then why would Jesus own appointed Apostle be lost when he already profess faith in Jesus Christ and who also cast out demons and healed the sick?<br /><br />Also the 2 born again believers in Acts 5 who Peter drove out their spirit and they fell dead on the ground for their lies they gave against the Holy Spirit.<br /><br />Also the Holy Spirit has never told me, that I am always saved no matter what I or how I treat others, nor did Apostle Paul never said he was always saved, not that I could read anywhere in scripture. For he said I have finished the race and he looked forward to be saved.<br /><br />Can we discuss those scripture please, "as it is written" already in the Holy Spirit's Interpretations in Holy scripture with the words God spoke that need no other private reinterpretation from anyone?</blockquote></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Here is my full reply to him...</span></div><blockquote>*****,<br /><br /> Kindly, we don't agree on eternal security. I absolutely believe in, "once saved always saved." No matter what I say, you are set in your beliefs, and so am I.<br /><br />You are caught between grace and works, because you think <u>YOU</u> have something to do with your eternal salvation. Jesus paid it all and I'm only trusting in CHRIST. The very idea that someone would have to live a certain way to know that they have eternal life, is a fallacy that causes millions of confused people fear and worry every day. No thanks!<br /><br />Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.<br /><br />Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith.<br /><br />Turning away from sinful ways would be a work. Faith puts all of the merit where it belongs, on the object of our faith, Jesus and His work.<br /><br />The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.<br /><br />I won't debate this with you. You're not going to convince me to adopt a faith in Christ<i> plus</i> my own efforts type of false salvation. You say salvation is by Christ alone, but then you deny your words by suggesting that the life we live somehow can cost us God's free gift of salvation. A "free gift" (Romans 5:18) means there can be no stipulations or obligations.<br /><br />You are woefully deceived. Nothing I say is going to convince you, and I refuse to listen to your unbiblical heresy.<br /><br />In Jesus' precious name,<br />David</blockquote></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Please keep in mind that this was our fifth exchange of emails. I was being patient with him. I sent him a dozen Gospel sermons and books. I wrote at length explaining the difference between service and sanctification. In fact, here is the previous email that I sent to him, so you can see how sincerely I tried to help the guy see the light of the truth. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">He had asked me,</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> "Do you think you're always saved no matter what you do or how you treat others as the example of Jesus Christ?" Here is my full reply...</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;">*****,<br /><br /> Yes, once saved always saved, because God's gift of salvation is based upon what Christ alone did to pay for our sins through Calvary's cross.<br /><br />Having said that, no believer has God's permission to life in sin. <b>Romans 6:1-2, "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?"</b> God commands all saints to depart from iniquity and walk in holiness, but when we do sin (and we all choose to), God's grace much more abounds so that we can never lose salvation. It is God's salvation, not ours to give. We cannot lose by bad works what we could not earn by good works. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do.<br /><br />My favorite preacher quote is from Pilgrim's Progress book author, John Bunyan, who said:<br /><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the man Christ without and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the Word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the Word of God, and cast stumbling blocks before the people.” —John Bunyan (1628-1688)</span></blockquote>We must keep sanctification (service - Romans 12:1) completely separate from justification (salvation - Galatians 3:26), or else we will corrupt the Gospel and cast stumbling blocks before the people. Many preachers make the mistake of citing the book of Matthew, about picking up one's cross to follow Christ, and they foolishly apply it to salvation. But that is discipleship Jesus is talking about in Matthew. God authored the specific Gospel of John to show humanity how to be saved (John 20:31). We find the word "believe" mentioned 85 times in the book of John, but there is no requirement to follow, confess, repent, turn, forsake, live or anything else; but just to believe.<b> John 6:47, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life."<br /></b><br />The Bible warns in Hebrews 12:6-8 that if a man is without chastisement from God for his sins, then he is a bastard and not a genuine adopted son of God. God is not an absent parent! There are two wrong extremes to which a preacher can go. The first is to corrupt the Gospel by adding living a holy life (service) to God's free grace. The second extreme is to just preach that people can be saved without turning from sins, but then that preacher never warns believers of God's judgment upon disobedient children (2nd Corinthians 5:9-11).<br /><br />Dr. John R. Rice (1895-1980) <a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Doctrines/Lordship%20Salvation/dr_rice_refutes.htm" target="_blank">addressed this issue of Lordship Salvation</a>. A lady in the church suggested that some of the young people weren't saved because of their misbehaving and bad attitude. Dr. Rice corrects her by teaching her that the problem is not that the teens aren't saved; but rather, they haven't been properly mentored by the spiritual adults in the church. And of course, it might be that indeed they are not saved. But whether someone is saved or not can only be known by a direct testimony from their mouth concerning Jesus Christ. ...<br /><br />One of my favorite preachers and sermons is by Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold. The sermon is titled, "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3jaGaln1Xw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Why Lordship Salvation Is Wrong</a>."<br /><br />The Bible is full of horrible saints who hurt others at times. King David stole Uriah's wife, impregnated her, then murdered Uriah to hide the unintended pregnancy. David didn't lose God's gift of salvation, he lost the "joy" of salvation (Psalms 51:12). I believe Joseph's 10 half brothers were saved, even though they conspired to sell him into Egyptian slavery. The Bible is full of the sins of the saints. Thankfully, our God is merciful and is always willing to forgive us and give us unlimited chances, as we see with the woman taken in the act of adultery in John chapter 8.<br /><br />There is none righteous the Bible says, no not one (Romans 3:10). That includes saved believers. The only thing that makes the holiest saint, any more righteous than the vilest dirty unsaved sinner like John Wayne Gacy, is the precious blood of Jesus (1st Peter 1:18-19). James 2:10 says that if a man commits even one sin, he is guilty of all in the sight of God. In other words, all it takes is just one sin to keep a sinner out of Heaven. The only other place to go is the Lake of Fire forever.<br /><br />I hope that answers your question. I welcome Bible questions. I just don't like to debate with people.<br /><br />Have a good evening,</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">David</span></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Like so many fools before him, he doesn't believe in eternal security. He rejects the idea that a person can be saved and then just live any way they want. Well, he is WRONG! Salvation is of the Lord (Jonah 2:9). Either God does the saving, all of it, or else you don't get grace!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Ue2s-MO9fAUki9AmI6lVNTXTvoL08hrvXY0jL3Jag58l94KQxDWn2oqWq_lvfMKJR2QwbK7pk9pbVafQ905LjLxT-W2MOoukSPTYymgD7rZRV7dYirgc5EH-ixTqj_vFnySznkQZcuNPhKeCjCAzx4zoUxAG97aROSNRb1CWBzNDXdUmDXUvmLT6G_8/s674/hank_lindstrom-eternal_security.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="674" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Ue2s-MO9fAUki9AmI6lVNTXTvoL08hrvXY0jL3Jag58l94KQxDWn2oqWq_lvfMKJR2QwbK7pk9pbVafQ905LjLxT-W2MOoukSPTYymgD7rZRV7dYirgc5EH-ixTqj_vFnySznkQZcuNPhKeCjCAzx4zoUxAG97aROSNRb1CWBzNDXdUmDXUvmLT6G_8/w400-h243/hank_lindstrom-eternal_security.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEVjjlKxCuIo3rjwmnpJMNExo_iOxxE0BkUzFDcG7hCqiTZjXHxVgfVuLpRhMfJZ2bCbjYMn15kBgUvaQQ7oWE9M8Su744Fc-IVs03qGQxFRuYwUIwBwUGAi8drv0FLCqSHk_yaKt12md0RTVL58IU7qDXT-8wtes4qNnHiRtzCDYHEXiUnO0f1EDbmd4/s300/eternal_life_is_eternal_security.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="299" data-original-width="300" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEVjjlKxCuIo3rjwmnpJMNExo_iOxxE0BkUzFDcG7hCqiTZjXHxVgfVuLpRhMfJZ2bCbjYMn15kBgUvaQQ7oWE9M8Su744Fc-IVs03qGQxFRuYwUIwBwUGAi8drv0FLCqSHk_yaKt12md0RTVL58IU7qDXT-8wtes4qNnHiRtzCDYHEXiUnO0f1EDbmd4/w400-h399/eternal_life_is_eternal_security.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-18903812655801763042024-01-30T15:40:00.003-06:002024-01-30T15:40:31.870-06:00If You Have To Look At Your Life To Know You're Saved, It Proves You're Not<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>1st John 3:24, "And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us."</b></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Every born again believer has a relationship with Christ.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Demons acknowledge there is a God, but they are not saved (James 2:19). The Apostle James in James chapter two is warning about not becoming a respecter of persons (James 2:1). If a man professes to be a Christian but does not help a brother in need who asks for some food during time of need, James says that that man's faith is dead (James 2:15-20).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It is important to understand that James is not writing about salvation here. He is writing about our manner of life validating our faith in the eyes of other men, not God. In the Epistle of Romans, Paul writes about being justified <i>by faith</i> in the sight of God (Romans 4:1-7). James is speaking about being justified <i>by works</i> in the sight of man, not God. Many preachers foolishly apply James chapter two to salvation, corrupting the Holy Bible and casting stumbling blocks before the people.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The demons acknowledge that there is a God, but they are still damned. James is simply teaching that our talk talks and our walk talks, but out walk talks louder than our talk talks. Again, James is not speaking about the new birth (justification), he is talking about discipleship (sanctification). Faith without works is dead in the eyes of our fellow mankind, but dead faith is still faith. One's faith may be dead, but it still exists.<br /><br />Eternal life is a free gift (Romans 5:18). To truly be a gift, nothing can be required in exchange. The new birth is not a trade, it is a gift. We simply take a gift by faith, not by anything we need to do, which would be works. Every lost sinner who puts his or her trust in Jesus as their personal Savior is immediately sealed and indwelt with God's Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9; 1st John 3:24; Ephesians 1:13-14). That new believer has a relationship with God as His redeemed child. That is one's POSITION in Christ.<br /><br />How a believer chooses to live after saving faith is one's CONDITION in Christ. A man's condition may be atrocious in Christ (e.g., Lot, Samson and Solomon), yet he is saved and his position in Christ is safe and secure by faith alone (1st Corinthians 5:5).<br /><br />Pastor M.R. DeHaan (1891-1965) said it very well:<br /><blockquote>"There is a vast difference between coming to Jesus for salvation and coming after Jesus for service. Coming to Christ makes one a believer, while coming after Christ makes one a disciple. All believers are not disciples. To become a believer one accepts the invitation of the Gospel, to be a disciple one obeys the challenge to a life of dedicated service and separation. Salvation comes through the sacrifice of Christ; discipleship comes only by sacrifice of self and surrender to His call for devoted service. Salvation is free, but discipleship involves paying the price of a separated walk. Salvation can't be lost because it depends upon God's faithfulness, but discipleship can be lost because it depends upon our faithfulness." —Pastor M.R. DeHaan, “Hebrews”; Zondervan Publishing House; 1959 (p. 117)</blockquote></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Epistle of 1st John teaches that the acid test to know (1st John 5:13) whether we are saved or not is the presence of the indwelling Holy Spirit. If a man can sin without any conviction whatsoever from the Holy Spirit, then something is wrong. The Bible warns that if God never chastises you when you sin, you're not saved (Hebrews 12:6-8). The Holy Spirit convicts me all the time about my sinning (Proverbs 3:12).<br /><br />Many hellbound false prophets do "many wonderful works," and they prophesy (preach) in Jesus' name (Matthew 7:21-23). Cornelius fasted, prayed, gave alms to the poor and feared God (Acts 10:1-3), but was still hellbound in his sins. Cornelius didn't get saved until Acts 10:44. So we cannot determine if someone, or even our self, is saved by examining our life. The $64,000 question is: Do you have the indwelling Holy Spirit?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLIluo4py7-pX3uV438eRG2x7866dlyb8nwdEgjave_ggmu1MBG2UUX9UoQ3sdVMz2v8iMjsD7xTtpOgx_4dk_vj1m8s6IZFTY7uvSjB-xVgxB6bVjyq9Jk0UaPpQwh24j04vvwu_kgmzjXAMf0nXsG0rjyCsyIfeXGJcbFsiZnB7rMdw1EVIVYzgS3NM/s717/john_3_16-paid_in_full.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="659" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLIluo4py7-pX3uV438eRG2x7866dlyb8nwdEgjave_ggmu1MBG2UUX9UoQ3sdVMz2v8iMjsD7xTtpOgx_4dk_vj1m8s6IZFTY7uvSjB-xVgxB6bVjyq9Jk0UaPpQwh24j04vvwu_kgmzjXAMf0nXsG0rjyCsyIfeXGJcbFsiZnB7rMdw1EVIVYzgS3NM/w368-h400/john_3_16-paid_in_full.jpg" width="368" /></a></div></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-48274153649812466192024-01-26T13:59:00.003-06:002024-01-26T14:04:20.925-06:00Eternally Secure Forever In Jesus Christ<div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>John 10:27-29, “</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:</b><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.</b><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.”</b></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In the following awesome sermon, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pastor Tom Cucuzza preaches the truth about salvation and the Christian life which we all horribly fail at...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-AzoerBD7Uo" width="320" youtube-src-id="-AzoerBD7Uo"></iframe></div><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Secure Forever - Part One: <br />True Salvation And Its Relationship To The Christian Life<br />~ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1x4QTUvM0g" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PART TWO</a> ~<br /></span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">(Pastor Thomas M. Cucuzza)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">➙You don't have to repent of your sin to go to Heaven.<br />➙You can go to Heaven while hanging onto the world.<br />➙If Christ is not Lord of "all," you can still go to Heaven.<br />➙If you come to church with a sour and negative position, you can still go to Heaven.<br />➙If you're practicing certain sins in your life, you can still go to Heaven.<br />➙If you've grown cold toward the Lord, you can still go to Heaven.<br />➙If you're not tithing, you can still go to Heaven.<br />➙If you don't endure until the end, you can still go to Heaven.<br />➙You can practice sin every day and still go to Heaven.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />The biblical teachings of eternal life and eternal security are not two separate doctrines, but are one and the same thing. That is, the man who has eternal life already has eternal security. Religious messes us up, but Christianity frees us. If you have trusted in God's only begotten Son as your personal Savior, then <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3A5mXtS9Lc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">you KNOW that you have eternal life</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq-EVVy8TsgQzCj-yv62oiKaYb3QsWg3m3fPnAXELWYj72r0zExrmSJCbDz01JNJj15R2R3BX0DkvRVl7g0lj73zpgpF7lyRuba32_m8BuLHyUvLUWLGtXiZab81r6j9LaH8OrYoMyzvuRbGE8bmvMfxHNpDM41SYAWRwuCQeeMqJRhCbuojBGL98M0FA/s720/dont_respect_others_wrong_beliefs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq-EVVy8TsgQzCj-yv62oiKaYb3QsWg3m3fPnAXELWYj72r0zExrmSJCbDz01JNJj15R2R3BX0DkvRVl7g0lj73zpgpF7lyRuba32_m8BuLHyUvLUWLGtXiZab81r6j9LaH8OrYoMyzvuRbGE8bmvMfxHNpDM41SYAWRwuCQeeMqJRhCbuojBGL98M0FA/w400-h400/dont_respect_others_wrong_beliefs.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-86461857218287447592024-01-21T18:37:00.037-06:002024-01-23T15:45:35.093-06:00Understanding Bible Repentance<span style="font-family: helvetica;">Here are some excellent sermons by Pastor Thomas M. Cucuzza at the <a href="https://www.northlandchurch.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Northland Bible Baptist Church</a> located in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, explaining Bible repentance. When you trust Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, you have repented. It is as simple as that, as you will learn in these helpful sermons by Dr. Cucuzza. I thank God for doctrinally sound preachers! There is not a more important topic than repentance to be saved. Pastor Curtis Hutson is right, who compared repentance to buttoning a dress shirt. That is, if you get the first button wrong, then all the other buttons will be wrong too!</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WNVKcE3f8WI" width="320" youtube-src-id="WNVKcE3f8WI"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Understanding Biblical Repentance - Part One</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uwDzAPqe4Mg" width="320" youtube-src-id="uwDzAPqe4Mg"></iframe></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Understanding Biblical Repentance - Part Two</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Amen and amen! Now with these precious truths in mind, now take a look at the false meaning of repentance that is being wickedly taught at religious cults like Pensacola Christian College today. Wow be unto the false pastors! ...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5shRkMFbezA" width="320" youtube-src-id="5shRkMFbezA"></iframe></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>The Lordship Salvation Cult At Pensacola Christian College</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I stopped supporting Jack Chick's ministry about 20 years ago, when I realized that he is preaching a counterfeit plan of salvation. On the back page of all his 1.2 billion "Chick Tracts" he says that it is not enough to admit you are a sinner to get to Heaven; but also, he requires you to turn away from your sinning to be saved. That is works (Jonah 3:10).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicXToGl-kHb87QaUNWrlfpVHd39OGQ6ToDohMop_IXIJEqOvzY1wTPQWySVsvIjJxINQwxdVp5aXszHytQT8ELtjNibxcPN6ghQxm0PAn0iQ8kFmGGbNptS1jAPPYSIdQ9d0R8Nd9sfGEGB-96U847sh0539c6fGlF2Vb5my5yTEQXAfllUUNdFRbnpFw/s700/wrong_repentance-chick_tracts.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="700" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicXToGl-kHb87QaUNWrlfpVHd39OGQ6ToDohMop_IXIJEqOvzY1wTPQWySVsvIjJxINQwxdVp5aXszHytQT8ELtjNibxcPN6ghQxm0PAn0iQ8kFmGGbNptS1jAPPYSIdQ9d0R8Nd9sfGEGB-96U847sh0539c6fGlF2Vb5my5yTEQXAfllUUNdFRbnpFw/w400-h206/wrong_repentance-chick_tracts.gif" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>False Repentance And A Counterfeit Gospel In 'Chick Tracts'</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Kindly said, Jack Chick misunderstood the biblical meaning of repentance. In so doing he perverted the Gospel. The following heretical page is from the tract titled: "This Was Your Life" by Jack Chick (1924-2016)...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMf8DP_Q6r43rm7-8yg8pqHuqipbR-rYQ0G3kpC7KAm3dnLcudpOVJ1zWN-xNiY2jpjS10wZCaThXMJq7qoCTiG29Y9jU7jdeSSsG6cKJnDZH9j7yttp76Q4kItLNG6eOjRs_qduW78UMJ23NpIMzALJAqm-3LOL8B3wovfsAqz8KVuE9iBWBcirpv_h0/s438/false_repentance-chick_tracts.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="438" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMf8DP_Q6r43rm7-8yg8pqHuqipbR-rYQ0G3kpC7KAm3dnLcudpOVJ1zWN-xNiY2jpjS10wZCaThXMJq7qoCTiG29Y9jU7jdeSSsG6cKJnDZH9j7yttp76Q4kItLNG6eOjRs_qduW78UMJ23NpIMzALJAqm-3LOL8B3wovfsAqz8KVuE9iBWBcirpv_h0/w400-h205/false_repentance-chick_tracts.gif" width="400" /></a></div><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Damnable False Teaching In 'Chick Tracts'</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Surrender your life to Christ? That's not what the Bible says!<b> Acts 16:30-31, </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>“</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;">And brought them out, and said, <u>Sirs, what must I do to be saved?</u></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;"><u> And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved</u>, and thy house.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>”</b> So where did Jack Chick get the garbage that to be saved you must, “S</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">urrender your life to Christ?</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">” Jack Chick is a false prophet and an infidel now tragically burning in the fires of Hell forever. You cannot be born again by partial faith in Christ plus something else. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do. Run from the toxic poison of Chick Tracts!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">To "repent" simply means to change one's mind. From reading the context and by comparing Scripture with Scripture, we learn that we must change our mind about two things to be saved:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">WHO WE ARE - We must change our mind to admit that we are a guilty SINNER in the sight of a holy God (Romans 3:19-20).</span></li><li>WHO JESUS IS - We must change our mind to admit that Jesus is the Christ, the only begotten Son of God (John 20:31).</li></ol></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Nowhere does the inspired Holy Bible teach that <i>repentance</i> means to turn away from one's sinning to get to Heaven. Ungodly men added those words (Proverbs 30:5-6). It is a dangerous and serious thing to mess with God's Word.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I think what happens is that a lot of preachers get corrupted without even realizing it. They make friends and hobnob with corrupt preachers and then adopt their false doctrine. The old adage is very true: <i>Birds of a feather flock together.</i> John Wesley wisely said what one generation tolerates the next generation will embrace. That is exactly right! It is in our human nature to try to cooperate and get along with others. But if we love and desire to put obeying God first in our life, then we must choose to serve God above all. That is what Jesus meant in the Bible when He said:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div><b><blockquote>Matthew 10:34-39, “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.”</blockquote></b></div><div>We sometimes have to go against our own parents, siblings, friends and family tradition to side with God (Joshua 24:15). Sadly, most Christians don't want to suffer reproach for the name of Christ. They don't want to be put outside the gate with Jesus. This includes preachers and the entire clergy. It is in our sinful human nature to want to go along with the crowd. This is sometimes referred to as having a “herd mentality.”</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGsehWBdtgeXkLDZ-t01FX3uPcJYwWbUwCvOM1UBcf7v91_UuliiVEC5DKdvuGQb25dQ4m02wdY96zg1FXxaDdB0AncyJIPGBvm4NhUb1r0A4UsPhdg6wzcPX-5jVNs4d4fFplPja9dHyCZnwRTb2Mv1WFAC2E-VPx8q7TEWArz6IXf47fhRwiLGShu94/s250/think_for_yourself.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="160" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGsehWBdtgeXkLDZ-t01FX3uPcJYwWbUwCvOM1UBcf7v91_UuliiVEC5DKdvuGQb25dQ4m02wdY96zg1FXxaDdB0AncyJIPGBvm4NhUb1r0A4UsPhdg6wzcPX-5jVNs4d4fFplPja9dHyCZnwRTb2Mv1WFAC2E-VPx8q7TEWArz6IXf47fhRwiLGShu94/w256-h400/think_for_yourself.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Please Don't Follow Corrupt Infidel Pastors Into Hell</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div>The Apostle Paul praised the Bereans for double checking what he had taught them from the Bible. They searched the Scriptures daily to verify Paul's preaching (Acts 17:10-11). Sadly, that is not what 99% of churchgoers do, they merely believe whatever their pastor tells them, which is why there are so many cults today (2nd Peter 3:16-17). Think for yourself and search the Scriptures.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4IioS2OqaDHx2Qksgyu0caUL9ktXpK9um2YEMpeKI3kDRpVse_HrTlXjrJqfO-Fe58q5ATtfdT8ZYWPPSu-9Rv3Ht-eG0k7fwhXbOXAsNdKXpy8d92BkktKNQWwxwAbz8mVJvsCEBwUHQrOBbYw8fmJPZMk8AVREgQfoxy6zw_IpJiYiblbKS4f9zdqI/s680/pastors_that_destroy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="144" data-original-width="680" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4IioS2OqaDHx2Qksgyu0caUL9ktXpK9um2YEMpeKI3kDRpVse_HrTlXjrJqfO-Fe58q5ATtfdT8ZYWPPSu-9Rv3Ht-eG0k7fwhXbOXAsNdKXpy8d92BkktKNQWwxwAbz8mVJvsCEBwUHQrOBbYw8fmJPZMk8AVREgQfoxy6zw_IpJiYiblbKS4f9zdqI/w400-h85/pastors_that_destroy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-57102149649895840332024-01-10T13:09:00.003-06:002024-01-10T13:09:42.809-06:00Hebrews 6:1 Says “Dead Works” Cannot Save Us<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Hebrews 6:1-3, “Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of <u>repentance from dead works</u>, and of faith toward God,</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this will we do, if God permit.”</b><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I read the following tremendous words today from 'The Strand Study Bible,' which I bought recently and cherish it. In fact, I bought two of them from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strand-Study-Bible-James-Version/dp/0984108106" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon</a> I am so pleased with it. <b>Proverbs 23:23, “Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.” </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You can purchase a much cheaper used one at </span><a href="https://www.abebooks.com/9780984108107/Strand-Study-Bible-King-James-0984108106/plp" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">Abe'sBooks</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (from time to time). Here is the last portion of Brother Strands exegesis for Hebrews 6:1...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></div><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">6:1c The work done to secure salvation was not done through </span><i><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">dead works</span></i><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>”</i> (i.e., human effort - Jn 1:13). It's not our works that save us or are saving us (Gal 3:1-3), but Christ's </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">WORK</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">” of redemption on the cross (Exo 14:13, 30-31, Hab 1:5, Rom 13:11, Titus 3:5a and John 6:28-29). Salvation is of the Lord (Jonah 2:9). We are not headed to Heaven because we're good, but because Christ is good (II Cor 5:21 Mt 19:16-17).</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><u>NOTE</u> - Whereas <b>religion</b> says, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">“Look what I've done for Jesus. I've been good, baptized, faithful to church, etc.” (i.e., religious works), <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Christianity</span></b> says, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">“Look what Jesus did for me. I was headed to Hell and He offered me salvation and I accepted it.” (i.e., grace).</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">SOURCE: Pastor Brad Strand, 'The Strand Study Bible,' p. 2070; </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">© </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">2009</span></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Bravo! I am so thankful for Pastor Strand's time and intense labor in putting together his life's work in this helpful Bible commentary. It took him 33 years and over 30,000 hours of labor! It is worth every penny!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In the Bible we find that truth is synonymous with righteousness. The word “truth”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> is mentioned 41 times in the Old Testament book of Psalms.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <b>Psalms 119:30, “I have chosen <u>the way of truth</u>: thy judgments have I laid before me.” </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It is tragic that most believers can sit in front of the television for hundreds of hours each month without getting bored, but find it a chore to read and study the Holy Bible for 5 minutes each day. That ought not be! Of course, the words of no man should ever be placed on equal footing with the inspired Words of God. A Bible commentary helps guide us, but the Word of God is our final and only authority in all matters of life and faith.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You won't find any theological garbage in this study Bible that teaches the Devil's lies of Lordship Salvation, or that you must <a href="https://stewart1611.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-strand-study-bible-gets-repentance.html" target="_blank">turn from your sinful habits</a>, to be saved; nor any other rubbish that is commonly taught in corrupt churches nowadays. <a href="https://stewart1611.blogspot.com/2023/12/pastor-brad-strand-gets-repentance-100.html" target="_blank">Brother Strand is 100% free grace Gospel</a> and I love him for it. Like never before there is a need for Christian saints <b>“</b></span><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">to earnestly contend for the faith</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">” (Jude 1:3b)</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> in these perilous times of doctrinal deception in the Bible colleges and churches. I encourage you to get yourself a copy of 'The Strand Study Bible' while they're still available. I am confident that you won't be disappointed my friend.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW_pxgWGRPuZEXJgHW4X2Eud2sHpECS_q0uz6g3LuTfrmcr8eGSPsiOBTonYkDgQJr7qnWMcp0uJ26tMabR6ukNUNV8smpoQGB-9MTR2nX9J8IHp_DhwzUoGq7pHWA4LMSrH5ftk2_b6p9ihF5DVeDyAgaaIcWA44p57rEaeSULpQgdSdnkIm7OAjzfBs/s758/what_salvation_is_not.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="670" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW_pxgWGRPuZEXJgHW4X2Eud2sHpECS_q0uz6g3LuTfrmcr8eGSPsiOBTonYkDgQJr7qnWMcp0uJ26tMabR6ukNUNV8smpoQGB-9MTR2nX9J8IHp_DhwzUoGq7pHWA4LMSrH5ftk2_b6p9ihF5DVeDyAgaaIcWA44p57rEaeSULpQgdSdnkIm7OAjzfBs/w354-h400/what_salvation_is_not.jpg" width="354" /></a></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-18041006391263237512024-01-04T08:57:00.002-06:002024-01-04T09:18:18.972-06:00The Repent Of Your Sins Heresy Exposed<b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Acts 16:29-31, “Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> And brought them out, and said, <u>Sirs, what must I do to be saved?</u></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> And they said, <u>Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved</u>, and thy house.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span></b><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Someone sent me this excellent 3:50 hour video documentary today, which exposes the Devil's lie that you cannot go to Heaven unless you turn away from your sinful behavior (which is works and not God's grace).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q_hYlZXpuQc" width="320" youtube-src-id="Q_hYlZXpuQc"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">REPENT OF YOUR SINS 2, The Hypocrites</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">(Documentary, false prophet exposure)</span></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I encourage you to watch the documentary dear reader. Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold said it best, I humbly think:</span></div><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Spartan;">“There is power in this </span><a href="http://www.biblelineministries.org/Video-Salvation-Message.html" style="font-family: Spartan;">Gospel message</a><span style="font-family: Spartan;">. Most people just don't know how to present it... The clarity of the Gospel is what makes it easy for them to believe.” —Pastor Yankee Arnold, a quote from the excellent MP3 sermon titled, “</span><a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/BTP/Pastor_Ralph_Yankee_Arnold/why_grace_can_save_the_worst_man.mp3" style="font-family: Spartan;">WHY GRACE CAN SAVE THE WORST MAN!</a><span style="font-family: Spartan;">”</span></span></blockquote><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pastor M.R. DeHaan (1891-1965) said it very well:</span></div><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"There is a vast difference between coming to Jesus for salvation and coming after Jesus for service. Coming to Christ makes one a believer, while coming after Christ makes one a disciple. All believers are not disciples. To become a believer one accepts the invitation of the Gospel, to be a disciple one obeys the challenge to a life of dedicated service and separation. Salvation comes through the sacrifice of Christ; discipleship comes only by sacrifice of self and surrender to His call for devoted service. Salvation is free, but discipleship involves paying the price of a separated walk. Salvation can't be lost because it depends upon God's faithfulness, but discipleship can be lost because it depends upon our faithfulness." —Pastor M.R. DeHaan, “Hebrews”; Zondervan Publishing House; 1959 (p. 117)</span></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do. I have received countless emails from web visitors who thank me, letting me know that they had previously been confused about how to be saved, but then God led them to my website ministry and they were saved when they saw <a href="https://www.nothingbutthetruthbook.com/the-crystal-clear-gospel-of-jesus-christ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a clear presentation of the Gospel</a>.</span></div></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-50411696945175850372023-12-30T15:47:00.000-06:002023-12-30T15:47:00.874-06:00Not By Works Of Righteousness Which We Have Done<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Titus 3:5-7, “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but <u>according to his mercy he saved us</u>, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That <u>being justified by his grace,</u> we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”</b></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I recently purchased <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strand-Study-Bible-James-Version/dp/0984108106" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Strand Study Bible</a>. You can purchase <a href="https://www.abebooks.com/9780984108107/Strand-Study-Bible-King-James-0984108106/plp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a cheaper used one at Abe's Books</a>. I love it so much that I bought another one. Pastor Brad Strand was one of my favorite Bible teachers at Hyles-Anderson College in the late 1980's. I am so glad that he made a study Bible, and I cherish it. It took Brother Strand 30,000 hours over 33 years to complete his amazing study Bible. THANK YOU Pastor Strand for sharing what the Holy Spirit taught you with everyone else! I cannot recommend his study Bible enough.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I was reading Brother Strand's commentary today for Titus 3:5 and he mentions that Bono of U2 is a Christian, which compelled me to do some research online about Bono. Here is what Pastor Strand writes on page 2057:</span></div><div><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Bono (of the band U2), one of the world's most famous rock stars, and a Christian (yes, you can be a rock star and a Christian), in an interview with Michka Assayas, a French music journalist, in March of 2004 was correct when he described the difference between Karma (works of righteousness) and grace. He said:</span> </blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">You see, at the center of all religions is the idea of <i>Karma</i>. You know, what you put out comes back to you: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, or in physics—in physical laws—every action is met by an equal or an opposite one. It's clear to me that <i>Karma</i> is at the very heart of the universe. I'm absolutely sure of it. And yet, along comes this idea called Grace to upend all that “as you reap, so you will sow” stuff. Grace defies reason and logic. Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I've done a lot of stupid stuff. (So have we all, Bono.).</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Bono went on to say: </span></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I'd be in big trouble if <i>Karma</i> was going to finally be my judge. I'd be in deep .... It doesn't excuse my mistakes, but I'm holding out for Grace. I'm holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I don't have to depend on my own religiosity.</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Bono continued: </span><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">But I love the idea of the Sacrificial Lamb. I love the idea that God says: Look, you cretins, there are certain results to the way we are, to selfishness, and there's a mortality as part of your very sinful nature, and, let's face it, you're not living a very good life, are you? There are consequences to actions. The point of the death of Christ is that Christ took on the sins of the world, so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death. That's the point. It should keep us humbled… . It's not our own good works (<i>Karma</i>) that get us through the gates of heaven.</span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">SOURCE: Pastor Brad Strand, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“The Strand Study Bible,” p. 2057</span></span></blockquote></blockquote></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That is very interesting and encouraging, to know that Bono is saved. You can <a href="https://www.publicchristianity.org/grace-karma-and-bono/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">read the preceding entire interview of Bono HERE</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Worldliness Cannot Prevent You From Going To Heaven</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are some wicked religious neo-evangelical websites which wrongly accuse Bono's faith of not being sincere, since he is worldly, but that is not the true Gospel. Case in point is the website at <i>BereanResearch.org</i>, who foolishly state concerning Bono's worldliness:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">The bottom line is this: A person cannot profess a belief in Jesus Christ and live like the devil. Like so many so-called Christians, Bono takes Christianity cafeteria style – he picks and chooses what pleases him and avoids what doesn’t.</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">SOURCE: '<a href="https://bereanresearch.org/does-u2s-bono-a-professing-christian-believe-the-bible/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Does U2’s Bono, a professing Christian, believe the Bible?</a>'</span></blockquote></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Liar, liar, pants on fire!!! I am so glad that Bono is a Christian. The worldly life that Bono chooses to live is a strict matter of sanctification and service (Romans 12:1), not of justification and the new birth (Galatians 3:26). If we cannot be saved by good works, then we cannot be lost by bad works. As our text passage from Titus 3:5a says, <b>“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us...”</b> Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The thing that I love most about The Strand Study Bible is that Pastor Strand upholds a 100% free grace Gospel. A free grace Gospel is <i>the simplicity that is in Christ </i>(2nd Corinthians 11:3-4). It is very easy, free and simple to get to Heaven; you just need to BELIEVE that Jesus did it all for you through the cross of Calvary, that He was buried, and bodily resurrected from the dead three days later. Believe the <i>GOOD NEWS</i>, Oh guilty sinner, and you are forever saved!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Bono has made it clear to the world that He believes Jesus is the Son of God, the Messiah:</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">"[Jesus] went around saying he was the Messiah. That's why he was crucified. He was crucified because he said he was the Son of God. So, he either, in my view, was the Son of God or he was nuts. Forget rock-and-roll messianic complexes, I mean Charlie Manson-type delirium. And I find it hard to accept that whole millions and millions of lives, half the Earth, for 2,000 years have been touched, have felt their lives touched and inspired by some nutter. I just... I don't believe it."</span><br /><br />(From an interview with Gay Byrne, RTE One, June 2013) </blockquote><blockquote>SOURCE: Christianity Today, '<a href="https://www.christiantoday.com/article/seven-surprising-things-bono-has-said-about-jesus/42993.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">7 Surprising Things Bono Has Said About Jesus</a>'</blockquote>Good for Bono! I rejoice with him is his sole trust in Jesus Christ and God's grace for eternal life. The way to Heaven is to wholly lean on Jesus' name, and dare not trust the sweetest frame other than Christ. 1st Corinthians 3:11 says that Jesus is the only foundation. Bono says this concerning God's saving grace:<br /><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">"...I love the idea of the Sacrificial Lamb. I love the idea that God says: Look, you cretins, there are certain results to the way we are, to selfishness, and there's a mortality as part of your very sinful nature, and, let's face it, you're not living a very good life, are you? There are consequences to actions. The point of the death of Christ is that Christ took on the sins of the world, so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death. That's the point. It should keep us humbled. It's not our own good works that get us through the gates of heaven."<br /><br />SOURCE: Christianity Today, '<a href="https://www.christiantoday.com/article/seven-surprising-things-bono-has-said-about-jesus/42993.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">7 Surprising Things Bono Has Said About Jesus</a>'</span></blockquote></span><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Bono's best friend recounts <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/bonos-best-friend-recounts-how-the-u2-rockstar-first-came-to-faith-in-jesus-christ.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">how the U2 rockstar first came to faith in Jesus Christ</a>. Amen. The only reason why any sinner has ever gone to Heaven, or ever will go to Heaven, is because that person <i>rested</i> completely in the finished work of Jesus Christ through Calvary's cross.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Famous Singer Bob Dylan Is Also A Born-Again Christian</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pastor Strand further comments concerning Titus 3:5 on page 2058:</span></div><div><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Phillip Yancey in <i>What's So Amazing About Grace?</i> notes:</span> </blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The notion of God's love coming to us free of charge, no strings attached, seems to go against every instinct of humanity. The Buddhist eight-fold path, the Hindu doctrine of <i>Karma</i>, the Jewish covenant, the Muslim code of law—each of these offers a way to earn approval. Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional.</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Only Christianity offers salvation via grace. Bob Dylan, another famous rock star, in an interview with Bruce Heiman, KMEX Radio in December of 1979, said:</span> </blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">A religion which says you have to do certain things to get to God..., which is a religion which is by works: you can enter into the Kingdom by what you do, what you wear, what you say, how many times a day you pray, how many good deeds you may do...That type of religion will not get you into the Kingdom, that's true.</span> ...</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Again, it's not <i>what we do</i> (works) that gets us to Heaven, but <i>what Christ did</i> (grace) for us. Trust what He <i>did</i>, not what you <i>do</i>, and Heaven will be yours.</span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">SOURCE: Pastor Brad Strand, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“The Strand Study Bible,” p. 2058</span></span></blockquote></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Amen and amen. Boy that's great stuff! I love free grace Gospel preachers!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>We Are Saved By God's Imputed Righteousness, Not Ours</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">When I bought and first opened <i>The Strand Study Bible</i>, I was a bit nervous, afraid that I'd find he teaches that you cannot be saved unless you turn away from your sinful bad habits, become a Christ follower, invite Jesus into your life, or some other poisonous neo-evangelical garbage from the Devil. I have been pleasantly delighted to learn that Pastor Brad Strand is 100% free grace on the Gospel, and I love the man for it!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For example: Read this wonderful exegesis he writes:</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">True repentance has nothing to do with “turning from sin” and everything to do with “acknowledging one's sinfulness” (Jonah 3:5). Like the thief on the cross who simply acknowledged his sinfulness (Lk 23:39-43), the only part a person has in salvation is the beggar's part.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">SOURCE: Pastor Brad Strand, “The Strand Study Bible,” p. 1939</span></div></blockquote></div></div><div><b style="font-family: helvetica;">Titus 3:5 and 7, “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us... <u>being justified by his grace,</u> we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Romans 4:4 teaches that if salvation has ever been by works, then it was by <i>debt</i> and not <i>grace</i>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi7XQbas51pp8P2iDtRYGgCR0Hy9VBWHt79SfHY1VCPmf_ZWspGzRIztIrcfqk-_3PRBEmyI4uEvgIr7zbky6JBvLTzdsThjuyhyphenhyphen4YuiLUijz3oDolCIiR0sFKkjUtpQDUw4Up1dRrSnrJdHs9HOo37nPAWWhazKjlT8ZbwvTqDU4te1vwghHBp1jGNog/s642/2nd_corinthians%20_5-21-transparent.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="636" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi7XQbas51pp8P2iDtRYGgCR0Hy9VBWHt79SfHY1VCPmf_ZWspGzRIztIrcfqk-_3PRBEmyI4uEvgIr7zbky6JBvLTzdsThjuyhyphenhyphen4YuiLUijz3oDolCIiR0sFKkjUtpQDUw4Up1dRrSnrJdHs9HOo37nPAWWhazKjlT8ZbwvTqDU4te1vwghHBp1jGNog/w396-h400/2nd_corinthians%20_5-21-transparent.gif" width="396" /></a></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-55245617221630284802023-12-27T16:15:00.004-06:002023-12-30T14:26:00.820-06:00Christians Often Use The Wrong Weapons<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Ephesians 6:11-20, “</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.</b><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.</b><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> <u>Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day</u>, and having done all, to stand.</b><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;</b><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; </b><b style="font-family: helvetica;">Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.</b><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:</b><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;</b><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,</b><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.”</b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In this Scripture passage we learn of the believer's seven pieces of armour and weaponry:</span></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Loins gird about with the <b>truth</b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Breastplate of <b>righteousness</b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Feet shod with preparation of the <b>Gospel</b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Shield of <b>faith</b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Helmet of <b>salvation</b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sword of the Spirit, which is the <b>Word of God</b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Prayer</b></span></li></ol></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These are our spiritual weapons of warfare.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So often as saints, we choose to use the world's inferior weapons of criticism, anger, revenge, holding a grudge, giving the silent treatment, needless lawsuits, hatred and unkindness, dishonoring the Lord Jesus Christ. May we all <i>Walk in the Spirit</i> to fulfill the law, by loving our neighbor as our self.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I encourage you dear reader to get busy sharing the Gospel with lost sinners. Pray for the people in your life, getting your mind off of yourself. <b>Philippians 2:4, “Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.”</b> Speak the truth and contend for the faith (Jude 1:3). Have faith in God (Mark 11:22b).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp4mxqH5OjZJOSUxzjUuNRfu2uYuQbbB5bSLAx0MXV0v0cJ45tGWrHWK4qZ-zzfdESjxxUSCpEZJYKjELYeW-aAIxxL73Qbde2Rb2x4IEvu9pSnBbDzV324Dtmt-K69RMKu6Ej2J6T_wvdkBffnB3jxIZqUg-MGMlofFOQMbUv2mrQMI7C7vvk8O77zg8/s571/things_have_changed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp4mxqH5OjZJOSUxzjUuNRfu2uYuQbbB5bSLAx0MXV0v0cJ45tGWrHWK4qZ-zzfdESjxxUSCpEZJYKjELYeW-aAIxxL73Qbde2Rb2x4IEvu9pSnBbDzV324Dtmt-K69RMKu6Ej2J6T_wvdkBffnB3jxIZqUg-MGMlofFOQMbUv2mrQMI7C7vvk8O77zg8/w336-h400/things_have_changed.jpg" width="336" /></a></div></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-18057101755203918392023-12-26T11:01:00.007-06:002023-12-28T13:09:30.140-06:00Even To Them That Believe On Jesus' Name<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>John 1:12-13, “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, <u>even to them that believe on his name</u>: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”</b></span><br /><br /><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">I recently explained to someone what the Bible means in <b>John 1:12b, "even to them that believe on his name." </b>Since we cannot see, hear or sense Jesus with our physical senses, we have no choice but to just believe ON HIS NAME. God understands this. It is perfectly fine to put your trust in the "name" of Jesus for salvation, believing that He died for your sins on the cross, was buried and then bodily resurrected from the dead three days later.</span></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">The inspired Holy Bible openly acknowledges that we cannot see God. The world was given a glimpse of God when Jesus walked this earth 2,000 years ago in Palestine. We are saved by placing our childlike faith in the only begotten Son of God...<br /></span></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote style="font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1st Peter 1:7-9, "That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of <u>Jesus Christ: Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing</u>, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls."</blockquote><p style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">I'm sure you've heard of doubting Thomas in the Bible. When Jesus raised up from the dead, He appeared to all the apostles, but Thomas was not present at that time. When Thomas arrived later He was grieved and upset that he had missed the Savior. I can only imagine how left out Thomas felt. Thomas was emotionally hurt...</p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span><blockquote><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>John 20:25, “The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he </b>[Thomas] <b>said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.</b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;">”</span></blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></div><p><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Eight days later Jesus appeared again to the apostles, and this time Thomas was present...</span></p><p><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b></b></span></p><blockquote><b><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 20:26-29, “And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.</span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.</span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.</span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Jesus saith unto him, <u>Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed</u>.</span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">”</span></b></blockquote><p></p><div style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I love that last part of the verse. Thomas refused to believe Christ had risen from the dead unless He was able to physically see and touch the Savior. Ah, but we have the blessed opportunity today to believe in Christ's death on the cross, burial and bodily resurrection three days later without seeing Him, which requires greater faith. I am one of those in John 20:29b <b>“that have not seen, and yet have believed.”</b> I hope you are too friend.</div><div style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hebrews 11:27, “By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: <u>for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible</u>.”</b><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I love that. So often we hear unbelievers today challenging the existence of God, demanding proof (as did Thomas) before they will believe. Anyone with an honest heart knows that Jesus is the Savior of the world. Have you put your trust in Him dear friend? I did when I was 13 years old. My pastor was saved when he was just 7 years old. Pastor Steven Anderson trusted Jesus when he was 6 years old. Pastors' Jack Hyles and Curtis Hutson trusted Christ when they were 11 years old. Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold was 18 years old when he trusted Jesus as his personal Savior.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">In fact, 80% of Christians get saved at or under the age of 18. By the age of 70 your chances of ever getting saved decreases down to only 4%. </span><b style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Luke 18:17, </b><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>“</b></span><b style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.</b><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>”</b> This verse simply means that you must humble yourself as a little child to admit that you cannot save yourself, and that you need Jesus to save you. Getting saved requires humility, which children naturally possess but adults don't. As we grow older we become proud.</span></div><div style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Simply believe on Jesus' name dear reader, receiving His sacrifice on the cross as full payment for your sins, believing that He was buried but then resurrected physically three days later for your justification. Believe the 'GOOD NEWS' (Gospel) of Jesus Christ crucified, buried and risen, and you are saved.</div><div style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisUa_awc1aG7dBRroqdVjEQTYbVNLBFDgyuYQxZAinNFNWEsW40KN9e-08Hudycp1kcFJmydtHyLqF0JPmlNN5EEoFMI4v6S02oHTvEAktqEk8oECqVYLppWW8JrWiqdHmlUKbDAsRSRluDT8cqkhUdijIu953eivarig9CX0nqlGZnG0WsIisJmwZUE8/s574/three_crosses.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="574" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisUa_awc1aG7dBRroqdVjEQTYbVNLBFDgyuYQxZAinNFNWEsW40KN9e-08Hudycp1kcFJmydtHyLqF0JPmlNN5EEoFMI4v6S02oHTvEAktqEk8oECqVYLppWW8JrWiqdHmlUKbDAsRSRluDT8cqkhUdijIu953eivarig9CX0nqlGZnG0WsIisJmwZUE8/w400-h353/three_crosses.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span></div></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-21344143857749096162023-12-22T13:15:00.001-06:002023-12-22T13:33:17.225-06:00Repentance And Faith<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Acts 20:21, “Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, <u>repentance</u> toward God, and <u>faith</u> toward our Lord Jesus Christ.”</b></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In theology repentance and faith are not the same thing. Yet, repentance and faith happen at the same time. You don't repent first and then have faith. Some people confuse turning away from their sinful behavior as repentance, but this is <i>reformation</i>. Others confuse sorrow over sins with repentance, but this is <i>penitence</i>. Some people confuse trying to right your wrongs (i.e., to make a mend) as repentance, but this is <i>penance</i>. Repentance is a change of mind <i>toward God</i>, as we just learned in Acts 20:21.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A helpful illustration of repentance and faith is getting on an airplane to travel somewhere. I live in the city of Pensacola. Lets say that I buy a plane ticket to Hawaii. When I get on the plane and am flying toward Hawaii, I don't have to first leave Pensacola and then make a second decision to move toward Hawaii. They happen simultaneously. Likewise, <a href="https://www.soulwinning.info/fd/living_a_lifestyle_lie.htm" target="_blank">false prophets like Ray Comfort preaches</a> that to get to Heaven, you must first commit to live a perpetual lifestyle of forsaking your sinning, and then “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">second</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (Ray even uses this word) put your trust in Christ to be saved. Dear reader, trusting Jesus as your personal Savior is NOT the </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“second” thing you need to do to get to Heaven, it is the ONLY thing!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In the Gospel of John we find the word “believe”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> mentioned 85 times, but you won't find the word </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“repent” </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">mentioned even once. This is simply because repentance is automatic. The Greek word for repent regarding salvation in the Bible is always either the noun form <i>metanoia</i>, meaning </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">a change of mind</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">; or the verb form <i>metanoeo </i>meaning </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“to think differently.” It is tragic that millions of unsaved wicked men have embellished this simple meaning to errantly teach that you have to turn from your sinful ways, experience a radical transformation of heart, or follow Christ as “Lord” to be saved, none of which are biblical.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If repentance were a separate act from faith, then John would have told us in the Gospel of John, but he didn't. <b>John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”</b> As a general rule, you should never base a doctrine on an obscure passage of Scripture while ignoring a clear one. False prophets like to cite passages such as Acts 2:38 and Acts 20:21 in an attempt to teach that turning from your sinful bad habits is something more required to be saved then just faith in the Gospel. But those false teachers totally ignore the entire Gospel of John. The truth is that Christ died on a cross to pay our debt of sin. All that God requires of any man to be saved is to simply BELIEVE that Jesus did it all for you.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The man who believes has repented; and the man who repents has believed. Like two sides of one coin, repentance and faith are inseparable and happen at the same time. Let's go back to the airplane illustration, shall we. When a man gets on a airplane to travel someplace, he doesn't have to make two decisions; he is automatically leaving his origin as he moves toward his destination place. Likewise, the lost sinner who puts their trust in Jesus Christ as their personal Savior, has turned their back against the sins for which Christ needed to sacrifice Himself on Calvary's cross. That doesn't mean they are giving up their sinful bad habits, which would be works (Jonah 3:10); it just means they have acknowledged their sinnership before a holy God (Romans 3:19-20). That is, you must know what you are being saved from.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Repentance Is A Change Of Mind, Nothing More</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><br />I was so happy today when I learned that Pastor Strand is correct on repentance. It is becoming rare these days to find a Baptist preacher who is correct on repentance and the Gospel. Pastor Strand added these words to explain Bible repentance...<br /><blockquote>True repentance concerning salvation occurs whenever a person “changes his mind” (i.e., <i>repents</i>) concerning who he is. He is a sinner in need of salvation. According to Matthew 27:3, Judas did not repent (i.e., <i>have regret</i>) as to who he was (i.e., he was a sinner in need of salvation); he only regretted (i.e., repented) what he had done to an innocent man. Unfortunately, that is never enough to save a person from sin and sin's penalty (Hell). Until a person sees himself as being “sinfully” sick (Lk 5:31-32), he will never see his need for a “spiritual doctor” (i.e., the Savior). Our problem is not in what we <i>do</i> before God, but in what we <i>are</i> before God. The mistake Judas made was in “turning from his sin” (i.e., what he had done to an innocent man) instead of “changing his mind” about his sinfulness (i.e., the fact that he was a sinner in need of a Savior). Like the thief on the cross who never had the opportunity to “turn from his sin,” we, like him, can only “acknowledge our sinfulness” in order to be saved (Lk 23:40-41). True repentance for salvation occurs when we “change our mind” concerning <u>two</u> areas:<br /><ol><li><i>Who we are</i> (Lk 23:39-40) — We are sinners in need of salvation (Rom 5:6-8)</li><li><i>Who Christ is</i> (Lk 23:42) — Christ is God (Jn 5:17-18 & 8:24, 58-59 & 10:30-33) and our only Savior from sin (I Tim 3:16 & 4:10).</li></ol>SOURCE: Pastor Brad Strand, “The Strand Study Bible,” p 1938-1939</blockquote>Boy, that is great stuff! That is life-changing truth! I am not kidding friend. When you learn the truth about repentance and the Gospel—knowing how simple God's plan of salvation really is and that it can all be yours completely for free; and you have received that free gift of eternal life by faith alone in Jesus Christ—it will produce unspeakable joy in your soul.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote><b>1st Peter 1:7-9, “That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: <u>Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory</u>: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.”</b></blockquote>No believer will ever find the sweet peace and joy of being God's redeemed child, until you know beyond any shadow of a doubt that your name is written in Heaven, in the Lamb's Book of Life (Luke 10:20). As an acknowledged guilty sinner, by faith I received Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full payment for my sins at age 13. I called out in my soul to the risen Savior, casting my trust upon Him alone as my Savior. I thank God for the gift of His only begotten (biological) Son, Jesus, who with His precious blood paid my debt of sin (1st Peter 1:18-19).<br /><br />God bless Brother Strand for rightly dividing the Word of Truth.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Repentance And Faith Happen At The Same Time</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Nowhere does the inspired King James Bible teach that you must forsake a lifestyle of sinning, nor give up your sinful bad habits, nor even “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">be willing</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (Jack Chick's damnable heresy) to turn away from your sinful bad habits to be saved. Anyone who teaches such lies is pulling on the same rope as the Devil, and they have never been born-again by faith alone in Christ alone.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Turning away from sinful ways would be a work. Faith puts all of the merit where it belongs, on the object of our faith, Jesus and His work.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If to “repent” means to forsake our sinful ways TO BE SAVED, but Jesus already paid for our sins by dying on the cross, then what are we repenting from?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I often quote those helpful statements, because they are the truth. Your sinful ways has nothing to do with God's free gift of eternal life. Certainly, once you receive Christ and are in Christ (2nd Corinthians 5:17), God is going to start dealing with your soul about the sins in your life as His redeemed child (Hebrews 12:6-8). However, this is strictly a matter of SERVICE for your Lord (Romans 12:1), and not a matter of SALVATION, which is Christ's doing alone (Galatians 3:26).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Repentance is not a separate act from believing. We don't repent AND believe; we repent TO believe. The object of repentance is to <i>believe</i> the Gospel. That is, you think differently to admit you're a guilty SINNER and that Jesus is the only SAVIOR, and by believing the <i>GOOD NEWS</i> <i>(GOSPEL)</i> of Christ's death, burial and resurrection you are instantly, irrevocably and forever saved (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). Nothing more is required to get to Heaven. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I heard a religious woman in 2021 testify that she thought she was saved, but then realized she'd never turned away from her sinning. She testified at a revival service that now she knows she's saved, because she has turned from her habit of sinning. Dear reader, she is still as lost as a moose in a caboose in a snowstorm!!! She is no closer to Heaven than she was before, all because her wicked pastor lied to her. She has been given false hope by her unsaved foolish pastor. I am talking about an independent Baptist church pastor in Texas! This is sadly happening all across the United States today. Pastors and laymen alike have been woefully deceived by the Devil. They have been <a href="https://www.faithalonesaves.org/2023/12/the-lying-counterfeit-gospel-of-pacific.html" target="_blank">lied to by infidel preachers on radio</a> and television, from nearly every pulpit today, misled to think you must forsake your sinful bad habits or else God won't honor your faith in His only begotten Son. Nothing could be further from the truth of God's Word.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The only way to become a born-again child of God is to wholly lean on Jesus' name (Hebrews 4:10-11). Adding anything to faith cancels it! Faith in Jesus PLUS anything equals damnation in Hell forever. The promised Messiah came into the world to pay for your sins and mine, He doesn't demand that we forsake those sins in order to qualify for God's free gift of eternal life. The truth is that no one is capable of forsaking his or her sins. There is no way! You may clean up your life and reform in the eyes of men, but you are still a dirty wretched sinner and so am I. <b>Psalms 130:3, “</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?”</b></div><div><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You see, you don't get saved by doing your part to clean up you filthy ways, and then trust Christ as a secondary thing. That is a counterfeit plan of salvation which cannot produce the new birth by the Holy Spirit of God. To be saved, you must submit wholly to God's righteousness, which is by faith alone in Jesus Christ (Romans 4:1-7, 10:3-4; Philippians 3:9).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOv9dtoV9GBq4zRKZ4ggQ_G6L2GtK8DPFzNiJunCNIDVup62bLKEfOd4s0sq06uOwIuKl2I0glk9rw93eyfGloK6A0Uc0wgAJCJMqrbrQO_sEpa2qdXjJMg28NgTnIWotoDGCjeLkkcGksUnSN6s59b4pgJTvxaACFI1OsOBTBvtJlG9RkfVHV04jcF_8/s1119/paradox_of_jesus_life.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="831" data-original-width="1119" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOv9dtoV9GBq4zRKZ4ggQ_G6L2GtK8DPFzNiJunCNIDVup62bLKEfOd4s0sq06uOwIuKl2I0glk9rw93eyfGloK6A0Uc0wgAJCJMqrbrQO_sEpa2qdXjJMg28NgTnIWotoDGCjeLkkcGksUnSN6s59b4pgJTvxaACFI1OsOBTBvtJlG9RkfVHV04jcF_8/w400-h297/paradox_of_jesus_life.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-63055550242365224252023-12-19T13:33:00.001-06:002023-12-19T13:33:47.069-06:00The Lying Counterfeit Gospel Of Pacific Garden Mission<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Acts 16:29-31, “</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b> And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> And they said, <u>Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved</u>, and thy house.”</b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am alarmed at how many preachers, Bible colleges, radio stations, television channels, missionaries and so-called ministries are preaching a counterfeit plan of salvation today. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr. Jack Hyles (1926-2001) faithfully exposes the Devil's fallacy of Lordship Salvation...</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote>“I never thought, I'd see a day when Baptist preachers would not preach the true Gospel. Tonight, all across this nation, Baptist preachers have succumbed to the heresy of John MacArthur. I said the heresy of John MacArthur! I said the heresy of John MacArthur! And somebody that's got several thousand people to hear 'em, who can go across this country, has got to alert Baptists that we have false teachers in our midst who are no longer teaching and preaching salvation by grace through faith plus nothing. Folks, we're fighting for our lives tonight!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEfD0LaU5UI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Vote For Preaching</a>”</blockquote><p>I am about to show you the damnable false plan of salvation preached on <i>UNSHACKLED</i> radio by the Pacific Garden Mission (PGM) in Chicago. </p></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>The False Gospel Of Gary Reynolds</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I listened to <i>UNSHACKLED</i> radio today, which was aired in 2023 by Pacific Garden Mission (PGM) in Chicago. The <a href="https://unshackled.org/program/gary-reynolds-classic/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">episode number is 3804, the classic story of Gary Reynolds</a>. Here is a heretical quote from an excerpt of the program, spoken by the actor who plays Gary...</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><blockquote>“You must believe that Jesus Christ died for your sins and then <b><u>acknowledge Him as the Lord of your life</u>.” [emphasis added]</b> —'UNSHACKLED,' <a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/sounds/unshackled-false_gospel-gary_reynolds_3804.mp3">episode #3804, Gary Reynolds</a></blockquote></span><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The PGM narrator then adds this heretical statement... </span></div><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">“You can have the peace and freedom that Gary found in Jesus Christ, but you must <b><u>repent and believe in Jesus as Lord</u>.” </b></span><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">[emphasis added]</span></b></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dear reader, that is NOT God's simple plan of salvation!!! Our text passage from Acts 16:29-31 shows the simplicity of the Gospel. We are saved by simply BELIEVING on Christ.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If believing on Jesus as your “Lord” we required to be saved, then the Bible would have said so. <a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/BTP/Dr_Jack_Hyles/sick_of_lordship_salvation_mess.mp3" target="_blank">You simply take Him as your Savior, not your Lord</a> (Dr. Hyles excerpt), to get to Heaven. If you have to follow Christ as the “Lord” of </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">your life, and repent to </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">turn from your sins</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (<a href="https://stewart1611.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-damnable-lordship-salvation-of.html" target="_blank">which PGM teaches often</a>), then no one is saved. Those are self-righteous works (Jonah 3:10).</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Jesus Christ <i>died </i>on a cross to pay our debt of sin. He was <i>buried</i>. Three days later Jesus physically <i>resurrected</i> miraculously from the dead. This is “the gospel”...</span></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;">1st Corinthians 15:1-4, “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Moreover, brethren, <u>I declare unto you the gospel</u> which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, <u>how that Christ died for our sins</u> according to the scriptures;</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> And that <u>he was buried</u>, and that <u>he rose again the third day</u> according to the scriptures:</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span></blockquote></b></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I didn't see anything mentioned about making Jesus the “Lord” of your life, did you? I didn't see anything about turning from your sinful bad habits, did you? PGM makes sure to push the <i>Lordship Salvation</i> heresy in every UNSHACKLED episode, because they are trying to force sinners to reform and clean up your own life. They are attempting to do the work of the indwelling Holy Spirit in a believer's life (John 17:17).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dear friend, in the true Gospel the entire burden of sin rests upon Christ alone, who died in our place on the cross; but in the Devil's Lordship Salvation lie, the burden of sin is placed upon the sinner's shoulders, because you are required to turn from your sins and follow Christ as Lord of your life to be saved. The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU. Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty! Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div></div><blockquote><div><span style="font-size: medium;">“SALVATION is a decision to trust; SERVICE is a commitment to God to perform.” —Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold, “Works And Grace Clearly Explained”</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">“To add anything to salvation other than the sacrificial death of Jesus on the cross is to say that His death was not sufficient payment for our sins.” —Dr. Curtis Hutson</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">“My sin belongs to me; my righteousness is Jesus Christ's.” —Pastor Brad Moffett</span></div></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Sound doctrine is like a sound ship. There are no holes in it.” —Pastor David Baker </span></blockquote><p></p></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These are great quotes from godly men who understand and preach the true Gospel. PGM is messed up doctrinally. Their theology is like a sinking ship with holes in it. I absolutely hate the Devil's falsehood of<i> <a href="https://giftofeternallife.blogspot.com/2020/10/jehovahs-witnesses-teach-same-lie-of.html" target="_blank">Lordship Salvation</a></i> with a perfect hatred, but I do not hate the deceived men and women who preach it today. My heart goes out to them because they have sincerely been tricked by the master of all deceivers, Satan (2nd Corinthians 11:13-15). All I can do is preach the true Gospel, expose the Devil's lies, and pray that someone will heed the truth. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>1st Timothy 4:16, “</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>”</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you admit that you're a guilty sinner in God's sight for breaking His commandments, and you will simply receive Christ's sacrifice on the cross as payment for your sins, believing that He was buried and raised up three days later from the dead, then YOU ARE SAVED. The man who believes had repented. That is, he has <i>changed his mind</i> from unbelief to belief (i.e., he has turned from his <i>dead works</i> to faith in Christ - Hebrews 6:1). </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">True repentance has nothing to do with “turning from sin” and everything to do with “acknowledging one's sinfulness” (Romans 3:19-20; 2nd Timothy 2:25). Like the thief on the cross who simply acknowledged his sinfulness (Luke 23:39-43), the only part a person has in salvation is the beggar's part.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Kindly said, Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago is preaching <i>another gospel</i> (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4) of partial faith in Christ PLUS taking Christ as your “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Lord</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (which implies that you must give up your lifestyle of sinning to be saved, which is works and not grace). I've listened to hundreds of UNSHACKLED episodes, so I know what they teach. A corrupt plan of salvation cannot produce the new birth.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The False Gospel of Rodney Williams</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I heard another <i>UNSHACKLED</i> episode today, <a href="https://unshackled.org/program/rodney-williams-part-two/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the story of Rodney Williams (Part 2), episode #2803</a>. Here is a transcript of their doctrinally perverse phone conversation. Pastor Rodney Williams tells the stranger a counterfeit plan of salvation, giving him false hope...</span></div><blockquote style="font-family: helvetica;">Stranger: “Is this the guy who wrote a book about Meth?</blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: helvetica;">Pastor Williams: Yes.</blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: helvetica;">Stranger: “I need help man, I'm in so deep; so deep.</blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: helvetica;">Pastor Williams: I've been there, and Jesus is the answer.</blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: helvetica;">Stranger: Oh, don't be talkin' religious stuff man. </blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: helvetica;">Pastor Williams: I'm telling you the truth. Jesus saved my life. He pulled me out of the same pit you're in. He lives and He loves you. He will change your life.</blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: helvetica;">Stranger: Yeah, how?</blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote>Pastor Williams: You have to put your trust in Him. <b><u>Repent of your sins</u> against God</b>, and <b>ask Him <u>to save you</u>.</b> </blockquote></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote>Stranger: You don't get it man, I owe people money. They gonna waste me, if I don't do it myself first. </blockquote><blockquote>Pastor Williams: Satan wants you to die, and spend eternity in Hell, but Jesus died to give you eternal life, trust Him. You have to take a step of faith, and trust Him, it's the only way. </blockquote><blockquote>Stranger: I been a fighter my whole life, I don't know if I can stop fighting. </blockquote><blockquote>Pastor Williams: <b><u>Following Jesus</u></b> is not for wimps. Everyday is a battle, but the battle belongs to the Lord. He gives you the victory <b>when you <u>surrender your life</u> to Him.</b></blockquote><blockquote>Stranger: I'm desperate, I'll try anything, even that!” <b>[emphasis added] </b> </blockquote></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote>—'UNSHACKLED,' <a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/sounds/unshackled-rodney_williams_2803.mp3 ">episode #3804, Rodney Williams (Part 2)</a></blockquote></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What you have just read is utter nonsense and damnable heresy!!! This is typical of the false teachings heard on UNSHACKLED radio. Let's examine Rodney Williams false gospel. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> A complete stranger calls on the phone for help with his broken life, desperate</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, and Rodney tells him this garbage:</span></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Trust Jesus</span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Repent of your sins</span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Follow Jesus</span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Surrender your life to Him</span></li></ol></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You cannot support the last 3 requirements with the inspired Holy Bible to get to Heaven. This is NOT God's simple plan of salvation. Moreover, Rodney didn't even mention Jesus' death on the cross, burial or bodily resurrection (which is the Gospel according to 1st Corinthians 15:1-4).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I love what Pilgrim's Progress author, John Bunyan, wrote:</span></div><div><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">“If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the man Christ without and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the Word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the Word of God, and cast stumbling blocks before the people.” —John Bunyan (1628-1688)</span></blockquote></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That is my favorite preacher quote! John Bunyan fully understood the utter importance of maintaining separation between sanctification and justification. That is, we must keep SERVICE (Romans 12:1) separate from SALVATION (Galatians 3:26). </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Many people have been lied to by preachers, misled to think that they are not saved unless their life has changed for the better, but that is not true. They have made the dire error of mixing works with grace. They have combined service with salvation, corrupting the Gospel and confusing people.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Pastor M.R. DeHaan Gets Salvation Right</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Another one of my favorite quotes is from Pastor M.R. DeHaan (1891-1965)...</span></div><blockquote><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">"There is a vast difference between coming to Jesus for salvation and coming after Jesus for service. Coming to Christ makes one a believer, while coming after Christ makes one a disciple. All believers are not disciples. To become a believer one accepts the invitation of the Gospel, to be a disciple one obeys the challenge to a life of dedicated service and separation. Salvation comes through the sacrifice of Christ; discipleship comes only by sacrifice of self and surrender to His call for devoted service. Salvation is free, but discipleship involves paying the price of a separated walk. Salvation can't be lost because it depends upon God's faithfulness, but discipleship can be lost because it depends upon our faithfulness." —Pastor M.R. DeHaan, “Hebrews”; Zondervan Publishing House; 1959 (p. 117)</span></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Bravo Dr. DeHaan! I am shocked and saddened that most pastors today, including the clergy as a whole, are guilty of failing to put a difference between sanctification and justification. In so doing, they have corrupted the Word of God and cast stumblingblocks before the people. PGM and UNSHCAKLED are guilty of mixing works with grace. They are guilty of failing to differentiate between the <i>fruit</i> of the Spirit produced in a believer's life who Walks in the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-25), versus the childlike faith without works which brings salvation (Romans 4:1-7). PGM horribly places the burden of change upon the sinner, instead of wholly leaning on Jesus' name to get to Heaven. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Beware Of UNSHACKLED Radio</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I cannot warn you enough to avoid these false prophets, who mislead lost sinners, sending them to Hell after being given a false hope. Nobody has ever been born-again by following Christ, turning from your sins or surrendering to Jesus, PLUS trusting Christ. You can only be saved by wholly leaning on Jesus' precious name. That is, you must trust what Jesus did to pay your debt of sin through Calvary's cross and nothing more. <b>1st Thessalonians 4:14, “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.”</b> There is the Gospel. Amen. What PGM is propagating is a false plan of salvation—<a href="https://rightdoctrinematters.blogspot.com/2023/12/pensacola-christian-college-teaches.html" target="_blank">the same lies which the religious cults teach</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL6wQlqNmKfSbRRZ4CbgpIDyigQ7jPFDvyGOMbImsUoQgb5mw3eOsGqefD7gxr9b04u7bkxd-u7oMBRRztjyo9dZGWOpXcFFrE0z2Adhq_fJ6NeYw9xzFEFN456YfqBqD3YBU4RDePWeJ5XNmkxhPNlOYE6A257wDeVcFRDpAGjdc7FmW6TNSA_cW17b8/s1124/lordship_salvation-seven_problems.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="843" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL6wQlqNmKfSbRRZ4CbgpIDyigQ7jPFDvyGOMbImsUoQgb5mw3eOsGqefD7gxr9b04u7bkxd-u7oMBRRztjyo9dZGWOpXcFFrE0z2Adhq_fJ6NeYw9xzFEFN456YfqBqD3YBU4RDePWeJ5XNmkxhPNlOYE6A257wDeVcFRDpAGjdc7FmW6TNSA_cW17b8/w300-h400/lordship_salvation-seven_problems.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4XSxG8eP7Fdjmk3STH3PyuYmw-SUxNQr-GvHmXXmj87tvGjFrRD2_HpgaBN4lusTklOheBJWu4Zd_5vX6FhEBnSsaLYOZPL44LG1RpoaEdGo2w3yDdHN7_vu5y9uE8xqGaEUhqxRrPiFbnfbuHZcGnbTRHjx9E5xp0qvCU3OuK9fnlBFEk5IqhhbJL7Y/s883/lordship_salvation_prisonhouse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="883" data-original-width="843" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4XSxG8eP7Fdjmk3STH3PyuYmw-SUxNQr-GvHmXXmj87tvGjFrRD2_HpgaBN4lusTklOheBJWu4Zd_5vX6FhEBnSsaLYOZPL44LG1RpoaEdGo2w3yDdHN7_vu5y9uE8xqGaEUhqxRrPiFbnfbuHZcGnbTRHjx9E5xp0qvCU3OuK9fnlBFEk5IqhhbJL7Y/w383-h400/lordship_salvation_prisonhouse.jpg" width="383" /></a></div></div></div></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-58556437961149888302023-12-15T09:42:00.058-06:002023-12-15T17:32:57.876-06:00My Fault As A Preacher Is Caring Too Much<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>2nd Corinthians 8:16, “But thanks be to <u>God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus</u> for you.</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>”</b></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That is an amazing passage of Scripture. The Bible teaches that God put care into the heart of Brother Titus for the church at Corinth. <b>Philippians 2:13, “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">”</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Has God put care into your heart dear friend for a group of people? God put a burden in my heart (and gave me the ability) in 2002 to start a website ministry. It has been a consuming passion ever since to work (day and night) on the ministry which the Lord has entrusted to me.<b> Colossians 4:17, “Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.”</b></span><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Anybody who has been following my ministry over the years, knows that I make a fuss over little things. I pay attention to the details. For example: Take a look at this Bible verse comparison chart from Zechariah 13:6, and you tell me if I am being too picky. ... </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqG-rPWQZPZg9bpNeT3Aj29mFiP79bECeWquggqj9UyY97KQr8kR43ilHaRjHyu7qmJ43Acc2-4eIWobZMB4Qg2OxUMV-Jto1F-jPAEyHAu2aLHxEfxbIfBJCc9I9p4-4CaZONEx6_2suOPuLN_ZtaB8xQP60HyPU-CTYUdU3eLDTTfKYnYkGS2IXRLVw/s608/bible_changed_for_copyright.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="602" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqG-rPWQZPZg9bpNeT3Aj29mFiP79bECeWquggqj9UyY97KQr8kR43ilHaRjHyu7qmJ43Acc2-4eIWobZMB4Qg2OxUMV-Jto1F-jPAEyHAu2aLHxEfxbIfBJCc9I9p4-4CaZONEx6_2suOPuLN_ZtaB8xQP60HyPU-CTYUdU3eLDTTfKYnYkGS2IXRLVw/w396-h400/bible_changed_for_copyright.jpg" width="396" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Do you still think I bumped my head? Only a blatant liar and fraud for a preacher would even try to defend what I have just shown you. It couldn't be more obvious that Satan is behind the modern-day Bible publishing craze in America. These corrupt Bible perversions are very dangerous, because the Bible versions you choose to use will affect your doctrine. But don't take my word for it, see for yourself in this comparison of Hebrews 6:1...</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote>EASY-TO-READ VERSION (ERV) — “So we should be finished with the beginning lessons about Christ. We should not have to keep going back to where we started. We began our new life by <u><b>turning away from the evil we did in the past</b></u> and by believing in God.”<b> [emphasis added]</b></blockquote>Here again is Hebrews 6:1 in the beloved, correct, King James Bible . . .<br /><blockquote>KING JAMES BIBLE (KJB) — Hebrews 6:1, “Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of <b><u>repentance from dead works</u></b>, and of faith toward God.” <b>[emphasis added]</b></blockquote>Do you see how the new corrupt Bible versions are horribly changing theology in the churches? The King James Bible teaches that we must <i>repent</i> from our DEAD WORKS to be saved, but the ERV teaches that we must stop living a life of deliberate sin (evil) to be saved. These are two very different meanings. <i>Dead works</i> refer to the useless things you are trusting in to get you to Heaven (sacraments, turning from sins, baptism, et cetera). To be saved you must <i>repent</i> (change your mind) concerning WHO YOU ARE and WHO CHRIST IS. You must admit your SINNERSHIP and trust in Jesus' SAVIORSHIP.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">True repentance has nothing to do with “turning from sin” and everything to do with “acknowledging one's sinfulness” (Romans 3:19-20). Like the thief on the cross who simply acknowledged his sinfulness (Luke 23:39-43), the only part a person has in salvation is the beggar's part. Salvation is a TAKE proposition, not a GIVE proposition. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">To be saved you must </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">repent</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (change your mind) concerning those </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">dead works</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> which cannot save, and instead put your trust as a guilty sinner in Jesus Christ.</span><br /><div><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Most Preachers Don't Pay Attention To The Details</b></span></div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Your average preacher and pastor today couldn't care less about which Bible people use, but I do care. If you don't have a King James Bible, you don't have an inspired Holy Bible in the English language. All of the Devil's modern Bible revisions are corrupt.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tragically, over 90% of pastors and preachers today preach another gospel of Lordship Salvation, or wrong repentance (aka, the heresy that you must “turn from your sins” to get to Heaven). As I just mentioned, t</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">rue repentance has nothing to do with “turning from sin” and everything to do with “acknowledging one's sinfulness” (Romans 3:19-20).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">God knows that I am not bragging, but I do have the Gospel correct, and I do know that the King James Bible is the inspired Word of God. Like the Apostle Paul, I am set for the defence of the Gospel. <b>Philippians 1:15-17, “</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b> The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> But the other of love, <u>knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel</u>.”</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> There is nothing in this universe any more important than the Gospel, the power of God by which all who BELIEVE IT are eternally saved (Romans 1:16).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are millions of false teachers today, who embellish, add and pervert the Gospel of Jesus Christ to their own destruction, and of those who follow them (2nd Peter 3:16-17). I have made many enemies in the Bob Jones University (BJU) camp, for preaching against <a href="https://stewart1611.blogspot.com/2020/06/dr-steve-pettits-counterfeit-gospel.html" target="_blank">their Lordship Salvation cult</a>. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I have made many enemies in the Pensacola Christian College (PCC) cult, for preaching against <a href="https://stewart1611.blogspot.com/2023/11/damnable-heresy-at-pensacola-christian.html" target="_blank">their damnable wrong repentance heresy</a>. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Somebody's Got To Care</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Some of my blog, Facebook and website readers are so sick and tired of me harping on these two cults (BJU and PCC) that they no longer want to follow my ministry. That's sad but okay, because I am preaching THE TRUTH which God has put into my heart, to contend for the Christian faith once delivered unto the saints (Jude 1:3). </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>2nd Corinthians 8:16, “But thanks be to <u>God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus</u> for you.</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>”</b> God has put care into my heart concerning the Gospel and the Word of God. I am set for the defense of the Gospel and the inspired Holy Bible. Somebody needs to be a Watchman!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am like a Pitbull dog wandering around a junkyard, guarding the place, biting any trespassers in the leg. A good preacher has to continually play a game of Whack-A-Mole! When another mole of false doctrine or a false prophet rears its ugly head out of a hole, WHACK with the truth of God's Word! What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace. Well, I'm not tolerating any of it. I am faithfully exposing the Devil's frauds of Lordship Salvation and Misunderstood Repentance. I am faithfully exposing the Devil's frauds of Calvinism, Zionism, Dispensationalism, Modalism, Ecumenism, Neo-evangelicalism and other heretical -isms.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am paying attention to the details. I CARE!!! God has put care into my heart, as the Lord also put care into the heart of Titus. You either care or you don't. Many Christians today have become indifferent, not caring one way or the other. That is the fault of bad pastors who prioritize making money and growing the church, rather than preaching the inspired truth of God's Word.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pensacola Christian College (PCC) is a prime offender, all they care about is their tens of millions of dollars in revenues, while the world goes to Hell. PCC's counterfeit plan of salvation gives lost sinners a false hope. Satan's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born again. Most of PCC's followers are merely living the Christian life, playing church while going through all the motions, but have never been born-again.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am a much hated preacher, because I fuss over the little things, like teaching the proper meaning of repentance. In truth, that is a giant thing in the Lord's sight. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!! It really does. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>1st Timothy 4:16, “</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine</u>; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>”</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I admit that I live a frustrated life as a fundamentalist Bible preacher. I am always going against the common consensus of preachers, swimming up river against the flow, fighting against mainstream apostate Christendom. It gets frustrating to be kicked out of multiple churches, shunned by corrupt pastors, banned from returning, hated by Bible colleges and scorned by such fools for telling THE TRUTH. Paul had the same problem. <b>Galatians 4:16, “Am I therefore become your enemy, <u>because I tell you the truth</u>?</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">”</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> For preaching THE TRUTH, the Apostle Paul was counted by the Galatians as their enemy.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>The Ungodly Harvest Baptist Church Cult On Guam</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That is exactly what happened to me at the wicked Harvest Baptist Church on Guam. When I attended their church in 2014, I befriended their pastors by telling them the truth that Lordship Salvation is a counterfeit plan of salvation. I shewed them, as a true friend does, that they were teaching a misunderstanding about repentance. Harvest's senior pastor, Marty Herron, said, and I quote: </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“It is not enough to admit you are a sinner, you must forsake a lifestyle of sinning to get to Heaven.” Oh my God! Pastor Herron told that lie to several hundred church members on a Sunday morning in his sermon invitation. I literally went home and cried, shocked by the damnable heresy I had just heard from an unsaved pastor.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I decided to help the church, as a true friend does, so I took my own money and purchased hundreds of dollars worth of books authored by godly pastors (Jack Hyles, Al Lacy, Max Younce, et cetera). Harvest's pastors were greatly offended and showed me the door! I shook the dust off my feet as Jesus said and left that cesspool of snakes. Shame on the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam. Marty Herron resigned as senior pastor in late 2018 and is now the incompetent vice president of Faith Baptist Bible College And Theological Seminary (preacher's cemetery) in Ankeny, Iowa. Herron is still destroying people's lives, giving them false hope by preaching a counterfeit gospel of partial faith in Christ PLUS turning from your sinful bad habits. I feel like the Lone Ranger taking a biblical stand against these false prophets, as 99% of Baptist preachers today remain completely silent about heresy.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Do you care dear reader? I care because God cares. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!! A ministry friend sent me a sermon by Pastor Steven Anderson from June 11, 2006. It was preached Sunday evening. The sermon is titled "The Great Whore." Here is <a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/BTP/Pastor_Steven_Anderson/turn_from_sins_baptist_heresy.mp3" target="_blank">an excerpt that I made with Audacity</a>, in which Brother Anderson exposes several big name Baptist pastors for wickedly bidding Godspeed to the "turn from your sins" heresy to be saved. I don't agree with all of Pastor Anderson's doctrines or methods, but I thank God for him, that he contends for the faith and exposes corrupt preachers (Titus 1:13-14).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Most Churchgoers Couldn't Care Less About Right Doctrine</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The biggest problem in the Christian world today is that God's children don't care. We've become so accustomed to hearing lying preachers tell us to “turn from your sins” and “invite Christ into your life” to be saved, that it's no big deal to us anymore. Well, IT IS A VERY BIG DEAL!!! Dear reader, true repentance has nothing to do with “turning from sin” and everything to do with “acknowledging one's sinfulness” (Romans 3:19-20). Like the thief on the cross who simply acknowledged his sinfulness (Luke 23:39-43), the only part a person has in salvation is the beggar's part. ...</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“More people will die and burn in Hell, because they're trusting too much!”—Pastor Jack Hyles, “<a href="https://www.soulwinning.info/sermons/hp111112.mp3">Yea, Yea, And Nay, Nay!</a>”<br /><br />“Everything that's hard and complicated about salvation is God's side of it!”—Pastor Jack Hyles, “<a href="https://www.soulwinning.info/sermons/hp111112.mp3">Yea, Yea, And Nay, Nay!</a>”</span></blockquote></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I may be the black sheep of the family for stepping on preacher's toes, but so be it. Somebody needs to contend for the Christian faith once delivered unto the saints (Jude 1:3). I had excellent teachers (Jack Hyles, Curtis Hutson, Harry Ironside, Max Younce, Hank Lindstrom, Ralph Yankee Arnold, et cetera) who all preach a simple free grace Gospel without works. They all rightly teach to wholly lean on Jesus' name to get to Heaven, not partial faith in Christ PLUS something more. I thank God for these godly men who preach the truth.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It is tragic that over 95% of professed Christians today are primarily concerned about making more money. They will deny that serious charge against them, but their unwillingness to contend for the faith and lack of fighting the good fight of faith indicts them. I'm talking about the cult at Pensacola Christian College. I'm talking about the cult at Bob Jones University. All of these institutions preach a counterfeit gospel of Lordship Salvation, not a free grace gospel without works. Sadly, hardly anyone in the religious racket cares anymore, and that's really was it has become today, a horrible racket. Today's Bible colleges are illegal enterprises in God's eyes because they pervert the Gospel and give lost sinners false hope.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>There Has Always Been Only One Gospel</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Apostle Paul wrote in Galatians 1:6-7 that there is only one Gospel, not two or three. Everyone saved in the Old Testament was saved by faith alone in Christ alone (Acts 10:43). Abraham was saved by faith alone (Genesis 15:6). Abraham was saved by the <i>same</i> Gospel. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Galatians 3:6-8, “Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b> Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, <u>preached before the gospel unto Abraham</u>, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.”</b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Moses preached the <i>same</i> Gospel that Paul preached, one of remission of sins through faith alone in the Messiah (Hebrews 4:1-2). The prophet Habakkuk said,<b> “the just shall live by his faith” (Habakkuk 2:4b).</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Isaiah preached the same Gospel. <b>Romans 10:16, “But they have not all obeyed <u>the gospel</u>. For <u>Esaias saith</u>, Lord, who hath believed our report?”</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Romans 4:4 tells us that if at any time salvation had ever been by works, then it was of <i>debt</i> and not <i>grace</i>. Dear friend, God has never at any time in human civilization owed anybody eternal life. If anyone has ever been saved, or ever will be saved, it is only because of the precious blood of the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world (John 1:29; 1st Peter 1:18-19; Revelation 7:14). <b>Romans 4:3-4, </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;">For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;"> <u>Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt</u>.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>”</b> You get saved by <i>believing</i> the GOOD NEWS (i.e., GOSPEL) that Jesus <i>died</i> on a cross to pay for your debt of sin, He was <i>buried</i> and then He bodily <i>resurrected</i> from the dead three days later (1st Corinthians 15:1-4).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sadly, that is not what is being taught in over 95% of churches, Bible colleges, Christian radio stations and televisions channels today. My biggest fault (which is not really a fault) is that I care too much, that I make a fuss over little things, and that I refuse to shut up for God. So please pardon me if my truthful preaching offends you, it is only because I love you with Christ's unconditional love and want to help you.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My “fault” for which I was driven out of the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam by their wicked pastors, and banned from returning, is that I cared enough about them to befriend them with THE TRUTH. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My “fault” for which I was mistreated by Pastor Jeff Redlin at Campus Church and driven away, and then banned from returning to Pensacola Christian College's campus, is because I cared enough to befriend them with THE TRUTH. Telling <i>the truth</i> is the quickest way to be counted as the </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">enemy</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> and banned from attending a church. <b>Galatians 4:16, </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>“Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you <u>the truth</u>?”</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Whereas 99% of preachers today are careful what they say to protect their career and future financial security, I am going to preach THE TRUTH even if it means losing everything, and I have lost nearly everything for telling THE TRUTH. John the Baptist was a man of conviction and it cost him his life, literally. When John preached against Herod's sins (Matthew 14:3-4; Mark 6:18), Herod's wicked adulterous wife Herodias had John murdered. Woe unto her in the fires of Hell! If God allowed John the Baptist (the greatest man ever born among women - Matthew 11:11) to be martyred, then who am I to escape persecution for my Christian faith and truthful preaching (2nd Timothy 3:12)? It is my privilege and joy to preach the Word of God.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><div></div><blockquote><div>Matthew 5:10-12, “Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: <u>for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you</u>.”</div></blockquote></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>The Satanic Plan Of Salvation At Pensacola Christian College</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I never thought that my worst enemies would be neo-evangelical churches like the wicked Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, and neo-evangelical Bible colleges like Pensacola Christian College (PCC). What PCC is teaching today is not fundamentalism, it is neo-evangelical garbage! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">O</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">n page 62 of the “John & Romans” booklet which Campus Church at PCC delivered to my home's mailbox in November of 2023 (I live in the city of Pensacola), it teaches this <a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Wolves/pcc_damnable_heresy.htm" target="_blank">damnable false doctrine to get to Heaven</a>:</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>“<u>I repent of my sins</u>.</b> I realize that sin is something that God hates and <b><u>I no longer want to hold onto sinful bad habits in my life</u>.” [emphasis added]</b></span><br /><br />SOURCE: “John & Romans,” Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, p. 62</blockquote><div>I was shocked on page 60 when I read PCC's counterfeit plan of salvation. What I am about to show you is straight from Satan dear reader:<br /><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“REPENTANCE — Now is the time <b><u>to turn from your sin</u></b> and embrace God. <b><u>The act</u> of <u>turning away from sin</u> is called 'repentance.'</b> This word implies an inward decision <b>to <u>follow</u> and <u>obey God's will instead of your self-serving sins</u>.</b> It means changing your mind about sin and seeing it as something that grieves God. The Bible says that God patiently waits for all people to make this decision.”</span><br /><br />SOURCE: “John & Romans,” Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, p. 60</blockquote>Do you still think I bumped my head? I've been exposing the cult at Bob Jones University (BJU) since 2014, and now I have been exposing the cult at Pensacola Christian College (PCC) since 2021. By God's grace, I will continue to expose these wicked organizations.</div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div>The quotes that I just shared with you from PCC's Campus Church are NOT part of the Gospel which the Apostle Paul preached in 1st Corinthians 15:1-4...<br /><b><blockquote>1st Corinthians15:1-4, “Moreover, brethren, <u>I declare unto you the gospel</u> which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, <u>how that Christ died for our sins</u> according to the scriptures; And that <u>he was buried</u>, and that <u>he rose again the third day</u> according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.”</blockquote></b>There you have it! The “Gospel” is the “GOOD NEWS” that Jesus Christ DIED on a cross for our sins, He was BURIED and after three days He physically RESURRECTED from the dead. In Paul's Gospel (which Paul said he received directly from Jesus in Galatians 1:12), did you see anything that reads: “follow and obey God's will instead of your self-serving sins.” No, that is not what Paul taught. So why is PCC and their Campus Church promoting this filth? Why does the <a href="https://stewart1611.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-sword-of-lord-has-sadly-changed-for.html" target="_blank">Sword of the Lord wickedly advertise PCC</a> in their paper?<br /><br />The only requirement to believe the Gospel is to know why you need to be saved? You need to know what you're being saved from. You are a guilty sinner, and so am I. No one has ever lived who didn't sin (Romans 3:10-23), except Jesus (Hebrews 4:15). He is the perfect sinless Lamb of God (John 1:29). The Bible teaches and warns that the wages we earn from our sinning is death (Romans 5:12, 6:23). This includes a second death in Hell, fire and brimstone forever (Revelation 20:11-15; 21:8). If you admit by faith to God that you are a guilty sinner deserving of Hell, then that is all you need to know to believe the GOOD NEWS that Jesus Christ died on a cross to pay for your sins, was buried and three days later He bodily raised up from the dead for your justification. BELIEVE THE GOOD NEWS, oh sinner, and you are saved!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My preaching will likely continue to hare lip every dog in the county, but so be it. I am telling THE TRUTH. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thank you for reading my blog. Jesus is precious!!!</span></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-55042076721599699672023-12-11T22:34:00.001-06:002023-12-11T22:38:57.671-06:00I Still Sin A Lot And Am Worried I Might Not Be Saved<div><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Romans 10:12-15, “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b> <u>For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved</u>.</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?”</b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Many people have been lied to by preachers, misled to think that they are not saved unless their life has changed for the better, but that is not true. One of my favorite quotes is from Pastor M.R. DeHaan (1891-1965)...</span><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"There is a vast difference between coming to Jesus for salvation and coming after Jesus for service. Coming to Christ makes one a believer, while coming after Christ makes one a disciple. All believers are not disciples. To become a believer one accepts the invitation of the Gospel, to be a disciple one obeys the challenge to a life of dedicated service and separation. Salvation comes through the sacrifice of Christ; discipleship comes only by sacrifice of self and surrender to His call for devoted service. Salvation is free, but discipleship involves paying the price of a separated walk. Salvation can't be lost because it depends upon God's faithfulness, but discipleship can be lost because it depends upon our faithfulness." —Pastor M.R. DeHaan, “Hebrews”; Zondervan Publishing House; 1959 (p. 117)</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If I were to ask you the question dear reader—Do you know for sure that if you died today, would you go to Heaven?—what would your answer be? If I were asked that same question, my answer would be—I know I am saved because my only hope for forgiveness of sins and eternal life is what Jesus Christ has already done through Calvary's cross to pay for my sins. I realized as a 13 year old boy that I was a guilty sinner in God's sight, and by faith I received what Christ did to pay for my sins on the cross. I am only trusting upon Jesus' <i>death</i> on the cross, His <i>burial</i> and physical <i>resurrection</i> from the dead three days later (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). That is all that I am trusting in to get me to Heaven. If you're answer is different, then you need to get saved friend.</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Your behavior, sins and feelings have nothing to do with being saved. You are either solely trusting what Christ did to pay your debt of sin through Calvary's cross, or you're not. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith. Turning away from sinful ways would be a work. Faith puts all of the merit where it belongs, on the object of our faith, Jesus and His work. The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Sound doctrine is like a sound ship. There are no holes in it.” —Pastor David Baker</span></blockquote></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I say “through” because Jesus after He raised up from the dead, still needed to take His literal liquid blood to Heaven to sprinkle upon the Mercy Seat in the presence of God the Father on our behalf (Hebrews 9:12, 22-24; 10:1-4, 12:14). Redemption wasn't “finished” on the cross, for Christ hadn't even died, been buried or resurrected yet. When Christ said <b>“it is finished”</b> (John 19:29-30), He was referring to all the Messianic prophecies concerning Himself up until that point, right after He uttered the words <b>“I thirst”</b> (thus fulfilling Psalms 69:21).</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Your behavior, sins and feelings have absolutely nothing to do with being saved. You are either solely trusting what Christ did to pay your debt of sin through Calvary's cross, or you're not. Many people are trusting Christ PLUS something else, and they are not saved. You must put your trust (reliance) upon Jesus only, believing that He is the Christ, the only begotten Son of God (John 20:31). I again recommend that you read Michael P. Bowen's helpful book, "</span><a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/BTP/i_never_knew_you.pdf" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">I Never Knew You</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Many people are trusting Christ PLUS something else, and they are not saved. You must put your trust (reliance) upon Jesus, believing that He is the Christ, the only begotten Son of God. I again recommend that you read Michael P. Bowen's helpful book, "</span><a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/BTP/i_never_knew_you.pdf" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">I Never Knew You</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I encourage you to </span><a href="https://youtu.be/az3iXhXglfY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">listen several times to the Gospel of John</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, which is God's Gospel tract.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The sins of bitterness, gossip, lust, hate, drunkenness, worry, gluttony, hatred, covetousness and other vices are something that every believers struggle with. Even the best Christians still sin every day and struggle with the sinful flesh. We all have a Skeleton Closet of sins that we don't want other people to know about. That doesn't mean you're not saved. Faith is the only righteous thing that anyone can do to be saved.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You cannot turn away from your sinning and neither can I or anyone else. You might be able to reform and clean up your life, so that you feel more self-righteous and others may think you are a good person, but you still sin and are a sinner. We are saved by trusting in Christ's righteousness, not ours. That is critically important for you to understand. Every Christian should memorize this Bible verse from <b>Philippians 3:9, "And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:"</b> You need HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS!!! That is, we are saved by God's imputed righteousness (Romans 4:4-7). By the way, all Bible citations are ONLY from the inspired King James Bible, because all of the modern revisions are corrupted by Satan.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You need to understand that eternal life is a <b>"FREE GIFT"</b> (Romans 5:18) from God. A gift cannot be merited, earned or deserved in any way. Salvation is not a reward, it is a gift for the guilty. You may say that you still sin horribly and worry you're not really saved, but that is exactly who Christ died for, <b>"THE UNGODLY" </b>(Romans 5:6-9). Please don't make the common foolish mistake of looking at your behavior, instead of trusting completely in what Jesus has already done through the cross to pay your massive debt of sin.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The way that you choose to live as a saint is a separate matter of <i>service</i> (Romans 12:1), not <i>salvation</i> (Galatians 3:26). How you choose to live as a born-again believer will determine your rewards and happiness in Heaven, but it has nothing to do with getting saved, which Christ alone did for you, paying for your ticket to Heaven with His precious blood (1st Peter 1:18-19).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I also encourage you to look up these Scripture passages that I have shared with you and memorize many of them. You'll never be able to settle the assurance of God's salvation if you are not familiar with the Word of God. I know I am saved because I can stand upon the promises of God in the Holy Bible. But I have memorized hundreds of Scripture passages in my 43 years as a born again believer since age 13, which help me immensely.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you still have doubts, pray and ask God to give you the peace you seek, by helping you to understand His great plan of salvation. As long as you associate the new birth with your change of behavior, you will remain confused and worried. One thing has absolutely nothing to do with the other. If I offer you a gift, but then require you to live a better life to keep it or to prove that it actually is yours, it wouldn't and couldn't truly be a "gift." Romans 6:23 and Ephesians 2:8-9 teach us that eternal life is the <b>"gift"</b> of God. You simply TAKE a gift.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzjAz8ZCQ_L58tWEALLQv81S9AtKUUsgeoj4hbutIqLpgZ9AdCXXtopRVAcQVPoedRXQLm1AW7m8-BtpyIPnkEddOZBLhjA-YqBaRxPhqv52aRo6-Ye6wIHriTQ1oqU0GqbfbwTOt1GYXs_3ikQZTRkaL_oMTX8DmKSA6rsCTe3BnP5YyzV-o71d7mm-M/s685/salvation_is_the_best_gift.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="685" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzjAz8ZCQ_L58tWEALLQv81S9AtKUUsgeoj4hbutIqLpgZ9AdCXXtopRVAcQVPoedRXQLm1AW7m8-BtpyIPnkEddOZBLhjA-YqBaRxPhqv52aRo6-Ye6wIHriTQ1oqU0GqbfbwTOt1GYXs_3ikQZTRkaL_oMTX8DmKSA6rsCTe3BnP5YyzV-o71d7mm-M/w400-h380/salvation_is_the_best_gift.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-27808966856792338972023-12-09T15:36:00.085-06:002023-12-09T15:36:00.135-06:00Lordship Salvation<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Colossians 2:16-17, "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ." I Corinthians 2:8, "Which none of the princes of this world knew- for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory."</b><br /><br />Now exactly what is Lordship salvation? It is a doctrine embraced by some who say that one must receive Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord in order to be saved. A careful took at this doctrine will show that it is really nothing more but salvation by works rearing its ugly head. It adds to salvation by faith and faith alone something that man must do, and that is make Jesus the Lord of his life.<br /><br />Those who embrace this doctrine often do so from good motives. They are sick of sub-standard Christianity and shallow Christian living. They find others who agree with them, and as they fellowship in their lamentation caused by disappointment after examining the lives of God's people, their lamentation becomes doctrine. They do not realize that they are adding works to salvation. They adopt spiritual clichés such as "if Christ is not Lord of all, He will not be Lord at all." Then they will adopt other little clichés like, "Don't pluck green fruit," "Easy believism," etc. Their disappointment and oftentimes disgust with the shallowness of many Christians causes them to go so far in their disdain that they teach heresy. They love to talk about returning to New Testament Christianity. Well, the truth is, people have not changed since the New Testament. They had shallow Christians then even as we have today. For example, look at <b>I Corinthians 3:14, "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?" </b> Here we have mention of carnal Christians. Jesus was certainly not Lord of their lives. Yet they are called babes in Christ.<br /><br /><b>I Corinthians 5:1-5, "It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus." </b> Here is a member of the church, and the Lord said of him that his spirit would be saved in the day of judgment. What a tragic testimony! He, like Ananias and Sapphira and others, had committed the sin unto death. Certainly Christ was not the Lord of his life.<br /><br /><b>Galatians 4:8-11, "Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain."</b> Once again we have some weak Christians whose lives were not characterized by the Lordship of Christ.<br /><br /><b>2nd Thessalonians 3:6, 14, 15, "Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother."</b><br /><br />Was Jesus the Lord of Lot's life when he was in Sodom? Of course not, yet God called him "just." This does not mean he was just in his behavior, but he was just in his standing before God because he was a believer. Was Jesus the Lord of David's life when he sinned? Was Jesus the Lord of Peter's life when he denied the Lord, denied the faith and denied the church? Was Jesus the Lord of Abraham's life when he fled to Egypt because of a lack of faith? Was Jesus the Lord of Moses' life when he lost his ticket to the Holy Land because of his sin of smiting the rock twice? Was Jesus the Lord of Jacob's life when he was in Haran all those years?<br /><br />Now certainly there is a doctrine called the Lordship of Christ, and the Bible is full of warnings, pleadings and exhortations for God's children to yield to Lordship. <b>Romans 12:1, "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." Romans 6-12, 13, "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God." Galatians 5:16, "This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh." Galatians 6:10-17, "As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand. As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain, you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."</b> The admonition to the unsaved is that they accept Christ as Saviour. The admonition to those who have accepted Christ as Saviour is to accept Him as Lord.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Now here are some observations about Lordship salvation:</span><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1. In the final analysis, it is salvation by works, which is in direct contrast to the teaching of the Scriptures. </span></b><br /><br /><b>Titus 3:5, "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost." Romans 3:28, "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." Romans 4:2, "For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God." Ephesians 2:8, 9, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast." Romans 4-5, "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness."</b><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">2. If one must accept Christ as Lord of his life in order to be saved, it would of necessity remove growth in grace. </span></b><br /><br />If one has yielded his life to Christ as Lord at salvation, there would be no babes in Christ, but the simple truth is that there are babes in Christ.<b> I Corinthians 3:1, "And 1, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ." I Peter 2:2, "As new born babes, desire the sincere milk of the Word, that ye may grow thereby."</b><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Lordship salvation necessitates the doctrine of losing one's salvation. <br /></span></b><br />If one must make Jesus his Lord in order to be saved, then when he backslides to the position to where Jesus is no longer his Lord, consistency would drive us to believe that he is no longer saved. This would make us doubt the salvation of Peter when he denied the Lord, the salvation of Barnabas when he had contention with Paul, the salvation of Jonah when he left the will of God, etc.<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">4. Lordship salvation makes no provision for the carnal Christian.</span></b><br /><br />None of us takes pleasure in the carnality of a Christian, but the fact remains that there is such a person taught in the Bible. In <b>I Corinthians 3:1</b> we have the carnal Christian and the spiritual Christian. <b>"And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as babes in Christ."</b> The world is divided between saved and lost. The saved are divided between carnal and spiritual. I do not delight that there carnal Christians, but I must accept the fact that they exist.<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">5. Lordship salvation removes grace and would nullify the plainest verses in the Bible concerning salvation. </span></b><br /><br /><b>John 3:15, "That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:36, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." John 5:24, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." John 1: 11, 12, "He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name." Ephesians 2:8, 9, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast."</b> All of these verses plainly tell us salvation is by believing; that is, by faith in the finished work of Calvary.<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">6. Salvation is receiving, not giving. <br /></span></b><br /><b>John 1:12, "But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name."</b> In salvation it is God Who does the giving, not man. Man does the receiving. God gives His Son. <b>John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life."</b> God gives eternal life. <b>John 10:28, "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand."</b> God gives us all things. <b>Romans 8:32, "He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?"</b> To be a believer, one accepts what God has given. To be a disciple, one gives. Salvation comes from the sacrifice of Christ. Discipleship comes from the sacrifice of self. Salvation depends on God's faithfulness. Discipleship depends on my faithfulness. Hence, salvation cannot be lost. Discipleship can be lost.<br /><br />Occasionally someone will say, "You can be saved if you will give your heart to Jesus." Now I think that people who use this statement are sincere, and many have been saved in response to their appeal, but technically one is saved, not because he gives his heart to Jesus; one is saved because he receives Jesus and His gift of eternal life.<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">7. Lordship salvation would make salvation a trade or a deal or maybe even a bribe. <br /></span></b><br />It would take away the simple reception of Christ for eternal life and would become God giving us something if we give Him something. God would say to us, "You give Me something; I'll give you something. We will trade, and you will be saved." Salvation is not my giving God something and God giving me something; salvation is God giving me something and my receiving it. <b>Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."</b><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">In order to understand the Lordship of Christ, let us notice the following:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>1. The unsaved man is IN the flesh and sin is IN him.</b><br /><br /><b>2. He receives Christ.</b></span><br /><br />Christ comes IN him. <b>Colossians 1:27, "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory."<br /></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">3. When Christ enters, the old man does not leave.</span><br /></b><br />Though Christ is in him, so is the old nature. <b>Romans 7:15-17, "For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me."</b> There is the new man and there is the old man in the believer. <b>Romans 7:22, 23, "For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members."</b><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">4. The new man needs new environment. </span></b><br /><br />Hence, he is IN Christ. <b>2nd Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." Ephesians 2:6, "And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus."</b> The term "in Christ" or its equivalent is mentioned over 130 times in the New Testament.<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">5. Now that I am IN Christ, many things are made available to me. </span></b><br /><br /><b>Ephesians 1:3, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ." I Corinthians 3:21, "Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's." Romans 8:32, "He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?"</b><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">6. Though these things are available to me, they are not forced upon me, though I live where they are. </span></b><br /><br />Notice that I am already in Christ, and now that I am in Him, these things are available to me, but I must choose to have them. One of these things is fellowship with God. <b>Ephesians 2:13, "But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ."</b> Another is a spiritual walk. <b>I John 2:6, "He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked."</b> Another is His approval. <b>Romans 16:10, "Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus' household."</b> Another is spiritual growth. <b>Colossians 2:7, "Rooted and built up in Him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving."</b> Another is spiritual maturity <b>Colossians 1:28, "Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all—wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus."</b> Another is sanctification. <b>I Corinthians 1:2, "Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's."</b><br /><br />All of these things are available to the believer. All are at his disposal, whereas none were before he came in Christ. When he became a new creature and entered into Christ, these and many other things were made available to him. Now to whatever extent man avails himself of these things that are at his disposal, Christ is his Lord. Naturally, the baby Christian does not avail himself of all the things that are his any more than the babe in the house avails himself to the washing machine or the family car. However, as we avail ourselves more and more of the things that Christ has made for us, we grow in grace and Jesus becomes more the Lord of our lives.<br /><br />Perhaps the greatest Christian who ever lived was the Apostle Paul. In speaking of himself he said, "O wretched man that I am." He called himself "the chief of sinners." He said the things that he would do, he did not, and the things he would not do, he did. Probably Jesus was Lord of more of Paul's life than any other person who ever lived, but Paul himself said he had not yet apprehended.<br /><br />In conclusion, notice the vanity and pride involved in one testifying to his salvation who believes in Lordship salvation. He is saying, "I have made Jesus my Lord." That means that Jesus controls his life and he is totally yielded. My, what a statement for a person to make about himself! On the other hand, notice the humility in the person's testimony who says, "I am saved because I received Christ as my Saviour." He is talking about a salvation that he did not merit. He did nothing to receive it except receive it. It was a gift. Whereas, if we had to give something to God to get something in return, he and God made a trade and his salvation is earned.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Books,%20Tracts%20&%20Preaching/Printed%20Books/Dr%20Jack%20Hyles/Salvation/salvation-index.htm"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Table Of Contents</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5AR-Ki98dXQyXoBNqJzf0LHlhJqx0v6CUIevzNzy5UmzmU6kkyaOMsJuTkdcDYROZUlSE7UHll7kjXaf5oeKYy0TOpVsErsm25r0jA2V6S_8ALZq6QX9akD-zGiJS6khP53f9dYq6eDm3Z5xqxQeuxL9aUk0DQn1ArTmyxOINVTy9Jq1Io-zjq5ZxNGo/s883/lordship_salvation_prisonhouse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="883" data-original-width="843" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5AR-Ki98dXQyXoBNqJzf0LHlhJqx0v6CUIevzNzy5UmzmU6kkyaOMsJuTkdcDYROZUlSE7UHll7kjXaf5oeKYy0TOpVsErsm25r0jA2V6S_8ALZq6QX9akD-zGiJS6khP53f9dYq6eDm3Z5xqxQeuxL9aUk0DQn1ArTmyxOINVTy9Jq1Io-zjq5ZxNGo/w383-h400/lordship_salvation_prisonhouse.jpg" width="383" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.jesusisprecious.org/sermons/audio/hank_lindstrom/how_permanent_is_your_salvation.mp3"><b><span style="font-size: large;">How Permanent Is Your Salvation?</span></b></a></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">(an awesome classic MP3 sermon by <a href="http://www.biblelineministries.org/abouthl.html">Dr. Hank Lindstrom</a>)</span></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-13832591679565606632023-12-08T11:38:00.026-06:002023-12-08T15:49:43.808-06:00Beware Of Damnable False Prophet William P. Grady<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Romans 16:17-18, “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.”<br /></b><br />Evangelist Bill Grady is a dangerous false teacher! He preaches a counterfeit gospel of repenting of your sins to be saved, which is nowhere found in the Holy Bible. Grady is a Zionist fool, who idolizes manmade Israel. <a href="https://stewart1611.blogspot.com/2023/01/evangelist-sam-gipps-counterfeit-plan.html" target="_blank">Evangelist Sam Gipp is in the same corrupt boat</a>, preaching the same counterfeit gospel. <a href="https://stewart1611.blogspot.com/2022/04/beware-of-pastor-keith-gomezs.html" target="_blank">Pastor Keith Gomez</a>, William Grady and Sam Gipp are all damnable false prophets on salvation, errantly teaching that you must “turn from your sins” to be saved. You cannot show me that in the inspired King James Bible.<br /><br />Dr. Grady was one of the worst teachers I had at Hyles-Anderson College, bitter and malicious (at the time I took the class in 1989) toward Brother George Godfrey. I had Brother Godfrey for my class, “Personal Soulwinning.” Dr. George Godfrey is a good man! Shame on Bill Grady for tearing him down! <a href="https://www.ruckmanism.org/ruckmans-vicious-ungodly-language" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Peter Ruckman was infamous for being a thug too!</a></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I had Mr. Grady for the class “Biographies Of Great Men “at Hyles-Anderson College (HAC) in 1989. At that time, a group of disgruntled staff members at HAC, and some church members in Hammond, turned against Pastor Jack Hyles. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That was the most difficult year in Pastor Jack Hyles entire ministry (which Dr. Hyles said himself).</span><br style="font-family: helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">One day in class, Dr. Grady told the lady students to leave the classroom, and then he told the men that George Godfrey (another former teacher at HAC, who had left the college in 1989) had told a group of married HAC students that they should sexually satisfy their wives before themselves. Grady portrayed Mr. Godfrey as a sex pervert. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This shows the thug nature of Bill Grady! </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">To this day 34 years later I still disrespect Bill Grady for what he did that day, trashing out a Christian that he disliked. George Godfrey was a good man! I see nothing wrong with the good advice that Brother Godfrey gave to those married male students. Dr. Grady has a malicious nature, a bully, who does not exemplify Christ. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I have also heard Grady slander other Christians from the pulpit when he pastored a church in Michigan, saying crap that wasn't true about people. The guy is a jerk!</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Bill Grady is also a shameful Peter S. Ruckman (1921-2016) worshipper, adopting all of his corrupt and damnable heresies. Peter Ruckman errantly taught that you must turn away from the act of living in sin to get to Heaven, which is a works-based-salvation, not God's free gift of grace. Grady also teaches Ruckman's trash doctrine that Old Testament saints were saved by works, and after the Rapture in the future people will be required to keep the Ten Commandments to be saved. That is damnable heresy!<br /><br />Bill Grady is sinfully arrogant, greedy and a loudmouthed theological bully who ought not be welcomed in any church to speak. The man is a suck-up all the way! You'd think the guy would have grown up about 40 years ago, but he is still a spoiled Smart Alec brat and a disgrace as a preacher. Grady loves to boast and brag on himself. Look at his ministry website and you'll see about 15 credit cards which he accepts. That tells you where his heart is at. In Bill Grady's weird world, he is infatuated with Israel, Israel, Israel.<br /><br />The bottom line is that William Grady is wrong on God's simple plan of salvation, and we must expose him as a devil in the pulpit. In the preceding sermon Bill Grady falsely teaches...<br /><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">"There was no eternal security in the Old Testament. So you either died in a right state with God or you didn't, but no one was ever saved." —William P. Grady, <a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False_Prophets/bill_grady/bill_grady-no_one_saved_in_old_testament.mp3">'Reformed Ruckmanism' (time, 1:24:15)</a></span></blockquote></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That is totally unbiblical! <b>Acts 10:43, "To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins."</b> As you can see for yourself, “all” of the prophets preached salvation through faith alone in Christ, the Messiah. Old Testament saints were saved by trusting the coming Messiah. In the Old Testament, they were looking forward to the coming Messiah. This is what the Samaritan woman said in <b>John 4:25, “The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.”</b> She was waiting for the coming Messiah. She met Him at Jacob’s well, and was saved when she believed on Him. All of the Old Testament prophets preached salvation through faith alone in Christ. You just read it from the Holy Bible for yourself. Bill Grady is a hellbound infidel.<br /><br />The bottom line is that William Grady is wrong on God's simple plan of salvation, and we must expose him as a devil in the pulpit. I don't think I've heard a single sermon by Bill Grady where he didn't mention “Dr. Ruckman” at least 30-50 times. ...<br /><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“I love Dr. Ruckman because he's taught me 99% of what I know.” —William P. Grady, YouTube - '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-fkxrwvuUY">Reformed Ruckmanism</a>' (time, 1:32:05)</span></blockquote></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That is pathetic! I love Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001), but he didn't teach me 99% of what I know. Every man is my teacher. I have learned something from everyone I ever met, whether it be acquired, perceived or experiential knowledge. Bill Grady is a religious stooge. At 1:36:55 time in the preceding YouTube sermon, 'Reformed Ruckmanism,' you can hear Grady bragging on himself, again! What a blowhard! Grady worships Peter Ruckman, making bullcrap excuses for Ruckman's messed up theology and life.<br /><br />When I attended Hyles-Anderson College (1985-1993), Pastor Hyles told Bill Grady from the pulpit that he was about to fire him for teaching dispensationalism in the classroom. Grady was the only one at HAC teaching that garbage! The Bible does NOT teach dispensationalism, which is why I am against it. Dispensational teaching is synonymous with heretical Zionist brainwashing. To the man with a hammer in his hand, everything starts looking like a nail sticking up. To Bill Grady he sees everything as being about Israel. That makes him wacky and a false teacher. Revelation 19:10 says that “JESUS” is the spirit of all prophecy, not Israel or the Jews!<br /> <br />Grady attacks Pastor Steven Anderson, <a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False_Prophets/bill_grady/bill_grady_attacks_steven_anderson.mp3">saying he wants to throw him out a window!</a> Grady is a member of the wacky Ruckman cult in America! Please avoid Bill Grady for your own sake, lest you become as corrupted as he is doctrinally (Romans 16;17-18). </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Bill Grady blocked me out on Facebook. That's okay, he can't shut me up from telling the sad truth about him.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Bill Grady Is A Dangerous False Prophet!</span></b><br /><br />As mentioned earlier, in the same sermon I just mentioned, Dr. Grady says that he wants to through Pastor Steven Anderson out a window. Brother Anderson is correct on a free grace Gospel, but Bill Grady is incorrect. Who needs to be thrown out a window?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Peter Ruckman, Keith Gomez, Sam Gipp and William Grady are all WRONG on Bible repentance. Whereas the Greek word for “repent” concerning salvation always means “a change of mind,” these ungodly false teachers are pervert the Gospel by teaching that “repent” means to “turn from your sins” to get to Heaven. No such teaching is found in the inspired Word of God. Jesus Christ came to die on a cross to pay our debt of sin; He doesn’t demand that we do the impossible to forsake our sinful ways (which would be works). Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith.<br /><br />Salvation is not a reward for the righteous; it is a gift for the guilty! Turning away from sinful ways would be a work. Faith puts all of the merit where it belongs, on the object of our faith, Jesus and His work. The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU. Bill Grady is an imposter in the church pulpit, preaching nonsense. He has foolishly adopted the damnable heresies of Peter Ruckman, damning himself and others who succumb to his counterfeit plan of salvation.<br /><div></div><blockquote><div><span style="font-size: medium;">True repentance has nothing to do with “turning from sin” and everything to do with “acknowledging one's sinfulness” (Jonah 3:5). Like the thief on the cross who simply acknowledged his sinfulness (Lk 23:39-43), the only part a person has in salvation is the beggar's part.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">SOURCE: Brad Strand, “The Strand Study Bible,” p 1939</span></div></blockquote>Kindly said, Dr. Grady is haughty, arrogant, covetous and a theological bully. His ministry website has about 15 different type of credit card at the bottom, which he accepts for his books.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Grady's Zionist Heresy Concerning Present-Day Manmade Israel</span></b><br /><br />Furthermore, Grady is wrong on his Zionist heresy. Present-day Israel is NOT the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Hosea 3:4-5 says that Israel will not exist again until the Jews repent toward God, which they haven’t done yet. Of the 7,000,000 Jews living in Israel today, only 1.9% professes faith in Jesus Christ (and that includes all of the pseudo-Christian cults, like Mormons, Seventh-Day Adventists and Roman Catholics). Grady’s obsession with fake Israel is a cause for concern. Israel today is a cheap imitation of true Israel, which won’t exist again until the Second Coming of Jesus. The coming Man of Sin, Antichrist (or, “in place of Christ”) will be a cheap imitation of the true Messiah, Jesus. <br /><br />Our emphasis as believers today should be preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and not the future Kingdom of Israel. I am against dispensational teaching for a couple good reasons. One is that it is totally unbiblical. You have to butcher the Bible to teach the junk that dispensationalists claim! Second, I reject dispensational doctrine because it almost always is synonymous with idolizing present-day manmade Israel (since 1948). The nation of Israel today is no different than any other heathen nation!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Grady's Laodicean Dispensational Heresy</span></b><br /><br />One Sunday night from the First Baptist Church of Hammond pulpit, Brother Hyles warned a teacher at HAC that he was about to be fired. Dr. Hyles said this teacher was errantly teaching the students that we are now living in the dispensational “age” of Laodicea. We all knew that it was Dr. Grady, because he was the only one teaching that garbage. Dr. Grady teaches that the 7 churches in Revelation chapters 2 and 3 actually refer to “ages” of time. This is what dispensational teaching does to someone’s brain. To the man with a hammer in his hand, everything starts to look like a nail sticking up. Dr. Hyles didn’t like Dr. Grady’s teaching because it discouraged the students from going soulwinning, if they thought that this is an apostate “age” of Laodicea when people wouldn’t listen to the truth. <br /><br />There is absolutely nothing in the inspired Word of God that even remotely hints to the Seven Churches of Asia Minor in Revelation chapters 2 and 3 being different dispensations of time.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Right Doctrine Matters</span></b><br /><br />God knows that I don’t hate a living soul. I love everybody with God’s unconditional love. But I do hate evil (Psalms 97;10). I do hate every false way (Psalms 119;104). I am astonished that so many Baptist churches continue to invite William P. Grady to preach to their members, when he is wrong on God’s simple plan of salvation. I do not recommend Dr. Bill Grady as a guest speaker at any church, nor do I recommend his corrupt Zionist books! Thank you for reading my humble opinion.<br /><br />RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/il8TXK_FhpY" width="320" youtube-src-id="il8TXK_FhpY"></iframe><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br />Wolf Alert - Bill Grady Teaches A Salvation Without Jesus</span></b></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhptaiOYF_1oA88qzYxANX3eLxg5y3FS6V-gpcB5CEHTGa0PYwJLHYPpbmmPd_vwqvFahlm5e7PZvbcfSPEWAl1w8YWqcnv36phql08EA8x6O7250lVhNResAB_XvDoeSR_v0IusOucA9gaKk6OINMdYMIdALEqKHaPoN8Tbo_MZnyaXjlpwJ967h6irog/s472/false_gospel_equals_false_converts.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhptaiOYF_1oA88qzYxANX3eLxg5y3FS6V-gpcB5CEHTGa0PYwJLHYPpbmmPd_vwqvFahlm5e7PZvbcfSPEWAl1w8YWqcnv36phql08EA8x6O7250lVhNResAB_XvDoeSR_v0IusOucA9gaKk6OINMdYMIdALEqKHaPoN8Tbo_MZnyaXjlpwJ967h6irog/w320-h320/false_gospel_equals_false_converts.jpg" /></a></div></div></div></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-70631042458702956612023-12-05T20:20:00.009-06:002023-12-05T23:07:24.184-06:00Pastor Brad Strand Gets Repentance 100% Correct<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>2nd Corinthians 7:8-10, “</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath <u>made you sorry</u>, though it were but for a season.</b><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were <u>made sorry after a godly manner</u>, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing</b><b style="font-family: helvetica;">.”</b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">One of my favorite Bible teachers is Pastor Brad Strand. I recently purchased his '<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strand-Study-Bible-James-Version/dp/0984108106" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Strand Study Bible</a>.' I love it so much that I bought two of them! Here is Brother Strand's commentary for our text passage from 2nd Corinthians 7:8...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><blockquote><span>Repentance may include “remorse” (<i>made you sorry</i>), but remorse is not repentance. If so, then Judas repented because he was remorseful over what he had done to Christ (Mt 27:3). You can weep over sin and even express great remorse, but until you “change your mind” as to <i>who you are</i> and <i>who Christ is</i> and agree with God (Mt 3:2), you have not repented biblically.</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span>Repentance may include “</span><span>sorrow</span><span>”</span><span> (<i>you were made sorry</i>), but sorrow for sin is not repentance. Hell is full or sorrow, but only for the consequences of sin. The rich man who died and went to Hell uttered not a word of sorrow for his sin, only sorrow for his pain (Lk 16:19-31). You can weep over sin and even express great regret, but until you </span><span>“change your mind” as to <i>who you are</i> and <i>who Christ is</i> and agree with God, you have not repented biblically.</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span>Repentance may include “conviction” (<i>after a godly manner</i>), but conviction is not repentance. If so, then Felix repented when he trembled before Paul (Acts 24:24-25). You may be convicted that you are a sinner and even admit that you are lost, but repentance is a two-sided coin. You not only have to “</span><span>change your mind</span><span>”</span><span> as to </span><i>who you are</i><span>, you have to also </span><span>“change your mind” as to <i>who Christ is</i> and call upon Him to be your Savior (Rom 10:9-13). Otherwise, you have not repented biblically.</span></blockquote></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote>SOURCE: Brad Strand, “The Strand Study Bible,” p 1938</blockquote></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am so thankful for Pastor Strand, that he is one of few preachers today who gets repentance correct. Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001), in a sermon titled “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEfD0LaU5UI">A Vote For Preaching</a>,” spoke in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0UeR7QEa_Q">this excerpt about the false gospel of Lordship Salvation</a> which is unfortunately being preached from nearly every pulpit today. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Brother Strand writes this about the next verse from 2nd Corinthians 7:10...</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><blockquote>This word (<i>repentance</i>) comes from a combination of two Greek words: (<i>meta</i> - meaning, “<i>after”</i>) and (<i>noeo</i> - meaning, <i>“mind”</i>). The word literally means, <i>“to change ones mind; to perceive afterwards; to change what you believe and agree with God”</i> (Mt 3:2). </blockquote><blockquote>Metanoeo is used 58 times in the New Testament. It is used three different ways:</blockquote><blockquote><p></p><ol><li>It is used 37 times concerning the lost.</li><li>It is used 17 times concerning the saved.</li><li>It is used 4 times concerning the lost during the Tribulation Period.</li></ol><p></p></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><u>NOTE</u>: True repentance has nothing to do with “turning from sin” and everything to do with “acknowledging one's sinfulness” (Jonah 3:5). Like the thief on the cross who simply acknowledged his sinfulness (Lk 23:39-43), the <i>only</i> part a person has in salvation is the beggar's part. If repentance means to “turn from sin and change one's life,” then did God sin when He repented (Jonah 3:10)? I think not. Telling a sinner that he must “turn from sin” before receiving salvation gives a false view of salvation, and is but another form of “works.” Ephesians 2:8-9 is clear: </blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><i>For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:</i><i> Not of works, lest any man should boast.</i></blockquote></blockquote><p></p><p></p><blockquote>Repentance for salvation does not require a person to “clean himself up first” (i.e., “turn from his sin”).</blockquote><p></p><blockquote><i><b>THE ADAGE IS TRUE:</b></i> <i>You come to God as a sinner; you don't come to God as a “sinless” sinner.</i></blockquote><p></p><p></p></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote>SOURCE: Pastor Brad Strand, “The Strand Study Bible,” p 1938-1939</blockquote></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I cannot thank Pastor Strand enough for siding with and proclaiming THE TRUTH of God's inspired Word, and not just going along to get along with the common consensus nowadays (for the sake of acceptance by ministry peers), that turning from sin is required to be saved. Humbly said, I am so proud of Pastor Strand in the Lord. Those who seek <i>the truth</i> will find it. All of the preachers today who are going around perverting the Gospel of free grace, by embellishing it with unbiblical additions (e.g., “turn from your sins” to be saved), are pulling on the same rope as the Devil.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Beware Of Pensacola Christian College's False Gospel</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Case in point, please take a look at the <a href="https://stewart1611.blogspot.com/2023/11/damnable-heresy-at-pensacola-christian.html" target="_blank">ungodly damnable heresy being taught at Pensacola Christian College</a> (PCC) today. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I live in the city of Pensacola. In my mailbox (in November of 2023) I found a stamped envelope from Campus Church with my address and the words, “To Our Neighbor” on it. I opened the envelope and inside I found a booklet of <i>John & Romans</i>. The booklet has 64 pages in it. The Campus Church logo is printed <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCWzC2t-aAdXuFd5Nr9Vbs7XgBjfQ88Bsa-ZInIkpYfzVBRmBoEggQAvkeuDnyKgbwrl_J54tmLVHNYnO4afnZAqeVOIl9ignvJXkyoTQExEeXSayTKEAF3DwLOKBgGQuWyimc5EZl9SAOZV7zyE4Lq3FkLGV1zxeWKmBYCQHeN687uETQFp9cG7cDqGk/s807/pcc_damnable_heresy_01.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">on the front cover</a>.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />I was shocked <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhnq2NNA67DGsC2g2qRTBwkTO8YihI_PfkNvFvw9nAW_RaitK_ijrkGFF9RKfcnSJvt4hWPVJB3vnKL8qARLwnBvCwcDvFY__PCM_KyH_bt01j4mGw591IrABTPI9wy9nNOLNO6RYsUbh_hX6Y_nRLUPDvme5VHQ_1e_LJSS08ii8L8T7kzk6ThgVvcNg/s807/pcc_damnable_heresy_03.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">on page 60</a> when I read PCC's counterfeit plan of salvation. What I am about to show you is straight from Satan dear reader:<br /><blockquote>“REPENTANCE — Now is the time to <b>turn from your sin</b> and embrace God. <b><u>The act</u> of turning away from sin is called 'repentance.' </b>This word implies an inward decision to <b><u>follow</u> and <u>obey God's will instead of your self-serving sins</u>.</b> It means changing your mind about sin and seeing it as something that grieves God. The Bible says that God patiently waits for all people to make this decision.” <b>[emphasis added]</b><br /><br />SOURCE: “John & Romans,” Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, p. 60</blockquote></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Do you still think I bumped my head? Carefully notice that PCC's Campus Church requires sinners to turn away from “The act” of sinning to be saved. THAT IS WORKS!!! If you don't see that, then you need to be saved dear reader. The only “act” that I am trusting in to get to Heaven is the death, burial and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith. The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I've been <a href="https://stewart1611.blogspot.com/2020/06/dr-steve-pettits-counterfeit-gospel.html">exposing the cult at Bob Jones University (BJU)</a> since 2014, and now I have been exposing the cult at Pensacola Christian College (PCC) since 2021. By God's grace, I will continue to expose these wicked organizations. I know that some people will think I have an unchristlike spirit, but dear friend, my spirit is exactly like Christ's concerning false teaching that damns lost sinners to an eternal Hell.</span><p><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Jesus called the religious Pharisees </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“evil” and </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">vipers</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">” (snakes) in Matthew 12:34. The dear Savior didn't hold back from voicing His opinion. Jesus came right out and accused the Pharisees of being blind leaders who lead the blind (the lost) in Matthew 15:14. He called them </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">hypocrites.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b></b></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Matthew 23:13-14, </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>“</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.</b><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.” </b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Matthew 23:17, </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>“</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?”</b></span> </blockquote></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pensacola Christian College (PCC) today looks wonderful from the outside, but inside they are a rotting corpse. They sing lots of pretty religious music in their chapel services, but they have not been born-again by faith alone in Christ alone. ...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b></b></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Matthew 23:27-28, </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>“</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.</b><b> <u>Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity</u>.</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">”</b></blockquote></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">On page 62 of the <i>“John & Romans”</i> booklet distributed by PCC, Campus Church requires this of lost sinners to be saved...<br /><blockquote><b style="font-size: large;">“I repent <u>of my sins</u>.</b><span style="font-size: medium;"> I realize that sin is something that God hates and </span><b style="font-size: large;"><u>I no longer want to hold onto sinful bad habits</u>.”</b> <b style="font-size: large;">[emphasis added]</b><br /><br />SOURCE: “John & Romans,” Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, p. 62</blockquote></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Oh My! Folks, this is <u>NOT</u> part of the free grace Gospel which the Apostle Paul preached in 1st Corinthians 15:1-4...<br /><blockquote><b>1st Corinthians15:1-4, “Moreover, brethren, <u>I declare unto you the gospel</u> which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, <u>how that Christ died for our sins</u> according to the scriptures; And that <u>he was buried</u>, and that <u>he rose again the third day</u> according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.”</b></blockquote></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There you have it! The “Gospel” is the “GOOD NEWS” that Jesus Christ DIED on a cross for our sins, He was BURIED and after three days He physically RESURRECTED from the dead. In Paul's Gospel (which Paul said he received directly from Jesus in Galatians 1:12), did you see anything that reads: “follow and obey God's will instead of your self-serving sins”? No, that is not what Jesus and Paul taught. So why is PCC and their Campus Church promoting this unbiblical filth and tommyrot?<br /><br />The only requirement to believe the Gospel is to know why you need to be saved? You need to know what you're being saved from. You are a guilty sinner, and so am I. Pastor Strand nailed it...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">True repentance has nothing to do with “turning from sin” and everything to do with “acknowledging one's sinfulness” (Jonah 3:5). Like the thief on the cross who simply acknowledged his sinfulness (Lk 23:39-43), the </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">only</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> part a person has in salvation is the beggar's part.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">SOURCE: Brad Strand, “The Strand Study Bible,” p 1938-1939</span></div></blockquote><div><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Pastor Harry Ironside Gets Repentance 100% Correct</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Another one of my favorite doctrinally sound preachers is Pastor Harry Ironside (1876-1951). To help you dear reader understand this important topic of Bible repentance, I wanted to share some doctrinally sound teachings from other men of God who <i>rightly divide</i> (2nd Timothy 2:15) the Word of Truth. Pastor Ironside said:</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">"Repentance is the recognition of my sinnership—the owning before God that I am as vile as He has declared me to be in His holy Word."</span><br /><br />SOURCE: '<a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/BTP/Dr_Harry_Ironside/Except_Ye_Repent/toc.htm">Except Ye Repent</a>,' by Dr. Harry Ironside, chapter 3</blockquote>Amen and amen! What Brother Ironside just said is vastly different than turning from one's sinful bad habits to be saved, which is a false gospel rooted in <i>works</i>. Pastor Ironside is correct—repentance is simply acknowledging that one is a guilty sinner in God's eyes. This is why we need a Savior. Thankfully, Jesus paid the price with His own precious blood (1st Peter 1:18,19; Hebrews 9:12). Jesus paid a debt He did not owe, because we owed a debt we could not pay. JESUS PAID IT ALL!!!</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">No one has ever lived who didn't sin (Romans 3:10-23), except Jesus (Hebrews 4:15; 1st John 3:5). He is the perfect sinless Lamb of God (John 1:29). The Bibles teaches and warns that the wages we earn from our sinning is death (Romans 5:12, 6:23). This includes a second death in Hell, fire and brimstone forever (Revelation 20:11-15; 21:8). If you agree with God that you are a guilty sinner, deserving of Hell, then that is all you need to know to believe the <i>GOOD NEWS</i> that Jesus Christ died on a cross to pay for our sins, was buried and three days later He bodily raised up from the dead for our justification. BELIEVE THE GOOD NEWS, oh sinner, and you are saved!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Simply by faith receive Christ's sacrificial <u>death</u> on the cross as full payment for your sins, and believe that He was <u>buried</u>, but then physically <u>resurrected</u> after three days from the dead. This is “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">the gospel</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (the Good News) by which all who BELIEVE IT are immediately, irrevocably and permanently saved. <b>Romans 1:16, </b></span><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pastor Mark Cambron Gets Repentance 100% Correct</span></span></b></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><div>Dr. Mark G. Cambron (1911-2000) was a doctrinally sound preacher. He had more education than any preacher I have ever known, with degrees in B.A., M.A., Th.B., Th.M., Th.D., D.D., L.L.D. and Litt.D. Wow! Dr. Cambron was one of the foremost theologians of his time. Born in Fayetteville, Tennessee on July 31, 1911, he was born-again in 1919. It was during a Billy Sunday campaign in Chattanooga that he trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savior. Amen!</div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div>Here is an excellent and needful writing by <a href="http://thecambroninstitute.org/">Dr. Mark G. Cambron</a> (1911-2000) on the subject of REPENTANCE. Please read the following quote carefully, because Dr. Cambron is one of few theologian who gets it, that is, he understands the simplicity of the Gospel and that repentance does not mean turning from sin as proponents of Lordship Salvation foolishly teach...<br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></b><blockquote><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Repentance is necessary for salvation.</span></b><br /><br />The Greek word for repent is metanoeo, which, translated into English is: to change ones mind. It does not mean to turn from sin. That would add works to salvation.<br /><br />Repentance for salvation means a change of mind from men's ideas of salvation and religion, to an acceptance of God's only way of salvation.<br /><br />This results in a completely new creation, not a reformation of the old. The old nature remains as evil as ever after salvation and has not been reformed . . . The old nature can now be controlled by the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit.<br /><br />God guarantees salvation. This is His gift to us.<br />God guarantees reward and fruit to the obedient son.<br />God guarantees chastening and loss of rewards to the disobedient son.<br /><br />God does not cast out disobedient children, but in some cases, does take them home. He does not permit His children to live as they please without His discipline and guidance.<br /><br />Many teach repentance for salvation incorrectly, by including some form of human effort or righteousness, such as willingness to turn from sin, or turning from sin. This is heresy and has confused many people. It adds works to salvation and causes many to not understand Gods great gift. It is probation, not salvation. It is completely unscriptural. It is Galatianism and a counterfeit of the gospel.<br /><br />It is a tragedy that many Christians live shallow Christian lives. The Cambron Institute is dedicated to the task of training Christian men and women in the importance of total dedication and making Jesus the Lord of their lives not to be saved but because they are saved.<br /><br />Shallow Christianity cannot be cured by adding works to salvation.<br /><br />Salvation is not the result of what we do, but is by receiving what God has done for us. Acts 13:38, 39; Acts 20:20: Gal. 1:8,9; Gal. 2:4; Gal. 2:21; Gal. 3:1.3; Gal. 5:1-4; Eph. 2:8-10; II Cor. 5:21;John 3:16-18; Phil. 3:9; Titus 3:5-8:11 Cor. 11:13-1 5.<br /><br />SOURCE: <a href="http://thecambroninstitute.org/index.cfm?action=faith">The Cambron Institute</a></blockquote><p>Amen and amen. That is great stuff! It is refreshing to see a man with eight earned theological degrees who is correct on Bible repentance.</p><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Repentance Means To Acknowledge Our Sinnership</span></b></div><p>I was so happy today when I learned that Pastor Strand is correct on repentance. It is becoming rare these days to find a Baptist preacher who is correct on repentance and the Gospel. Pastor Strand added these words to explain Bible repentance...</p></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><blockquote>True repentance concerning salvation occurs whenever a person “changes his mind” (i.e., <i>repents</i>) concerning who he is. He is a sinner in need of salvation. According to Matthew 27:3, Judas did not repent (i.e., <i>have regret</i>) as to who he was (i.e., he was a sinner in need of salvation); he only regretted (i.e., repented) what he had done to an innocent man. Unfortunately, that is never enough to save a person from sin and sin's penalty (Hell). Until a person sees himself as being “sinfully” sick (Lk 5:31-32), he will never see his need for a “spiritual doctor” (i.e., the Savior). Our problem is not in what we <i>do</i> before God, but in what we <i>are</i> before God. The mistake Judas made was in “turning from his sin” (i.e., what he had done to an innocent man) instead of “changing his mind” about his sinfulness (i.e., the fact that he was a sinner in need of a Savior). Like the thief on the cross who never had the opportunity to “turn from his sin,” we, like him, can only “acknowledge our sinfulness” in order to be saved (Lk 23:40-41). True repentance for salvation occurs when we “change our mind” concerning <u>two</u> areas:</blockquote></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><blockquote><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></p><ol><li><i>Who we are</i> (Lk 23:39-40) — We are sinners in need of salvation (Rom 5:6-8)</li><li><i>Who Christ is</i> (Lk 23:42) — Christ is God (Jn 5:17-18 & 8:24, 58-59 & 10:30-33) and our only Savior from sin (I Tim 3:16 & 4:10).</li></ol></blockquote><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote>SOURCE: Pastor Brad Strand, “The Strand Study Bible,” p 1938-1939</blockquote></span></div><p>Boy, that is great stuff! That is life-changing truth! I am not kidding friend. When you learn <i>the truth</i> about repentance and the Gospel—knowing how simple God's plan of salvation really is and that it can all be yours completely for free; and you have received that free gift of eternal life by faith alone in Jesus Christ—it will produce unspeakable joy in your soul.</p></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>1st Peter 1:7-9, “That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: <u>Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory</u>: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.”</b></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><p>No believer will ever find the sweet peace and joy of being God's redeemed child, until you know beyond any shadow of a doubt that your name is written in Heaven, in the Lamb's Book of Life (Luke 10:20). As an acknowledged guilty sinner, by faith I received Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full payment for my sins at age 13. I called out in my soul to the risen Savior, casting my trust upon Him alone as my Savior. I thank God for the gift of His only begotten (biological) Son, Jesus, who with His precious blood paid my debt of sin (1st Peter 1:18-19).</p><p>God bless Brother Strand for <i>rightly dividing</i> the Word of Truth.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZt8IpQPbOtj2oa3dP9o8fY5fKreyjA00ZQ7JYEwoM7sJ_ouI7RcbqErtDGeZJxxbefgwJBZCK8Tb4YE6v15HNoeSq7GLrF8nhbQpUsyfqkx6fDO2Qa5ZDRLkROXhEFwj5T7hyphenhyphennnopYhiI8x7w_wHE1rITsU9RfM1JPQ-dcvDZRX09jvs6oGW33mR1O8k/s480/the_strand_study_bible.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZt8IpQPbOtj2oa3dP9o8fY5fKreyjA00ZQ7JYEwoM7sJ_ouI7RcbqErtDGeZJxxbefgwJBZCK8Tb4YE6v15HNoeSq7GLrF8nhbQpUsyfqkx6fDO2Qa5ZDRLkROXhEFwj5T7hyphenhyphennnopYhiI8x7w_wHE1rITsU9RfM1JPQ-dcvDZRX09jvs6oGW33mR1O8k/w400-h300/the_strand_study_bible.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-23323924808974738172023-12-03T19:47:00.019-06:002023-12-03T20:34:53.637-06:00Beware Of False Prophet David W. Cloud<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Galatians 1:6-8, “</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:</b><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> Which is not another; <u>but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ</u>.</b><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.”</b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">On April 12, 2022 Pastor John Wilkerson of the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana met for a cup of coffee with Missionary David W. Cloud (born 1949). Afterwards Mr. Cloud <a href="https://www.wayoflife.org/reports/david_cloud_has_coffee_with_john_wilkerson.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wrote an article on his ministry website</a> to bad mouth Pastor Wilkerson for not agreeing with his damnable heresies, vindictive spirit and hatred against Dr. Jack Hyles.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">To be quite frank, I am surprised that Brother Wilkerson took the time to meet with a known slanderer of the brethren. Satan is <b>“</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;">the accuser of the brethren</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;">”</span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> (Revelation 12:10b).</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> I humbly suppose that Dr. Wilkerson thought it might calm the waters if he met with the enemy to hear him out. Unfortunately it didn't. <b>Proverbs 29:9, “If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.”</b> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As you will see for yourself if you read the preceding</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> article, David Cloud is a hateful </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">bitter</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> man.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Kindly said, David Cloud is a hardcore heretic who preaches Lordship Salvation and wrong repentance. He absolutely hates Dr. Jack Hyles and the First Baptist Church of Hammond (FBCH) family. It agree with Pastor Wilkerson that the sins of First Baptist Church of Hammond (FBCH) in the past are grieving to hear. But dear reader, we are all sinners and sin is everywhere. <b>Psalms 130:3, “</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?”</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> You are as much a dirty rotten sinner as the next guy that you tear down. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are no perfect churches. </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">Proverbs 10:12, "Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins." </b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Mr. Cloud is filled with hatred, jealous of Dr. Hyles' massive success and wants to stir up strife against anybody associated with Dr. Hyles or his ministry. That is what Satan does!</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I'm surprised that Pastor Wilkerson bothered to meet with David Cloud, considering that the internet is filled with his hateful rants against Pastor Hyles, easy-believism, FBCH and Hyles-Anderson College. Cloud slanders Dr. Hyles, calling him: "The King Of Shallow Soulwinning." On the Day of Pentecost there were 3,000 could saved. They simply heard the Gospel that Peter preached and "gladly received" it (Acts 2:41). Those 3,000 people weren't put on probation, monitored to see if their lives changed to prove they had been saved. They just believed the GOOD NEWS of Jesus Christ crucified, buried and risen and they were saved. </span><a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/BTP/Dr_Jack_Hyles/exposing_john_macarthur.mp3" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">Eternal life is a free gift, you don't earn it</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In his ungodly article slandering Dr. Hyles, David Cloud states:</span></div><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pastor [Courtney] Lewis and I shared with Wilkerson some of our personal experiences with <b>the Hyles’ style “quick prayerism” that has spread throughout the world from First Baptist.</b> (Afterward, Pastor Lewis wrote to me as follows: “I want your readers to know that I wasn’t just ‘along for the ride’ with the meeting with Pastor Wilkerson.<b> I wholeheartedly reject easy prayerism</b> and believe that the things I have seen in the past need to be exposed now more than ever.”) [emphasis added] —David W. Cloud, '<a href="https://www.wayoflife.org/reports/david_cloud_has_coffee_with_john_wilkerson.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Cloud Has Coffee With John Wilkerson</a>'</span></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Wow unto pastors' David Cloud and Courtney Lewis! Dear reader, David Cloud is very crafty in his words. When he belittles </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“quick prayerism,” he also means that you cannot merely put your faith in Christ to be saved. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">David Cloud Is Wrong On Bible Repentance For Salvation</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Read what Mr. Cloud foolishly says, criticizing easy-believism:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;">First Baptist Church’s statement of faith on “Salvation” says, “We believe that God in His love provided salvation by sending His Son to become sin for us, taking the penalty of death upon Himself, dying in our place, shedding His own blood as the only acceptable atonement for our sin. Christ was buried and rose again the third day. This salvation is available as a free gift of God’s grace to all who will receive Him by faith. At the moment one stops trusting in his own way and places his trust rather in Christ and His finished work, he is born of God and granted eternal life.”</span><br style="font-family: helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That sounds fine to a generation steeped in a no-repentance gospel. Yet the New Testament mentions “repent” and “repentance” at least 66 times. It is preached and demanded by John the Baptist, Jesus Christ, the apostle Paul, and the apostle Peter. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">—David W. Cloud, '</span><a href="https://www.wayoflife.org/reports/david_cloud_has_coffee_with_john_wilkerson.php" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">David Cloud Has Coffee With John Wilkerson</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">'</span></blockquote></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Kindly said, David Cloud is a darn fool! The New Testament mentions the word “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">repent</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">” 60 times, but what David Cloud doesn't tell you is that you won't find the word </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“repent” mentioned even one time in the Gospel of John (which is the book that God authored to show humanity how to get to Heaven - John 20:31). The reason why is because the man who believes has repented! The word “believe” appears 85 times in the Gospel of John!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT56nK-N-Yo-csbA8DGKpMlPM-Jr9V0_8Aiyz1zkMFxrMKaj39as779Fen58q3Uh7TVEI4t1iP9yiZda6fa6FzqK-46qv9QEjVrnspO5JOgx54Nuc388aCrMoB_HFwkn4Hu5fBltNdewwzFVHlYGVD2GEe4qKDriVFv6JZBDv0LcBmNl1g_Q7dU4OG2Dc/s480/the_gospel_of_john.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="480" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT56nK-N-Yo-csbA8DGKpMlPM-Jr9V0_8Aiyz1zkMFxrMKaj39as779Fen58q3Uh7TVEI4t1iP9yiZda6fa6FzqK-46qv9QEjVrnspO5JOgx54Nuc388aCrMoB_HFwkn4Hu5fBltNdewwzFVHlYGVD2GEe4qKDriVFv6JZBDv0LcBmNl1g_Q7dU4OG2Dc/w400-h225/the_gospel_of_john.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The Word </span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>“</b></span><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Repent</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>”</b></span><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"> Is Not Found In The Gospel Of John</span></b></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Something else that David Cloud doesn't bother to mention is that the Greek noun for “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">repent</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">” (metanoia) in the New Testament means </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">a change of mind,</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> or the verb form (metanoeo) which means </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">to think differently.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">David Cloud has thousands of preachers who follow him, poisoning their minds with a false plan of salvation of partial faith in Christ plus works. I carry a hardcopy of Michael Bowen's book, "I Never Knew You" with me to church. While listening to the offertory song, I read these words in church today about Billy Graham's false gospel...</span><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family: Nanum Gothic;">Billy says that we must repent of our sins and attempts to provide examples from the bible that suggest we are supposed to repent of our sins in order to be born again; however, his examples are weak and hold no truth at all because the bible “never” tells us to quit sinning in order to be saved; in fact, the phrase “repent of sin” does not even occur in the bible. Billy often refers to the Greek word for repent which is metanoia, which he erroneously defines as turning away from our sins, to feel sorry for our sins, that we should change our minds about sin and walk away from it altogether as a “requirement” for our being born again. Very often, as a way of telling us that we have to quit willfully and deliberately sinning in order to be born again, he will refer to where Jesus said in Luke 13:3 that we must repent or perish, yet in the original Greek manuscript, the word for repent means to change your mind and has nothing at all to do with turning from sins. —Michael P. Bowen, “<a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/BTP/i_never_knew_you.pdf" target="_blank">I Never Knew You</a>,” p. 137</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The same exact truthful rebuttal could be applied to David Cloud, Ray Comfort and PCC, who pervert the Gospel. </span></div><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pastor Wilkerson asked me what I would suggest that he do. I emphasized to him that First Baptist, Hammond, has been ground zero for the promotion of some really wrong, truly evil, things. First Baptist Church has sinned against the whole world. Multitudes have been given false assurance by the Hyles methodology. This was taught and promoted through Hyles’ books, conferences, tapes, the college, and the annual Pastors School. Hyles was the king of Quick Prayerism. As far as I have been able to discover, Hyles invented the “do you want to go to heaven when you die, then pray this prayer after me” methodology, and the Sword of the Lord gave him a large forum to promote it, starting in the 1960s (“Let’s Go Soul Winning,” 1962). First Baptist was ground zero for the promotion of this horrible practice. Multitudes of people around the world have been abused with an unscriptural method of soul winning. They have been left with the false idea that they are “saved” and “going to heaven” just because they responded to a cheap salesmanship program. Much of the fault lies at the feet of First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana.<br /><br /><b>Public sin requires public repentance. The church needs to publicly repent for what was formerly taught, practiced, and countenanced. [boldness his]</b><br /><br />Pastor Wilkinson was non-committal. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">—David W. Cloud, '</span><a href="https://www.wayoflife.org/reports/david_cloud_has_coffee_with_john_wilkerson.php" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">David Cloud Has Coffee With John Wilkerson</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">'</span></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I praise God for Pastor Wilkerson, that he didn't succumb under ecclesiastical pressure to unjustly destroy the legacy and name of Pastor Jack Hyles! Dr. Hyles was 100% correct on the Gospel of free grace!!! It is David Cloud who is in error, not knowing the Scriptures!!! Salvation is a free gift that you simply receive by faith, in a moment of time. The new birth (justification) is NOT a process, but becoming Christlike (sanctification) is a lifetime process. The former is SALVATION (Galatians 3:26), the latter is SERVICE (Romans 12:1). I absolutely love what Pilgrim's Progress author, John Bunyan (1628-1688) said:</span></div><div><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">“If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the man Christ without and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, <b>you are not able to divide the Word aright; but contrariwise, <u>you corrupt the Word of God, and cast stumbling blocks before the people</u>.”</b> [emphasis added] —Evangelist John Bunyan</span></blockquote></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">David Cloud is caught between grace and works! He fails to put a difference between justification and sanctification. One of my favorite preachers, Pastor M.R. DeHaan (1891-1965) wrote these helpful doctrinally sound words:</span></div><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">"There is a vast difference between coming to Jesus for salvation and coming after Jesus for service. Coming to Christ makes one a believer, while coming after Christ makes one a disciple. All believers are not disciples. To become a believer one accepts the invitation of the Gospel, to be a disciple one obeys the challenge to a life of dedicated service and separation. Salvation comes through the sacrifice of Christ; discipleship comes only by sacrifice of self and surrender to His call for devoted service. Salvation is free, but discipleship involves paying the price of a separated walk. Salvation can't be lost because it depends upon God's faithfulness, but discipleship can be lost because it depends upon our faithfulness." —Pastor M.R. DeHaan, “Hebrews”; Zondervan Publishing House; 1959 (p. 117)</span></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Another one of my favorite preachers is Pastor Harry Ironside (1876-1951), who wrote this beautiful accurate tract titled, “<a href="http://www.jesusisprecious.org/books/harry_ironside/what_is_the_gospel.htm" target="_blank">What Is The Gospel?</a></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">” Here is an excerpt from Pastor Ironside's tract. I love these beautiful words! ...</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“The Gospel is not a call to repentance, or to amendment of our ways, to make restitution for past sins, or to promise to do better in the future. These things are proper in their place, but they do not constitute the Gospel; for the Gospel is not good advice to be obeyed, it is good news to be believed. Do not make the mistake then of thinking that the Gospel is a call to duty or a call to reformation, a call to better your condition, to behave yourself in a more perfect way than you have been doing in the past …<br /><br />Nor is the Gospel a demand that you give up the world, that you give up your sins, that you break off bad habits, and try to cultivate good ones. You may do all these things, and yet never believe the Gospel and consequently never be saved at all.”<br /><br />SOURCE: Harry A. Ironside, from the sermon: <a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/BTP/Dr_Harry_Ironside/what_is_the_gospel.htm">What Is The Gospel?</a></span></blockquote>ALL of the neo-evangelical lying false prophets today who insist that you cannot be saved without turning away from your sinful ways—they are wickedly ASSUMING, that the word “repent” in the Bible means to turn from your sin, but as I showed you earlier, that is NOT what it means to repent in the Word of God. Repentance is a change of mind unto the Gospel itself.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As further evidence that repentance doesn't mean to turn from your sinful ways, please read <b>Jonah 3:10, “And <u>God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way</u>; and <u>God repented</u> of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.”</b> Did you see that? God called turning from their evil way, “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">works.”</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And also, please notice in that same preceding verse that </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">God repented.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">” If to <i>repent </i>means to turn from your sins, then how could God repent since He is incapable of committing evil? (James 1:13-14). Obviously, God does not repent of His sins, and neither do we to be born-again. The only thing that can send a man to Hell is his unbelief. No amount of sins can prevent a man who believes the Gospel from going to Heaven, because a saved man's sins have all been washed away by the precious blood of Jesus (1st Corinthians 6:11; 1st John 1:7; Revelation 1:5; 1st Peter 1:18-19).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Since the only sin which can keep us out of Heaven is unbelief, then that is the only sin you have to change your mind about to be saved. This is why we read in <b>Hebrews 6:1-2, “Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of <u>repentance from dead works</u>, and of faith toward God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.”</b> Carefully notice that the Bible speaks of repentance from “DEAD WORKS,” not repentance from “sins.”</span><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Repentance is not a separate act from faith, although they are not the same thing. Here is the best quote that I've found on repentance, by Dr. Harry Ironside:<br /><blockquote>“Which comes first, repentance or faith? In Scripture we read, 'Repent ye, and believe the gospel.' Yet we find true believers exhorted to 'repent, and do the first works.' So intimately are the two related that you cannot have one without the other. The man who believes God repents; the repentant soul puts his trust in the Lord when the Gospel is revealed to him. Theologians may wrangle over this, but the fact is, no man repents until the Holy Spirit produces repentance in his soul through the truth. No man believes the Gospel and rests in it for his own salvation until he has judged himself as a needy sinner before God. And this is repentance.” ('<a href="http://www.jesusisprecious.org/books/harry_ironside/Except_Ye_Repent/01.htm">Except Ye Repent</a>,' p. 16)</blockquote></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Repentance does NOT mean to turn away from your sinning. It doesn't mean to submit to follow and obey God's will instead of your self-serving sins (which is the <a href="https://stewart1611.blogspot.com/2023/11/damnable-heresy-at-pensacola-christian.html" target="_blank">damnable heresy taught at Pensacola Christian College</a> today). To <i>repent</i> simply means that you agree with God that you are a guilty sinner, and thus believing the Gospel you are saved.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Jesus Lives The Christian Life Through Us As Believers</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Please don't miss what I am about to say. Sanctification is the Holy Spirit's work, not yours! Here is how the Christian life works. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><div></div><blockquote><div>Galatians 2:20-21, “I am crucified with Christ: <u>nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me</u>: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.”</div></blockquote></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What you just read is 100% proof that Lordship Salvation is a lie of the Devil. What you just read 100% proves that turning from your sins to be saved is a fallacy of Satan. All of these corrupt lying preachers today—David W. Cloud, James R. White, John F. MacArthur, Ray Comfort, Steve Pettit, Marty Herron, John Piper, Adrian Rogers, Sam Adams, Kirk Cameron, Ken Ham, Pensacola Christian College, Bob Jones University, Keith Gomez, to name but just a few heretics—all place the burden of change upon the sinner!!! They ALL require that a person commit to turn away from their sinful bad habits as a prerequisite to be saved.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I hope you see the fallacy of David Cloud and all these lying false prophets who focus on YOU, instead of focusing on CHRIST to be saved. They all errantly teach that if your behavior doesn't change after you profess faith in Jesus Christ, that you've never repented of your sins and are not really saved. They are embellishing God's simple plan of salvation, adding works to grace! They are perverting the Gospel of free grace!!! </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Galatians 1:7b, “...</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.</b><b style="font-family: helvetica;">”</b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The following is how the Christian life works. You come to God as a guilty sinner, just as you are without any changes nor willingness to change, and God saves you the moment that you place your childlike trust in Jesus Christ as your Savior—receiving His sacrifice on the cross as payment for your sins, believing that He died and was buried, and then three days later He physically resurrected from the dead—that's it, that's all, no more!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And then after you are saved, now in Christ (2nd Corinthians 5:17), you are now indwelt and sealed with God's Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9; Ephesians 1:13-14). The blessed Holy Spirit convicts us as believers when we sin. He comforts us. He rebukes and chastises us. He guides and teaches us with the inspired Holy Bible. As we yield in obedience to the Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit lives the Christian life through us. This is the fruit of the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 5:18-19). But we have a choice as a child of God, to either Walk in the Spirit </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(Galatians 5:22-25)</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, or by default to Walk in the Flesh (Galatians 5:19-21). If a Christian does not intentionally Walk in the Spirit, then we will languish in worldliness, lack of soulwinning, carnality and sin. I want to quote Galatians 2:20 again, because this Scripture passage teaches the exact opposite of Lordship Salvation. ...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: 700;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: 700;">Galatians 2:20-21, “I am crucified with Christ: </span><u style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: 700;">nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me</u><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: 700;">: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.”</span></blockquote></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In the Devil's fraud of Lordship Salvation, a lost person is told that their faith is not enough to be saved, but in addition, they must turn away from <a href="https://rightdoctrinematters.blogspot.com/2023/12/shame-on-sword-of-lord-for-promoting.html" target="_blank">the act of sinning</a> and submit to follow and obey God's will instead of their own will. This is human reformation, not the new birth! Lordship Salvation demands a manmade change, or requires you to be “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">willing</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> to change, as a prerequisite</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> to be saved.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">When I attended the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam in 2013 to 2014, I was shocked to learn that their pastors were preaching Lordship Salvation. I stuck around and as a true friend does, I shared THE TRUTH with their pastors. I spent over a thousand dollars of my own money to purchase hardcopies of books authored by fundamentalist Baptist preachers, and for 50 copies of Alexander Scourby DVD's of him reading the King James Bible. I gave the DVD's to the church office to distribute as they please. I personally handed the books to their pastors. Sadly, <a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Truths/much_shall_be_required.htm" target="_blank">they rejected THE TRUTH which I gave to them</a> (Hosea 4:6).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I witnessed to a staff member at Harvest, one of their school teachers. I asked him if he believed you could come to God as a sinner and believe the Gospel to be saved. He frowned and replied, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Ah, I think a little bit more is required.” I knew immediately that he is not saved. There is no way! No one is saved who thinks that more than an admitted guilty sinner placing his or her childlike trust in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, His burial and bodily resurrection, is necessary to get to Heaven.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You and I are SINNERS and Jesus is the blessed SAVIOR. If you agree with God that you are a guilty sinner who deserves to be punished in Hell forever, and you agree with God that Jesus is His only begotten (biological) Son, the Christ, and you simply believe that Jesus has already done it all for you through the cross of Calvary—then you are saved. Nothing more is required or allowed by God. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>David Cloud Needs To Repent Of His Wrong Repentance To Get Saved</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Mr. Cloud is wickedly filled with resentment, bitterness and hatred toward Pastor Jack Hyles, First Baptist Church of Hammond, and graduates of Hyles-Anderson College. The truth is that he is a jealous old man, who has never built a hotdog stand. Nearly everything that David Cloud says horribly takes Dr. Hyles' words, life and ministry out of context, twisting and distorting the truth to fit his agenda to destroy God's man.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In 1989 Pastor Hyles preached a sermon in defense of his family, friends and ministry, titled: '<a href="http://www.jesusisprecious.org/sermons/audio/jack_hyles/weathering_the_storm.mp3" target="_blank">Weathering The Storm</a>.' In this sermon you can hear Brother Hyles deny the allegations against him. Only a wicked person takes unfounded rumors and slander against someone and assumes it is 100% true! David Cloud is an ungodly sinner who is unjustly condemning Dr. Hyles on the basis of rumors. It used to be in America that a man was deemed innocent until proven guilty. Sadly, that is just not the case anymore; today you are deemed guilty until you can prove your innocence. That is as wicked as the Devil (Revelation 12:10).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Mr. Cloud has also <a href="https://www.wayoflife.org/database/repentance_lordship_salvation.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">unjustly condemned Dr. Curtis Hutson</a> (1934-1995), falsely accusing him of preaching another gospel. Mr. Cloud foolishly states:</span></div><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr. Hutson also reasoned that saying that repentance will result in turning from sin is a works salvation. That is nonsense. The Thessalonians turned from the sin of idolatry (1 Thess. 1:9). Obviously, that does not mean they thought that their works had a part in their salvation. It was the product of turning to God. The fact that God requires that we turn from sin does not mean that salvation is by works. We know that the works are the fruit of genuine salvation, not the cause of it. Repentance, defined as turning to God from sin, is not a works salvation, as Dr. Hutson falsely claimed. It is the sinner’s obedient response to the Holy Spirit’s conviction (John 16:8). Dr. Hutson’s entire line of reasoning about repentance was unscriptural and dangerous. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">—</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">David W. Cloud, '</span><a href="https://www.wayoflife.org/database/repentance_lordship_salvation.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">Repentance And Lordship Salvation</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">'</span></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">David Cloud is very wrong. In fact, biblically, <i>works</i> are not the fruit of genuine repentance. The Bible doesn't teach that lie. The fruit of genuine repentance is to BELIEVE the Gospel (Mark 1:15). <b>Matthew 21:32, “</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, <u>repented not afterward, that ye might believe him</u>.”</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Do you see that the object of repentance in this verse is believing? The fruit of genuine repentance is to BELIEVE.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Furthermore, the Thessalonians repented of their idols, that is, their dead works! They turned from their false religion to trust Jesus Christ instead. That is true repentance!!! What David Cloud, Ray Comfort, John MacArthur, Pensacola Christian College and other damnable false teachers today is not the free grace Gospel taught in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2015:1-4&version=KJV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">1st Corinthians 15:1-4</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">David Cloud also <a href="https://www.wayoflife.org/database/repentance_lordship_salvation.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">misrepresents Dr. John R. Rice</a>. As do all false teachers, Mr. Cloud takes famous preacher's words out of context to distort what they really believed and taught, to bolster his strawman of heresy. <a href="https://stewart1611.blogspot.com/2021/03/dr-john-r-rice-refutes-lordship.html" target="_blank">Dr. Rice refuted Lordship Salvation</a>. </span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote>There are those hyper-dispensationalists who think that John the Baptist preached a different Gospel from Christ when he commanded repentance (Matt. 3:2). But it is the same repentance Jesus commanded in Matthew 4:17, in Luke 13:3 and 5, and the same repentance that Paul preached in Athens that God “now commandeth all men every where to repent” (Acts 17:30 31). <b>Repentance is not a different plan of salvation from having faith: it is part of the same plan of salvation.</b> <b>Or rather repentance is simply another way of describing or looking at the plan of salvation. <u>One who turns from sin to God has done so by trusting in Jesus Christ</u>.</b> A change of mind toward sin is necessarily involved in saving faith. [emphasis added]<br /><br />SOURCE: Evangelist John R. Rice, “Acts: Filled With The Spirit,” pp. 251-252; Sword Of The Lord, Murfreesboro, Tennessee; ©1963</blockquote>As you just read for yourself, Dr. Rice taught that the way a man turns from his sin is to TRUST JESUS CHRIST. This is totally different from what infidels like David Cloud are teaching! They require that you give up your sinful bad habits. Dear reader, Christ came into the world and died on a cross to pay your debt of sin, He does not demand that you forsake your sinful behavior to seal the deal, which would be a trade or an exchange of sorts instead of a free gift (Romans 5:15-18). To be saved, you simply take it by faith alone in Jesus Christ.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Oh dear friend, please don't miss it! I have heard </span><a href="https://www.soulwinning.info/gs/john_rice/in_defence_of.htm" style="font-family: helvetica;">Missionary David W. Cloud</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> and other false teachers, attempt to portray Dr. Rice as a proponent of Lordship Salvation, falsely saying that he taught that people must turn away from a lifestyle of sin to be saved. Dr. Rice did NOT preach that garbage! David Cloud even goes as far as to pitch Dr. John R. Rice against his successor at the Sword Of The Lord, Pastor Curtis Hutson (1934-1995). Mr. Cloud claims that Curtis Hutson leaves off repentance, but </span><a href="http://www.jesusisprecious.org/fundamentals/repentance.htm" style="font-family: helvetica;">nothing could be further from the truth</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />To be saved, you must think differently to believe the <i>Good News</i> (i.e., Jesus died on the cross to pay for our sins, He was buried and physically resurrected three days later). We are saved by believing, not by repenting; but repentance makes believing possible. If you didn't change your mind about whatever it is that has been preventing you from believing, then you wouldn't have come to Christ to be forgiven and saved.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The only thing you need to change your mind about is whatever has been hindering you from believing. The only change of mind which you need to have concerning sin is to admit you are a guilty sinner in the sight of a holy God. That is, you need to know <i>what</i> you are being saved from, and <i>why</i> you need to be saved. You are a guilty sinner, and so am I, the consequences (wages) of which is that we deserve to be punished in the fires of Hell forever (Romans 6:23; Revelation 21:8). <b>1st Thessalonians 1:10, “And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.”</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />David Cloud denounces Lordship Salvation as being a heresy; yet, what he is teaching is in fact a form of Lordship Salvation, since he says you are not saved unless your behavior has changed to some degree. That is works, even though Cloud attempts to dismiss it as not being works. According to Mr. Cloud we are saved by faith alone without works, but you must have works to prove that you are really saved. He attributes this change to genuine repentance. The Holy Bible strongly disagrees with Cloud and instead teaches that it is the indwelling Holy Spirit who produces a changed life, but only if we yield to Him in obedience to God's Word. John 17:17 teaches that we are sanctified by the truth of God's Word. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There is no guarantee that a born-again child of God will walk in the Spirit (e.g., Lot, Samson, Solomon, Demas).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold provides these helpful words to define Lordship Salvation...</span></div><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">“Lordship Salvation is the unsupportable and unbiblical belief that the performance of good works, the promise of good works, or the evidence of good works, must accompany faith in Christ to establish or provide evidence that such faith has resulted in eternal life.” —Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold, <a href="https://youtu.be/5njF2ilaP-I">“Jesus Versus John MacArthur”</a></span></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Clearly, David Cloud does in fact preach the Devil's abomination of Lordship Salvation. As you can clearly see, Mr. Cloud's counterfeit plan of salvation mandates that you experience manmade reformation as part of sealing the deal to be saved. The big flaw in his corrupt theology is that he attributes the power to change to YOU repenting, and not to Jesus Christ living through us. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: 700;">Galatians 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ: </span><u style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: 700;">nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me</u><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: 700;">: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> The change in my life after I got saved at age 13 was Jesus' Holy Spirit working in me, which had absolutely NOTHING to do with me repenting of my sins. I didn't repent of my sins to be saved, I believing on the Lord Jesus Christ and God saved me (Acts 16:30-31). Repentance was automatic.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Unbelief is the only thing that keeps a person from believing. To require that someone commit to turning away from living a lifestyle of sin to get to Heaven, has absolutely nothing to do with receiving God's free gift of eternal life. The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU. Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty! Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith. Turning away from sinful ways would be a work. Faith puts all of the merit where it belongs, on the object of our faith, Jesus and His work.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqHiqOOIRbcl2E2XPxhqMiW6LraAa2Kt8bXXlvOroQaxcv_6QTXMfw0dJ6G-0n0O1E9HH7IbyTylxhoV8kpvkucd3KaP8V0djn-BvSOSEJIfuSWOaZBmwSiv92pfmFq6al7-SQZPMV3OumRvhvRvqXaXoDQKLcyl8Xmp-4J5eEWmx9Gec7MzJxQJCOkG4/s864/john_bunyan_quote.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqHiqOOIRbcl2E2XPxhqMiW6LraAa2Kt8bXXlvOroQaxcv_6QTXMfw0dJ6G-0n0O1E9HH7IbyTylxhoV8kpvkucd3KaP8V0djn-BvSOSEJIfuSWOaZBmwSiv92pfmFq6al7-SQZPMV3OumRvhvRvqXaXoDQKLcyl8Xmp-4J5eEWmx9Gec7MzJxQJCOkG4/w334-h400/john_bunyan_quote.jpg" width="334" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLWvNMvfducSN7bfKMKqgKXIouOLAJdoIpmWzRQxcXDakINt80HhrQeWCoWqwb944ZO_wt-D1I5GiYETOeLF6f3ty69WVMBIzxWCQT_5R3Vp_aZ_iH78LjspDUGDTQdprxexqTrXjSu_BzVv_uLo9-Bn3IRYunlH8-Kwo49UbWu1vc4ha0RJNjNB901DA/s493/john_bunyan_quote_04.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="493" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLWvNMvfducSN7bfKMKqgKXIouOLAJdoIpmWzRQxcXDakINt80HhrQeWCoWqwb944ZO_wt-D1I5GiYETOeLF6f3ty69WVMBIzxWCQT_5R3Vp_aZ_iH78LjspDUGDTQdprxexqTrXjSu_BzVv_uLo9-Bn3IRYunlH8-Kwo49UbWu1vc4ha0RJNjNB901DA/w400-h366/john_bunyan_quote_04.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-56733115069848129032023-12-01T14:48:00.003-06:002023-12-02T12:50:10.432-06:00Most “Gospel Tracts” Don't Even Contain The Gospel<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Galatians 1:6-8, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:</b><b> Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.</b><b> <u>But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed</u>.”</b></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Something that has really bothered me for decades now, are the thousands of poorly written religious tracts that believers rely upon to share the Gospel with people. Sadly, 99% of those tracts DO NOT contain the actual Gospel.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I was reading <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strand-Study-Bible-James-Version/dp/0984108106" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Strand Study Bible</a> which I bought recently. I love it! However, I am disappointed with some of the things that Pastor Strand says and promotes. For example: On page 1967 (the year I was born...lol), Strand shares some contents of a religious tract published by the EvanTell tract company titled, "What Are You Depending On?" Here it is, which you can read...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://evantell-org.myshopify.com/products/what-are-you-depending-on-pack-of-25?_pos=1&_sid=353cdc218&_ss=r#review"><b><span style="font-size: large;">What Are You Depending On?</span></b></a></div><br />As you can see for yourself, there is NO GOSPEL. Trusting in Jesus alone is not enough to be saved, unless you understand the facts that Christ died on a cross for YOUR sins, was buried and three days later He miraculously resurrected from the dead. This is "the gospel" as defined by 1st Corinthians 15:1-4. You must first have the FACTS, before you can put your FAITH in those facts to be saved. <a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/BTP/Dr_Jack_Hyles/the_call_and_will_of_god_is_like_salvation.mp3">Dr. Hyles explains this important Bible truth</a>.<br /><br /><br />Pastor Max Younce<a href="https://heritagebbc.com/bible-question-and-answer-archive-3/xi-1-the-cross-less-gospel/"> wrote a helpful article to refute Dr. Bob Wilkin's heresy</a> that you can be saved by trusting Jesus without the Gospel.</span><br /><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">On their <a href="https://evantell-org.myshopify.com/pages/about-us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"About" page at EvanTell ministries</a>, they state:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">"EvanTell empowers Christians worldwide to share their faith through training, outreaches, tools, and <u>ʀᴇꜱᴏᴜʀᴄᴇꜱ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴘʀᴇꜱᴇɴᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ɢᴏꜱᴘᴇʟ ɪɴ ᴀ ᴄʟᴇᴀʀ, ʙɪʙʟɪᴄᴀʟʟʏ ᴀᴄᴄᴜʀᴀᴛᴇ</u>, and encouraging way." </span></blockquote></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Really? </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">How accurate is the tract in question? It does not contain Jesus' death, burial or resurrection!!! So, in fact, it is not clear or biblically accurate. Our churches are in trouble folks! We've got a bunch of unlearned and ignorant pastors, missionaries, evangelists and Bible professors today, who are arrogant dummies!</span></div><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">“There is power in this <a href="http://www.biblelineministries.org/Video-Salvation-Message.html">Gospel message</a>. Most people just don't know how to present it... The clarity of the Gospel is what makes it easy for them to believe.” —Pastor Yankee Arnold, “<a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/BTP/Pastor_Ralph_Yankee_Arnold/why_grace_can_save_the_worst_man.mp3">WHY GRACE CAN SAVE THE WORST MAN!</a>”</span></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As you can see for yourself, there is NO GOSPEL. Trusting in Jesus alone is not enough to be saved, unless you understand the facts that Christ <b>died</b> on a cross for YOUR sins, was <b>buried</b> and three days later He miraculously<b> resurrected</b> from the dead. This is "the gospel" as defined by 1st Corinthians 15:1-4. You must first have the FACTS, before you can put your FAITH in those facts to be saved. <a href="https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/BTP/Dr_Jack_Hyles/the_call_and_will_of_god_is_like_salvation.mp3" target="_blank">Dr. Hyles explains this important Bible truth</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pastor Max Younce<a href="https://heritagebbc.com/bible-question-and-answer-archive-3/xi-1-the-cross-less-gospel/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> wrote a helpful article to refute Dr. Bob Wilkin's heresy</a> that you can be saved by trusting Jesus without the Gospel.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Jesus' Work Of Redemption Was Not Finished On The Cross</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">On page 1967 Pastor Strand says: "On the cross He said, 'It is finished' (John 19:30). He did not make a downpayment for your sins; He made full payment." This is not true! Sadly, 90% of preachers misinterpret the Bible when Jesus said, 'It is finished.' To accurately interpret the Scripture, we should always make a habit of including the verses before and after any particular text, lest we lift that 𝓉𝑒𝓍𝓉 out of 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓍𝓉 and create a new 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓉𝑒𝓍𝓉.</span></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></div><blockquote><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">John 19:28-30, “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished</u>, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, <u>I thirst</u>.</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b> Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, <u>It is finished</u>: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.”</b></blockquote></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Bible says when Jesus saw that all the Messianic prophesies concerning Him had been fulfilled, He said <b>“I thirst”</b> which was the last prophesy to be fulfilled (this one from Psalms 69:21). Upon making that last statement, only then did Jesus say, <b>“It is finished.”</b> So you see, redemption couldn't have been finished, for Jesus hadn't even died yet, let alone being buried and resurrected three days later. This is <b>“the gospel”</b> after all according to 1st Corinthians 15:1-4.</span><br /><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Jesus Made Full Payment At The Mercy Seat In Heaven, Not On The Cross</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Also, full payment wasn't made upon the cross for our sins, it was made at the Mercy Seat in Heaven, when Jesus sprinkled His literal liquid blood upon the Mercy Seat in the Holy Place in the presence of God the Father (Hebrews 9:12, 22-24; 12:24). Christ did this once to pay for the sins of all mankind (Hebrews 9:28). Christ made full-payment at the Mercy Seat in Heaven. That was the <i>place</i> (Hebrews 9:12). The <i>price</i> was Jesus' precious blood (1st Peter 1:18-19).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />I love and appreciate Brother Strand and his work. I must admit that I am surprised he missed this truth in his study Bible. Redemption was not finished on the cross, which is what infidel Dr. John MacArthur teaches—that we are saved by the pouring out of Jesus' blood on the cross, by His death, and not by Jesus sprinkling His actual liquid blood upon the heavenly Mercy Seat. Pastor MacArthur is very WRONG!!! Just as the Old Testament high priest was required by God to sprinkle the blood of the slain lamb upon the mercy seat (Exodus 29:16), so also did Jesus need to sprinkled His shed blood upon the heavenly Mercy Seat.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Passover in Egypt was when the death angel passed upon the land of Egypt, killing all the firstborn (which was God's tenth and final plague upon the land through the rod of Moses). There was only one way of deliverance for the Hebrews, which was to take the blood of a slain lamb and paint it upon the door posts and lintel (the board above the door that kept bricks from falling on your head). <b>Exodus 12:13, “</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and <u>when I see the blood, I will pass over you</u>, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.”</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> The death angel was not looking for the dead lamb in the backyard. The death angel was looking for the blood applied! If Jesus' blood had soaked into the ground at Calvary as John MacArthur foolishly claims, then no one could ever be saved. Jesus' blood had to be applied to the Mercy Seat in Heaven, in the Holy of Holies in the Holy Place in the Tabernacle.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We know everything that happened during the Old Testament tabernacle, holy of holies and work of the high priest was a SHADOW of good things to come in Heaven. That is, they were a prototype of the real ones in Heaven (Hebrews 10:1). Jesus is our eternal High Priest (Hebrews 4:14-16; Romans 8:34). Jesus died as our sacrificial lamb, but He raised up as our heavenly High Priest. </span><a href="https://www.soulwinning.info/sermons/ha081014.mp3" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">If Christ Be Not Risen, Then We Have A Sacrifice But No High Priest Or Salvation</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (by Pastor Jack Hyles).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dear reader, I challenge you to start paying closer attention to the religious tracts that you find, receive, distribute and read, to make sure that they are doctrinally sound. Tragically, nearly all Gospel tracts are completely missing of the Gospel. I read many tracts that don't mention Jesus resurrection from the dead. Other tracts don't mention that you must admit being a guilty sinner before you can be saved and go to Heaven. You need to know what you are being saved from, the wages of sin, which is death. That includes the<i> second death</i> in hell, fire and brimstone for all eternity, without hope or rest, tormented day and night (Revelation 21:8).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Romans 1:16 is very clear that the gospel, nothing else, is the POWER of God unto salvation, to them who BELIEVE IT. <b>Romans 1:16, </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>“For I am not ashamed of <u>the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth</u>; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”</b> The unfortunate popular embellishment of the Gospel nowadays to “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">turn from your sinful ways</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> is not only NOT a part of the Gospel, it is a perversion of God's grace. Nowhere in the inspired Holy Scriptures are we taught to give up our desire to sin, forsake the world, leave the old sinful life, or to commit to reform our behavior to be saved.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3G92qVdveLbZARxCMTsbPM84WrpzZyl16FeLd70HCWC83TPQA2altSdYJD6tCfE6od30aozPmLzhohVhza5Zr-PLcU0danNUxJHkKBuMUtb3No4_U2cwJFB-f0AcNwgTvIudC9_Rpj8uOg3YTizn32wvRg3580pBY_Y73yzRRKcy5dM2pR1ominhFS6M/s960/no_one_is_worthy-only_the_blood.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="769" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3G92qVdveLbZARxCMTsbPM84WrpzZyl16FeLd70HCWC83TPQA2altSdYJD6tCfE6od30aozPmLzhohVhza5Zr-PLcU0danNUxJHkKBuMUtb3No4_U2cwJFB-f0AcNwgTvIudC9_Rpj8uOg3YTizn32wvRg3580pBY_Y73yzRRKcy5dM2pR1ominhFS6M/w320-h400/no_one_is_worthy-only_the_blood.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div></div>David J. Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682412548126403579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921819076305943331.post-71904265525167307952023-11-28T21:56:00.005-06:002023-11-28T21:56:37.849-06:00Repent Of Sins: Gospel Of Pharisees<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Acts 16:30-31, “</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?</b><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> And they said, <u>Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved</u>, and thy house.”</b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Kindly said, you cannot show me one verse from the inspired King James Bible that teaches to repent “</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">of your sins,</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> turn from your sins, be willing to turn from your sins, forsake a sinful lifestyle, or turn from your past sinful ways to be saved. Yet, this is the shameful Satanic garbage we are hearing preached from nearly every pulpit, website, radio station and television channel today.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I love the following sermon by Pastor Adam Fannin in defense of a true free grace Gospel...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iXc6RT6pg5A" width="320" youtube-src-id="iXc6RT6pg5A"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Repent Of Sins: Gospel Of Pharisees</b></span></div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Even more tragic is that 99% of churchgoers today are Bible ignoramuses. They merely unquestioningly go along with whatever their stupid pastor teaches them, damning their souls to Hell forever with a false hope. Dear reader, I am the best friend you have right now, because I am telling you the truth.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Beware of Pensacola Christian College (PCC) and their damnable counterfeit gospel. Beware of Bob Jones University (BJU) </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and their damnable counterfeit gospel. I have seen them literally laugh in my face over my preaching, esteeming my website ministry a joke. We'll see what God has to say about all this in eternity on Judgment Day. The King James Bible crowd is going to come out on top. The free grace Gospel crowd is going to come out on top.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Those infidels who promote the Devil's corruptible seed (such as BJU) have much blood on their hands and will rue the day when they are judged by God almighty. Those who preach another gospel (such as PCC) </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">have much blood on their hands and will rue the day when they are judged by God almighty. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am virtually the only one who is standing for the truth. Show me the preachers today that are exposing PCC and BJU like I am. Good luck finding them!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My ministry friend, Lou Martuneac, from Chicago (my home town) is the only one I know of (besides myself) who is preaching against BJU today. Lou is an alumnus of BJU and understands how apostate the college has become. <a href="http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Wolves/evangelist_steve_pettit.htm" target="_blank">Dr. Steve Pettit</a> (BJU president from 2014 to 2023) is a devil in the pulpit, who preaches hardcore Calvinist Lordship Salvation.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><blockquote><b>Matthew 3:1-2, “In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, <u>Repent ye</u>: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” </b>...</blockquote><blockquote>This word (<i>Repent</i>) is the Greek word <i>metanoeo</i>. <i>Metanoeo</i> is taken from two Greek words: (<i>meta</i> - meaning, “<i>after</i>”) and (<i>noeo</i> - meaning, “<i>mind</i>”). The word literally means, “<i>after thought</i>” (II Cor. 7:8-10). True repentance means, “to change your mind about what you believe and agree with what God says, and then confess it” (I Jn. 1:9a). God tells us that there are <u>two</u> areas in which we must repent, if we are to be saved. We must change our minds as to:<br /><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Who we are</b> (Lk. 5:31-32 & 13:1-5 and Mt. 27:3) — God tells us that we are sinfully sick and in need of the Savior and that we cannot save ourselves (Rom. 3:10, 23).</li><li><b>Who <i><span style="color: red;">CHRIST</span></i></b> <b>is</b> (Mt. 4:13-14 & 11:20-24, Mk. 1:15, Acts 3:12-19 and Acts 2:38a) —Christ is God (Jn. 8:24, 58-59, not a god. Christ is the only Savior (Acts 4:10-12).</li></ol></blockquote><p></p><blockquote>SOURCE: Pastor Brad Strand, 'The Strand Study Bible' </blockquote><p></p>Bravo Pastor Strand! I would like to clarify that to “confess it” does not mean with your mouth; but rather, to simply admit to God you are a guilty sinner (Romans 3:19-20). I am against the strange New IFB (New Independent Fundamental Baptist) <a href="https://giftofeternallife.blogspot.com/2023/08/new-ifb-pastors-have-sinners-prayer.html">doctrine today which mandates praying to be saved</a>. The Bible plainly teaches that trusting Jesus Christ as your Savior—believing that He is the only begotten Son of God who died on a cross to pay for your sins and raised from the dead—is enough to be saved (without calling, asking or praying for it). John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My regular blog readers know that I write about repentance often, but the reason I do is simply because it is such an important topic. Very few preachers get repentance correct these days, so I need to pick up the slack to warn everyone. Wrong repentance means a wrong Gospel and no new birth. Dr. Curtis Hutson (1934-1995) was right, who said that repentance is like buttoning a dress shirt—if you get the first button wrong, then all of the other buttons will be wrong too. Pastor Hutson is so right!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dear friend, I heard a foolish religious man, Professor Kevin Bauder from Central Baptist Theological Seminary, falsely claim that Lordship Salvation falls within the realm of orthodox theology. No Sir, it does not, not even close. You either have to forsake a lifestyle of sinning to be saved, or you do not, but it simply cannot be both! For example: Take a look and compare the following two plans of salvation...</span></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.nothingbutthetruthbook.com/the-crystal-clear-gospel-of-jesus-christ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Crystal Clear Gospel Of Jesus Christ</a> (by military chaplain David Rutkin)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.jesusisprecious.org/false_doctrine/lordship_salvation/stephen_davey.htm" target="_blank">Pastor Stephen Davey's False Gospel</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://giftofeternallife.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-false-gospel-of-hillsong-church.html" target="_blank">The False Gospel Of Hillsong And Pensacola Christian College</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.jesusisprecious.org/sermons/printed/curtis_hutson/determines_salvation.htm" target="_blank">The One Thing That Determines Salvation</a> (by Dr. Curtis Hutson)</span></li></ol></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you took the time to examine and compare the different plans of salvation, then you saw that what Stephen Davey, Hillsong and PCC are preaching today is VERY different than the simple free grace Gospel that David Rutkin and Curtis Hutson are preaching.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These are two completely different plans of salvation!!! One plan requires simple childlike faith in Jesus Christ and what He did through Calvary's cross to pay your debt of sin; but the other demands that in addition you turn from your sinful bad habits, abandon self to submit to obey God's will for your life, and follow Jesus as “Lord”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> from now on. The latter plan is based upon partial faith in Christ plus works, not God's grace alone.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Turning away from sinful ways would be a work. Faith puts all of the merit where it belongs, on the object of our faith, Jesus and His work.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If to “repent” means to forsake our sinful ways TO BE SAVED, but Jesus already paid for our sins by dying on the cross, then what are we repenting from?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd8KuriheO_2QD6P8S3KvsIz4z-ptY1pWxC0KsqTlIBY-UaY9kdf0gH8g_b0Ta7PsF380ffaYiY6MifxWXPz7J4SAXgFBCFH2jt521nCiew7D859pb4NnMsfW1S_Hty0_Km50fPBKikwlh2vxpTpHIH-fo3zzFiTOEbJo8BLIC2EyHBWTbo8v9msu8bOk/s720/most_important_truth_to_believe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="720" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd8KuriheO_2QD6P8S3KvsIz4z-ptY1pWxC0KsqTlIBY-UaY9kdf0gH8g_b0Ta7PsF380ffaYiY6MifxWXPz7J4SAXgFBCFH2jt521nCiew7D859pb4NnMsfW1S_Hty0_Km50fPBKikwlh2vxpTpHIH-fo3zzFiTOEbJo8BLIC2EyHBWTbo8v9msu8bOk/w400-h399/most_important_truth_to_believe.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div>David J. 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