Matthew 5:17-20, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
Oh how precious is this truth! I desire in my heart of hearts for you dear friend to fully grasp this simple truth. The Bible says that very few people are going to Heaven. Matthew 7:13-15, “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Jesus warned that few people are going to Heaven (cf., Luke 13:23-24).
It is no coincidence that verse 15 warns us about FALSE PROPHETS (wolves that appear to us in sheep's clothing). This Scripture has profound meaning. A lamb is a harmless animal, completely defenseless and no threat. The Bible teaches that this is how deadly false prophets, who can kill us. Cunning deadly wolves are a major threat, but they usually appear in such a deceptive way that people fail to see any threat! Instead, they see ministers of righteousness (2nd Corinthians 11:13-15).
What did Jesus mean in Matthew 5:17-20, “For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.” The Pharisees were devoutly religious men. They knew the content of the Scripture well. Yet they didn't obey it. The Jews in the Wilderness heard Moses preach the truth of the Gospel for 40 years, but they didn't believe any of it. They could have recited the Gospel to you word-for-word, but it did not profit them, because they had no faith (Hebrews 4:2). Likewise, the religious Pharisees knew the Scripture, but they didn't obey it. The Pharisees lacked faith, with a few exceptions, like Nicodemus.
When the unbelieving Pharisees saw Jesus eating with a bunch of sinners, they unjustly criticized Him. Mark 2:17, “When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” So many foolish Bible students and corrupt pastors ASS-U-ME that the word “repentance” here means “to turn away from sin.” But the Bible doesn't say that! Jesus was simply saying that He cannot save those who are self-righteous, thinking that they have no need of being saved. Open sinners see their desperate condition, guilt and need for redemption. That was the main purpose for which the Old Testament law was given by God, to give all men THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN (Romans 3:19-20). Jesus saves SINNERS, no one else. What saith the Scripture? “CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY” (Romans 5:6-9).
Ladies and gentlemen, neither you nor I have any righteousness. Isaiah 64:6, “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.” Your very best is filth to God. This is why the Apostle James said in James 2:10, “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” Committing even one sin keeps us out of Heaven. That is what the Bible means in 1st Corinthians 6:9-10. Ah, but 1st Corinthians 6:11b wonderfully says, “BUT YE ARE WASHED.” I sure hope you are getting this truth my friend. If you understand that we are saved solely by GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS, it will open up your understanding to the Entire Scriptures, like a master key!
In sharp contrast to the Word of God, please watch this heretical video of what Pastor John Piper preaches. Folks, this video is evil to the core, totally unscriptural...
I love this truth by Pastor Yankee Arnold:
“If you have to look at your life to prove that you are saved, it proves that you're not!” —Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold, “Why Lordship Salvation is WRONG!
Here is a great truth from Pastor Martin R. DeHaan (1891-1965):
“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)
Amen and amen! Dear friend, we are saved only by GOD'S RIGHTEOSUNESS. That is why we read in Matthew 6:33, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” 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:” That is so simple!
You know, I've heard all my life that the best way to spot counterfeit money is by handling real money, so that you are familiar with it. That is exactly why I can spot a counterfeit Bible right away, I have only been using the inspired King James Bible my entire Christian life since I was saved at age 13. That was 41 years ago!
I feel sorry for this younger generation, who have to choose between hundreds of English Bible versions. When I attended the shameful Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, I went to a Watchcare Meeting at one of their deacon's homes. He had literally seven different Bible versions on his book shelf. These knuckleheads at Harvest are wicked men. They think that because hundreds of church members and parents support their work that they are right, but the Bible warns against such arrogance. Proverbs 14:1, “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Proverbs 16:5, “Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.” Romans 3:4, “God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.”
The Bob Jones University crowd today are of the Devil, preaching a false gospel of turning from sin to be saved. Galatians 3:1-3, “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” Biblical salvation comes by simple childlike faith in the Good News (Gospel) of Christ crucified, buried and risen the third day (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). All this junk theology about repenting of one's sinful ways, running and finishing the race, surrendering all to Christ as Lord, paying the price and exchanging one's life for Jesus' life is of the Devil, nowhere taught in the inspired King James Bible!
These devils ALL superficially claim that salvation is solely by God's free grace, which at the same time perverting what faith means, and requiring MORE than faith to know that you are saved. Dear reader, consider that even the Satanic Roman Catholic Vatican's official dogma teaches that salvation is by God's grace. Hellbound Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Seventh-Day Adventists and Church of Christ, to name but a few religious cults, will ALL tell you that salvation is by God's grace too! But then they ADD MORE, corrupting the Gospel (Acts 15:1, 24; Ephesians 2:8-9).
Even the Devil will tell you a half-truth, to deceive you. That is how the serpent tricked Eve (Genesis 3:1). The serpent told a couple half-lies. It is true that God did give Adam and Eve instructions concerning the Tree of Knowledge. But the serpent lied about what God said to Adam in Genesis 2:16-17. God never said they couldn't eat of “any” of the trees. Satan added that part. God in fact said that they could eat of any tree, except one.
It is also true that Eve did become as “a god,” gaining the power to decide between good and evil for herself. But the serpent never mentioned that making Eve's own decisions would result in dire consequences, even death (Romans 5:12). The serpent didn't mention the pain of childbearing, the curse brought with sin, the murder of her son by his elder brother, the miseries of having the freedom to make one's own choices independent of God, et cetera. Eve was conned! The serpent was the first shady used car salesman, the best con artist in history!
Matthew 5:20, “For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.” What saith the Scripture? Romans 10:3-4, “For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” Do you see friend how we keep reading in the Bible about “GOD'S RIGHTEOSUNESS”? That is what salvation is all about—excepting Christ's sacrifice on the cross as complete payment for our sins.
I get upset when I hear false teachers like Dr. Steve Pettit (long time theologically incompetent president of Bob Jones University) preaching a perverse gospel of partial faith in Christ plus works. Someone needs to care! Someone needs to be alarmed and take a stand for the faith once delivered unto the saints (Jude 1:3). Steve Pettit is an infidel, an unbeliever. Pettit adheres to the same gross theology of Lordship Salvation as did Miss Ellen G. White (the revered prophetess of the accursed Seventh-Day Adventist cult).
God knows my humble heart. I do not mean to be unkind. I care about your soul dear friend. I don't want you to spend eternity burning in the fires of Hell. Death often comes unexpectedly for all of us. I just read this week about a horrible head-on-collision in San Diego, California. A woman had just come from her dialysis treatment and turned into oncoming highway traffic. She collided with a young couple of police detectives in their 20's, who had just got married. The woman who made the innocent error, and the young male and female doing nothing wrong, were killed instantly. You can see the wreckage on YouTube. ...
An Innocent Error Led To Multiple Deaths!
I cannot plead with you enough NOT to follow religious men! What did Jesus tell us to do? John 5:39-40, “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.” The Bob Jones crowd are arrogant in their error, driving the WRONG WAY into oncoming traffic, barreling down the highway to Hell, driving their unlicensed vehicle of Lordship Salvation!
The Apostle Paul NEVER once told us to “repent of your sin” to be saved! Paul NEVER said to “surrender all” to Jesus as the absolute Lord and Master of our life, forsaking the old ways for good, committing our life to serve God. NO, Paul didn't teach that garbage to be saved. What did Paul teach? 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.” Isn't that so simple? That is the blessed Gospel. All you have to do to go to Heaven is come to God as a guilty sinner, realizing your need for salvation, and BELIEVE the Good News that Jesus died on the cross in your place to pay your debt of sin. He was buried and three days later Jesus miraculously raised up from the dead physically. And THAT IS IT! (John 6:28-29).
I love what Paul said in Galatians 3:1-3, “O foolish Galatians (Bob Jones University and Harvest Baptist Church on Guam), who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth (the Gospel), before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” I love that wonderful phrase...THE HEARING OF FAITH. That is how 3,000 people got saved on the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2:41, “Then they that gladly received his word (Peter's Gospel message) were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.” Those dear folks just heard Peter preach the Gospel, and they gladly received it. That is what Paul meant in Galatians 3:2b by “THE HEARING OF FAITH.” You get saved when you believe the Gospel as you hear it. Isn't that so simple? Sure it is, the way God intended for salvation to be.
So the next time you hear a false teacher like Gary Walton, Marty Herron, Steve, Pettit, Chuck Phelps or John MacArthur COMPLICATING God's simple plan of salvation, RUN away from them! Mark (identify) and avoid them (Romans 16:17-18). Expose them (Titus 1:10-13). The Bible says that we are saved solely by GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS, which is by faith in Jesus Christ (Philippians 3:9; Romans 10:3-4; Galatians 3:24-26). JESUS PAID IT ALL! ...
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus Christ, my righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;All other ground is sinking sand,All other ground is sinking sand.
Lordship Salvation is a foundation of sand. Misunderstood repentance (i.e., turning from sin to be saved) is a foundation of sand. These modern corrupt Devil's Bibles will instruct you how to build a house upon the sand! Dear friend, you need JESUS CHRIST, the only true foundation (1st Corinthians 3:11). We find the will of God the Father concerning salvation in John 6:40, “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” Please pay attention to what Jesus said! The dear Savior didn't say anything about running the race as Steve Pettit preaches. The Savior didn't bid Godspeed to such wicked evildoers as does Pastor Gary Walton at Harvest Baptist Church on Guam to Steve Pettit and John MacArthur! Jesus said the Father's will to get to Heaven is to BELIEVE ON HIM!
Some people directly asked Jesus what “works” God requires to be saved. The Savior gave them the simple answer in John 6:28-29, “Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” Dear friend, over and over and over the Bible plainly teaches us to simply BELIEVE ON HIM to be saved.
So where in the world did Ray Comfort come up with the false claim that God requires a person to LIVE A LIFESTYLE of turning away from sinful behavior to get to Heaven? Harvest Baptist Church on Guam bids Godspeed to these devils in the pulpit! Steve Pettit is friends with John MacArthur, sanctioning his doctrines of devils. Folks, none of what these wicked infidels preach is THE GOSPEL, as I have just plainly shown you. We need to get mad (Make A Difference). I have been wearied lately, lonely without a church family, all because Harvest Baptist Church on Guam has done evil against me, ostracizing me since 2014 for telling THE TRUTH (the very truths that I have shared with you in this important blog).
Sadly, very few (and I mean very, very few) pastors care about what I am saying. Your average fundamentalist church and pastor today shamefully don't want to suffer reproach for the name of Christ (2nd Timothy 3:13). They refuse to fight, withstand and take a stand (Ephesians 6:11-13). They don't want to be put outside the gate with Jesus. Shameful pastors like Chuck Phelps, Jared Baldwin, Joe Hansen, Marty Herron, Gary Walton, and thousands more infidels like them, are all pulling on the same rope as the Devil, perverting the grace of God. I am telling THE TRUTH, faithfully, as a Christian and preacher should (Jude 1:3).
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