Thieves And Robbers

John 10:1, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.”

Jesus said in John 10:1 that anyone who tries to enter Heaven apart from Him is a thief and a robber. Jesus plainly states in John 10:9, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to Heaven.

I am NOT trying to be mean or unkind, but Jesus calls the Pope a thief and a robber. That's exactly what Jesus said. The Catholic Vatican perverts the Scriptures by claiming that the Catholic Church is the Body of Christ, and that water baptism is the door into the Church. Thus, Catholicism teaches that the way to God and Heaven is through the Catholic Church. That is simply unbiblical and a lie.

The Bible teaches that Jesus, and Jesus alone, is the Christ, our only way of salvation. Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” How much plainer could the Word of God be? If you want to go to Heaven, then you MUST come to God the Father by way of God the Son.

Sadly, nearly all Jews and Arabs are thieves and robbers, because both Judaism and Islam adamantly deny that Jesus is the Messiah. Both religions deny Biblical Christianity. There are also hundreds-of-millions of Hindus, who according to the Bible, are thieves and robbers. It's because they deny that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, Who came into the world to SAVE SINNERS.

Why does Jesus call such people thieves and robbers? It's because they are trying to break into Heaven “some other way,” rather than entering through the Son of God. If you try to get to Heaven by your own self-righteousness, or by some religion, or by some organization, or by religious ceremonies, or by water baptism, or by keeping the Sabbath Day, or by keeping the Sacraments, or by joining a church, or by doing good works, or by committing your life to living holy... then you are a thief who's trying to sneak into Heaven SOME OTHER WAY!

Jesus said we must enter through the DOOR, and Jesus is that DOOR according to John 10:9. Please don't try to break into Heaven. Do you know what is the saddest thing? It's the fact that the entrance to Heaven is freely open to anybody who wants to go through it, yet so many people aren't going to Heaven. Billions of people are scheming, working very hard at religion and lying awake at night trying to figure out how to get into Heaven; while the Door is wide open.

John 8:32 and 36, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free ... If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”

There are MANY thieves and robbers in the world today, who are trying to illegally enter Heaven. There is only one way to Heaven—God's way—which is by faith in Jesus Christ alone (John 14:6). Anyone who ADDS self-righteousness to faith is going to Hellfire, because genuine faith EXCLUDES all else. Many religions today teach the damnable heresy of Baptismal Regeneration, i.e., the false doctrine that a person MUST be water baptized to be saved. Many religions require good works of people in order to get to Heaven; BUT, Romans 4:5, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”

Are you a thief or a robber? Have you been trying to get to Heaven some OTHER WAY, i.e., other than Jesus Christ alone? Acts 4:10-12 plainly states: “Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” The Word of God couldn't be any clearer.

So many people today have their own way of doing things, and falsely think God is going to pardon them on Judgment Day. Think again! Cain was very sincere, but God refused his grain offering (Genesis 4:5). In Matthew 7:21-23 we read about some very sincere religious folks, but God rejected their professed goodness and religious commitment. Many people have a problem being told what to do. By nature, our rebellious sin-nature is selfish, and desires to do things it's own way.

This is why most religious people are going to Hell—because they want a part in their own salvation—whether it be performing good works, forsaking their own sins, or being a faithful church member in a certain denomination. What most people FAIL to realize is that salvation is 100% of God, and not of man at all. Matthew 6:33, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” If you want to go to Heaven, then you need HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS! Self-righteousness is a guaranteed road to Hellfire.

Judaism is of the Devil. Lutheranism is of the Devil. Seventh-Day Adventism is of the Devil. Mormonism and Jehovah's Witnesses are of the Devil. Islam is of the Devil. Catholicism is of the Devil. The Church of Christ is of the Devil. United Churches of Christ are of the Devil. The Charismatic Movement is of the Devil. The Church of England is of the Devil. These are all thieves and robbers, who are attempting to sneak into Heaven by SOME OTHER WAY (John 10:1).

You don't need to attempt to break into Heaven, by sneaking over a wall as a thief, or digging a tunnel underneath like some robber. The Door is wide open, a free gift if you'll receive it, paid for by the precious blood of Christ Jesus (1st Peter 1:18-19). Jesus Christ IS THE DOOR (John 10:9). Yes, there are many thieves and robbers today, who are seeking to enter Heaven apart from faith ALONE in Jesus Christ. Tragically, they will one day be in horror when they are pronounced GUILTY and then cast into the Lake of Fire forever.

Beware Of Dangerous Corrupt Pastors Like Marty Herron

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.”

I cannot warn you enough dear reader about many of today's dangerous pastors. When I attended the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, I was horrified in 2014 when I heard their senior pastor, Marty Herron, tell a few hundred people in his Sunday morning service: “It is not enough to admit that you are a sinner, you must turn away from a lifestyle of sin to go to Heaven.” I knew right there and then that Marty Herron is a child of the Devil. I went home and literally cried because of the damnable false gospel that I had just heard at Harvest.

Folks, the rabbit hole goes much deeper than just Marty Herron. This is the new damnable heresy which Bob Jones University (BJU) has taught ever since John MacArthur attended BJU, and then became famous years later. BJU sinfully idolizes Mr. MacArthur today as one of their alumni, praising and bidding him Godspeed! BJU speaks with a forked tongue! In case you didn't know, Steve Pettit and John MacArthur are two infidels, who both preach another gospel of partial faith in Christ plus a bunch of other garbage not found in the Bible. I say that kindly with God's unconditional love for all mankind, but I also say these things with strong boldness on the authority of the Holy Scriptures!

The Gospel of John is God's Gospel tract according to John 20:31, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.” My friend, you won't find the word "repent" mentioned anywhere in the Gospel of John. In fact, you won't find the phrases "repent of your sin" or "turn away from your sin" anywhere in the entire Bible! To be saved God simply commands us to “believe.” Do you mean to tell me that I can come to Christ and believe on Him to be saved, but then go out and live like the Devil and still be saved? Yes, that is exactly what I am telling you. Get mad at God, because He said it, not me! Romans 5:20, "Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:"

Dear reader, these Bible passages prove that Marty Herron, Steve Pettit and John MacArthur are all two-faced LIARS!!! The following Bible verses speak so clearly in Romans 6:14-15, “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.” Do you understand that? The unsaved person is still under the curse of God's LAW; but the redeemed child of God is no longer under the law, but forever under God's saving GRACE. Shall we wilfully sin then, because we are no longer under the law? God forbid the apostle says. Of course God doesn't want or give permission to any of His children to continue in a lifestyle of willful sin, but friend, if you do choose to live like the Devil you can never lose God's gift of forgiveness of sins and eternal life, which is through faith alone.

If you understand the beautiful Bible truth that I just shared with you, then it will become obvious to you friend, what is so wrong with Pastor Marty Herron's bullcrap theology, which teaches that you MUST forsake a lifestyle of sinning to get to Heaven. Literally, Marty Herron and company are requiring people to KEEP THE LAW to be saved!!! That is what it means to “keep the law,” you are obligated to try to obey and fulfill it. What are these laws? ..."Thou shalt not kill" is one... "Thou shalt not commit adultery" is another... "Thou shalt not steal" is one... "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain," and so forth.

There is no question that these blinded religious leaders are sincere in their false teachings. Romans 3:19-20, “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” I marvel at the utter ignorance of these pastors and evangelists. God divided His Word into two parts: OLD and NEW Testaments; or, respectively, LAW and CHRIST.

Galatians 3:24-26 teaches that God's LAW shows us our sinnership, and then brings us to CHRIST to be saved from our sins by grace through faith). As we just read in Romans 3:20b, “for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” That is so simple and clear to understand. The purpose of the law in salvation is simply to show humanity our desperate need for the dear Messiah (the Savior). God never intended for men to keep the law (i.e., to turn away from their sins) to be saved. The very idea is Satanic! Jesus came to save us from our sins (Matthew 1:21), not to save us only if we are first willing to stop committing them! God forbid.

What heretics' Marty Herron, Steve Pettit and John MacArthur are actually teaching, is that God won't save you unless you promise to keep the law; or as Jack Chick errantly teaches, you must first "be willing" to keep the law to be saved. These men all have a flawed understanding of what it means to "repent" in the Bible regarding salvation. When they say "repent," they mean something VERY different than what the Bible means! They mean to "turn away from your sinful bad habits" to get saved. That is the heathen Roman Catholic and Catholic influenced English dictionary's meaning.

In sharp contrast, in the Bible the word "repent" (Greek noun: metanoia) simply means, "a change of mind." God wants everyone to change their mind (repent) so that they will BELIEVE the Good News (Gospel) of Christ crucified, buried and risen to be saved (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). Most of the churches are corrupted today. Today's wimpy and corrupt pastors are pathetic. Because the Bible colleges have become corrupt, all of the graduates which they produce are also corrupt doctrinally, not workmen approved by God (2nd Timothy 2:15). These incompetent preachers mishandle the Word of Truth, wrongly interpreting the Scriptures to their own destruction, and those who follow their damnable lies (2nd Peter 3:16-17).

What do you need to change your mind about to get saved? That's easy—whatever is keeping you from believing to be saved. You see, you don't get saved by changing your mind (repenting), you get saved by putting your childlike faith in the blessed Savior, because of what He did on the cross to pay for your sins and mine. Why did He do it? Because we are guilty sinners, which penalty is eternal damnation in Hell fire. Jesus paid a debt He did not owe, because we owed a debt we could not pay. JESUS PAID IT ALL!!! Simply receive His free gift, by taking God at His Word as recorded in the Holy Bible.

There are many false prophets gone out into the world the Bible says. 1st John 4:1, “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” We "try" (test) the spirits by SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURES (John 5:39) to verify everything we hear and see taught and preached. 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.

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? The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU. Dear reader, this is a dark hour in history, when false prophets like cockroaches have crawled out from beneath every social media device. The internet is full of fools! I see Renee Roland on her YouTube channel denying that eternal damnation in Hell is real. Kindly said, Renee is wrong.

I see Pastor John Piper preaching the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation (i.e., Calvinism). Piper is wrong. I see older sermons by Dr. Peter S. Ruckman (1921-2016) preaching that people were saved by works in the Old Testament. Ruckman is a fool. Acts 10:43 teaches that salvation has always been through faith alone in Christ. I challenge you friend to “SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES” (John 5:39a). Please make sure you only use the inspired King James Bible, lest you be deceived by Satan. My heart breaks to see the blinded fools at the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, following their corrupt pastor, Gary Walton (another Bob Jones University promoting false prophet). SHAME on Pastor Gary Walton and the Harvest Baptist Church (cult) on Guam!!! Any so-called "church" that preaches another gospel is a cult. "Lordship" salvation is not the gospel, not even close!!! Salvation is not a reward for the righteous; it is a gift for the guilty!

BJU is of the Devil folks, investigate their cult for yourself!!! What Steve Pettit, Marty Herron and John MacArthur are all preaching is NOT taught in the inspired King James Bible, not even close. I care about you dear friend, which is why I take the time to write these blogs, for which I have never been compensated in any way. I do it for the same reason that David went out to fight the giant Goliath, because THERE IS A CAUSE. 1st Samuel 17:29, “And David said, What have I now done?  Is there not a cause?” I preach the way I do because THERE IS A CAUSE! The Gospel must be defended and proclaimed. Philippians 1:17, “But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.”

Life Is What Happens To You While You're Making Big Plans

Proverbs 27:1, “Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.” James 4:13-16, “Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.”

Several months ago I had a speck of something in my eye. I couldn't get it out! I tried using eye drops. I tried gently pulling my upper eyelid over my lower eyelid. Nothing helped. I tried gently splashing water in my eyes, attempting to rinse the speck of whatever was in my eye. I thought that perhaps it was a sty growing, and it would take time to heal. I came so close to going to the emergency room that evening. The next day when I woke up it was still bothering me. My eyes were all red and bloodshot from rubbing me eye (which is the first thing nurses and doctors tell you NOT to do, which could make matters worse). Eventually, after 3 days, my eye cleared up. I waited to see if it would clear u on its own, rather than be charged an arm and two legs in an emergency room for treatment.

All I could think about during that unpleasant ordeal, and afterwards, is how spoiled we all are in America, and how we all take everything for granted. Just one little speck of contaminant in one of my eye's, wreaked havoc in my life! I was praying the whole time for God to let it not be something serious. I couldn't work on my website. I couldn't do anything. I felt this sharp prick in my eye. It was probably something that the wind blew into my eye. From that 3-day ordeal, I realized just how frail, limited, insufficient, weak and vulnerable I am as a human being!!! One tiny little speck of dirt shut down my life.

Dear reader, life is what happens to you and me while were making big plans! All it took was a little speck of dirt to completely ruin my day and set me off track. If I had been planning to do anything or go anywhere during those 3-days, I would have had to cancel my plans. Isn't life so fickle? Our life is as a vapor of steam the Bible says, in our text passage from James, here for a moment and then gone forever! By God's grace, I will become a senior citizen on March 5th, 2022. I absolutely cannot believe it! Where has the time gone? It seems like just yesterday that I was playing football in the streets with my buddies as a teenager in Chicago. It seems like just yesterday that I was collecting and lighting off fireworks all year round, and the 4th of July was my favorite holiday as a kid and teenager.

My how the time has gone, faster and faster as I grow older. I keep hearing about people who've died in their 50's, reminding me that life is so frail and short. George Harrison of The Beatles was only 58 years old when he died. All those cancer sticks that he smoked to look “cool” finally caught up with him in 2001, when he died of lung cancer. Sadly, by all indications George went to Hell in his false religion of Hara Krishna. What saith the Scripture? John 14:6, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” The Holy Bible teaches that there is NO SALVATION in any other name, than the precious NAME OF JESUS (Acts 4:10-12). Jesus Himself said in John 3:7, “YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN”!!!

Death often comes unexpectedly. Dear friend, arrogance is the worst enemy you'll ever have. Some people just can't be reasoned with! I have warned umpteen pastors about their wicked preaching of the heresies of Misunderstood Repentance and Lordship Salvation (i.e., Calvinism). Yet, in their sinful pride and arrogance those ungodly pastors rejected THE TRUTH that I handle to them, for which they will be held accountable by God in eternity (Acts 15:1 and 24; Galatians 1:6-9, 3:1-3, 6:7). Today could be the last day of your life, and mine. I don't know about you, but I want to be on the right side of truth when I meet God. Lordship Salvation is a pack of lies!!! Misunderstood Repentance is NOT the Gospel of free grace! You don't turn away from sin to get saved, Jesus came to save you from your sin.

Every day of life is a second chance from God. Relish it dear friend. That is exactly what the Bible means in 1st Timothy 6:12, “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.” Each day, every time I work on another website article, every mouse click, every stroke of my keyboard, every moment spent in prayer for my dear web visitors—I am laying hold on eternal life, making the best of the remaining time I have on earth. 

Life is so predictably unpredictable. Look at the 88 deaths in Kentucky, Illinois and Tennessee from the recent deadly tornadoes which set down. Tornadoes are very rare for December, but they happened! The tornadoes struck during the wee hours of the morning, while everyone was sleeping. Dozens of children were killed. Seven children were killed on just one block of a neighborhood. It is so sad! Dear friend, death is coming for you and me! Tornadoes aren't respecters of persons!!!

Slayer guitarist and band founder, Jeff Hanneman, died of liver failure after a tiny spider bite. Jeff died at age 49 of liver failure, after battling complications linked to a spider bite. Fans called him a “Guitar God.” He was called a God, but he is now dead. I don't know if Jeff was saved or not. If you ever spend time around these big names in music, you'll learn quickly that they all have garbage pails for minds. You can tell from their song lyrics, the way they talk in public interviews, et cetera. I want no part of that heathendom!

I remember as a teenager, when Eddie Van Halen (1964-2020) was at the top of the world, the Satanic spirit that permeated Van Halen's music. Today it is viewed as a mere novelty, but in their heyday in the 1970's and 1980's, Van Halen's music was a frightening demonic force in the world. Eddie and Alex Van Halen are devout Roman Catholics, which means that they are not born-again Christians. There is not a more fake and counterfeit organization in history, than the rotten Roman Catholic religion! The Pope is the Vicar of Hell, not Heaven.

Sadly, it is very likely that Eddie Van Halen died in his sins and went straight to Hell. I am not happy about that. I liked Eddie. I loved his creative skills on the electric guitar. I am a musician myself. His brother Alex (drummer for the Van Halen band) is an ordained Catholic minister, who performs weddings for friends and family. Truth is stranger than fiction! I am not trying to be unkind, but the Bible teaches there is salvation only by faith alone in Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:26). Catholics are taught that they must keep 'Seven Sacraments' to get to Heaven, which is 100% unbiblical. Mark 7:9, “And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.” That is exactly what men do, they FULLY REJECT GOD'S COMMANDMENTS, keeping their OWN TRADITION instead. Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to this world!

Our time on earth is brief. Eddie and Alex Van Halen had lots of fun (drunkenness, immorality with women, perversion, wickedness galore), but now where are they? Proverbs 3:33, “The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.” I have had music fans get upset with me for preaching THE TRUTH about Eddie Van Halen. The guy died in a false religion, period. I don't expect a hellbound unsaved person to understand. But that is why I wrote this blog, in hopes that someone will listen to reason. God didn't put us here to party! God didn't give us a healthy body to abuse it with drugs, booze and other substances! Even a child knows that rock music is the Devil's music!

Are you saved dear reader? You would be shocked if you knew how many churchgoers have never been born again!!! Evangelist Ray Comfort is an infidel (not saved). Ray says that to be “born again” refers to the radical change of lifestyle that occurs when a person comes to Christ. WRONG! That absolutely is not what it means to be “born again.” To be “born again” means to have He (Jesus) who is the beginning, born in you! It means to be re-gened with God's genes.

To be “born again” means that God literally merges with your spirit into one, so that you are now a part of God and He is a part of you. That doesn't mean we become God. It just means that we've been born spiritually into God's family. This is more than mere formal adoption by association, but literally becoming born into God and God born into us. It is a supernatural miracle of God solely in response to a person's childlike faith in Christ as their personal Savior. God literally lives inside my body, soul and spirit, and is an integral part of my being (1st Corinthians 3:16-17; Romans 8:9; 1st John 3:24).

A Common Misinterpretation Of Luke 13:1-5 Concerning Repentance

Luke 13:1-5, “There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.”

I am tired of hearing woefully ignorant preachers cite Luke 13:5 as a “proof text” to falsely teach that a person must “turn away from sin” to be saved. Folks, that is simply not true! No where does the inspired King James Bible say that we must “repent of your sin” or “turn away from your sin” to have eternal life. Please read these helpful words from one of my favorite preachers, Curtis Hutson (1934-1995):

'In Luke 13:5 Jesus said, “I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” The context of this verse shows that they needed to repent or change their mind regarding punishment and sin. In this passage, Christ was talking to good people who believed that people suffered only because of their sins, and they concluded that those in Galilee whose blood Pilate mingled with sacrifices and those on whom the tower of Siloam fell were greater sinners because they died such horrible deaths. Jesus contradicts the thinking of these self-righteous people and tells them that they need to repent or change their mind and see themselves as sinners, too, or they will perish in their own self-righteousness.'

One does not have to know the Greek language to see that “repent” in this passage does not mean feeling sorry for or turning from sin.

SOURCE: Pastor Curtis Hutson, an excerpt from his helpful booklet titled: 'Repentance: What Does The Bible Teach?'

I couldn't have said it any better. Yes, bravo Dr. Hutson! This is the accurate meaning of Luke 13:1-5. So the $64,000 question then becomes: “Where do preachers get the false idea that 'repent' in this passage means to turn away from your sin?” It comes from Roman Catholicism. It comes from our English dictionary meaning of the word. But the Biblical Greek meaning is something very different. The word for “repent” in Luke 13:3 and 5 is the Greek word metanoeo, a verb which means “to think differently.” A person “repents” (i.e., they change their mind) from a wrong mindset of unbelief, to thinking differently to believe to be saved.

Sadly, we've got a bunch of dumb dumb pastors today who don't take the time to study the Bible. Instead they just listen to infidels like Pastor John MacArthur, who is one of the most dangerous teachers in the world. 2nd Timothy 2:15, “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” Anytime you hear a religious leader teaching to “repent of your sin” to be saved, you know that he was inspired by demons to say that, because such nonsense is not found in God's Word.

Now I have to warn you, because the rabbit hole runs deep friend. There's another reason why so many of today's pastors, Bible colleges and churches are corrupt theologically—FALSE BIBLES! Jesus Himself warned that a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit! It is impossible! Matthew 7:17-18, “Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” Amen and amen! If you don't believe me, then I plead with you to please listen to Jesus! The blessed Savior said that a corrupt tree CANNOT bring forth good fruit. Yet, we've got a bunch of stupid pastors and Bible college professors today, who think that the Devil's false Bibles are not a threat to the world. They've got a whole in their head the size of the Grand Canyon!

The Holy Bible Has Been Changed & Corrupted For Copyright!

Dear reader, things that are different are not the same! Anyone who downplays the danger of these modern Bibles is a darn fool. Buyer beware! The Devil is a beautiful liar! The Devil knows that if he can publish hundreds of different Bibles, then he can confuse and discourage everybody (especially young people) from trusting the Word of God. Isn't it something how words matter to politicians, engineers, lawyers, judges, businessmen and in every contract that someone signs, yet today's insane preachers would have us to believe that words don't matter to God. Please think about that! Words DO matter to God. Right doctrine matters!

So, getting backing to Luke 13:5, please don't allow any corrupt preacher to corrupt your knowledge of the Word of God. Jesus commanded us to “SEARCH THE SSCRIPTURES” in John 5:39a. NEVER accept anything as true until you have gone and verified it yourself! Everyone has a right to their own opinion, but no one has a right to their own facts. The truth of the matter is that you cannot show me any place in the inspired King James Bible where it says to repent “of your sins” to have eternal life.

Of course God wants us to turn away from our sinful living as saints (Romans 3:31). I am not diminishing the importance of holy living, God forbid. I am simply saying that the way you choose to live has absolutely NOTHING to do with receiving the gift of eternal life. Christ paid our debt of sin, because we couldn't. The very idea that God will not save a person, unless they first commit to clean up their life of sin is heresy! No Sir! God does not demand that you give up your sins to be saved. The only sin that can keep a person out of Heaven is unbelief. Therefore, the only thing necessary to get to Heaven is to BELIEVE. If a man believes the GOOD NEWS (GOSPEL) of the Lord Jesus Christ, all the sins in the world cannot keep that man out of Heaven, because he has been WASHED in the blood of the Lamb (1st Corinthians 6:11; 1st John 1:7; 1st Peter 1:18-19).

Jesus wasn't telling them to stop sinning in Luke 13:5 to be saved. He was simply taking the opportunity, upon hearing some bad news, to use it as a soulwinning moment. The wonderful Savior simply showed them their need for salvation. What do we do when we hear bad news? Most of us add our own bad news to the conversation, when we ought to be soul conscious like Jesus was. Upon hearing some negative news, Jesus used it as a chance to share the Gospel. Except you “repent” (change your thinking), you will go to Hell too! Simply change your thinking from unbelief to belief dear friend, and you too can KNOW that you have eternal life dwelling in you.

Water Baptism Is Not Necessary To Go To Heaven

1st Corinthians 1:17, “For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.”

Water baptism is not required to be saved. No one in the Old Testament was ever baptized to get to Heaven, and we know that they were preached the same Gospel as we believe today, which is salvation through faith alone in Christ (Acts 10:43; Hebrews 4:2; Romans 4:1-5).
The Apostle John penned the epistle of 1st John for the main purpose of showing believers how to "know" that we are saved (1st John 5:13). Yet, the apostle doesn't mention baptism even once in his epistle. Obviously then, water baptism is not required to be saved, otherwise John would have emphasized the need for it.

The Apostle Paul said in 1st Corinthians 1:17 that Christ didn't send him to baptize converts; but rather, to preach the Gospel. If water baptism were the means of salvation (as Lutherans and Roman Catholics foolishly teach), then Paul would have been sent by Christ to baptize people, but he wasn't.

I once worked with a wacky Church of Christ minister, who when I showed him 1st Corinthians 1:17 told me that Paul's disciples did the baptizing instead. That is so ridiculous! Church of Christ members errantly believe that water baptism is required to get to Heaven. They've got water on the brain! Please RUN away from the Church of Christ cult!!!

The repentant thief on the cross was never baptized. The man simply believed on Christ.

My dear grandmother (my Mom's Mom) was never baptized. She simply believed on Christ.

Pastor Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) didn't baptize any of their tens of thousands of converts.
Not one verse in the inspired Word of God teaches that water baptism is necessary to receive God's free gift of eternal life. Salvation is BY FAITH alone according to Galatians 2:26, John 3:16 and hundreds of other Scripture passages. 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝟱:𝟭, “𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗵, 𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗟𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘂𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁:”

Beware of the many religious cults today that foolishly teach you must be water baptized to get to Heaven. This popular damnable heresy in theology is called “Baptismal Regeneration.” That is, they believe you are regenerated (born again) by being baptized in water. Some false religions practice sprinkling with water, but this is a totally unscriptural ritual. Some of the more popular cults that mandate water baptism for salvation include: Roman Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Lutherans and Seventh-Day Adventists.

SDA's will claim that they don't require water baptism for salvation, but they really do. SDA's errantly teach that if you don't obey the Ten Commandments it proves you don't love God, and this means your faith is not genuine and you're not really saved. Clearly, this is a backdoor approach to the Satanic Lordship Salvation heresy! SDA's adhere to a work-based false plan of salvation. If you doubt what I say, then I encourage you to research their exclusive false doctrine called, “Investigative Judgment.”

There is nothing in the Bible which says you must be dunked in a tank of water to receive God's free gift of eternal life. You just need to BELIEVE that Jesus did it all for you. God's plan of salvation for humanity is so simple, easy and free. John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” If you will simply BELIEVE dear guilty sinner, that Jesus died in your place on Calvary's cross for your sins, and believe that He was buried, but then miraculously resurrected physically from the dead three days later—and this is your only hope for forgiveness of sins and eternal life—you are saved!!!

We Live In A World Of Habitual Liars

Proverbs 19:22, “The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.”

I spent a couple hours this evening searching on Google for “totally free website templates.” To my disgust, dozens of websites lied, asking for money after advertising that their templates are totally free. That is called LYING! I am not disgusted that I couldn't find a free template, that is frustrating. I am disgusted that so many people are LIARS! I am disgusted that people don't even hesitate to lie in order to deceive others. It is very evil and dishonest!

We live in a world of LIARS! I dare you to go online and search for a cheap car rental. Go search for a cheap hotel rental. You'll see prices advertised for $24 for a car and $34 for a hotel. Those prices simple don't exist friends. You are being LIED TO by wicked and greedy people. It's called “click bait.” They post fraudulent prices to lure you to click on their adds, but then they pull the old Bait & Switch con game. By the time you add the insurance, taxes and fees, that $24 rent car will cost you upwards of $100 per day!!! Oftentimes the crooked car rental agency will tell you that they don't have any cheap cars left, and all that's left is the $130 vehicle! These people are thieves and liars, and it's their business to be thieves and liars! They do it so much that it means nothing to cheat others, making the excuse that everybody is doing it! SHAME on all of them.

I still haven't found a free template to my liking, mainly because 90% of all the websites I have visited are LIARS! They are dirty, filthy, LIARS!!! I know many of you have experienced the same disgust, downloading an advertised “FREE” software program, just to have those LIARS demand money to activate the program! They deliberately wasted your time, hoping that after spending 10 minutes to download and install their “FREE” program that you'll pay them anyway. NEVER! I have uninstalled countless programs in protest, refusing to allow a LIAR to have my money, for a program that they false and fraudulently advertised as being “FREE.”

Dear reader, these liars are of the Devil. The Holy Bible says so in John 8:44. Satan is their spiritual father, so they do what their father does, he LIES ALL THE TIME!!! The Devil's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born-again. That way the Devil can take you to Hell with him forever!!! Satan is a beautiful liar! Lucifer was more beautiful than all the angels. I believe that is why one-third of the angels in Heaven rebelled and sided with Lucifer, because of his beauty and wisdom. Satan was so cunning and convincing that he took one-third of Heaven's family with him!!!

I often thank God that I am a misfit. All my life I have never fit in, no matter where I went. The girls never liked me. They didn't like me in grade or high school, and they still don't like me at age 54. I have lived alone for the past 15 years since 2006. I don't like living alone, I just haven't been able to find a woman that likes me. I am a really nice, kind and responsible man. Perhaps that is why no woman wants me, because they are all full of pride, arrogance, foolish ideas of what they want in a man. So they end up with bums, and then want a divorce. Satan sure is having a good time ruining lives!

I count myself blessed to have escaped the evil woman. That includes the female devils from Bob Jones University. It is shameful how BJU has gone to the dogs, ditching high morals and allowing the Devil right into their college. They're wrong on the Bible, wrong on repentance and wrong on salvation. Anyway, we live in strange and perilous times! I see women covered in tattoos. I see female Bible college graduates pursuing careers instead of motherhood. Everything is about making money these days. I don't blame people for staying home from church, because today's pastors are wimps and the churches who support them are pathetic!

Thankfully, our great God is an honest God, Who has promised to “SAVE THEM THAT BELIEVE” (1st Corinthians 1:21b). John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” Jesus said to simply BELIEVE on Him to have eternal life. Yet, the Bible colleges and churches are full of LIARS, who teach that you must “repent and turn away from sin” to be saved. The inspired King James Bible doesn't teach that! No where in the Word of God are we taught to “repent of sin” or “turn from sin” to get to Heaven. Yet, the Bob Jones University (BJU) crowd keep telling this dirty demonic lie. And sadly, Pensacola Christian College (PCC) sinfully bids BJU Godspeed, which makes them partaker of their evil deeds (2nd John 1:11). LIARS every one! They are LIARS!!!

God keeps His promises friend. Titus 1:2, “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;”

It Is Okay For A Christian To Repent Of Sins

2nd Timothy 2:19, “Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.”

I heard Pastor Steven Anderson the other day saying that believers should repent of their sins, and I agree. Every child of God should change our mind about our sinful ways (2nd Timothy 2:19). This is a part of sanctification and growth in grace (1st Peter 2:2; John 17:17; 2nd Peter 3:18).

There is nothing wrong to repent of one's sinning, just so long as we don't add it as a requirement to receive God's free gift of eternal life, which is obtained by faith alone (Romans 4:4-7).

Bible repentance for salvation is simply owning up to the truth (2nd Timothy 2:25) that we are a GUILTY SINNER (Romans 3:19-20), and Jesus is the only SAVIOR (John 20:31).

I love this awesome quote from one of my favorite free grace Gospel preachers, Pastor Harry A. Ironside (1876-1951), who wrote:

“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 …

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.”

SOURCE: Pastor Harry A. Ironside, from the tract: 'What Is The Gospel?'

By God's grace, I wrote this helpful article (backup article) which contains many helpful preacher quotes about true repentance.

Every saint of God should repent of our sins, which is proper and right. But we must never make the fatal eternal error of mixing and confusing service (Romans 12:1) with salvation (Galatians 3:26). That is, we must never combine discipleship with sonship. My favorite preacher's quote is from John Bunyan...

“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)

John Bunyan was exposing Lordship Salvation, although that particular term hadn't been invented yet. We must never commit the unpardonable sin of mixing works with grace. Romans 4:4-5, “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” I love this Scripture passage. Romans 4:4 plainly exposes the falsehood of Dr. Peter S. Ruckman (1921-2016) and his followers (e.g. William P. Grady, Bible Baptist Church in Pensacola and Robert Breaker) that people were saved by works under the Mosaic law. Clearly, that would have made salvation a matter of debt owed by God to the worker, and not of grace as the inspired Word of God teaches. You'll never be led astray dear friend if you'll “SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES” (John 5:39a).

God bless you dear reader and thank you for your continued interest in my website ministry for the precious Lord Jesus Christ. To God alone by all the praise, credit and glory.

Reasons Why You Cannot Lose Your Salvation

 Reasons Why You Cannot Lose Your Salvation

By Pastor Hank Lindstrom (1940-2008)

ETERNAL LIFE IS ETERNAL. It is NOT “life until you sin again.” Jesus promised us “eternal life” and it is ridiculous to think that He didn’t mean that He gives us life that would never end. Eternal life begins THE MOMENT when we believe.

The believer “is passed from death unto life.” (John 5:24).

SALVATION IS A “BY BIRTH” SITUATION. A birth cannot be undone or reversed. “Once born, always born, Jesus did not teach a man must be born again and again and perhaps even yet again. We don’t have a second opportunity to be born again physically, nor do we have or even need a second opportunity to be born again spiritually once we have received our spiritual birth.

SALVATION (ETERNAL LIFE) IS A FREE GIFT. It is not something that is earned or can be deserved. Works earn “rewards,” not salvation. Romans 5:15-18, 6:23; Eph. 2:8,9; 1 Corinthians 3:11-15.

SALVATION IS BASED UPON HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, NOT OURS. Philippians 3:9 and 2 Corinthians 5:21 teach that it is Christ’s righteousness that is imputed to our account. If our salvation is based upon Christ righteousness and not our own, how could our own unrighteousness ever make His righteousness insufficient? When God declares us righteous, it is settled. Romans 8:33.

WE ARE KEPT BY THE POWER OF GOD. 1 Peter 1:4,5 teaches this. If it is God’s power that keeps us, who is stronger or more powerful than God?

JESUS IS HOLDING US IN HIS HAND. John 10:28. We are not holding onto God; He is holding onto us! Even if we could let go, He cannot and will not.

1 Peter 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, (4) To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, (5) Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

WE SHALL NEVER COME INTO CONDEMNATION OR JUDGMENT. John 5:24 teaches us this. As in John 3:16 and John 10:28 wherein we are told we will NEVER PERISH.

In John 11:25 wherein Jesus said the believer will “NEVER DIE,” here we are told the believer will “NEVER COME INTO CONDEMNATION.”

If a person could lose salvation, this would not be true.

WE HAVE ALREADY PASSED FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE. Now get this. According to John 5:24, the believer has already passed (past tense) from death into life. This cannot be speaking of physical life but must be speaking of spiritual death and life. We have never yet been dead physically but we were dead spiritually.

THE BELIEVER SHALL NEVER DIE. In John 11:25 Jesus said to Martha that “whoever lives and believes in me shall NEVER die.” He surely was not speaking of physical death so He must have been speaking of a spiritual death.

JESUS SAID HE WOULD NOT CAST US OUT. As in Hebrews 13:5 wherein Jesus said He would never leave us nor forsake us, He tells us in John 6:37 He will never cast us out.

JESUS WILL LOSE NOTHING (THAT INCLUDES US). John 6:39 tells us that Jesus will lose nothing but “will raise it up at the last day, Whatever we are, we are something! This answers those who say He will not cast us out but we could choose to walk out on our own.

WE ARE “JUSTIFIED” (DECLARED RIGHTEOUS) BY FAITH. When it is God who does the justifying, that is all we need. Romans 5:1 teaches us that it is because we are justified by faith that we have “peace with God.”

WE ARE SEALED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. When it is God who does the sealing, man cannot break the seal. The Holy Spirit is given to every believer to be with him and in him forever. 1 Corinthians 6:19, 20 teaches us that we are “bought with a price,” the blood of Christ. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS OUR “EARNEST. (GUARANTEE) OF OUR INHERITANCE.

Titus 1:2 teaches us that God cannot lie and He has promised us eternal life. God said it; that settles it!

GOD SAYS WE CAN KNOW WE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. We are taught in I John 5:13 that the believer can “KNOW” that he has eternal life. How could he possibly know it if he could still wind up in hell?

EVEN IF WE ARE FAITHLESS, GOD REMAINS FAITHFUL FOR HE CANNOT DENY HIMSELF.

2 Timothy 2:13 We are “in Christ” once we have believed. For Him to deny us, He would have to deny Himself.
OUR SINS (ALL OF THEM) HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN. If all sins are forgive, how could any sin send a believer to hell?

Acts 13:38, 39 says that ALL who believe are justified from all things.” To be justified is to be declared righteous. When Christ died for sin, it was for all sin (past, present, and future).

NOBODY (INCLUDING SATAN) CAN LAY ANYTHING TO OUR CHARGE. Satan may accuse us for what we have done but it was God who sent His Son to pay the penalty for our sins and it is He who declares us righteous. If God declares us righteous, who is Satan to say otherwise? Romans 8:33.

NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US FROM GOD’S LOVE. Romans 8:37-39 teaches this clearly. “Nothing” certainly includes our sin.

THE GIFTS AND CALLINGS OF GOD ARE WITHOUT REPENTANCE. Romans 11:29 Nobody can argue that salvation is not a gift. See Romans 5 and notice how many times the word “gift” is used in describing salvation.

SALVATION IS NEVER BASED ON WORKS SO HOW COULD ONE LOSE IT BY EVEN BAD WORKS? Verses like Ephesians 2:8,9, Titus 3:5, Romans 3:28, 4:5, 11:6, and Galatians 2:16 all clearly teach the receiving of salvation apart from works. (Note especially Romans 4:5 “to him that worketh not.”) The believer will NEVER PERISH. If this does not shout eternal security, then one must be determined to believe otherwise. John 3:16 is perhaps the most quoted and least understood verse in the Bible. Many would rather quote it this way: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes and continues to please God might not perish but have eternal life.”

THE BIBLE DOES NOT TEACH THAT SALVATION CAN BE LOST. While there are numerous verses that some THAT TRY to use to teach that salvation can be lost, there are no verses that say such a thing.

There are verses that teach subjects like “falling from grace,” “working out your own salvation,” “enduring to the end,” and “overcoming” which people try to use to teach the possibility of losing one’s salvation but this is not the case. Study those verses in their context and you will see they DO NOT teach a loss of salvation. Sadly, many have been deceived into believing their salvation can be lost, even though the Bible never teaches such a doctrine. You might ask: “How can this be?” While it is true that they have their verses they use to teach what is called “Conditional Security,” those verses are taken OUT OF CONTEXT.

It all boils down to this: Those who BELIEVE are not condemned and those who have NOT BELIEVED are condemned already. (See John 3:18) Some think the doctrine of Eternal Security gives the believer a license to sin. Far from it! This doctrine frees the believer to truly live for God out of his love and gratefulness. There are also those who think this doctrine of Eternal Security to be a doctrine separate from that of Salvation, yet I disagree. If being saved doesn’t ultimately land a person in heaven, what was he saved from? Instead of salvation, many actually teach we have a sort of probation-life until we sin so badly we cross the line and lose our salvation. What this amounts to is the fact that man continually looks for ways to put his own works back into the equation.

Romans 11:6, “And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.”

“Your whole life should be one big 'THANK YOU' to the Lord!” —Pastor Ralph “Yankee” Arnold, a wonderful quote from the MP3 sermon called, “The Importance of The Lord' Supper”

Eleven Reasons For Not teaching Lordship Salvation

(by Pastor A. Ray Stanford, 1916-2012)

Salvation And The Public Invitation
(by Dr. Max D. Younce)

Don't Get Stuck On the Law of God

Romans 3:19-20, “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”

Throughout history, people have become stuck on the LAW of God, never moving onto the GRACE of God. Many Bible students fail to comprehend this truth, which is why they get sucked into the damnable heresy of Lordship Salvation.

The Jews in particular had a hard time breaking away from trying to keep the law to be saved. Why did God give the law? You see, you cannot have darkness without light. You cannot have beauty without ugliness, nor high without low, nor truth without heresy, nor life without death. You cannot swim upstream until you've been downstream. Every positive needs its correspondence negative, and vise versa. Without God's LAW in the Old Testament, GRACE in the New Testament wouldn't make any sense! We need the law of God, that is, the Mosaic law, to show us our sinnership. Our text passage above gives us the purpose of the law, which is to stop every mouth from boasting of self-righteousness, and that all the world may become guilty before God.

Both Jesus and the apostle Paul spent much of their time trying to get Jews unsaved, so they could get them saved! That is, the Jews were stuck on keeping the law, failing to understand the purpose for which God gave the law. Instead of realizing that salvation can only come through God's grace, by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, they were still trying to keep the law to enter into the Kingdom of God. Let's take a look at someone in the New Testament who boasted of his own goodness, whose mouth needed to be stopped. Jesus used the law in the following Scripture passage, to silence this young rich man from his self-righteous boasting, and it worked:

Luke 18:18-23, “And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God. Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother. And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up. [HE'S BOASTING] Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me. And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich. [JESUS USED THE LAW TO SHOW THIS RICH YOUNG MAN THAT HE IS COVETOUS, AND THAT STOPPED HIS MOUTH FROM BOASTING.”

So the Lord was using the law as it was intended to be used, which is, as a measuring stick by which when men are compared, they fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23); thus seeing their desperate condition as a guilty sinner in the sight of a holy God (Romans 3:19), they are pointed to the Gospel of free grace, which is through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:24-26). Romans 3:19, “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped [STOPPED FROM BOASTING], and all the world may become guilty before God.”


Corrupt Preachers Who Are Stuck On the Law

Let me list a few from the start: Paul Washer, Ray Comfort, Billy Graham and John MacArthur (and there are many more). There are some very dangerous false teachers today, who horribly misinterpret the interaction between Jesus and the rich young ruler.

One such false teacher is Dr. John MacArthur, who says that the rich young ruler only wanted eternal life as an add on to what he already possessed, but he wasn't willing to surrender fully to live for God. Read for yourself the satanic garbage that MacArthur teaches about the rich young ruler:

“The bottom line is: He wanted eternal life, but he wasn't willing to give up his pride and his possessions. That's the bottom line! ... But there are very evident things here, that become crystal clear to us. Whatever Jesus was offering, was going to cost cost him his pride, and it was going to cost him his possessions, and the price was too high, even for eternal life. He wanted eternal life, only as an add-on to what he already possessed. He loved himself, not God. He loved earth, not Heaven. He loved the material, not the spiritual. The issue here is really salvation. It's about salvation!”

SOURCE: Dr. John MacArthur, YouTube sermon titled: The Blasphemy of the Rich Young Ruler.

BLASPHEMY!!! Folks, John MacArthur is not saved!!! He is the one who is blaspheming God! Mr. MacArthur is going straight to Hell when he dies if he doesn't repent of his works-based plan of salvation. Jesus was NOT giving the rich young ruler a plan of salvation; but rather, He was using the law to stop this young man from his self-righteous boasting. That is what the law does according to our text verse from Romans 3:19, “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.”

Ladies and gentleman, John MacArthur is a wolf in sheep's clothing! It breaks my heart to see countless multitudes of people being led them astray into the Lake of Fire by Mr. MacArthur. If you follow the teaching of John MacArthur, you are treading on thin ice. I admit that John MacArthur is brilliant in his deliverance, and in most of the subjects which he teaches, which makes him so dangerous. But if a man is wrong on repentance he is going to be wrong on everything else. If you get the first button wrong while getting dressed, all the other buttons are also going to be wrong.

In other words, as good as Mr. MacArthur is in many of his teachings, you simply cannot trust him and should avoid him. Judas looked so convincing, that when Jesus told his disciples one of them was going to betray him, no one even suspected that it would be Judas. John 6:70 says that Judas had a devil in him, yet no one suspected him! I tell you, kindly, John MacArthur has a devil in him! Ray Comfort has a devil in him! Beware of Paul Washer, Billy Graham and other false teachers concerning salvation!

In Luke 18:18-27 we read about The Rich Young Ruler And Jesus. Like John MacArthur, Ray Comfort gets it wrong! They claim that the rich young ruler didn't get saved because he wasn't willing to forsake his sin of covetousness. That is not what was happening there! Jesus was using the law as it was intended to be used, as a measuring stick to show the young man that he is a guilty sinner in God's eyes! A person cannot get saved until they admit they are a sinner in God's sight (1st John 1:10). Jesus wasn't giving the young man a plan of salvation, He was showing him that you cannot get to Heaven by keeping the law (Romans 3:19-20).

Ray Comfort associates serving God and mammon (money) with salvation. The reason why the rich young ruler didn't get saved wasn't because he was covetous; but rather, because he refused to cease from his own works (trying to keep the law). The love of money (a sin) can certainly hinder a person from coming to Christ to be saved, but there is no Biblical requirement to forsake the sin of covetousness to be saved. Serving mammon is a matter of discipleship, not sonship (salvation).

Repentance is the admission of one's sinnership in the sight of a holy God, which facilitates placing one's trust in the Good News of Jesus Christ to be saved. We don't get saved by repenting, we get saved by placing our trust in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. No one has ever believed who didn't repent (i.e., change their mind). But repentance is automatic, so that there is no need to even mention repentance when leading someone to Christ. The entire Gospel of John doesn't mention the word "repent," and neither should we. John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”

Since Mr. Comfort cannot use the Bible to support his strawman argument of Lordship Salvation, he often attempts to use doctrinally-flawed men as a secondary authority. For example: Ray Comfort quotes from George Whitfield (another heretic on salvation), to try to prove his heresy. 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.” Some of the greatest preachers in history are now burning in Hell forever; Matthew 7:21-23 proves what I say! Martin Luther is one of them! Anyone who believes that giving up the world or sinful ways is a requirement to be saved, IS NOT SAVED!!! Eternal life is a free gift, that you simply receive by faith alone in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 5:15, 6:23; Ephesians 2:8-9).

These modern-day prophets of Balaam are stuck on the law! The apostle Paul, just like Jesus, had a hard time convincing the Jews that they couldn't obtain salvation through keeping the law. Romans 2:13, “For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.” Paul saw that they were trying to merit salvation through keeping the Mosaic law. The problem is that no man can perfectly obey the law. So Paul tells them that not the HEARERS of the law will be justified, but the DOERS of the law! They weren't doing it! Paul tells them that they actually have to keep the law to obtain eternal life, which no man has ever done. Jesus Christ is the only sinless man, Who is the precious Lamb of God (John 1:29).

In Romans chapter 3, Paul teaches that “There is none righteous, no, not one” (Romans 3:10). Paul goes into detail in the verses to follow, describing the wickedness of mankind:

Romans 3:11-24, “There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes. Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.”

Isn't that last verse beautiful? Notice that after describing the rottenness of humanity, Paul upholds the wondrous truth that through the precious blood of Jesus Christ any man can find redemption! Any man can be freely justified by God's GRACE through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus!!! That is the great lesson that Paul was teaching the Jews, not that by doing the law they could be justified (Dan Corner and other heretics teach the latter).

The adherents of Lordship Salvation are stuck on Old Testament LAW! They have never moved on to GRACE. They are caught between the Old and New Testaments, caught between LAW and GRACE! If it's not free, it's not grace! If it's not eternal, it's not grace! If it's not permanent, it's not grace! If it's not without works, it's not grace! If you don't trust in Christ alone, because of what He did through the cross to pay for your sins, believing that He raised up from the dead the third day, you don't get grace!


The Law Stops Self-Righteous People from Boasting!

The rich young ruler boasted to Jesus in Luke 18:21b,“All these have I kept from my youth up.” When the young man first approached Jesus, he called Him “Good Master”! Jesus replied, “Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.” This was a question, not a statement. Jesus wasn't saying that He Himself wasn't good, he was asking the young man a question, to teach him something. The Lord was challenging the young man's wrong perception that some people are sinless. The Lord knew his heart. Jesus is trying to teach this young man that he is a sinner, and not “good” as he thinks he is. Jesus even says that no one is good, but God. And of course, Jesus is almighty God (John 10:33; John 8:52). The Lord pointed out the rich young ruler's sin of covetousness, his love for wealth, which was a violation of God's law.

Theoretically, if any man could keep the law 100%, and never break it even one time, he could enter into the Kingdom of God; but the Bible plainly teaches in Romans 3:10b, “There is none righteous, no, not one.” Only Jesus Christ is without sin (2nd Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 4:15).

How about you my friend, are you hung-up on the LAW? If there were anything you could do to be saved, then Christ died in vain! The whole reason why God sent His only begotten Son into the world, to die on the cross for our sins, is because there is NOTHING we can do to save ourselves. Satan is a beautiful liar, who for millenniums has been deceiving people to add works to faith, which is no faith at all. This was the error of Galatianism in the New Testament, as exposed in the Epistle of Galatians. The church Paul had started had been contaminated, infiltrated and bewitched by a satanic cult who added circumcision to the Gospel to be saved (Galatians 3:1-4). Paul said anyone is “accursed” by God if they believe “another gospel” (Galatians 1:6-9).

Please don't get stuck on the LAW. You can only be saved by God's GRACE, which is solely through faith in the redemption provided through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. 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.”

The Rich Young Ruler (an excellent video sermon by Pastor Steven L. Anderson)

“Now you say, 'Brother Hyles, you make an issue.' You dead sure better know I'll make an issue!” —BATTLE OF THE AGES (MP3, Dr. Jack Hyles, “The King James Bible crowd is going to come out on top!”)

Repentance Toward God

Acts 20:21, “Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, REPENTANCE TOWARD GOD, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.”

You can put all the faith in Christ you want, but it means nothing if you're in denial about your sins. 1st John 1:10, “If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” If you don't think you're a sinner, then you didn't believe the Biblical Gospel. You have religion, not salvation. The only Gospel message taught in the Bible is that CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS!!! He was buried. And Jesus was RESURRECTED after three days from the dead. The entire matter of salvation deals with OUR SINS. Thus, repentance is when we come to the realization that we have sinned AGAINST GOD and we turn by faith to the Lord to be forgiven.

Notice what Joseph said to Potiphar's wicked, adulterous wife who tried to seduce him in Genesis 39:9, “There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin AGAINST GOD?” Joseph realized that if he did commit adultery, he would be sinning AGAINST GOD! In Luke 15:21, the repentant prodigal son said... “Father, I have sinned AGAINST HEAVEN, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.”

Notice what king David said in Psalm 41:4, “LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned AGAINST THEE.” Notice what the Apostle Paul taught in Acts 20:21, “Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, REPENTANCE TOWARD GOD, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.” So you see, lost sinners need to REPENT TOWARD GOD, and not away from sin. You will not find any teaching in the Bible about “turning from sin” to be saved; but rather, Mark 1:15, “repent ye, and BELIEVE THE GOSPEL”! “Believing the Gospel” is the object of repentance unto salvation. Carefully notice again in Mark 1:15 what Jesus said, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.” Notice that Jesus DIDN'T say “repent ye, and forsake your sins.” No, rather, He said, “repent ye, and believe the gospel.”

Since the Greek word metanoia simply means “to change one's mind,” it requires supplemental information, because we don't know what to change our mind about. Whereas the English word “repent” definitely means to turn away from sins, the Greek word metanoia doesn't give us any specifics. The English word for "repent" is NEVER used in the Bible concerning getting saved.

The Word of God gives us the needed supplemental information in our text verse from Mark 1:15b, “repent ye, and BELIEVE THE GOSPEL.” Hence, repentance is unto the Gospel itself. The Gospel is what the change of mind is about. The great meaning of the word metanoia is that is applies to anything and everything that hinders a person from believing the Gospel. Whatever it is that has been hindering a sinner from believing the Gospel, the Scripture commands us to think differently toward God (Acts 20:21) and BELIEVE THE GOSPEL. The Gospel is what the change of mind is about. You never have to turn away from your sins to be saved, because that would be a work and not faith alone.

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.

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?

The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.

The Great Meaning Of “METANOIA”

A lot of people are making a big deal of repentance these days, separating it from faith, and making it an additional step to be saved. Albeit, in the Gospel of John the word “believe” is mentioned 88 times; yet the word “repent” is not mentioned even once. Repentance and faith happen simultaneously and are inseparable. One who believes has repented, and the one who repents has believed. There are not steps to salvation. You don't repent first, and then have believe second. That's not how it works.

Pastor Aiden Tozer errantly teaches: “There can be no spiritual regeneration till there has been a moral reformation.” That is a false plan of salvation leading to Hell. How can a man reform until he first gets saved and the Holy Spirit comes to live within him? It is God Who changes a sinner into a righteous person, and not the sinner himself. Repentance is NOT a change of mind which results in a change of life. Anybody who says that garbage is WRONG! A changed life has NOTHING to do with justification, which is by faith alone. After the get saved, a growth in grace process begins, which takes a lifetime.

The change in a believer's life is the "fruit" of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). The Bible says "fruit" (singular), not "fruits" (plural). That is because we get all the fruit at once. You don't get love and then work on patience, and then get patience but start working on joy. No, rather, we get it all at once, as we "walk in the Spirit," simply by abiding in and heeding the inspired Word of God which sanctifies us (John 17:17). The Holy Spirit is God in us! God desires for us to obey His Spirit, in accordance with the written Holy Bible. So we have the living Word of God within us to testify, and the written Word of God without to testify. The inspired King James Bible is our benchmark, against which we should "try" (test) all things (1st John 4:1).

There are two prevalent false gospels today: Lordship Salvation and a social gospel. Lordship Salvation errantly requires a person to FORSAKE their sins to be saved. A social gospel errantly leads people to follow the teachings of Jesus, but no appeal is made to be "born again" because of the condemnation of sin. Salvation is not a magical prayer that we pray, or merely inviting Jesus into our life; Salvation is repenting towards God in faith because of the SINS we have committed. It is our faith that is COUNTED for righteousness... “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness” (Romans 4:5). The wicked world teaches that self-righteous works are necessary to get to Heaven, which is why they're not going.

The blood of Jesus takes our SINS away, in response to our faith in Him... “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ...” (1st Peter 1:18-19). It is Jesus' literal blood that cleanses our sins away, “...and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1st John 1:7). What a Precious Savior!

In conclusion, not one verse in the inspired King James Bible teaches to "repent of your sin" or "turn from your sin" to be saved. You'll only find that manmade garbage in the Devil's modern corrupted revisions, like the Easy-To-Read Version (ERV). Acts 20:21 teaches :repentance toward God," not away from anything. Yes, you must turn FROM something in order to turn TO something, but in the case of turning to Jesus Christ, the only thing Biblically that we need to turn from is our UNBELIEF.

Since unbelief is the only thing that can keep us from entering into Heaven, then logically (and of necessity) that is the ONLY thing from which we must literally turn. Anyone who is trusting in having turned away from their sin to be saved, is still100% lost. Any plan of salvation, other than trusting 100% in Christ alone, is a false gospel.