Galatians 1:6-9, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. 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. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.”
The word “dubious” means “fraught with uncertainty or doubt, open to doubt or suspicion.” This is a perfect word to describe the counterfeit gospel of Lordship Salvation. I have actually heard some preachers separate the heresy of Lordship Salvation from the heresy of “repent of your sins” to get to Heaven, but in truth they BOTH add works to grace. So, I consider BOTH of these damnable heresies to be 'LORDSHIP SALVATION.'
Evangelist Kent Hovind for example, preaches against the heresy of Lordship Salvation, and yet he is wrong on repentance. I went to Dr. Hovind's official website and clicked on “ARE YOU SAVED?” (which link he has since removed since 2016; I guess he no longer cares if people get saved, he just wants your money). The former link took you to this page (now a dead link) which contained a YouTube video. The video is still on YouTube. Here's what Dr. Hovind says in his perverse video:
“The Bible says you have to repent. The word 'repent' means 'to turn.' It actually means two things: to turn from your sin, and to turn to God. God's looking for a change in your attitude, where you say, 'Lord, I don't want to do wrong anymore. I'm sorry. I've offended you. I want to do right,' and you turn from sin and you turn to God, and you say, 'God will you please forgive me. Would you save me?'” [emphasis added]
SOURCE: Dr. Kent Hovind - Salvation By Jesus Christ
Kindly, Dr. Kent Hovind is teaching heresy by embellishing the meaning of Bible “repentance” to include a willingness to turn away from sinful behavior. This is the same doctrinal error of the late Jack Chick (1924-2016). Kent foolishly says to be saved you must say to God: “LORD, I WANT TO DO RIGHT” and then “YOU TURN FROM SIN.” It may seem like a little thing, but telling a lost sinner that in order to be saved they must be willing to clean up their life to reform and cease from sinful bad habits, has now made God's simple plan of salvation very complicated and burdensome, when God intended for it to be free, easy and simple.
I heard Dr. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, foolishly say that he doesn't ascribe to “easy-believism.” What a darn fool! Dear reader, you cannot show me “hard repenting” in the inspired King James Bible! Contrary to Dr. Mohler Jr., the Apostle Paul said in 2nd Corinthians 11:3-4, “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 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.”
Anyone, even an angel the Bible says, who tampers with God's simple plan of salvation (i.e., by grace through faith alone in the Good News of Jesus crucified, buried and risen) is accursed (damned) by God almighty (Galatians 1:6-9). It is no light thing to make God's free gift of salvation cumbersome and difficult for sinners, as many wicked clergy have done.
Such harmful unbiblical teachings by Jack Chick, Kent Hovind and Albert Mohler Jr. ostracize sinners from the Gospel, who would have been saved but weren't ready to give up their sinful bad habits (e.g., shacking up in fornication, drunkenness, substance abuse, stealing, et cetera). Matthew 1:21, “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.” The inspired Holy Bible teaches that Jesus came to save humanity (the Jews first in time, and then the Gentiles - Romans 1:16) from our sins; God does not demand that you first be willing to turn from your sinning (human reformation) to receive His free gift of eternal life.
May I remind you that after Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus to death, he repented (felt sorry) of his sins in Matthew 27:3, yet Judas is sadly burning in Hell forever because he perished in his sins without Christ. Judas was sorry (penitence). He even brought back the 30 pieces of silver (penance). Judas was a changed man (reformation). But he never repented (changed his mind) to BELIEVE ON JESUS to be saved (John 6:27-28, 40, 47). No one has ever been saved by repenting of their sinning. You get saved by faith, accepting Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full payment for your sins, believing that Jesus was buried, but then bodily ressurected from the dead three days later. This is the only Gospel (1st Corinthians 15:1-6).
Kindly said, Kent Hovind is preaching “ANOTHER GOSPEL,” not “the simplicity that is in Christ” (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4). Christ died on Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago to pay for our sins. You couldn't turn from your sinning if you tried, and neither could I. We are wretched piles of sinful manure, whom without Christ's sacrifice on the cross would be damned to burn in the fires of Hell day and night forever without rest nor hope. Thank God for the Lamb of God (John 1:29).
Repentance Means to Lay Aside Your Wrong Thoughts to Believe the GospelPastor Bob Gray Sr. at the Longview Baptist Temple church in Texas correctly preaches . . .“Repentance means to change your mind—change your mind—change your mind about how you want to get to Heaven to what God says you've got to do to get to Heaven. If you've got to repent of all your sins, you're still headed for Hell tonight.” —Pastor Bob Gray Sr., 'Why You Should Be A Part Of A Growing Church'
In his excellent book, “I NEVER KNEW YOU,” Michael Patrick Bowen states . . .“You can live for Christ, you can love Christ, you can serve Him with all your might, time, talent and wealth. You can pray to Him, read your Bible, get water-baptized, join a church, witness to people, and do every wonderful work contained within the realm of Christianity, but if you fail to trust Jesus Christ alone for your salvation, He will 'dump' you.”
SOURCE: 'I NEVER KNEW YOU' (.pdf), by Michael P. Bowen; by Barbour Books, © 2009; page 77
Beware of the false teaching in most churches today, even many Baptist churches, which says that you have to forsake sinful living to get saved, commit your life to Christ and surrender fully to Christ's Lordship. Satan loves to corrupt the Gospel by either adding good works, or by subtracting bad works, to be saved. Whether good or bad works, both are DEAD WORKS! (Hebrews 6:1).Michael Patrick Bowen correctly explains Biblical repentance...“Repent, as Christ meant it to be in terms of salvation, means to change your mind from trusting in what you can do for God to trusting only in what He can do for you.”
SOURCE: Michael Patrick Bowen, a quote from the awesome book, “I NEVER NEW YOU” (Page 114)
Also, Dr. Hal Lindsey has repentance Biblically correct, who states:“Repentance, as it relates to Christ, means to change our minds about Him, who He is and what He's done to provide forgiveness, and deliverance from our sins. When we place faith in Jesus as having taken our place personally on the cross and borne the penalty due our sins, then we're automatically repenting, because we couldn't accept Him in this way without having to change or minds in some way concerning Him.” (From the Liberation of the Planet Earth, by Hal Lindsey. (p. 133)
A Dubious Plan Of Salvation
By wickedly complicating God's simple plan of salvation, today's corrupt neo-evangelical pastors, Bible colleges and clergy have made the Gospel dubious! Again, the word “dubious” means “fraught with uncertainty or doubt, open to doubt or suspicion.” This is a perfect word to describe the counterfeit gospel of repenting of your sins, aka, Lordship Salvation. You won't find any such tommyrot, poppycock, balderdash and nonsense in the inspired King James Bible. You'd have to use Satan's modern English Bible revisions, which are ALL corrupt!
As a fundamentalist Baptist preacher, each year I receive hundreds of ministry emails from confused people. They've been lied to and woefully deceived by lying ungodly fake preachers like Ray Comfort, John MacArthur, Todd Friel, Paul Washer, Jeff Redlin, Bobby and Brad Moffett, Billy and Franklin Graham, Bill Adams, Marty Herron, Jared Baldwin, 'UNSHACKLED' radio, Joel Osteen, Albert Mohler Jr., Pensacola Christian College, Jack Chick and countless more damnable FALSE PROPHETS!
These accursed FOOLS have made the Gospel dubious, instilling fear and uncertainty into their victims by associating salvation with reformation (i.e., turning from your sins to get to Heaven). Pilgrim's Progress author John Bunyan (1628-1688) said it best, I humbly think...
“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.” [emphasis added] —Evangelist John Bunyan
I couldn't have said it any better. John Bunyan is exposing Satan's lie of Lordship Salvation, which mixes works with grace to pervert the Gospel. To protect and properly present the Gospel, it is imperative that we always maintain a clear line of separation between service versus salvation, between discipleship versus sonship, between sanctification versus justification, between the new birth versus growing in grace.
“There is power in this Gospel message. 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, “WHY GRACE CAN SAVE THE WORST MAN!”
"We show our love for God by our obedience. If we do not obey, we do not truly love Him (see vv. 23,24). There are many who call Him 'Lord, Lord,' but do not do what He says. Matthew 7:21-23 tells us their fearful state."
Source: THE EVIDENCE BIBLE, by Ray Comfort, pg. 1377; 2003, Bridge-Logos Publishers, Orlando, Florida
Ray Comfort errantly associates a believer's behavior with salvation itself. This is the dire error of mixing works with grace, thus perverting God's simple plan of salvation. Anytime that you remove the burden of sin from Jesus' shoulders which He bore upon the cross of Calvary, and you instead place that heavy burden upon the sinner's shoulders, you have wickedly corrupting the Gospel. You are now a Gospel pervert!
I am sick and tired of well-meaning but incompetent clergy placing the burden upon sinner's shoulders to clean up their own life of sin—to change their behavior, reform, feel sorrow, surrender all, commit to serve Christ, live a lifestyle of repentance—as a mandatory prerequisite to get to Heaven. That is simply not the Gospel taught in 1st Corinthians 15:1-6.
