We Must Keep Sanctification Separate From Justification

Romans 6:4, “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”

Romans 7:6, “But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.”

It is amazing to me that the Lordship Salvationist (non-Christians) cannot distinguish between salvation and sanctification. By failing to do so they corrupt God's Word. If they are ~not~ separate, then all you have is salvation by works. Lordship Salvationists believe in salvation by works, even though they'll vehemently deny it. If you separate sanctification from justification, then you have salvation in Christ; and the outgrowth of salvation, which is sanctification.

I humbly think Pilgrim's Progress author John Bunyan said it best:

“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)

That is my favorite preacher's quote!

Please carefully notice in both of our text passages of inspired Scripture that the Bible says we “should” walk in holiness and serve God; not “will” as the hellbound Calvinist preaches, nor “must” as the hellbound Roman Catholic is errantly taught. The inspired Word of God teaches that God's redeemed saints SHOULD walk in holiness in newness of life, and we SHOULD serve God as His children; but to say that we WILL or MUST is to pervert the free grace gospel. For God's salvation to truly remain a “free gift,” there can be no additions, stipulations nor obligations to receive and keep it. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do!

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.

Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith.

Turning away from sinful ways would be a work. Faith puts all of the merit where it belongs, on the object of our faith, Jesus and His work.

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.

If salvation is truly by grace, then you don't need to start or stop anything to be saved. Eternal life is a free gift from God (Romans 6:23).

One is saved by God's grace through faith in the finished Work of His Son on the Cross as payment in full as our pardon for sin.

Contrary to what many false teachers are saying in Bible colleges and churches today, a changed life is ~not~ the result of genuine repentance to be saved. A Changed life is in fact the “fruit” of the indwelling Holy Spirit, which truth is confirmed in Galatians 2:20-21, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.” It is no mere coincidence that the Apostle Paul warns the reader in verse 21 that we cannot be saved by works, which is exactly what you are doing if you attribute a changed life to your own turning from sin.

In the damnable heresy of Lordship Salvation, the focus is upon YOU as a sinner to turn away from your sinful ways; whereas in the true free grace gospel, the focus is only upon CHRIST and what He did to pay for your sins on Calvary's cruel cross 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem. The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.

I hope you see the drastic difference between telling a sinner that he must be willing to forsake his sinful bad habits to get to Heaven (which is self reformation); versus just coming to Jesus as a guilty sinner (in your wretched condition) to trust Christ, and then the Holy Spirit (the Spirit of Christ - Romans 8:9) will live the Christian life through you, if you walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:25). The former is Lordship Salvation; the latter is true salvation.

It is imperative dear reader that we always keep sanctification (service) completely separate from justification (salvation). We must keep discipleship entirely separate from sonship.

Here are some words of wisdom from Pastor M.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)

Yes, that is exactly right! Bravo Pastor DeHaan! We must keep service and salvation separate, because we don't want to combine works with grace. Here's a helpful sermon...

Caught Between Grace And Works! | MP3 | MORE

(by Pastor Ralph “Yankee” Arnold)

BEWARE of Satan's minions today, whom the Bible calls “ministers of unrighteousness” (2nd Corinthians 11:13-15). Anyone who mixes works with grace is a monster in the eyes of Heaven. To the carnal man, it makes perfect sense that you must forsake your sinful ways and pursue holiness to inherit Heaven, but such thinking goes totally contrary to the plain teaching of the Scripture. The whole reason why Christ died on a cross 2,000 years ago, to pay our debt of sin, is simply because there is nothing we can do to save ourselves. The only thing that you and I contribute to our own salvation is the sin that made it necessary.

Salvation is of the LORD (Jonah 2:9). You don't have to “repent of your sins” to get to Heaven; but rather, Christ died to pay for your sins so that you could go to Heaven.

Free Grace Gospel Versus Lordship Salvation

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.”

Contrast: Free Grace Theology vs. Lordship Salvation

Below is a clear, structured contrast between the two systems—doctrinally, exegetically, historically, and pastorally.

1. Definition of Faith

Free Grace Theology

• Faith is persuasion—being convinced that Jesus gives eternal life to the believer (John 3:16; John 5:24; John 6:47).
• Faith contains no inherent commitment, no promise to obey, no pledge of loyalty.
• Faith receives a gift, not a contract.
• Greek: pisteuō means to believe, to be persuaded, never “commit,” “yield,” or “surrender.”
• Salvation is a one-time event, not a lifelong project.

Lordship Salvation

• Faith is redefined as commitment, surrender, whole-life allegiance, or obedient trust.
• Faith includes willingness to follow, obey, forsake sin, submit, and persevere.
• Because works are built into the definition of faith, faith becomes faith + obedience.

Core difference:

• Free Grace makes faith about Christ’s promise.
• Lordship makes faith about the believer’s performance.

2. Salvation vs. Discipleship

Free Grace Theology

• Scripture distinguishes receiving eternal life (John 4:10; Eph. 2:8–9) from following Christ (Luke 9:23–26).
• Salvation = free gift.
• Discipleship = lifelong growth, costly obedience, bearing a cross, perseverance.

Lordship Salvation

• Salvation is discipleship; they collapse both categories.
• Conditions of discipleship become conditions of salvation.
• Demands like self-denial, taking up the cross, forsaking all, and perseverance become requirements to prove one is truly saved.

Core difference:

• Free Grace: Salvation is received; discipleship is lived.
• Lordship: Salvation is proven by discipleship.

3. Assurance of Salvation

Free Grace Theology

• Assurance comes from the promise of Christ alone (John 5:24; 6:47; 10:28–29).
• If Christ gives eternal life, then it is eternally secure.
• The foundation of assurance is God’s Word, not self-examination.

Lordship Salvation

• Assurance is obtained by evaluating one's behavior—fruit, obedience, direction of life, perseverance.
• A believer cannot know infallibly whether he will persevere.
• Therefore he cannot know if he is truly saved until the end.

Core difference:

• Free Grace: Assurance is of the essence of saving faith.
• Lordship: Assurance is the fruit of a life of obedience.

4. View of Apostasy and Sin in Believers

Free Grace Theology

• Believers can fall into sin, even serious sin, even doctrinal error.
• Believers can become spiritually shipwrecked (1 Tim. 1:19), carnal (1 Cor. 3:1–3), or deny Christ (2 Tim. 2:12–13).
• Discipline may include sickness, death, temporal judgment, loss of reward.
• But eternal life remains intact because it depends on Christ, not the believer.

Lordship Salvation

• If someone falls into serious, continual, or unrepentant sin, this proves the person was never saved.
• Perseverance in holiness is required to authenticate conversion.
• Apostates were “never truly regenerate.”

Core difference:

• Free Grace: Apostasy = loss of fellowship and reward.
• Lordship: Apostasy = proof of false conversion.

5. Interpretation of Warning Passages

Free Grace Theology

• New Testament warning passages address believers and relate to:

1. temporal discipline
2. loss of rewards
3. loss of fellowship
4. consequences in the Christian life
5. none threaten eternal condemnation

Lordship Salvation

• Warnings test whether one is a “real Christian” or merely a “professor.”
• Warnings function as salvation filters—measuring whether obedience proves regeneration.

Core difference:

• Free Grace reads warnings as family discipline.
• Lordship reads warnings as heaven-or-hell tests.

6. Rewards and Inheritance

Free Grace Theology

• Rewards are distinct from salvation.
• All believers enter the kingdom (John 3:5).
• Only faithful believers inherit (possess, rule, reign) in the kingdom (2 Tim. 2:12; Rom. 8:17; Rev. 2–3).
• Eternal rewards motivate perseverance and godly living.

Lordship Salvation

• Rewards largely collapse into “heaven itself.”
• Faithfulness becomes proof of salvation, not the basis of reward.
• Inheritance and entering the kingdom are treated as identical.

Core difference:

• Free Grace: Rewards are earned; salvation is gifted.
• Lordship: Rewards are absorbed into salvation.

7. Pastoral Practice & Lived Outcome

Free Grace Theology

• Produces at best:

1. Gratitude
2. Humility
3. Security
4. Motivation from grace
5. Compassion toward struggling believers
6. Focus on Christ, not performance

• At its worst:

1. Some believers drift into careless thinking, but Scripture calls them to sanctification, discipline, and reward—not doubt of salvation.

Lordship Salvation

• Produces at best:

1. Perpetual self-evaluation
2. Fear of being a false convert
3. Anxiety
4. Legalism in many cases
5. Suspicion toward others' salvation
6. Uncertainty about one’s standing with God

• At its worst:

1. Believers live under constant doubt, believing their salvation depends on their perseverance.
2. Core difference:
3. Free Grace produces rest.
4. Lordship produces restlessness.

8. The Middle Ground?

• There is no true middle ground because the systems begin with different definitions:
• If faith includes commitment → salvation requires works.
• If faith receives a gift → salvation is apart from works.

These systems answer different questions:

Lordship asks:
“How do you know you’re really saved?”

Free Grace asks:
“What did Jesus promise to the believer?”

SUMMARY (One Paragraph)

Free Grace Theology teaches that eternal life is a free and irrevocable gift received the moment one believes in Christ’s promise. Salvation and discipleship are distinct; assurance rests solely on God’s Word; and failure, sin, or apostasy—while tragic—cannot undo regeneration. Lordship Salvation treats faith as surrender, obedience, and perseverance, making discipleship the test of salvation, placing assurance on personal performance, and interpreting failure as evidence of false conversion. Free Grace views warnings as discipline; Lordship views them as salvation filters. In essence: Free Grace centers salvation on Christ’s work, while Lordship centers it on the believer’s response.

Luciferian Conspiracy Of Calvinism And Lordship Salvation

Jude 1:4, “For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Heretic John Calvin (1509-1564)

According to author and retired Canadian Navy commander William Guy Carr (1895-1959), the French reformation leader John Calvin was actually a Jewish infiltrator (which fact he attributes to an article from the Catholic Gazette in 1936):

Once the revolution had been decided upon, the Jewish plotters introduced Calvinism into England to split Church and State, and divide the people. Contrary to general belief, Calvinism is of Jewish origin. It was deliberately conceived to split the adherents of the Christian religions, and divide the people. Calvin’s real name was Cohen! When he went from Geneva to France to start preaching his doctrine he became known as Cauin. Then in England it became Calvin. History proves that there is hardly a revolutionary plot that wasn’t hatched in Switzerland; there is hardly a Jewish revolutionary leader who hasn’t changed his name.

At the B’nai B’rith celebrations held in Paris, France, in 1936 Cohen, Cauvin, or Calvin, whatever his name may have been, was enthusiastically acclaimed to have been of Jewish descent.

SOURCE: Comdr. William Guy Carr, Pawns In The Game; p. 9 of 15 from chapter 2; ©1958.

It's now the year 2015 and our churches across America and the world are divided between “the simplicity that is in Christ” (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4) concerning the Gospel, and the false plan of “Lordship Salvation” which requires discipleship for salvation. Few born-again Christians would ever suspect that the heresy of Lordship Salvation (which is nothing but repackaged Calvinism) is a Luciferian conspiracy to divide and conquer the churches:

The Forces of Evil realize that in order to win undisputed control of the material assets of the world, and establish an Atheistic Materialistic Totalitarian Dictatorship, it is necessary to destroy all forms of constitutional government and organized religion. In order to do this the Forces of Evil decided they must divide the peoples of the world against each other on various issues.

SOURCE: Commander William Guy Carr, Pawns In The Game; p. 1 of 15 from chapter 2; ©1958.

One of the most distinguishing traits of Freemasonry is their vague, one-size-fits-all, New World Order, false concept of God, which Masons call: “THE GREAT ARCHITECT.” Notice the famous painting of John Calvin (1509-1564) at the beginning of this article, in which he is flashing a well-known occult hand-sign, which The Beatles Paul McCartney and other secret society members have used in public. John Calvin was clearly a member of a secret society:

John Calvin, in his Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536), repeatedly calls the Christian God: “the Architect of the Universe,” also referring to his works as “Architecture of the Universe", and in his commentary on Psalm 19 refers to the Christian God as the “Great Architect” or “Architect of the Universe.”

SOURCE: “Great Architect Of The Universe”; Wikipedia.org

“The Great Architect” of the New World Order is none other than LUCIFER. Although Zionist Jews, high-ranking Freemasons and Vatican leaders within the Roman and Russian Catholic churches are complicit with the Illuminati's agendas, the sinister plot for World Government is 100% Luciferian in nature.

Pastor John MacArthur of Grace To You ministry in California is a self-professed 5-point Calvinist.[1] MacArthur teaches Limited Atonement[2] (i.e., the heresy that Christ only died on the cross for believers). MacArthur also teaches that there is no such thing as a childhood conversion,[3] and that it is not easy to be saved.[4] He claims that just as God gave His Son, and Jesus gave His life, so must we give everything to God to be saved.[4] This is blatant corruption of “the simplicity that is in Christ” (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4). The false teaching of Lordship Salvation effectively requires living the Christian life as a substitute for being born-again (which can only happen by God's imputed righteousness, with is solely by faith without human works of any kind - Romans 4:5-7). Lordship Salvation deliberately confuses people by mixing Discipleship with Salvation; thus, adding human effort to partial faith in Christ, which is vain religion, not the glorious new birth. ...

John Macarthur's Spiritual Mentor was a Jewish Rabbi

John Macarthur's father, Dr. "Jack" Macarthur, in addition to being the director of the foundation which started Fuller Seminary, was in Henrietta Mears' inner circle and was involved at the highest level of the world ecumenical movement. The goal of the ecumenical movement is to create a one-world religion for the worship of Lucifer. Christians have been falsely led to believe that the one-world religion will eradicate Christianity rather than transform it. (See John Macarthur's Ecumenical Roots and What is the Church Growth Movement?)

According to an interview with Phil Johnson of Grace To You, John Macarthur stated that at his father's request, he went to Talbot Theological Seminary (now known as Talbot School of Theology) "just because of him [Dr. Charles Feinberg], to be my mentor, my professor and [to take] every course that he offered." (1)

Dr. Feinberg was Talbot Seminary's first dean (1952-1975) and according to John Macarthur, was a Jewish rabbi. In reference to his time at Talbot Seminary (I believe in the early 1960's), John Macarthur stated, "Charles Feinberg..., just a converted rabbi, basically, studied fourteen years to be a rabbi." (2) Why are Jewish rabbis heading Christian seminaries? Do you believe a Jewish Rabbi would personally tutor a Gentile?

According to Wikipedia "In 1930, he [Charles Feinberg] converted from Judaism to Christianity through the ministry of Chosen People Ministries."

According to the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Feinberg was a charter member of the ETS), "Charles Lee Feinberg was born on June 12, 1909... He was reared in an orthodox Jewish home and prepared for the rabbinate for fourteen years prior to his conversion to Christ in the fall of 1930."(3)

The curriculum for being a Rabbi involves studying the Talmud, the textbook of all rabbi's and the basis of Judaism. The Talmud is extremely anti-Christian and greatly slanders the Lord Jesus Christ. Dr. Feinberg studied the Babylonian Talmud and cited it in his writings.

Though John Macarthur refers to his spiritual mentor, Rabbi Feinberg, as a "Jewish Christian," (4) Rabbi Feinberg's son, Dr. John Feinberg, referred to his father posthumously as "an orthodox Jew" (5).

Of interest, according to the Lockman Foundation website, Dr. Feinberg was an original translator of the corrupt bible version, the NASB, the version from which John Macarthur currently preaches. Click here to read more about this corrupt bible version and the false Greek text from which it was translated.

There is also evidence that Rabbi Feinberg was a Calvinist. "...or the treasury of notes in the New Scofield Bible written by an elite group of Bible scholars which included Charles Feinberg, who incidentally, was a Calvinist." To those who have studied the truth about John Calvin, a crypto Jew, and the Protestant Reformation, it wouldn't come as a surprise to learn that an orthodox Jewish rabbi was a Calvinist. Click here to read a most enlightening article regarding evil Calvin, Calvinism, and the Rosicrucian roots of the Protestant Reformation.

Christian researchers have found definite connections to Freemasonry at the highest levels of the leadership of the reformed movement (located in Edinburgh, Scotland). Interestingly, the motto for FIRE (Fellowship of Independent Reformed Evangelicals), which numbers Phil Johnson, the Executive Director of John Macarthur's Grace To You, as a member, is nearly identical to the motto of Phoenix Freemasonry. (See: John Macarthur's Ecumenical Roots)

SOURCE: John Macarthur's Spiritual Mentor was a Jewish Rabbi

The truth is stranger than fiction. Dr. MacArthur is a major promoter of the heresy of Lordship Salvation—the false teaching that a person cannot be saved without making full surrender to Christ's Lordship, confessing Christ publicly before men, turning (or be willing to turn) away from sinful behavior, and forsaking the world. Although these things are noble in their proper place, none of them have anything to do with receiving the free GIFT of God by faith in the Gospel.

The Luciferian elite worship only Lucifer, the god of fallen man in this wicked world (2nd Corinthians 4:4; 1st John 5:19). Since their works are of the Devil, they must operate in hiding through secret societies worldwide (The Thule Society, Freemasons, Skull & Bones, Bohemian Grove, The Fenian Brotherhood, Rosicrucianism, The Club Of Rome, Knights Templar, The Council Of Nine, The Illuminati, The Bilderberg Group, Sons Of Liberty, et cetera).

By far, Freemasonry is the most common of these secret societies, which greatly (and woefully) influences America's churches for evil. It is estimated that over one-third of the Freemasonry membership in the United States are members of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). A 1991 survey by the Southern Baptist Convention Sunday School Board found that 14% of SBC pastors and 18% of SBC deacon board chairs were Masons; it is also estimated that SBC members comprise 37% of total U.S. lodge membership. A 2000 SBC report found that over 1,000 SBC pastors are Masons. This is apostasy!

Freemasons are forbidden to pray in Jesus' name at lodge meetings, lest they offend non-Christian members. Do you realize how demonic and blasphemous that is in God's eyes??? Only a wicked man would voluntarily join a questionable group that forbids praying in Jesus' name, demanding that Christ not be recognized and honored as He ought as the only begotten Son of God. Think about that! Freemasonry does a lot of good to help others, especially their Shriners hospitals for children (what a great cover for a Satanic cult!). Only the higher level members of the Masonic order fully understand the true Luciferian agenda of their organization, which is to infiltrate, divide and takeover as many institutions as possible to support World Government, aka, a New World Order!

It's important for believers to understand that the Devil doesn't try to recruit churches; but rather, he creeps in unawares, bringing in damnable heresies (like Lordship Salvation and counterfeit Bible versions), and then before you know it, the church has woefully changed, succumbing to ecumenical apostasy:

The goal of the ecumenical movement is to create a one-world religion for the worship of Lucifer. Ecumenists (bridge-builders) in the leadership of the various denominations direct the churches to set aside their differences, find common ground, and unify. John Macarthur preaches against ecumenism, however, his family and ministry are firmly rooted in the ecumenical movement.

In The Voice of Calvary Legacy, John Macarthur paid tribute to his father, Dr. John “Jack” Macarthur. He served on the Extension Staff of Moody Bible Institute and later became the director of Charles E. Fuller Evangelistic Foundation.2 In 1968, the Fuller Evangelistic Foundation changed its name to the Fuller Evangelistic Association. ...

SOURCE: John Macarthur's Father's Involvement at the Highest Level of the World Ecumenical Movement

We are going to see a lot more ecumenical apostasy creeping into the churches. Many churches have been hoodwinked by Pastor Rick Warren's Satanic Emerging Church deception. Mr. Warren also teaches the heresy of Lordship Salvation. Warren is a disgusting compromiser, who has apologized to many his “gay friends” for taking a stand against homosexual marriage. Warren is far more concerned what people think about him, than what God thinks about him (John 12:42-43). ...

JOHN CALVIN (1509–1564) was the classic fundamentalist [of heresy]. Reportedly he was Jewish, gay and a sadist. Jerome Bolsec published a life of Calvin, 'Vie de Calvin', in 1577. According to Bolsec, Calvin frequently engaged in gay sex. According to Bolsec, Calvin resigned his church post at Noyon, in France, because of the public exposure of his homosexuality.

John Calvin became the religious boss of Geneva in Switzerland. "Under his rule Geneva, formerly so gay, became like a city of death, where all citizens went about as if in mourning." (Progress of Calvinism - In Switzerland.) Calvin's followers burned 58 people for heresy. Servetus was a wise doctor who took an interest in religion. He was not keen on the idea of the Trinity. When Servetus came to Geneva in 1553, Calvin had him arrested.

Poor Servetus was then burnt at the stake. Christopher Hitchens writes (Christopher Hitchens - God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons ...) that "Calvin's Geneva was a prototypical totalitarian state, and Calvin himself a sadist and torturer and killer, who burned Servetus (one of the great thinkers and questioners of the day) while the man was still alive."

Allegedly, Jewish plotters introduced Calvinism into England 'to split Church and State, and divide the people'.

Archibald Ramsay wrote: 'How the Jews stole Britain' and according to an article based on Ramsay's book:

Calvinism is of Jewish origin.

Calvin’s real name was Cohen.

When he went from Geneva to France he became known as Cauin.

Then in England it became Calvin.

At the B’nai B’rith celebrations held in Paris, France, in 1936, Calvin, was enthusiastically acclaimed to have been of Jewish descent.

SOURCE: Calvin And The Jews

John Calvin was a monster! It does not surprise me that a crypto-Jewish occultist, fraudulently named John Calvin, introduced a false plan of works-based salvation into the churches, which infects many churches still today. There are Satanic forces at work to corrupt and transform the churches into spiritually dead religious centers, instead of an assembly of Holy Spirit indwelled born-again Christians. Spirituality is replacing theology in the churches! Without the sound doctrines of the inspired Words of God in the King James Bible, the churches are losing their foundation. Psalms 11:3, “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

Please beware of John Calvin's teachings, commonly referred to as, what else... “CALVINISM”! Please beware of Calvinist influenced ministers and institutions; such as (to name but a few), Evangelist Paul Washer, Dr. John Piper, Evangelist Ray Comfort, Dr. John MacArthur, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fuller Theological Seminary, Moody Bible Institute, any churches that support and promote John MacArthur, et cetera.

Satan knows that the best way to hinder truth is to confuse people by introducing lies into the mix. The Bible teaches us about “the simplicity that is in Christ” in the Gospel (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4; 1st Corinthians 15:1-4). In sharp contrast, there is nothing “simple” about having to surrender all to Christ to be saved. There is nothing “simple” about forsaking sinful bad habits and confessing Christ before men publicly to be saved. The lie of Lordship Salvation places extremely heavy burdens upon men's shoulders; whereas Christ bore the total weight of every man's sins upon the cross, so that salvation could be made freely available to all mankind, by simple faith in the Gospel.

The true Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is free and simple to anyone who wants it, by simply receiving Christ's sacrifice upon the cross as the payment for one's sins, and believing that Jesus bodily raised up the third day for our justification. This is drastically different than the extra-biblical requirement to cease from sinful living, forsake the world, confess Christ before men and surrender all to Christ to be saved. These latter are all self-righteous works, which are forbidden in God's plan of salvation (Isaiah 64:6). The false doctrine of Lordship Salvation is also held (or a variation of) by Roman Catholics, Seventh-day Adventists, Mormons, Church of Christ and Jehovah's Witnesses, to name but a few Satanic cults.

Man has no part in God's salvation of man, except to BELIEVE the Gospel. When the Scriptures teach believers in Philippians 2:12, “...work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,” it does NOT say to work out God's salvation.

2nd Corinthians 4:3, “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost.” The heresy of Lordship Salvation cleverly hides the Gospel behind a wall of holy living, teaching people that to be saved they must repent in the sense of changing their life, and then continue repenting for the rest of their life if they're really saved. This effectively requires a lifetime of good works, and abstaining from bad works, to be saved. I've heard this garbage theology taught on UNSHACKLED by Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago, Grace To You with Dr. John MacArthur, and also by Evangelist Chip Ingram, and also Seeking Him ministry online, to name just a few.

Dear reader, whether or not you believe the occult connection of Calvinism (aka., Lordship Salvation) with Luciferianism, if you believe the Holy Bible then you cannot dispute the truth that Satan is the god of this evil world (2nd Corinthians 4:3-4). Why should it be difficult to accept that the most evil being in the universe, Lucifer, wants to corrupt the GOOD NEWS (Gospel) of God's free gift of forgiveness of sins and eternal life through faith alone in Jesus' crucifixtion, burial and bodily resurrection (1st Corinthians 15:1-4)?

The Devil is more clever and subtle (sneaky) than any human being can imagine. Old smutface knows that if he can trick you into adding even the tiniest amount of self-effort to God's simple and free plan of salvation, then he has damned you to the Lake of Fire forever. I agree with Pastor Dennis Rokser (pronounced "rock-sir"), who said that if you have to trim your toe nails once every million years in addition to faith in Jesus Christ, you are going to spend eternity burning in Hell because that is not the Gospel.

Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do. But to the carnal mind, it makes sense that a person should have to resolve to reform, turn away from sinful ways and commit their life to follow Christ as “Lord” to get to Heaven. The big problem is that all those things focus on YOU, instead of CHRIST. The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU. Good works are not the payment for sin, the payment for sin is death. That is why Jesus voluntarily died in our place on the cross, paying down our massive debt of sin. Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith. Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty!

Wake up oh Christian from your spiritual slumber! We are in a relentless spiritual war for God!!! Thank you for reading this blog. Jesus is precious!!!

Psalms 118:6, “The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?”

Psalms 56:9, “...this I know; for God is for me.”

1st Peter 1:18-19, “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, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:”

Exodus 12:13, “And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.”

Lordship Salvation Is A Deadly Perversion Of The Gospel

Matthew 7:20-23, “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”

In our text passage of Scripture, we find the damnable doctrine of Lordship Salvation in the inspired Holy Bible, and Jesus exposed it as a fraud. They cried out to Jesus in eternity at their time of judgment, saying: “Lord, Lord,” but Christ denied even knowing them. These religious people had spent their lives living the Christian life, preaching in the name of Jesus, doing many wonderful works in the name of Jesus, totally submitted to serving Christ; yet, Jesus denied knowing them. Like all condemned Christ rejecters (John 3:36), they are still burning in Hell today, awaiting the horrifying Great White Throne Of Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15).

One of my favorite free grace preachers is Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold, who made this helpful statement to define what Lordship Salvation is:

“Lordship Salvation is the unsupportable and unbiblical belief that the performance of good works, the promise of good works, or the evidence of good works, must accompany faith in Christ to establish or provide evidence that such faith has resulted in eternal life.” —Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold ('Jesus versus John MacArthur')

Amen and amen! Good works have no place in God's simple plan of salvation. In fact, neither do bad works! That is, you don't have to do good works, nor stop doing bad works, to get to Heaven. What saith the Scripture? ...

Hebrews 6:1-2, “Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.”

Carefully notice that the inspired King James Bible says “repentance from dead works,” NOT repentance from sins. But look what the sneaky Devil's Bibles say:

New International Version (NIV) - Hebrews 6:1, “Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God,”

New Life Version (NLV) - Hebrews 6:1, “So let us leave the first things you need to know about Christ. Let us go on to the teaching that full-grown Christians should understand. We do not need to teach these first truths again. You already know that you must be sorry for your sins and turn from them. You know that you must have faith in God.“

New Century Version (NCV) - Hebrews 6:1, “So let us go on to grown-up teaching. Let us not go back over the beginning lessons we learned about Christ. We should not again start teaching about faith in God and about turning away from those acts that lead to death.“

Easy-To-Read Version (ERV) - Hebrews 6:1, “So we should be finished with the beginning lessons about Christ. We should not have to keep going back to where we started. We began our new life by turning away from the evil we did in the past and by believing in God. That’s when we were taught about baptisms, laying hands on people, the resurrection of those who have died, and the final judgment. Now we need to go forward to more mature teaching.“

WRONG!!! All of these popular demonic Bible PERversions (in these apostate modern times) are corrupted. The inspired King James Bible says to repent from 'DEAD WORKS' (which includes all works, both good and bad); but the Devil's corrupt perversions have changed it to “turn from your sins” or “turn away from acts that lead to death” or “turn away from evil.” The correct translation is “repentance from dead works.” The only thing that a sinner needs to repent of to be saved is our DEAD WORKS. That is, you must cease from trusting in your own good works, and cease from foolishly thinking that you must forsake a lifestyle of sinning, to be saved. Those are all DEAD WORKS!!!

You DON'T have to forsake your sinful behavior. Nor does repentance mean that your behavior will change after you get saved, which is the heresy taught at Pensacola Christian College (PCC). I attended PCC's Campus Church in 2021 and was disgusted to discover that their official position is: “Repentance is a change of mind which results in a change of behavior.” The Devil told them that lie! Just because you change your mind (repent) toward God to be saved through faith in Jesus Christ, doesn't mean that your behavior will change. There is something in the Bible called “growth in grace” (2nd Peter 3:18; 1st Peter 2:2).

Please check the Bible that you are using, to see if Hebrews 6:1 has been corrupted. I only recommend that people use the inspired King James Bible. The Devil's modern Bibles are NOT inspired. That is, they are man's words and not God's words. The only inspired words of God in the English language in 2022 are in the King James Bible!!! All others are corrupt or inferior. And please don't let anyone trick into thinking that the King James Bible is full of errors. No, their head is full of errors! I find no fault in the Holy Bible. The Bible should correct us, not we the Bible! The Bible needs to be reread, not rewritten. You'd think after 900 English Bible versions that people would take a clue, but they still don't realize that the Devil is behind all this utter confusion (1st Corinthians 14:33).

BEWARE of all modern Bible versions!

Lordship Salvation is a perversion of the Gospel. 

I have collected these helpful quotes over the years by Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold:

“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, a quote from the excellent MP3 sermon titled, “WHY GRACE CAN SAVE THE WORST MAN!” 

“If all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, then why would you use those rags to prove that you're saved?” —Pastor Ralph 'Yankee' Arnold, sermon quote: “How Do I Know God Really Loves Me? - Part 2”

“Remember this, if you're depending upon your own good works to get you to Heaven, you're lost! Your salvation had to be purchased with something that was incorruptible, with the precious blood of Jesus Christ!” —Pastor Ralph 'Yankee' Arnold, Bibleline Radio Show - “The Precious Blood Of Christ”

“If you have to look at your life to prove that you are saved, it proves that you're not!” —Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold; an excellent quote from the awesome YouTube sermon titled, “Why Lordship Salvation is WRONG!

“My destination is not based upon how I live my life, it's on whom that I trust to save me.” —Pastor Ralph “Yankee” Arnold

“It's not the size of my faith that gets me to Heaven, it's the object of my faith!” —Pastor Ralph 'Yankee' Arnold; a quote from the MP3 sermon, “Where Is Faith?”

“IF YOU WANT TO SAVE AMERICA, GET AMERICA SAVED!” —Pastor Ralph 'Yankee' Arnold

“Salvation can only be evidenced by works, if works are required to be saved.” —Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold, “Why Lordship Salvation Is Wrong!”

“Trusting Christ by faith alone cannot cannot be revealed by works at all; salvation can only be revealed by works, if works are required to be saved!” —Pastor Ralph 'Yankee' Arnold, quote from “Why Lordship Salvation Is Wrong”

“Being saved is not something that you perform, it is something that He performs.” —Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold, a great quote from the awesome sermon, “Raised For Our Justification.”

“Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, a quote from the MP3 sermon titled: “God's Reversal Of Psalm 51”

“'You can't tell me you can trust Christ as Savior, and then go out here and live like the Devil, and still go to Heaven!' Yes, I can tell you that! That's what the Bible says. If you don't come to the conclusion, that—Yes, you can trust Christ as your Savior and live like the Devil, and still go to Heaven when you die—you don't get grace, because that is the exact truth! That is the truth! I do not have to change my life! I don't have to stop one sin! You say, 'I've never heard a preacher say that.' You just heard one! And you listen to me—I want to live as holy and as godly as I possibly can. I am now 70 years old. I've been saved for 52 years. ... the only reason I'm going to Heaven is because, 52 years ago in a little living room, I accepted Christ as my Savior.” —Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold, a great quote from the awesome sermon, “Calvinism And Grace Are NOT Compatible”

“The Gospel, if you understand it, can cause you to love one another.” –Pastor Ralph 'Yankee' Arnold, a quote from the sermon titled: “To Believe, Receive, Accept, or Trust???”

I LOVE all those truthful quotes!!!

You DON'T have to surrender “all” to Christ to be saved, you just need to trust Him as your personal Savior. You do that by admitting you are a guilty sinner (Romans 3:10-23). We all deserve to be punished in Hell-fire forever to pay for our own sins (Romans 6:23; Revelation 20:11-15, 21:8). As sinners, we have a Savior! The Good News (Gospel) is that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, to die on a cross to pay our debt of sin (John 3:16). Jesus paid it all!!! If you will simply place your 100% confidence in Jesus, He will save you!!! 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.”

You simply come to God as a needy sinner, BELIEVING on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you are immediately, irrevocably and forever saved! Acts 16:30-31, “And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”

The Fearful Lifestyle Of Lordship Salvation

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.”

I woke up this morning and thought about how sad it is, that anyone would live in constant fear that they are not truly saved (born-again). This is the consequence of a popular heresy in many churches today called "Lordship Salvation." This is the false teaching that if you are really saved, you WILL live a certain type of lifestyle of turning away from sin, and you WILL surrender your life and will to obey God, and you WILL follow Christ, and you WILL confess Jesus before men, and you WILL commit your life to serve God.

To support what I just said, here is Pastor John MacArthur's impossible plan of salvation. One of the most deadly false prophets today is Evangelist Ray Comfort, who actually uses the phrase “LIVING A LIFESTYLE,” which he requires of a woman to be saved. Dear reader, living a lifestyle has absolutely nothing to do with getting saved. 1st John 2:3-4, “And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” There's those important words again, THE TRUTH! Please consider another Bible verse from 1st John 3:24, “And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.”

Please don't make the mistake of assuming that “commandments” means “good works.” The Bible doesn't say that a saved person does good works, it says they keep God's commandments! There's a big difference! The religious people in Matthew 7:21-23 did “MANY WONDERFUL WORKS,” but Christ said He never knew them and they went to Hell, because they hadn't DONE THE FATHER'S WILL! They didn't keep God's commandments!

John 6:40 tells us the Father's will—“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.” 1st John 3:23, “And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.” God's first and only commandment to receive the gift of eternal life is to “BELIEVE ON THE NAME OF HIS SON JESUS CHRIST”!!! That is a beautiful truth! So when you read in the Bible about keeping God's commandments to get to Heaven, it doesn't mean doing good works, it means to trust the blessed Savior!!!

Devils In The Pulpit Who Propagate Fear, Worry And Uncertainty

I'm going to give you heretical quotes from three false teachers: Ray Comfort, Steve Pettit and Paul Washer, who all propagate fear and uncertainty regarding salvation. Evangelist Ray Comfort perverts the Gospel, teaching something drastically different than the Holy Bible. Mr. Comfort tells this unfortunate unsaved woman on an airplane, that she must LIVE A LIFESTYLE to have eternal life, which is torment for a person to even try to attempt. I feel so sorry for her, because she will likely go to Hell because Ray deceive her with a counterfeit gospel...

“So if the plane goes down, you'd end up in Hell! There are two things you have to do to be saved. Do you remember what they are? I told you what they are—You've got to repent and trust the Savior! ... God's offering you everlasting life upon your repentance and faith in Christ. Who in his right mind wouldn't say, 'Whoa! That's a good offer!' (The curious woman asks what it means to “repent”?)... Have you ever said you're sorry to someone you did something wrong to? That's all repentance is—You've sinned against God; it's a matter of saying, 'God, I'm sorry,' and then LIVING A LIFESTYLE that proves the reality of your repentance. That's what repentance is, it's a continual thing! God, 'I'm sorry, but I'm not going going to lie or steal or blaspheme Your name ever again. It has that attitude! And the second thing—trust in Jesus!” [emphasis added]

SOURCE: Evangelist Ray Comfort, “I've never killed anyone” (MP3 clip from video)

Ray Comfort further foolishly teaches that no one is “SAFE” just because Jesus died on the cross. Those are some horribly dangerous words! Ray conditions salvation upon turning away from sinful living (which he erroneously understands to mean repentance). So no matter how much faith you may have in Jesus Christ as your Savior, Ray says you are not “SAFE” if you are living in deliberate sin in your life...

“The forgiveness that is in Jesus Christ is conditional upon ‘repentance towards God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ’ (Acts 20:21). It is a gift that God offers to everyone, but individuals must receive it by repenting and trusting in Christ, or they will remain dead in their sins. No one has Biblical grounds to continue in sin, assuming that they are safe just because Jesus died on the cross. See 1 John 3:4-6.” [Emphasis added]

SOURCE: 'THE EVIDENCE BIBLE,' by Ray Comfort, pg. 1513; 2003, Bridge-Logos Publishers, Orlando, Florida

Dear reader, I triple-dog dare you to show me even one verse from the Holy Bible that teaches that “LIVING A LIFESTYLE” is required as part of being saved. I triple-dog dare you to show me where a believer is not “SAFE” just because Jesus died for their sins on the cross! You cannot! Now my friend, “a double-dog dare” is serious business, but a triple-dog dare is something you don't want to mess around with! I triple-dog dare you to show me even one Bible verse that agrees with these false statements by Ray Comfort. Mr. Comfort propagates a false gospel of fear and uncertainty!

In sharp contrast to Ray Comfort's false plan of salvation, read what the Bible says in Romans 6:1, "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?" If you are a born-again child of God, and you choose to live a lifestyle of sinning, then God's saving grace will abound. In other words, a believer always falls IN GRACE, never FROM GRACE. Only an unsaved person who has wilfully ejected Christ as their personal Savior has fallen "from grace." That is, there is no other way for them to be saved. They cannot go to Heaven until they change their mind (repent), so that they will put their faith in Jesus Christ alone to be saved.

Another reprobate in the pulpit today, who propagates junk theology is Dr. Steve Pettit (president of Bob Jones University since 2014), who horribly preaches fear and uncertainty to their 2,700 impressionable students...

“For the real reality of the genuineness of your faith is that you are faithful to run the race!” —Dr. Steve Pettit (“What Does It Mean To Run 'The Race'?” - 22:44; 'The Daily Platform,' #21, January 26, 2015)

“You can't just speak about getting saved, and you accepted Christ, and then that's it! There is a justification; There is a sanctification; There's ultimately a glorification, and though there are three parts, they are all part of the whole, and you cannot separate them. In order for you to qualify for the award, you have to get into the race, you have to stay in the race, and you have to finish the race. If you want to win, you have to run to the end; and winning in the Christian life is everything, because if you lose—if you don't finish—you lose everything—you lose your SOUL. And so, the Christian race is the life of faith that begins, is run, and is finished when we cross over into Heaven!” [emphasis added] —Dr. Steve Pettit (“What Does It Mean To Run 'The Race'?” - 11:34; 'The Daily Platform,' #21, January 26, 2015)

“God's people HAVE TO continue in the faith! They MUST PERSEVERE, because perseverance is the testimony of the reality of your faith!” [emphasis added] —Dr. Steve Pettit (“What Does It Mean To Run 'The Race'?” - 25:13; 'The Daily Platform,' #21, January 26, 2015)

Again, I triple-dog dare you to show me in the Scriptures where it says a person “MUST PERSEVERE” to obtain the gift of eternal life! Dr. Pettit says you cannot look to a single moment when you were born-again; but rather, he says you MUST CONTINUE IN FAITH TO RUN THE RACE faithfully until the end, otherwise you won't receive the AWARD, which he says is HEAVEN ITSELF...

“We run the race, we cross the finish line, and so what’s the prize? What is the award? Well, there are different viewpoints. Some would have the viewpoint that the awards are crowns in Heaven. But as I read the book of Hebrews and see the whole gist of the book and the flow of the book, I don’t believe its referring to crowns in Heaven. I think it is referring to Heaven itself.” [emphasis added] —Dr. Steve Pettit (“What Does It Mean To Run 'The Race'?” - 22:57; 'The Daily Platform,' #21, January 26, 2015)

Blasphemy!!! So according to Steve Pettit if you are not faithfully running 'The Race' as a professed Christian, you will lose the “AWARD” of “HEAVEN ITSELF.” Folks, that is another gospel! In my humble Christian opinion, Steve Pettit is the worst thing that ever happened to Bob Jones University!!! I say that with love, because I CARE! Remember, the religious people in Matthew 7:21-23 did “MANY WONDERFUL WORKS,” but the Lord said He never knew them. Jesus called them “YE THAT WORK INIQUITY”! They did all their many wonderful works in Jesus' name. They said they preached (prophesied) in Jesus' name. They ran the race faithfully, in their own sight, but Jesus said they failed to keep God's Commandments!!! 

Dr. Pettit preaches in Jesus' name, doing many wonderful works, but he is preaching another gospel that does not match up with what the inspired Word of God teaches! Who are you going to believe—Steve Pettit or the inspired King James Bible? 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.”

Evangelist Paul Washer teaches the same garbage theology, that causes uncertainty and fear in people, wondering if they are really saved or not...

“But if you profess to have gone through the narrow gate, and yet you live in the broad way ... just like all the other people who are carnal and wicked ... the Bible wants you to know that you should be terribly, terribly afraid — you know not God.” (time: 24:37 in video) —Evangelist Paul Washer - Shocking Message (full length; time - 24:37 in video)

Why should any believer be afraid of going to Hell? Paul Washer is preaching another Gospel. If I buy you a wonderful steak dinner for your birthday with all the trimmings, it's a done deal once you enjoy it. You eat the steak and it's done! You don't owe me anything! You don't have to run a race for the rest of your life! If you'll always keep in mind that eternal life is the “free gift” of God (Romans 5:15, 16 and 18), then you will see how wicked, unbiblical and silly these Neo-evangelical preachers are who add all sorts of unbiblical obligations, requirements and stipulations to the Gospel.

The indwelling Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit to THE TRUTH. As believers, the Holy Spirit convicts us about the presence of sins in our life, and compels us continually to repent of those present sins and live for God. There will be changes inside a person when they get saved, but those changes may not be evident outwardly to others. It is wrong and dangerous theologically to judge others by appearance alone.

If a person professes faith in the name of Jesus Christ, believing THE GOSPEL, then we ought to accept them as saved, regardless of their lifestyle. Can an unsaved person live a good lifestyle? Yes, of course! So that cannot be used as evidence of salvation. The only commandment that we need to obey to be saved is to “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house” (Acts 16:31b). The phrase “thy house” simply means that the invitation to get saved was also extended to the man's family. You need to keep in mind that the purpose of John's comments in his Epistle is not to predicate salvation upon keeping God's commandments.

God Intended Salvation To Be Free, Easy And Simple

I grew up around Skid Row, tagging along with my preacher father to various rescue missions in downtown Chicago. How does Steve Petite's perverted plan of salvation relate to people on Skid Row? To the man with a hammer in his hand, everything starts looking like a nail sticking up! In Steve Pettit's cushy little religious world, making a 6-digit salary as executive president of BJU, a snob's life, it may seem rational that salvation means living the Christian life. However, to a poor man on Skid Row who has lost everything in his existence, and whose only companion is a booze bottle, it is absurd to even attempt to apply Steve Pettit's high-brow, rich man oriented, running the race bullcrap plan of salvation! What a sad farce!!! The true Gospel reaches down in humility to those broken men in the gutter, offering them eternal life as a free gift, in exchange for nothing more than their faith in the only begotten Son of God.

There is no nutty requirement for those men in the depths of sin to “faithfully run 'The Race',” nor that they “persevere” in holiness, ministry and in service to others! Mr. Pettit's bogus religious teachings are for the wealthy and snobby elite, not the common man. The Biblical Gospel is no more complicated than a father giving his son a bicycle for his birthday! It's a done deal. That son doesn't have to faithfully ride the bicycle for the rest of his life to obtain it! 

The Devil has blinded preachers by influencing them with religion. The problem is that preachers no longer “SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES.” Instead they listen to corrupt preachers, and become indoctrinated with the poison of heretics like John MacArthur (which Moody Church in Chicago promotes), Paul Washer, Ray Comfort, R.C. Sproul and Steve Pettit! Calvinism, the “turn from sins” heresy to be saved, and Lordship Salvation, are far more deadly and contagious than the Coronavirus!!! There is no fear, worry or uncertainty in the correct Gospel message—you simply come to God as a needy sinner, believing the 'Good News' of Jesus Christ' crucified, buried and risen—and you are immediately, irrevocably, safely, securely and eternally saved!!! Eternal life is the believer's eternal security! Once saved always saved!!!

Evangelist Ravi Zacharias wins the prize for the most vague, boring and wishy-washy preacher in history! I can listen to him for an hour and have no clue what he is trying to say! I think Dr. Sam Horn comes in second, the Vice President of Bob Jones University. I'll take Brother Lester Roloff (1914-1982) any day! Tragically, Harvest Baptist Church on Guam (a pseudo independent Baptist church) invited and honored Ravi Zacharias in June of 2017, bidding him Godspeed. Ravi's sinister ministry took in $47,353,235 in 2016! Not bad for an evil ecumenical ministry of sinful compromise, watered-down truth, and Satanic support of Mormonism. From listening to Ravi present his plan of salvation, it is very clear to me that he doesn't really know how to be saved. To me it appears to be all about the money!

The Psychological Effects And Trauma Caused By Lordship Salvation | MP3 (it eliminates all hope!!)

Ravi suggests that his audience pray a prayer, giving 12 things for them to repeat, NONE OF WHICH include Jesus' death on the cross, burial or resurrection. Gospel preacher? You decide! I have nothing personal against Mr. Zacharias, God knows my heart, but why does a preacher need $47,353,235 a year? That is unethical at best, and utterly sinful for a professed man of God (1st Timothy 6:10-11). Ravi is pulling on the same rope as the Devil, which is why the heathen religious world loves him so much. Luke 6:26, “Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.”

Everywhere that Ravi travels to speak, the apostate religious world loves him, because he preaches a vague message of acceptance by God through sincerely giving your heart to Jesus, which is NOT the Gospel. You can give your heart to Jesus like the people did in Matthew 7:21-23 and go straight to Hell when you die! You had better get BORN-AGAIN by faith alone as a guilty sinner in the 'GOOD NEWS' (GOSPEL) of Jesus Christ crucified, buried and risen the third day (1st Corinthians 15:1-4)!

One of my favorite country preachers, Pastor Danny Castle, gets salvation 100% correct...

“Repentance don't save you. Calling on the Lord don't save you. You know what saves you? Receiving what Christ done for you on the cross!” —Pastor Danny Castle, a quote from the needful MP3 sermon, "WHY THERE'S A HELL!”

Amen! The Bible teaches that a person can be saved immediately, and know it immediately! You don't have to wait to prove anything to yourself and anyone else. There is no probationary period, to see how you live, in order to determine if someone is saved. The Bible calls eternal life a “FREE GIFT” (Romans 5:15b). You don't have to live in torment anymore dear friend. God wants you to KNOW, beyond any shadow of a doubt whatsoever, that you have been born-again and have eternal life dwelling in you. You have God's solemn PROMISE, recorded in black and white in the inspired King James Bible. John 11:25, “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:” Simply believe on the only begotten Son of God as your Savior! Acts 10:43, “To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.”

The corrupted Harvest Baptist Church on Guam are upset with me for exposing their hero, Dr. Steve Pettit, for the FALSE PROPHET that he truly is; but they will answer to God for bidding Godspeed to such a wicked man, who preaches another gospel of works!!! 2nd John 1:11, “For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.” Woe unto Harvest Baptist Church on Guam for promoting corruptible seed, bidding Godspeed to false prophets, preaching the counterfeit gospel of Lordship Salvation, and ostracizing me for telling THE TRUTH as a true friend does (Romans 14:10; Galatians 4:16). Go read Bob Jones University's website, where they openly require people to turn from sins to be saved. That is another gospel (Galatians 1:6-9). I say that with God's love, because I do love you all so much. The truth offends them! If anyone needs to repent of their sins, it is the corrupted stick-necked Bob Jones' crowd!

Beware of anyone who comes along saying that you must make full surrender, faithfully run the race, persevere in holiness, follow Jesus as “Lord,” turn from sinful ways, or anything else that ADDS to the Gospel of free grace, for they are preaching ANOTHER GOSPEL. 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 who fears, worries or has uncertainties about being saved, is either unlearned of the Holy Scriptures, or you've been horribly deceived by the Devil's sinister ministers! The truth of the Gospel gives perfect peace to those who believe it! As a final help, I'd like to share two of my favorite sermons with you by Pastor Hank Lindstrom (1940-2008) titled: 'HOW PERMANENT IS YOUR SALVATION?' (MP3).

Eternal Life Is A Free Gift From God

There is not a bigger threat to churches today than the Devil's deception of Lordship Salvation. If you add even the slightest bit of human effort to God's simple plan of salvation, you don't get grace! Someone came up with a clever acronym for the word “grace,” which is: God's Riches At Christ's Expense. Bravo! Sadly, false teachers like John MacArthur and Billy Graham errantly preach that going to Heaven will cost you something. Beware of anyone who falsely teaches that salvation will cost you, because Jesus has already paid for our sins with His blood (1st Peter 1:18-19).

Many false teachers are saying that getting saved requires you to give up your sins, and to surrender everything to Christ as your “Lord,” which is another gospel. The Bible does not teach that nonsense. Here is a helpful quote from Pastor Jack Hyles, refuting the false doctrine of Lordship Salvation:

“Lordship salvation would make salvation a trade or a deal or maybe even a bribe. It would take away the simple reception of Christ for eternal life and would become God giving us something if we give Him something. God would say to us, 'You give Me something; I'll give you something. We will trade, and you will be saved.' Salvation is not my giving God something and God giving me something; salvation is God giving me something and my receiving it. Romans 6:23, 'For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.'” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Lordship Salvation” (chapter 11 from his book: “Salvation Is More Than Being Saved”)

In his popular 1988 book titled, “The Gospel According to Jesus,” Pastor John MacArthur even heretically uses the word “exchange” concerning being saved:

“Thus in a sense we pay the ultimate price for salvation when our sinful self is nailed to a cross. . . . It is an exchange of all that we are for all that Christ is. And it denotes implicit obedience, full surrender to the lordship of Christ. Nothing less can qualify as saving faith.” [emphasis added] —Pastor John MacArthur, The Gospel According to Jesus, p. 140

Salvation is not an exchange! Receiving the free gift of eternal life is not a trade. John MacArthur is preaching another gospel of partial faith in Christ plus works! Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith.

Also, another sermon by Dr. Lindstrom called: 'WRONG REPENTANCE, NO SALVATION!'