Beware Of Joyce Meyer's Counterfeit Gospel

Job 13:7, “Will ye speak wickedly for God?  and talk deceitfully for him?” 1st Timothy 2:11-12, “Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.” 2nd Timothy 4:3-4, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” Revelation 2:20, “Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.” 

Joyce Meyer is a false prophetess!!! She has no business preaching the Word of God. For a very good reason God didn't want women usurping authority over men, because just as Eve was deceived and not Adam, women are more prone to doctrinal deception than men. Evidence of what I say is Joyce Meyer's counterfeit plan of salvation, which states:

READY FOR YOUR NEW BEGINNING?

God says in Romans 10:9 that if we make Jesus Lord (the leader) of our lives, and believe that He was raised from the dead, we will be saved. If you’re ready to start a new life with Jesus leading you and experience His true peace and joy in your life, pray this simple prayer out loud:

"Jesus, I know that I have made mistakes and I need You to save my life—I need You as my Savior. I have tried to do things on my own for too long, and I know it doesn’t work. So today, I give my life to You. I believe that You died on the cross for my sins and that You rose from the dead. Help me to live my life for You and You alone. Thank You for Your unending love, forgiveness and grace in my life. Thank You for a fresh start! Today, I start out my new life as a part of Your family." [emphasis added]

SOURCE: 'How To Know Jesus,' Joyce Meyer Ministries

Here are all the things WRONG with Joyce Meyer's corrupt plan of salvation:

1. Carefully notice how Joyce avoids using the word “sin,” instead saying that we have “made mistakes.” No, you are a dirty, rotten, guilty, SINNER, and so am I!!!
2. You don't have to make Jesus the “Lord” (leader) of your life to be saved. Pastor Curtis Hutson (1934-1995) wisely said: “A good rule to follow when interpreting the Bible is to never use an obscure passage to contradict a clear one.” Joyce takes one obscure passage of Scripture from Romans 10:9 about Jesus being “Lord” and ignores the entire Word of God concerning how to get saved. She ignores the plain Gospel of John. In the Gospel of John we are simply told to BELIEVE to be saved. Not one mention is made about making Jesus our Lord (leader) to be saved. This is the heresy of “Lordship” salvation which Meyer is preaching, and it will send you to the Lake of Fire!!!
3. Joyce lied when she said: “God says” in Romans 10:9, but she speaks in error, not knowing the Scriptures. Woe unto the man or woman who speaks deceitfully for God. Job 13:7, “Will ye speak wickedly for God?  and talk deceitfully for him?”
4. Joyce errantly says: “If you’re ready to start a new life with Jesus leading you,” Dear friend, you don't have to be willingly to “start a new life with Jesus leading you” to receive God's free gift of eternal life and forgiveness of sins. It is a gift, because Jesus has already paid for it with His blood. Jesus has already paid for everyone's sins through Calvary's cross with His precious shed blood. Therefore, God is offering you eternal life as a free gift, and all you have to do to receive it is BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST (Acts 16:30-31). Joyce Meyer is horribly complicating the Gospel. She is preaching another gospel, for which God's curse is upon her (Galatians 1:6-8).
5. You don't need to give your life to Jesus to get to Heaven! Joyce Meyer is utterly confused on God's simple plan of salvation. Today's popular preachers are so afraid of being called out by the religious crowd if they don't add something about living a better life to the Gospel. They dare not preach THE TRUTH that you can get saved and still live like the Devil. That is why God calls his offer a “GIFT” (Romans 6:23; Ephesians 2:8-9). Romans 5:15-18 even calls eternal life a “FREE GIFT.”
6. Joyce is WRONG to require people to “live my life for you.” Nowhere in the Word of God are we taught to live for Christ to be saved. In fact, that was the fatal blunder of the fools in Matthew 7:21-23. They boasted of following Jesus as their “Lord.” They boasted of their “many wonderful works” all done in Jesus' name. They boasted of casting out devils. They boasted of preaching in Jesus' name, just like Joyce Meyer. But they had never ceased from all their own human labors, and simply REST in the slain Lamb of God for our sins. Believing that Christ died on the cross for your sins, was buried and bodily resurrected three days later CANNOT produce the new birth in you if you ADD anything to it!!! You must CEASE from all your works!!! That means you may not ADD making Jesus Lord of your life to be saved. You may not ADD giving your life over to Jesus to live for Him. You may not ADD repenting “OF YOUR SINS” to the Gospel. These are all things that God doesn't require to receive His free gift.

These things may appear trifle or small to you, but if so it is only because you fail to grasp God's plan of salvation. 

Joyce Meyer also endorses the Devil's corrupt modern Bible revisions. Friend, if you don't have a King James Bible, you don't have an inspired Holy Bible in the English language. ALL of the modern English Bible revisions are corrupted by Satan!!!

We are living in apostate times of sycophantic worship in the churches. Hillsong is of the Devil, nothing more than bringing The World into the Church, which is not a real New Testament church of God. The Bible foretold that the time would come when people would no longer endure SOUND DOCTRINE, but would seek out false teachers to tell them what they want to hear...

2nd Timothy 4:3-4, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”

If you listen objectively to Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer and the whole rotten lot of them, you'll see that they don't PREACH THE WORD at all. Instead they tickle people's ears, saying a bunch of garbage that people want to hear. That is why they keep coming back, to feel better about themselves. Joel Osteen even admits that he avoids everything of a negative nature (i.e., sin, judgment, Hell). Joel Osteen is a very deadly FALSE PROPHET!!! Their damnation slumbereth not the Bible says in 2nd Peter 2:1-3.

2nd Peter 2:1-3, “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”

Hillsong is all about telling everyone, including unrepentant sodomites, that everything is all about love and getting along. Right doctrine doesn't matter. There is no call for homosexuals to repent of their wickedness. Hillsong is just a giant rock concert in Jesus' name. They don't get people saved, they merely give rebellious unsaved people a place to attend church and be accepted as they are in their unregenerate state. Hillsong is known for feminist women preachers who wear pants, talk like men and have no shame for disobeying the Holy Bible.

Dear reader, don't be a fool. I challenge you to seek out independent fundamentalist Baptist preachers (e.g., Curtis Hutson, John R. Rice, Harry Ironside, Jack Hyles, Max Younce, Danny Castle, et cetera) who preach and practice Bible separation from the world, from false teachers and from the Devil's crowd. The one big thing woefully lacking in our Christians and churches today is separation. There is something very wrong when 50,000 people show up to hear a fool like Joyce Meyer, while 75 people want to hear a godly faithful man of God like Pastor Max D. Younce. The lost world and immature believers today will not endure (tolerate) sound Bible doctrine. They want to hear fools instead like Joel Osteen. They want to hear preachers who are powerless with God. They want to hear “feel good” preachers, not “THUS SAITH THE LORD!!!” preachers. Joyce Meyer and Joel Osteen are pulling on the same rope as the Devil. They HATE you! If they loved you they would tell you THE TRUTH.

Beware Of Renee Roland's YouTube Channel

Matthew 10:28, “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” Matthew 25:46, “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.” Revelation 20:14-15, “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”

Lovingly said, Renee Roland is a loudmouthed fool on YouTube! The Bible teaches in 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. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.” Renee is woefully ignorant of the Scriptures. Ironically, Renee says to let the Bible interpret itself in her video, yet she boldly denies eternal damnation for the wicked. She claims to have found 50 Scriptures that led her to conclude that eternal damnation doesn't exist. Renee is a fool.

Miss Roland errantly claims that only Christians have immortality, and the unsaved only have what she terms “conditional immortality.” That is NOT what the Bible teaches. Our text verse from Matthew 10:28 warns not to fear man, who can destroy the body; but fear God Who can destroy both body and soul in Hell. Obviously then, there is eternal punishment. The Bible plainly teaches the reality of EVERLASTING FIRE and EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT:

Matthew 18:8, “Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.”

Matthew 25:41, “Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:”

Matthew 25:46, “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.”

Jude 1:7, “Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.”

2nd Thessalonians 1:8-9, “In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;”

Renee foolishly bases her denial of eternal punishment upon her own flawed human rational. She fails to grasp the holiness of God. She cannot wrap her mind around the idea that God would punish someone forever and ever without hope, but that is only because she fails to understand the holiness of God. We all deserve to be punished in Hell forever!!!

Renee Roland Is A Rebellious Woman Preacher!

Proverbs 9:13, “A foolish woman is clamourous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.” The Bible forbids women to preach with authority. 1st Corinthians 14:34, “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.” Proverbs 9:13, “A foolish woman is clamourous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.” Renee is utterly confused on Bible theology. I am writing this article, one of many, to warn people about Miss Roland, because she has several thousand followers on YouTube. She ought not be preaching with authority. If it is wrong in the church for a woman to speak about doctrine, then it is wrong on YouTube!!! Miss Roland should leave the Bible preaching to the men. Pastor Max Younce has authored this helpful book on the matter titled: 'A BIBLICAL EXAMINATION OF HELL.' (read free .pdf version online). You need to hear Dr. Younce, not Renee Roland!!!

You know, it really bothers me that a true man of God like Pastor Max D. Younce only has a couple hundred followers, who has been faithfully pastoring churches and authoring Bible study books for over 50 years. What has Renee accomplished? She has never built a hotdog stand?

I just checked their YouTube channel statistics...

Renee Roland's YouTube views:

• Joined Aug 2, 2013
• 4,397,901 views

Pastor Max Younce's YouTube views:

• Joined Feb 2, 2012
• 214,085 views

That is sickening!!! Over the past several years Renee has received 20 TIMES more YouTube visitors that Pastor Younce. How many books has Renee authored? Dr. Younce has dozens. How many churches did Renee pastor? Dr. Younce has pastored three churches! What Bible college did Renee attend? Dr. Younce graduated from Florida Bible College. Yet, millions of fools choose to listen to a loudmouth like Renee Roland while ignoring a faithful preacher like Dr. Max Younce. These are apostate times friend!!!

These idiots who surf the internet all flock to a blabbermouth like Renee Roland, while hardly anyone wants to hear a true man of God like Pastor Max Younce. The Word of God told us this would happen in 2nd Timothy 4:2-4, “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” Literally, the Bible teaches that fools will seek out fools to teach them the Bible!!! People after their own lusts (desires) seek out fools who tell them what they want to hear, who teach fables (like Renee Roland denying that Hell lasts forever).

Renee foolishly claims in her video that by denying eternal damnation for the wicked, she has been able to lead atheists to Christ which otherwise wouldn't have come to Jesus. Something is VERY wrong with that folks. If a lost sinner refuses to come to Christ to be saved unless you deny the reality of eternal punishment, then that person DIDN'T get saved!!! Eternal conscious torment. Renee asks people who disagree with her not to call her names. She is a FALSE TEACHER!!! Renee is a fool. Miss Roland is a Bible ignoramus!!! Those are not just names, those are descriptive terms to mark her and I hope you will avoid her (Romans 16:17-18).

Renee repeatedly asserts that she doesn't know the subject, but then assertively preaches with authority that there is no eternal damnation of the wicked. She is confused at best and a liar at worst! She is both unfortunately!!! Renee made a video a few years ago complaining that she doesn't see Jesus in Christians. Perhaps it is because she is NOT a Christian herself!!! John 16:13 says that the indwelling Holy Spirit teaches and guides us into all truth. If Renee were truly a child of God, then she would see that eternal damnation is real. I sincerely doubt her salvation, because something is very wrong with her theology. All manner of false teachers have crept unawares into the churches. Hell is forever!!!

Revelation 14:11, “And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.” Here we plainly see that the wicked are tormented forever. In her wicked video, Renee foolishly claims that “day or night” in Revelation 14:11 doesn't exist in eternity, so she says this Scripture passage only refers to this earthly life. She is denying the literacy of the Scriptures!!! She claims that the writer of Revelation (John) is merely using artistic terminology. Dear reader, Renee is not saved. What saith the Scripture? Revelation 22:19, “And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” Renee is taking away the doctrine of eternal punishment from the Word of God.

It frustrates me that 20 TIMES more people are listening to Renee Roland on YouTube than they are Pastor Max Younce. Like Dr. John MacArthur, Renee says a lot of accurate and helpful things, as all false prophets do, but she is pulling on the same rope as the Devil when she denies the Biblical truth of everlasting punishment for the damned. Jesus warned in Matthew 25:46, “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.” Renee is spiritually blind. Maybe she needs glasses. I see the words “EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT” in Matthew 25:46. Her boisterous rant is based upon mere human conjecture that since human courts only impose finite sentences, then God must not be any more just than man. But dear friend, if God gives ETERNAL LIFE to the righteous, then it would only seem logical (if you want to use human reasoning) that ETERNAL PUNISHMENT in Hell would be the opposite. But moreover, Jesus said that the wicked would go into EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT!!! Those very words came out of the dear Savior's own mouth in Matthew 25:46.

I cannot warn everyone enough to avoid Renee Roland's Bible teaching on YouTube. I do not hate Renee. I do not think she is saved, despite being correct on the details of the Gospel. Something is wrong with a professed Christian who denies the fundamental Bible doctrine of eternal punishment for the damned. It ceases to amaze me how any fool can start a YouTube channel and tens of thousands of fools will follow that ignorant person into all manner of false doctrine, theological perversion and foolish thinking. Sadly, Renee's unbiblical videos have received many tens of thousands of positive comments. Oh foolish generation, who hath bewitched you that you should not believe THE TRUTH?

Hell Is Everlasting Punishment For The Wicked

Matthew 25:46, “And these shall go away into everlasting
punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.”

Jude 1:7, “Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.”

Evangelist Ken Ham's False Gospel

Romans 4:4-6, “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. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works.”

The Gospel is very delicate and easily corrupted. Wrong theology means going to Hell. Literally, your doctrine determines your destiny! The Word of God plainly defines “the Gospel” for us:

1st Corinthians 15:1-4, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.”

There you have it—Christ DIED on the cross for our sins, He was BURIED, and He bodily RESURRECTED from the dead three days later. This is “the Gospel,” which means “Good News.” Anyone who admits that they are a guilty sinner in God's sight, and believes the Gospel is saved. No one has ever been saved who didn't admit that he is a guilty sinner in God's sight. You need to know what you are being saved from. We all deserve to be punished in the fires of Hell forever because of our own sins.

Now read what Dr. Ken Ham errantly teaches:

The Free Gift of Salvation: Belief in Christ

Jesus, being the perfect sacrifice, offers the free gift of salvation. God loves you so much that He sacrificed His own unblemished Son to suffer the wrath against sin and die on the Cross. He commands you to repent (change your mind and turn from sinful ways) and trust in Him. [emphasis added] —SOURCE: What Does It Mean To Be Saved?

That is NOT the Gospel of free grace through faith alone in Jesus Christ's death on the cross, burial and bodily resurrection. Dear reader, I triple-dog dare you to show me in the King James Bible where it says to “TURN FROM SINFUL WAYS” to be saved. You cannot! It may seem like a trifle matter, but it is not! Repeatedly in the Scriptures we are warned about trying to keep the law of God to get to Heaven. Romans 3:19b plainly explains that the purpose of God's law in the Old Testament is to show men their sinnership, so “that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.”

The Bible is very clear about this. Romans 3:20-22, “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:” What a beautiful passage of Scripture! The inspired Holy Bible teaches that BY THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN!!! So why do Calvinists and the proponents of “Lordship” salvation tell lost people that to get to Heaven they must TURN AWAY FROM SINFUL WAYS (as I just quoted to you from false teacher Ken Ham)? They are sinfully adding to God's simple plan of salvation. The Bible simply tells us to BELIEVE the Good News of Jesus Christ crucified, buried and risen the third day from the dead (1st Corinthians 15:1-4).


Ken Ham Preaches a False Gospel of Reformation For Salvation

It is frightening that Pastor Clarence Sexton of the Temple Baptist Church in Knoxville, and other Baptist preachers today support and promote Mr. Ham's counterfeit Gospel. I am also against Ken Ham's Young Earth heresy! Our apostate churches have embraced Calvinists as if they are Christian brethren! Calvinism is NOT the Gospel!!! Turning away from sinful ways is NOT the Gospel. I am saddened that Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College (PCC) bids Godspeed to Ken Ham's false gospel. Senior pastor Jeff Redlin is a bad pastor, bidding Godspeed to Ken Ham's counterfeit plan of salvation and Young Earth Creation (YEC) heresy. These are lazy pastors who show the heretical videos of Ken Ham, rather than study and rightly divide the Word of God for themselves. I wouldn't give you a dime for phonies like Jeff Redlin, who should be fired from Campus Church and a real man of God sought.

Pastor Harry Ironside (1876-1951) beautifully states:

“Which comes first, repentance or faith? In Scripture we read, 'Repent ye, and believe the gospel.' Yet we find true believers exhorted to 'repent, and do the first works.' So intimately are the two related that you cannot have one without the other. The man who believes God repents; the repentant soul puts his trust in the Lord when the Gospel is revealed to him. Theologians may wrangle over this, but the fact is, no man repents until the Holy Spirit produces repentance in his soul through the truth. No man believes the Gospel and rests in it for his own salvation until he has judged himself as a needy sinner before God. And this is repentance.” (Except Ye Repent, p. 16) [emphasis added]

Pastor Ironside is absolutely correct, repentance is judging one's self as a needy sinner before a holy God. 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.” Clearly, repentance does NOT mean to turn away from sinful ways, which is what Evangelist Ken Ham errantly teaches.

Read again the heresy from Ken Ham's goofy website, Answers In Genesis:

The Free Gift of Salvation: Belief in Christ

Jesus, being the perfect sacrifice, offers the free gift of salvation. God loves you so much that He sacrificed His own unblemished Son to suffer the wrath against sin and die on the Cross. He commands you to repent (change your mind and turn from sinful ways) and trust in Him. [emphasis added] —SOURCE: What Does It Mean To Be Saved?

It may seem like a small matter that's not worth debating, but it definitely is a big issue. Just adding that one little extra Biblical requirement to “turn from sinful ways” to be saved, totally perverts and negates the saving power of the Gospel. Requiring someone to forsake sinful bad habits to get to Heaven is an entirely different mindset than trusting Christ alone.

Either a person must “turn from sinful ways” to receive God's gift of forgiveness of sins and eternal life, or they do not. It cannot be both! Either a man must purpose in his heart to forsake a deathstyle of fornicating, boozing and thieving to be saved, or he can simply believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved without giving up anything. The difference between these two plans of salvation is drastic. One requires nothing on the part of the sinner, except faith in the Gospel. The other places a heavy burden upon the sinner's shoulders—requiring that he make substantial life's changes, forsaking the sinful world, ceasing from sinful bad habits, surrendering all to Christ as as absolute “Lord.” None of these constitute the Gospel.

Carefully examine our text passage of Scripture again. Notice that salvation is “without works,” and that a man is saved solely by God's imputed righteousness through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (i.e., “Him that justifieth the ungodly”):

Romans 4:5-6, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works.” [emphasis added]

So few people have a clear understanding of how salvation works. Let me make it very simple. YOU ARE A SINNER and unless you accept Christ's payment on the cross for your sins, you will spend eternity burning in the fires of Hell. You cannot add or subtract anything to Christ's payment. Jesus paid the price of our sins in full with His precious blood (1st Peter 1:18-19). Religion is man trying to reach God through human effort, but Christianity is God trying to reach man by the sacrifice of His Son on the cross. Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith. Unless you trust CHRIST ALONE for your salvation, you CANNOT be saved.


Ken Ham is Wrong On the Meaning of Repentance

There is woeful confusion and misunderstanding today in the churches over the meaning of repentance. Biblically, the Greek word for “repent” is the noun metanoia (a change of mind), or the verb form, metanoeo (to think differently). Ken Ham errantly alters this meaning to, “change your mind and turn from sinful ways.” As you can clearly see, Mr. Ham has perverted the meaning of repentance. This perversion has crept into most of the churches today, changing how a person gets saved. So instead of an admitted sinner simply trusting upon the Savior, through childlike faith in the Gospel; now people are told to invite Christ into their life, and to receive Jesus as their “Lord and Savior,” and to turn away from sinful ways as a requirement to be saved. The former is the new birth, the latter is dead religion. Satan's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born again.

Ken Ham is a false prophet, teaching Lordship Salvation. I highly recommend that you listen to the following excellent, doctrinally sound, awesome, MP3 sermons to help clarify the Gospel in your mind:

Pastor Hank Lindstrom...
How Permanent Is Your Salvation?
Wrong Repentance - No Salvation
Why Inviting Jesus Into Your Life Is A False Gospel
The Plan Of Salvation From The Bible
How To Know For Certain You Are Going To Heaven

Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold...
Caught Between Grace And Works
Calvinism And Grace Are Not Compatible
Is Repentance Part Of Salvation?
Easy Believism
Must A Christian Live A Changed Life? - Part 1 | 2

“There's not a single person in this house this morning, who's unsaved, but what wouldn't be saved if you realized that the Creator of the universe loves you!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, a precious quote from the awesome MP3 sermon titled, "How To Love God More.”

Now read again what Dr. Ken Ham heretically teaches:

The Free Gift of Salvation: Belief in Christ

Jesus, being the perfect sacrifice, offers the free gift of salvation. God loves you so much that He sacrificed His own unblemished Son to suffer the wrath against sin and die on the Cross. He commands you to repent (change your mind and turn from sinful ways) and trust in Him. [emphasis added] —SOURCE: What Does It Mean To Be Saved?

That is NOT the Gospel of free grace through faith alone in Jesus Christ's death on the cross, burial and bodily resurrection. It may seem like a trifle matter to you, but dear reader, adding to the Gospel cancels God's grace! Ken Ham might as well have added water baptism (aka, the heresy of 'Baptismal Regeneration'). Mr. Ham might as well have added keeping the Seven Sacraments (as does the Roman Catholic church). Ken Ham might as well have added standing on your head and yodeling for 30 minutes to be saved. Dear friend, all that God requires is that you put your trust in Jesus Christ as your Savior.

The Insanity of the 'Young Earth Creation' (YEC) hoax!

Lordship Salvation Has Infected Thousands Of Churches

Galatians 1:6-7, “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.”

I attended a 3-day revival at a local Baptist church in Pensacola. A guest Bluegrass group was invited to perform called “Living Proof.” Their home church is in Jacksonville, Texas at the Immanuel Baptist Church. As far as I can tell so far, both of these churches are doctrinally sound, according to their websites.

But for some reason the dear lady playing the upright bass saddened me when she gave her horrible testimony. She told everyone that some of the song they were performing she had written herself, back at a time in her life when she was a phony. She said her life was empty and she was just going through the motions, but then she finally repented of her sins and surrender her life to Jesus as Lord, and now she was finally saved. My heart was saddened, after hearing them perform for the previous four church revival meetings. What had been such a great revival was soured by her heretical false gospel.

Friend, that lady is still NOT saved. She is obviously confused, but confused people are not saved if they don't understand the Gospel. Jesus paid your dent of sin friend, because you owed a debt that you could not pay. Getting saved is about you accepting GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS through faith alone in Christ. 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:” You don't need to repent “of your sins” not surrender to Jesus as “Lord” to be saved. These are additions that corrupt the free grace of God in salvation.

Kindly said, for this reason I cannot recommend that any church invite “Living Proof” to perform for them, lest they corrupt your church members with a false gospel message. They have been performing for 21 years now, since 2000. They are a phenomenal music group. I love the banjo, dobro, bass, piano, guitar and mandolin. They are awesome! I play several stringed instruments myself (pedal steel guitar, banjo, ukulele, guitar, lap steel, et cetera). I greatly enjoyed listening to “Living Proof” sing and perform during the revival. What a blessing! They have a beautiful family. But they preached a damnable false gospel at the revival I attended this past week. I was saddened to hear a few of the guests present at the revival shout “Amen!” and agree with her damnable heresy. Clearly, there were unsaved religious people present at the event. Only an unsaved infidel would agree with someone's heretical teaching that you must repent of your selfish ways, turn from sinful bad habits, and surrender “all” to Christ to get to Heaven!!!

It could be that the lady I mentioned was going through the motions of living the Christian life, but she had never been born-again. That is a common thing nowadays. She is clearly still not saved, which means she has never been saved, because she still has a wrong mindset on the Gospel. This is why the Apostle Paul warned in 1st Corinthians 15:1-2, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.” Paul is not saying that you can lose God's salvation, he is teaching that the Gospel is a very certain mindset.

The Bible is very clear of what the Gospel is; namely, three things: Christ DIED on the cross for our sins, He was BURIED, and then three days later Jesus RESURRECTED by the power of God from the dead (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). Turning away from sinful ways is NOT a part of the Gospel. Surrendering all to Jesus is NOT a part of the Gospel. Neither is the Gospel turning over a new leaf, inviting Jesus into one's life, running the race faithfully, obeying God's Commandments, living a lifestyle of repentance, doing works to prove the reality of the genuineness of one's faith, forsaking the world, exchanging all that you are for all that Christ is, counting the cost and paying the price, confessing Christ publicly, getting water baptized nor anything else beyond the simple death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. JESUS PAID IT ALL!!! Faith + Gospel = Eternal Life! It's that simple dear friend.

The apostle plainly defines what is “the Gospel” so that there is no misunderstanding. I am sick and tired of hearing unsaved religious people in Baptist churches testify about how they repented “of their sins,” forsook their selfish ways and surrendered everything to Christ as Lord to be saved. No Sir! No Ma'am! That is not the Gospel of free grace as presented in the Word of God. I sometimes wonder if anybody in these corrupt churches today even study the Bible anymore. We need to stop blindly accepting what preachers tell us, and start searching the Scriptures on our own as the Bereans did in Acts 17:10-11. Don't be a parrot, just repeating some junk theology that you heard some pervert preacher say from a pulpit. Verify everything!!!

I am not against surrendering to Jesus as one's Lord, I am against adding it to faith to be saved, which is another gospel. To be accurate, you don't make Jesus Lord of your life, He is Lord! We are exhorted in the Bible in Romans 12:1b to “present your bodies a living sacrifice unto God.” You see, we all need to make two big choices in life. 

The first decision is whether or not to accept Jesus as our Savior, by simply believing the GOOD NEWS (Gospel) that Jesus is the Christ Who died on the cross for our sins, and He was buried, and then bodily resurrected from the dead three days later for our justification (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). Anyone who believes this GOOD NEWS by childlike faith is instantly, irrevocably and eternally saved by God. Going to Heaven is that simple and nothing more is required. All that is complicated about getting saved is God's part. Our part is simply TO BELIEVE. John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”

And then the second decision, for those who have received Jesus as their personal Savior (John 1:12-13) is to decide whether to follow Jesus in obedience as His disciple. Nowhere in the Word of God are we taught to receive Jesus as our Lord. Jesus is our Lord (Master) the very moment we get saved. Now it is just a matter of whether we love Him enough to obey Him (John 14:15). This has nothing to do with justification. Growing in grace is a matter of sanctification. We are sanctified by the Word of God (John 17:17), as we grow in the milk of the Word (1st Peter 2:2).

When I got saved as a 13-year-old boy in Chicago in an old-fashioned Baptist church one Sunday morning, the first thing I remember was having a new found hinger to read and study God's Word. I was like a little baby, hungry for the milk of the Word. The issue of repenting or turning away from my sins had never come up when I got saved. I simply put my trust in the dear Savior, believing that He dies in my place on Calvary's cross. He was buried and three days later Jesus raised up from the dead. I called out in my heart to the risen Savior and asked Him to save me, and He did. I learned many years later that I didn't even need to “ask” Jesus to forgive my sins or save me, because God is already freely offering eternal life to WHOSOEVER will simply “believe” on His only begotten Son.

I did not write this blog to be unkind, but to address the growing problem of “Lordship” salvation in our churches. Dear friend, you cannot get to Heaven by living the Christian life. The religious lady who plays the upright bass in the “Living Proof” Gospel Bluegrass group is NOT saved. I say that humbly and with concern for her soul. Adding anything to faith negates faith! She told everyone at the revival that the reason she hadn't been saved (while going through all the motions of living the Christian life) is because she had never repented and surrendered all to Christ as Lord. No ma'am, that is wrong! You had never been born-again at all. Here is the Statement of Faith of the Immanuel Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Texas. Their Statement of Faith is okay, which makes me wonder why this dear lady is so theologically confused. Someone lied to her about how to be saved. ...

The Way of Salvation

We believe that the clear message of salvation is “repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 20:21). We believe that salvation is “by grace” plus nothing minus nothing. We believe that men are justified by faith alone and are accounted righteous before God only through the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (Ephesians 2:8-10; John 1:12; I Peter 1:18-19).

We believe that all the redeemed, once saved are kept by God’s power and are thus secure in Christ forever. We believe that eternal life is the present possession of every believer (John 6:37-40, 10:27-30; Romans 8:1, 38-39; I Corinthians 1:4-8; I Peter 1:4-5; Jude 1:1-2). 

SOURCE: Emmanuel Baptist Church, 'What We Believe'

Dear reader, you cannot get born-again by repenting of your sins, because the Bible does not teach that. Nor can you get saved by surrendering all to Christ as Lord, because the Bible does not teach that either. Satan's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born-again. That dear bass-playing woman is as lost as the Devil. The only way to be saved is to cease from all your own human efforts (works) and REST completely in Christ's finished redemptive work through Calvary's cross.

You are a guilty sinner. You deserve to burn in Hell forever as punishment for your sins. So says a holy God (Romans 5:9, 6:23; Revelation14:11, 20:11-15, 21:8). But God in His love sent His only begotten Son into the world to die on a cross to pay your debt of sin (and mine). Anyone who by faith receives Christ's sacrifice on the cross as payment for their sins is immediately, irrevocably and eternally saved. Nothing more is required or allowed. The life that we SHOULD live as believers is entirely a matter of discipleship, not sonship. Turning away from our sins is a matter of sanctification as a believer, and has nothing to do with justification.

“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)

The Parable Of The Sower And The Seeds

Luke 8:11-15, “Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.”

This is what The Parable Of The Sower And The Seeds is about in Luke 8:11-15. Verse 11 says that the seed is the Word of God. Here are the four groups of seeds and what they represent:

1. Verse 12 mentions the seeds which feel on stony ground. Birds (symbolic of the Devil) came down and ate the seeds, so that no one was saved.
2. The second group of seeds in verse 13 fell on shallow soul. They sprouted, meaning they got saved, but due to their shallow roots they fell away when the winds of persecution blew. This group did not lose their salvation as Evangelist Ray Comfort errantly teaches, they simply did not mature to bring forth any fruit (soulwinning).
3. The third group in verse 14 are the seeds which fell upon soil with thorny weeds. As they grew (showing they are saved), they were choked by the cares, riches and pleasures of this earthly life. I think this is where most believers fit in today. Likewise, they never mature to share the Gospel or bear fruit for Christ.
4. The final and fourth group of seeds in verse 15 are they that with an honest and a good heart the Bible says, bring forth fruit unto perfection. These are soulwinners who make their heavenly Father proud. This is the goal of The Great Commission in Matthew 28:19-20, to win people to Christ, get them water baptized as a public profession of their new found faith, and then teach them to go out and do the same, winning others to Christ with the Gospel.

This parable is about maturing to win souls as a Christian, not about salvation.

Calvinism Instills Fear In Its Cult Followers

Matthew 11:28-30, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Calvinism is a lie of Satan, not the Good News (Gospel) of Jesus Christ. In God's true plan of salvation in the Bible, you simply come to God as an admitted guilty sinner and receive Christ's sacrifice on the cross as payment for your sins, believing that Christ was buried and raised up from the dead three days later (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). Acts 16:30b-31, “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.”

In sharp contrast, in the Devil's lie of Calvinism, you are taught that you cannot KNOW 100% that you are saved at the time you accept Christ. Don't take my word for it, here are some heretical quotes from unsaved infidels preying from the pulpit today in churches.

Evangelist Steve Pettit (president of Bob Jones University) heretically said this:

“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)

Pastor Paul Washer heretically said this:

“We talk about the Germans of the 20th centuries that brought on their higher criticism. It is not near as dangerous as conservative Baptists with their gospel reductionism. How dare we, all these stupid evangelists walking around telling men after they've made some little prayer that they need to write their name in the back of their Bible, and put the date and if the Devil ever comes to them, they need to show him that. That is Roman superstition, it is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. You see we've turned the gospel into a flu-shot.” —Paul Washer Sermonette

On page 1513 of THE EVIDENCE BIBLE, under the section “Questions & Objections,” Evangelist Ray Comfort addresses the statement: “Because Jesus died on the cross we are forgiven of every sin.” Here’s Ray Comfort’s heretical reply to this statement:

“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] —THE EVIDENCE BIBLE, by Ray Comfort, pg. 1513; 2003, Bridge-Logos Publishers, Orlando, Florida

Do you see how this ungodly false teachers are pervert the new birth, instead teaching that you cannot KNOW 100% that you are eternally secure at the time you get saved. This is because they are deceived rotten Calvinists! In the Calvinist's errant mindset, you must prove the reality of the genuineness of your faith by living a changed life, by turning away from a lifestyle of sin and living a permanent lifestyle as such. If you think I am exaggerating, please read this shocking heresy by Ray Comfort, in which he heretically requires people to LIVE A LIFESTYLE to get to Heaven!!!

Dear reader, you are 100% safe and don't need to ASS-U-ME anything, because God has solemnly promised TO SAVE THEM THAT BELIEVE. 1st Corinthians 1:21, “For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.” You have God's promise!!! Anyone who puts their trust in Jesus Christ as their personal Savior instantly becomes a born-again child of God. ONCE SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED! Ray Comfort doesn't believe that! Paul Washer doesn't believe that! Steve Pettit doesn't believe that!

I just shared their heretical quotes with you, which instills fear and worry into the hearts and minds of their deceived followers. You CAN absolutely know you are eternally saved the very moment that you put your faith in Jesus Christ!!!!!!! How else could we obey the Lord's command to “rejoice, because your names are written in heaven” (Luke 10:20). If my name is written in Heaven, then I KNOW I am saved. So what is this garbage theology that Paul Washer is preaching which says I cannot write down my name, date and place where I got saved? You absolutely CAN write down the time, place and your name where and when you got saved!!! That is why the Bible calls getting saved a new birth (born again - 1st Peter 1:23). John 3:3, “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

The Christian life begins with a new birth, just as your earthly life began with a physical birth. Once you were born physically, it was a done deal. Likewise, once you are born again into God's family, it is a done deal. Calvinists will insist that you are not safe, and cannot be assured of Heaven unless you persevere to live a sanctified life. That is NOT the free grace of God. The Bible clearly teaches that eternal life is a free gift from God (Romans 5:15-18; 6:23; Ephesians 2:8-9). All you need to do to receive a gift is take it. That is all you need to do to receive God's free gift of eternal life, simply take it by putting your childlike faith (confidence) in Jesus Christ.

For Calvinists to ADD to the Gospel, by requiring people to live a better life, turn away from sinful behavior and prove that their faith in genuine by living a certain way is a counterfeit Gospel. Calvinists pervert the grace of God, instilling fear into people by making them worry constantly that living in sin will prove their faith is not real. How in the world is this not 100% a works-based plan of salvation (or better said, plan of damnation)? In God's true plan of salvation, you CAN 100% know that you are saved regardless of how you choose to live, because it was a gift. Would you give someone a birthday gift and then afterwards require them to live a certain way to keep it, or to prove that they were sincere when they accepted it? That would be absurd! Well it is no more absurd than what Calvinists are preaching!!!

I got gloriously saved at age 13. That was 41 years ago. It was an immediate permanent new birth. I instantly became God's adopted and redeemed child by faith in Christ, forever saved and sealed by the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:12-14). Truly, I could go out and live like the Devil if I wanted to, and still be 100% safe in my eternal life and redemption!!! The reason why is because my salvation is based in GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS, and not my own. 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:” I love that Bible verse!!! 

This one Scripture passage in Philippians 3:9 blows Calvinism right out of the water. I am sick of lying Calvinists saying that we are not saved by works, but if you are saved you will have works. That is a backdoor approach to adding works to faith, because Calvinists teach that if you don't have works then your faith is not genuine. By attaching works to faith, they have absolutely corrupted the Word of God, perverted the Gospel and cast stumbling blocks before the people, confusing and instilling needless fear into their souls, damning them to the Lake of Fire. Satan's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born-again, which is EXACTLY what Calvinists are doing!!!

My justification (sins forgiven) has NOTHING to do with my sanctification (becoming more Christlike). Discipleship and sonship must be kept separate! 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. Pilgrim's Progress author John Bunyan said that and he is absolutely right! I love that quote.

The simplicity that is in Christ means that we are saved by simply trusting Christ. You don't have to live a changed life to prove that your faith is real. Calvinism perverts the Gospel, instilling fear in its followers, leading them to falsely labor to live a moral and committed life to Christ to validate their faith, which is 100% a works-based Seventh-Day Adventist type of Lordship salvation. Dear reader, you CAN know 100% right now that you are eternally saved by faith alone in Jesus Christ. The life that you choose to live is a separate matter of discipleship, not sonship. It is a matter of sanctification, not justification. It is a matter of proving how much you love Jesus, not how genuine your trust in Him is as your Savior.

How simple is the Gospel. In John 11:25-26 we once again see that salvation is obtained freely by simple childlike faith in the only begotten Son of God. BELIEVE oh guilty sinner and you are forever saved! Jesus didn't ask Martha if she was ready or willing to repent and turn away from her sins (which Bob Jones University errantly requires on their website). Jesus didn't ask Martha if she had surrendered "all" to Him as Lord (which Pastor John MacArthur errantly requires). Jesus didn't ask Martha to repent AND believe to be saved (as Ray Comfort errantly requires). Jesus didn't ask Martha to start, run and finish the race to win the award of salvation (as Steve Pettit errantly requires). Jesus SIMPLY asked Martha if she BELIEVED that He is the Resurrection and the Life?

Jesus SIMPLY asked Martha if she believed that He gives eternal life? John 6:47, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life." Simply BELIEVE oh guilty sinner to be immediately, irrevocably and eternally saved!!! Believe the Good News (Gospel) that Jesus died on the cross for your sins, He was buried, and three days later Jesus raised up from the dead (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). Galatians 3:26, "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus."

Jesus Is The Resurrection And The Life

John 11:25-26, “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?”

How simple is the Gospel. In John 11:25-26 we once again see that salvation is obtained freely by simple childlike faith in the only begotten Son of God. BELIEVE oh guilty sinner and you are forever saved! Jesus didn't ask Martha if she was ready or willing to repent and turn away from her sins (which Bob Jones University errantly requires on their website).

Jesus didn't ask Martha is she had surrendered "all" to Him as Lord (which Pastor John MacArthur errantly requires). Jesus didn't ask Martha to repent AND believe to be saved (as Ray Comfort errantly requires). Jesus didn't ask Martha to start, run and finish the race to win the award of salvation (as Steve Pettit errantly requires).

Jesus SIMPLY asked Martha if she BELIEVED that He is the Resurrection and the Life? Jesus SIMPLY asked her if she believes that He gives eternal life? John 6:47, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life." Simply BELIEVE oh guilty sinner to be immediately, irrevocably and eternally saved!!! Believe the Good News (Gospel) that Jesus died on the cross for your sins, He was buried, and three days later Jesus raised up from the dead (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). Galatians 3:26, "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus."

Galatians 1:6-7, “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.” The Apostle Paul was bewildered that the churches of Galatia, whom he had spent so much time preaching and teaching the things of Christ, had so soon been duped into a local religious cult that perverts the Gospel. Paul calls them “fools” and “bewitched” in Galatians 3:1. Likewise, I find it hard to accept that Moody Bible Institute (MBI) and Bob Jones University (BJU), once fundamentalist institutions, have deteriorated decades later into cesspools of doctrinal heresy and worldliness. Both MBI and BJU have turned into hardcore Calvinist institutions today in 2021. This is so tragic!

I challenge you dear reader to forget everything that you have heard from preachers from a moment, and simply focus on the words of our wonderful Savior in our text passage. John 11:25-26, “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?” The Savior's words are so clear and simple. All that He wanted to know from Martha is if she BELIEVED that He is the Resurrection and the Life!

Dear friend, if you BELIEVE that Jesus is the Christ, Who died on the cross in your place to pay your debt of sin, and you BELIEVE that just as He resurrected from the dead He can also raise you up from the dead, and that is your only hope for forgiveness of sins and eternal life, then you are saved! Salvation is so simple! You are a guilty sinner friend, and so am I. But Jesus died for OUR SINS, so that He could take our guilt upon Himself. I was saved at age 13 when I received Jesus as my personal Savior.

From that moment and forever I was no longer guilty. I am no longer under the curse of God's law, I am forever under God's grace. The born-again believer never falls from grace, we fall in grace! Amen and amen! Only an unsaved person who rejects the Gospel is fallen FROM GRACE, like the deceived Calvinist Bob Jones University camp today. Since they ADD turning away from your sinful ways to be saved, they have FALLEN FROM GRACE, burning their bridge to Heaven. Faith alone in Jesus Christ is that bridge! BJU has torn up their ticket to the Pearly City. They have damned themselves by corrupting the Gospel, placing their trust in a false hope, another gospel which cannot produce the new birth. The Devil's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born-again.

Dear friend, I love you with God's love! I care about you. I love THE TRUTH. Right doctrine matters. There is no Gospel in Calvinism. Calvinism is a deadly theological system of lies that base salvation upon human performance, not Christ's sacrifice on the cross. In God's true plan of salvation, you can absolutely KNOW 100% that you are immediately saved the instant that you place your trust in Christ, because salvation is solely rooted in God's promise to SAVE THEM THAT BELIEVE (1st Corinthians 1:21b). I know that I am saved because God said so in His Word.

I put my trust in Jesus alone to save me as a 13 year old boy, and God wrought the supernatural miracle of the new birth. I was forever indwelt and sealed with God's blessed Holy Spirit since the moment I was saved. I have never wondered if I am really saved because of bad sinful decisions I have made in my life. I have never questioned God's salvation of my soul because of my poor behavior as a child of God. I have never doubted my salvation because of those reasons because I was not saved by being good or forsaking my sins. I didn't get saved by doing good works, so I cannot become lost by doing bad works. God saved me because of my childlike faith in His only begotten Son (John 3:16-17).

If you talk to a Calvinist you will hear them insist that salvation is without works. Yet at the same time they will say that you will do works if you are really saved. It get ugly theologically. Calvinists will all tell you that you cannot know for certain that you are saved if you continue living in sin and if your life does not change and continue to change until you get to Heaven. This is NOT the simplicity that is in Christ. Case in point is Evangelist Ray Comfort, who heretically states:

“Merely being sorry for your sins, or confessing them to God won't help you. You must turn from sin (repent).” —LIVING WATERS ministry, SAVE YOURSELF SOME PAIN

That is a lie of the Devil. What saith the Scripture? 1st John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” The Bible teaches that if a person will simply confess that they are a guilty sinner to God, the Lord will forgive us before even being asked to do so. That is a good God Who loves to pardon guilty sinners!!! Isaiah 65:24, “And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.” In a false religion, you have to beg, torment yourself with penance, wait and sacrifice, hoping to receive pardon from a false god. But in Biblical Christianity, God offers complete and immediate forgiveness on the sole basis of the sacrifice of His dear only begotten Son Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary. No other religion offers such a good deal of a free, easy and simple pardon by faith alone!!!

Ray Comfort's plan of salvation is extremely HARD because it requires a large amount of self-denial, self-abandonment and self-righteousness. You are required to stop all deliberate sinful activates if you want to be saved. That is a false Gospel. Romans 4:5-6 plainly teaches that salvation is solely by Christ's righteousness and without our own works. On page 1513 of 'THE EVIDENCE BIBLE,' under the section: “Questions & Objections,” Ray Comfort addresses the statement: “Because Jesus died on the cross we are forgiven of every sin.” Here’s Ray Comfort’s reply to this statement:

“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] —'THE EVIDENCE BIBLE,' by Ray Comfort, p. 1513; 2003, Bridge-Logos Publishers, Orlando, Florida

Those are some very dangerous and heretical words at the end, “…assuming that they are safe just because Jesus died on the cross.” Dear reader, what Ray Comfort is preaching is NOT what Jesus taught Martha in John 11:25-26. The Savior simply asked Martha if she BELEVED on Him as the Resurrection and the Life. Do you believe friend that Jesus died on the cross for your sins? Do you believe that after being buried, that three days later Christ raised up by the power of God triumphant from the dead? And do you believe that Jesus has the power to give you the same eternal life through faith in Him? Do you BELIEVE these truths? I sure do, which is why I got saved as a 13 year old boy. The only way to get saved is through FAITH in the Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 16:30b-31, “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.”

Carefully notice that nowhere in these passages of Scripture are we taught to repent (turn away from sinful behavior) to be saved. Ray Comfort ADDED that extra step to the Gospel. Ray Comfort is a theological liar! 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.” You must decide dear reader who to believe! Will you trust Ray Comfort and his lies that you cannot go to Heaven without forsaking your sinful bad habits? Or will you trust the Holy Bible and Jesus, who said to Martha in John 11:25-26 that He is the Resurrection and the Life?

Jesus' plan of salvation is so wonderful and simple, you just BELIEVE on Him. Ray Comfort's plan of salvation is complicated and burdensome, because you must forsake your pet sins and make a constant effort to turn away from sin for the rest of your life, or else worry that you may not make it to Heaven. How in the world is that not works what Ray is falsely preaching? If you must maintain a repentance LIFESTYLE (which is the exact word that Ray uses), to maintain the confidence that you are saved, then how can you ever really enjoy the perfect peace of knowing that you are a child of God? Obviously you cannot!!! Folks, please listen to me, these ungodly infidels are not true preachers of righteousness, they are phonies masquerading as God's righteous ministers for the sake of filthy lucre. Ray Comfort makes about $4,000,000 each year from his Living Waters and Way Of The Master demonic ministries. I've never made a single penny. It is tragic that tens of millions of people are being woefully deceived by these wicked devils.

Jesus never once told anyone to turn away from sinful behavior to get to Heaven, He simply said to BELIEVE on Him. 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. ” Again we simply see that salvation is obtained by BELIEVING ON HIM!!! Nothing more is required than faith in the Good News of Christ crucified, buried and risen the third day (1st Corinthians 15:1-4; John chapters 19-20). You are a guilty sinner friend! Consequently, you deserve to burn in Hell forever (and so do I). 

But God in His love has made a way of escape through faith in His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.  Anyone who receives Christ's sacrifice on the cross as payment for their sins, believing that Jesus is risen from the dead physically, is immediately, irrevocably and forever saved. Nothing more is necessary, required or allowed. Christ died, that's history; Christ died for me, that's salvation. When you come to God as a dirty guilty sinner and personally trust Jesus as YOUR Savior, you are now a born-again child of God. Salvation is all about you coming to God as you are, in your ungodly state; and BELIEVING the record God has given in His Word about His Son. Simply take God at His Word and be saved!!! The Bible says you are a guilty sinner for breaking God's commandments. If you agree with that and want to escape the fires of Hell and go to Heaven forever, then let God save you by putting your trust in His dear Son.

Friend, did you know that you don't even have to ask God to forgive your sins? That is correct! God is already offering you the free gift of eternal life. God is already asking you to please receive His only begotten Son as your Savior. John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Jesus has already paid for everyone's sins with His precious blood. This is why God can freely offer eternal life to all humanity. All you need to do is receive that gift by faith, but you MUST want it. God won't force Himself on anybody. 2nd Timothy 2:13, “If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.”

All you need to do is accept the gift that God is freely offering you. Your sins and eternal life have already been completely paid for by Jesus. God is offering you forgiveness of sins and eternal life, just for the taking. It would be silly to ask God to forgive your sins, when He is already asking you to freely receive it. Just say “yes” to Jesus! The “Gospel” means Good News! It is the Good News that Jesus is the Christ Who died on the cross for our sins, He was buried, and three days later Jesus bodily resurrected from the dead. This is the Gospel according to 1st Corinthians 15:1-4. Anyway who BELIEVES this Good News is saved!!! That is what Jesus was asking Martha when He asked her if she believed He is the Resurrection and the Life. Fortunately Martha did believe! The $64,000 question is do you BELIEVE?