Romans 4:3-5, “For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. 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.”
In the following YouTube video, you will see two men arguing over which plan of salvation is correct. What the man in the grey hoodie is preaching is the same exact damnable heresy that Ray Comfort preaches, that you cannot live a lifestyle of sin and go to Heaven. ...
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The guy wearing the grey hoodie is totally WRONG! He insists that you have to: “Get out of your sin” to be saved. Dear reader, the truth is that we all live a lifestyle of sinning. Oh, yes you do; and so do I. We all sin every day, multiple times, whether in thought or in deed.
Carefully notice what the next couple verses read in Hebrews 12:15-16, “Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.” The writer of Hebrews (whom I humbly think is the Apostle Paul) is quoting from Deuteronomy 29:18, “Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;” The Bible is simply teaching in Hebrews 12:14-16 that if your testimony is poor as a believer that others around you will be adversely affected by it. You may be the only Jesus that somebody knows. Pastor Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) rightly said: “Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.”
SHAME on Pensacola Christian College (PCC) for preaching this same theological garbage, lying to people, telling them that if their behavior hasn't changed they didn't really get saved. That is Lordship Salvation! Many unsaved hellbound churchgoers live morally upright lives, they do “many wonderful works,” and preach in Jesus' name; yet they are fools, woefully ignorant of the Scripture, lost in their self-righteousness. Listen, anything that an unsaved person can do CANNOT be used as evidence of being saved. The ONLY thing that determines whether a person is saved or not is one's FAITH. 1st John 5:4, “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.” Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do.
It is tragic that John MacArthur and other heretics misinterpret Hebrews 12:14, claiming that it means you cannot go to Heaven unless you live a holy life. As I have shown you, that is NOT what it means. A Christian who hides his light for Christ and tarnishes his testimony by choosing rather to live in open sin, he becomes a root of bitterness to those around him; thereby many be defiled. When King David commit adultery and murder, his entire family and kingdom were adversely affected by his actions.
The guy with the orange Texas shirt is 100% correct. Pilgrim's Progress author John Bunyan (1628-1688) 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.” —Evangelist John BunyanPastor M.R. DeHaan (1891-1965) made this tremendous statement:
"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)Anybody who associates a change of behavior with the new birth is preaching another gospel. Sadly, the official doctrinal position of Pensacola Christian College (PCC) is, quote:
"Repentance is a change of mind resulting in a change of behavior."That is another gospel. PCC is preaching a counterfeit plan of salvation. The Gospel does not teach partial faith in Christ plus works; but rather, childlike faith in Jesus' death on the cross, burial and bodily resurrection from the dead three days later (1 Corinthians 15;1-4).
➜ Roman Catholicism errantly says to be saved a person π π¨π¦π§ do good works.
➜ Calvinism errantly says a saved person πͺπππ do good works.
➜ The Holy Bible says a saved person π¦ππ’π¨ππ do good works (Titus 2;12)
Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do. Beginning at 1:34 time in the video, the guy wearing the grey hoodie says that if he hadn't forsaken his sinful bad habits in prison, he wouldn't be going to Heaven. That is justification by the works of the law, which is impossible (Romans 3:19-20). His defense is to misinterpret Hebrews 12:14, as I have just refuted. Satan's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born again. The guy wearing the grey hoodie is NOT saved. Nobody is saved who has partial faith in Christ, plus trusting in something else.
I am tired of hearing fools (e.g., the Bob Jones University cult) speak with a forked tongue. On one side they say that we are saved by grace alone, which is true. But then on the other side they utter lies, saying that you cannot be saved without forsaking your sinful ways, which is 100% WORKS. This is typical false prophet hypocritical lingo.
Jehovah's Witnesses | Ray Comfort |
Many people have been told that “believing on Jesus” is a single act and that our faith does not have to be strong enough to prompt obedience. But the Bible disagrees. Jesus did not say that people who begin the Christian course are saved. Instead, he said: “He that has endured to the end is the one that will be saved.” (Matthew 10:22) The Bible likens our Christian course to a race, with salvation being the prize at its end. And it urges: “Run in such a way that you may attain it.”—1 Corinthians 9:24. Those FALSE TEACHERS today who say that more than faith is necessary to be saved, that you must also turn away from your sinful bad habits, are preaching ANOTHER GOSPEL of partial faith in Christ plus WORKS! | “There are a number of people who say I'm a heretic, because I tell the unsaved they must REPENT, and trust in Jesus to be saved. They say that I'm preaching WORKS SALVATION, because I'm telling them to repent, something of which they say they're incapable. They maintain all a sinner needs to do is BELIEVE IN JESUS. They say he's incapable of repentance, but he is capable of believing, that is, of having faith.” Note: You need to understand that Ray Comfort, and all Calvinists, have a WRONG idea of what Biblical “repentance” for salvation means. They think it means to “TURN FROM YOUR SINFUL BEHAVIOR,” but the accurate meaning is simply: “A CHANGE OF MIND.” Repentance is a change of mind from WRONG THINKING to believing THE GOSPEL to be saved! |
THE TRUTH my friend is that Jesus Christ came into the world to pay your debt of sin on Calvary's cross. Romans 5:6-9, “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.” Christ died for the UNGODLY. That means you! That means me! That includes every human being!
No, you don't have to forsake your sinful ways to be saved, which would be WORKS. Getting saved is strictly a matter of you coming to God as a needy guilty sinner (Romans 3:19-23), and receiving Christ's sacrifice on the cross as payment for your sins, believing that He was buried, but then physically resurrected from the dead three days later. This is “the gospel” (the 'GOOD NEWS') according to 1st Corinthians 15:1-6. BELIEVE IT, Oh sinner, and you are saved!!!
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