Tragically, we've got a bunch of false prophets across America, who preach what the Holy Bible calls, “ANOTHER GOSPEL.” Galatians 1:6-9, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” There is only one clear and concise Gospel.
One of the most deadly false prophets today is Evangelist Ray Comfort, who actually uses the phrase “LIVING A LIFESTYLE” while witnessing to a woman.
In the following YouTube video clip, look at the BIG LIE Evangelist Ray Comfort tells this poor deceived woman passenger on an airplane.
Kindly, Ray says that “repentance” means “LIVING A LIFESTYLE THAT PROVES THE REALITY OF YOUR REPENTANCE!” And then he adds, “IT'S A CONTINUAL THING!” Read for yourself what Mr. Comfort horribly teaches this woman, in this transcript from the Living Waters video...
“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]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. 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.
SOURCE: Evangelist Ray Comfort, “I've Never Killed Anyone” (MP3 clip from video)
The Gospel of John is God's Gospel track. 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.” PLEASE DON'T MISS THAT! God authored the Gospel of John specifically so “that believing ye might have life through his name.” That means we don't need any other Scripture than what is found in the Gospel of John to be saved. Where in the Gospel of John are we taught that, “LIVING A LIFESTYLE,” is necessary to receive eternal life? You cannot! Mr. Comfort is a bold-faced theological liar! Ray is ADDING to the Gospel, perverting it! This means Mr. Comfort is accursed by God. Galatians 1:9, “As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” I didn't say that, almighty God did!
Furthermore, where in the Gospel of John are we taught that to be saved, we must have a drastic change of attitude that is resolved to reform? Ray errantly says to be saved we must have the new attitude, “GOD, I'M SORRY, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO LIE OR STEAL OR BLASPHEME YOUR NAME EVER AGAIN!” And then he horribly says, “IT'S A CONTINUAL THING!” None of this is Biblical! There is absolutely nothing in the Gospel of John about having a sincere desire to reform our ways, clean up our life of sin, turn over a new leaf, do better, forsake the world, turn away from sins, nor any other garbage that false prophets are teaching nowadays in churches, poisoning people with their lies!
What Is The Gospel Of The New Testament? | MP3 (awesome Bible preaching by Pastor Ralph “Yankee” Arnold; Bibleline Radio Broadcast | MP3's)True Bible Repentance is a Change of Mind Unto the Gospel Itself
So what is the truth? Is repentance necessary for salvation? Actually, yes, it is! But Bible repentance is simply “a change of mind” unto the Gospel itself, and not a desire to reform one's sinful ways. There is not one verse in the entire King James Bible (the only accurate English translation) which teaches to “repent of sin” or “repent from sin” to be saved; but rather, we read in Acts 20:21b about “repentance toward God.” Repentance is the admission that I am a guilty sinner in the sight of 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.” God's LAW shows man his sinnership, and then brings us to Christ to be saved by GRACE (Galatians 3:24-26). That is what the Word of God is: LAW and GRACE (i.e., Old and New Testaments).
In the Gospel of John, the words “believe” and “believed” are mentioned 85 times, but the word “repent” is not mentioned, not even once! That is because repentance is an automatic thing, without which no man would ever believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved. So we don't even need to mention the word “repent” when we witness to people, and I recommend that you don't, lest you confuse them. God agrees with me (because I agree with Him). That is why God didn't mentioned “repentance” in the Gospel of John, which is His Gospel tract! The person who believes has repented, and the person who repents has believed!
In sharp contrast to the free grace Gospel, what Ray Comfort is requiring is manmade reformation! That is “works” for salvation, which is a false Gospel of damnation. Ray requires people to denounce their sinful ways and commit themselves to walking a higher plane in life, renewing their ways, pursuing a better life! None of that is the free gift of God, which is forgiveness of sins and eternal life. Jesus doesn't forgive sin. That is correct! Jesus has already paid for everyone's sins with His precious blood. That is why forgiveness of sins is a free gift, since Christ has already paid for it. So to be saved, you simply need to freely receive God's gift. What Ray Comfort is teaching is a strange doctrine of works, human effort, which simply cannot produce the new birth. Satan's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born-again. That is exactly what Ray Comfort is doing!
Ray says to get saved you have to do “TWO THINGS”! In God's authentic plan of salvation, there is only ONE THING that you need to do, which is to BELIEVE THE GOSPEL! That is all we are told to do in the precious Gospel of John, nothing more. The Gospel is the GOOD NEWS of Jesus, the only begotten Son of God, the promised Messiah, Who gave His life on the cross to pay for our sins. Christ DIED for our sins, He was BURIED, and then He RESURRECTED on the third day from the dead for our justification. Those three elements comprise the Gospel. ...
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..”I am so glad and grateful that God made the GOSPEL very plain to see! Foolish men, like Ray Comfort and John MacArthur, have been blinded by Satan to add manmade religion to the Gospel and pervert the grace of God. If you doubt what I am telling you, I challenge you to research the Mormon definition of repentance. See the Seventh-day Adventist definition of repentance. See the Jehovah's Witnesses definition of repentance. They all agree with John MacArthur, Paul Washer and Ray Comfort's perverted doctrine on what it means to repent! I am not making this stuff up! Look at the evidence I have provided for you. I have already done the research! Ray Comfort agrees with the cults! The Word of God disagrees with all of them! The Scriptures teach us that repentance is simply unto the Gospel itself. Thus, we repent TO believe. This is very different than Ray Comfort's false Gospel which teaches that we repent AND believe.
Another false prophet is Evangelist Tom Ferrell, which says we repent AND believe to be saved. Dr. Ferrell is wrong! The King James Bible teaches that we repent TO believe!!! That is, they are one in the same act. They are two separate things theologically, but they happen simultaneously. Ray Comfort makes them two separate acts. So a popular heresy, which respectfully, Pastor Charles Lawson and other false prophets preach, is that many people who believe the Gospel are not really saved, because they are still living in sin; and therefore, have never truly repented. This false Gospel conditions salvation upon a changed life, works, human effort, manmade reformation!!! This is not the Gospel and does not produce the new birth by the Holy Spirit!!! Pastor Max D. Younce wisely says, “Anything mixed with grace crosses grace out!” Yes, that is absolutely right!
In Ray Comfort's counterfeit Gospel, there is an entirely different mindset given to the person being witnessed to, where they are pressured to stop willfully sinning in order to be saved, as you will see in this next subsection, in which I analyze a video of one of Ray Comfort's loyal followers witnessing to someone.
What Was The Gospel Of Paul? | MP3Ray Comfort's Damning Influence On Other Preachers
(awesome inspired Bible preaching by Pastor Ralph “Yankee” Arnold; Bibleline Radio Broadcast | MP3's)
The following false plan of salvation is being taught on the internet by a former Navy SEAL named, Chad Williams. On Chad's YouTube channel, the only other related channel that he promotes is Ray Comfort's Living Waters...
“I can give you the tools, but you need to apply them. So the tools is this—this is what you need to do! Remember, you need to 'repent.' So what that is, is to, TURN FROM YOUR SIN! All the things that you do in your life, that you know you shouldn't do, the things you have done that you know you shouldn't have, the places your feet have taken you that you know they ought not to go, the things your hands touched that aren't yours to touch—You take those things, that your conscience tells you was wrong, it's a God-given conscience, and you disassociate with it—You say you want nothing else to do with it anymore—It's those things that put Jesus on the cross, it's those things that Jesus died for! So you recognize that, and you say, 'You know what, I don't want to associate with that anymore!' That's what repentance is, it's all at once. And then you put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ! Okay? So that's the key: repent and believe!” [emphasis added]
SOURCE: “Matt Repents And Confesses Christ Before Men”What you just read is a false Gospel, straight from the pits of Hell! Kindly, Chad Williams is not a born-again Christian! Chad's works-based religious mindset, like Ray Comfort's, is not the free-grace Gospel mindset! Here's a little information about Chad, from his own YouTube channel, who is highly esteemed in the mainstream media...
“Chad Williams is a former US Navy SEAL who served his country proudly in combat on the battlefield. He is a best selling author and frequent guest on major news networks such as Fox News Channel and CNN. Having presented to Fortune 500 companies, educators, military and law enforcement, Chad draws upon his experience and training as a Navy SEAL to teach others the way SEALs acquire and execute goals, overcome adversity, lead, innovate and maintain killer instincts and safety in the worst of conditions”The intent of my article is not to cast a negative reflection on Ray or Chad as far as character, but to expose their false teachings on salvation. I actually admire Ray Comfort's zeal for evangelism. (Check out Ray Comfort's dog, these two do look alike...lol!) My exposure of Ray Comfort as a false prophet is not a personal attack against him. I love everybody, including Ray. I am being true to the Scriptures. 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.”
SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/user/rationalresponder/about
As far as performance, Ray is a great street preacher! Unfortunately, he never gets anybody saved! Of all the videos I have seen of Mr. Comfort shoving the Ten Commandments down people's throats, no one has ever come to Jesus Christ, because he adds a commitment to turn away from their sinful ways as a requirement to be saved, which is impossible to do! We all sin, and we all have sins that we struggle with; so to witness to an unsaved person and place such a heavy burden upon them, to turn away from their lifelong sinful bad habits, strongly pushes them away from the truth of the free and easy Gospel of grace!!!
“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”God's Imputed Righteousness
My favorite theological doctrine in the Holy Bible is IMPUTATION. Once you understand the concept of imputation, you will see salvation clearly. I love this picture below, which is truly worth 1,000 words.
I love this Bible verse...
“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.”If we try to please God by doing good works, such as turning away from our sins to be saved, then that is the righteousness of the law. That is, we are trying to keep God's law to merit Heaven. That is self-righteousness, which God rejects. This is what false prophets like Ray Comfort, Paul Washer, John MacArthur, John Piper, Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, Jack Chick and others are teaching.
And here is another beautiful picture of imputation...
The reason why is because he bases his commentary on the perverse “Amplified Version” (AMP) of the Bible, which entirely removes the word “impute.” That is another reason, among thousands, why I only use and promote the trustworthy King James Bible. As I just showed you in Romans 4:5-6, the word “impute” is found in the Holy Bible. Ray uses an unholy counterfeit Bible version, which leaves off imputation. Clearly, Ray Comfort doesn't understand the beautiful concept of IMPUTATION!
The truth is that when a person gets saved, all of their sins (past, present and future) are washed away by the blood of Jesus, so even if you murder someone or commit suicide, God sees Christ's righteousness when He looks at that person. This is the doctrine of imputation. In Ray Comfort's counterfeit plan of salvation, a professed believer who continues in sin IS NOT SAVED, because he says they have not repented. This is 100% Lordship Salvation, aka, Calvinism. John Calvin (1509-1564) was a monster. He murdered dozens of families, literally, for simply refusing to accept the heresy of infant baptism! Mr. Calvin taught a false Gospel, he was a known occult member, who is this moment burning in Hell. Why do foolish ministers today, follow the satanic philosophies of a dead man, in more ways than one, who perished 454 years ago?
I wrote a helpful book all about, “SALVATION,” 18 years ago, which you can read online. The lifestyle choices that we make after we get saved, once we are in Christ, have absolutely NOTHING to do with the eternal gift of God! A believer needs to GROW after they get saved. 1st Peter 2:1-3, “Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.” The first thing that every new convert ought to be given is their very own King James Bible.
Truthfully, Mr. Comfort is guilty of gross theological incompetence! Ray is not merely claiming that if you are saved there will be some outward manifestations (i.e., LIVING A LIFESTYLE) as proofs. I do not agree with that assertion either, which is what Pastor Phil Kidd teaches. It is heresy! Phil Kidd is teaching heresy! Outward changes cannot be used to determine salvation, because even unsaved people can manifest outward changes. For example: The unsaved false prophets, the workers of iniquity, in Matthew 7:21-23 did “many wonderful works.” So I disagree with Dr. Kidd, respectfully. However, Phil Kidd is not teaching a false Gospel, because he doesn't tamper with the Gospel at the time of salvation. I still promote Pastor Kidd, even though I don't agree with him, because he is correct on the Gospel.
In sharp contrast, Ray Comfort plainly requires that the woman on the airplane commit to making an effort, to forsake the sins in her life. Effectively, Ray is saying that God won't save a person unless they are willing to try to stop sinning!
EVANGELIST RAY COMFORT IS PREACHING A FALSE GOSPEL—A SATANIC LIE THAT GOD WILL ONLY SAVE A PERSON IF THEY ARE WILLING TO STOP SINNING, AND CONTINUE LIVING THAT TYPE OF A LIFESTYLE, PERPETUALLY TURNING AWAY FROM SINNING PERMANENTLY! THAT IS NOT BIBLE REPENTANCE—THAT IS A BURDENSOME YOKE OF MANMADE REFORMATION! THAT IS NOT THE GOSPEL OF FREE GRACE, NOT EVEN CLOSE!!!Jack Chick teaches the same garbage as Ray Comfort, as does Pastor Keith Gomez, Evangelist William P. Grady, Dr. John MacArthur, John Piper, William Lane Craig, Billy Graham, Rick Warren, Joel Osteen, Charles Stanley, John Hagee, Beth Moore, Jimmy Swaggart, Chip Ingram and countless other heretics on the Gospel. It is not what we can do for God that saves us; but rather, what Christ did to pay for our sins on the cross! By faith God places my sins on Jesus, and then places Jesus' goodness on me. That is imputation. So if a Christian commits suicide, they are spotless in God's eyes.
One of my favorite MP3 sermons by Dr. Jack Hyles (1926-2001) is called, “How To Be Right With God.” In the sermon Brother Hyles explains the big difference between being right with God POSITIONALLY, which is salvation; verses being right with God CONDITIONALLY, which is our personal daily walk, or discipleship. This is why we read in Romans 5:20, “Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.” That is, if we sin as a Christian, God's grace will MUCH MORE ABOUND, so that we can NEVER lose God's righteousness (i.e., we cannot lose salvation). We are saved by God's righteousness, not our own. Our righteousness is filth to God (Isaiah 64:6). I am going to Heaven ONLY because of what Christ did to pay for my sins!
Evangelist Ray Comfort is Stuck On God's Law
Romans 3:19-20, “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”The truth is so simple. Why do men complicate things? I'll tell you why, pride! It is in our sinful human nature to want to take matters into our own hands. Adam attempted to deal with his sins, and Eve's sins, by sewing together some fig leaves as coverings. Albeit, God rejected Adam's fig-leaf religion, just as He rejects Ray Comfort's manmade reformation. Ray Comfort is guilty of trying to force sinners to reform their ways, as a prerequisite to saving-faith. That is evil! The purpose of God's LAW is to show humanity our sinnership. Romans 7:13b, “that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.” God never intended that men try to keep the law as a part of submitting to God's righteousness to be saved. The entire reason why man must wholly submit to God's righteousness, resting in Christ's sacrifice on the cross alone as payment for our sins, is because man's best efforts are offensive to a holy God. Isaiah 64:6, “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”
Only God knows how many people will miss Heaven, because Satan blinded them from the truth of the saving-power of the Gospel. Romans 1:16, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” Ray Comfort is sincere in his evangelism efforts, of that I have no doubt; but he is woefully ignorant of the Gospel, convincing people to live the Christian life in Jesus' name, instead of wholly submitting themselves to the righteous of God, which is by faith alone in Christ Jesus.
Living A Perpetual Lifestyle Of Repentance Is Not How To Be Saved
Ray Comfort's partial faith plus works Gospel is a counterfeit! It cannot produce the new birth! Jesus exclaimed in John 3:3b, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” And again in John 1:12-13 we read, “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” Please notice, very plainly stated, that the promise of salvation is “TO THEM THAT BELIEVE ON HIS NAME”!
So where in the world does Ray Comfort get the erroneous idea that a person must LIVE A LIFESTYLE THAT PROVES THE REALITY OF THEIR REPENTANCE to be saved? What in the world does that have to do with BELIEVING on the Lord, as taught in the Gospel of John? If you are following anything I have taught you from the Scriptures, you should be outraged and alarmed at the garbage Ray Comfort is propagating to millions of people! Ray says that to be born-again, you have to be sorry for your sins, and resolve in your heart not to commit them anymore, and then start “LIVING A LIFESTYLE THAT PROVES THE REALITY OF THEIR REPENTANCE.”
Romans 10:3-4, “For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” There are approximately 720 laws in the Old Testament! The Bible says that “CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW”? What does that mean? It simply means my dear reader, that the intent of all of God's law is to bring you to Christ to be redeemed! God never intended for anyone to obey the law to merit eternal life. The truth is that NO ONE can perfectly keep the laws of God. We are all horrible sinners. Before Moses had even come down off of Mount Sinai, with the tablets written by God on stone, the Hebrews had already broken all of the Ten Commandments. To have eternal life, a person cannot sin even once! You have to be 100% spotless in every way. Truthfully, no one except the virgin-born Son of God has ever meet that sinless qualification (Hebrews 4:15). That is why Jesus qualified as the spotless Lamb of God, to take away the sins of the world (John 1:29).
Jesus Christ is “the end” of the law. I love to let the Scriptures interpret themselves where possible. We have such a passage in Galatians 3:24-26, “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” Here we see a wonderful explanation of what “CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW” means. The LAW is the journey, God's saving GRACE through faith in Christ is the destination! Ray Comfort is still stuck on the LAW'S journey, which means he hasn't arrived at GRACE yet! We are saved only by God's GRACE, which the LAW leads us to. That is a summary of the Holy Bible: LAW and GRACE! Until Ray Comfort comes to the place in his mind and heart, where he abandons the LAW and clings solely to God's GRACE, he cannot be saved!!!
Here are a few edifying quotes:
“That payment that Christ made, He put it to your account... Do you realize the opportunity that God has given to us, to be able to 'GO INTO ALL THE WORLD.' And the thing that bothers people, is this thing about sin, because of the guilt that it brings, and all the wickedness that it brings; and you and I are the ONLY hope the people in this world—God has left us here and we are their only hope, if we don't explain the Gospel and make it clear!” —Pastor Ralph “Yankee” Arnold; a quote from his sermon, “A Study of Romans Chapter 10”
“God have mercy on a preacher that the world don't hate!” —Pastor Danny Castle, “Fight It Or Feed It!” | MP3)
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” ―Elie Wiesel
The holy King James Bible is inspired!!!
“Every word in this Bible is inspired by God almighty!” —Dr. Jack Hyles (a great quote from the classic sermon, “A Friend At Midnight”)
“The only inspired Words of God are in the King James Bible!” —Dr. Jack Hyles (an awesome quote —Dr. Jack Hyles (THE REAL BATTLE!”)
“And brother, any time anybody ever casts any reflection upon the accuracy and the inspiration—verbal inspiration—of this Bible, I'll guarantee you he was inspired by the demons. I'll guarantee you! I don't care if he's got a 'reverend' in front of his name. I don't care if he has a clerical collar on. I don't care what school he's been to. He's of the Devil if he says that the Bible is not verbally inspired by God!” —Dr. Jack Hyles, a great quote from the awesome MP3 sermon titled, “Satan's masterpiece.”(MP3 by Dr. Hyles, “The King James Bible crowd is going to come out on top!”)
I am appalled at the indifference amongst professed Christians today concerning the corrupting of God's Word. They just don't care which Bible is God's Word. I'm talking about thousands of shameful apostate religious colleges today, that are INDIFFERENT toward the hundreds of perverted English Bibles, all of which are the Devil's way of depriving people of the true and pure Word of God. Consequently, there are many false plans of salvations being taught in the churches today, mainly the heresy of manmade repentance, aka, Lordship Salvation. Here is a truthful quote from Pastor Jack Hyles...
“God has a special rebuke, again and again and again in the Bible, toward those people who keep their neutrality in the work of God!” —SOURCE: Dr. Jack Hyles, a quote from the great MP3 sermon, “Where Were You In The Battle?”“The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.” —Psalms 68:11
“How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” —Psalms 119:103
3rd John 1:8, “We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.”
“In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not THE GOSPEL of our Lord Jesus Christ.” —2nd Thessalonians 1:8
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