The reason why most churches today are preaching a counterfeit gospel that requires being willing to forsake your sinful bad habits to get to Heaven, is simply because those churches are not separated from the heathen religious world. Go verify what I say and you will see that I am absolutely correct, that every pseudo-Christian religious denomination today teaches that you must turn away from your sinful behavior to be saved. Here, I will shew you...
Case in point, here is a disturbing comparison between the false teachings of Mormonism and John MacArthur. They are identical concerning their damnable repentance heresies.
Here is a disturbing comparison between what the Jehovah's Witnesses teach, and what John MacArthur, Paul Washer and Ray Comfort teach. The similarities are alarmingly undeniable!
Also, the Roman Catholic understanding of repentance is unbiblical. Roman Catholics corrupt the meaning of “repent” to mean a change of lifestyle. As do nearly all false prophets, the following description of repentance starts off with the correct meaning of “a change of mind,” and then subtly perverts the meaning by the end of the paragraph to mean “a change of lifestyle.” This common form of deception is called the “Bait and Switch” tactic...
But what does it mean to truly repent? The Greek word for repentance that is used in the Gospel is metanoia, which literally means "to change one's mind." This "change" of "mind" necessarily entails a profound interior conversion in which we firmly turn from worldly darkness, and embrace a new way of life as Christ's disciples. Thus repentance is not merely to know of Christ, nor is it a matter of picking and choosing—with an intellectual arrogance—some aspects of our Lord's teaching while coldly rejecting others; rather, it is a union of mind, heart and soul to the Person of Christ. To repent is to die to Christ, discarding our former way of life in favor of the Way, Truth, and Life that is Christ himself. [emphasis added]Where in the Bible are we taught that repentance means to “DIE TO CHRIST?” We are saved by trusting Jesus, nothing else. Then as a Christian, which is discipleship not sonship, God wants us to be crucified with Christ and die to the lusts and desires of the flesh. Please understand that the saved life and the crucified life are separate. If you combine the two, you have a corrupted Gospel—a false plan of salvation.
SOURCE: A Lenten Reflection On Repentance — Catholic Online
Pastor Jack Hyles does a wonderful job explaining this truth in his awesome MP3 sermon titled, “STEPS TO SANCTIFICATION; OR, THE ROOT OF ALL HERESY.” We are saved by trusting Jesus, period. Whether or not you turn away from the old lifestyle of sin DOESN'T keep you from being saved. That is because eternal life is a free gift (Romans 5:15; Ephesians 2:8-9). You can be saved by simply coming to God by faith as a needy sinner, receiving Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full payment for your sins, believing that He was buried, but then bodily raised-up from the dead three days later. This is “the gospel” (THE GOOD NEWS) by which all who BELIEVE IT are saved (1st Corinthians 15:1-6; Romans 1:16).
Tragically, the primary reason why most Baptist churches today have been horribly corrupted doctrinally is because of the corrupt Bible colleges that train future pastors. Case in point is the cesspool of iniquity at Pensacola Christian College (PCC), who preach another gospel. I was shocked on page 60 of a “John & Romans” booklet which PCC's Campus Church mailed to my home in Pensacola. When I read PCC's counterfeit plan of salvation, I cringed in horror. What I am about to show you is straight from PCC and Satan dear reader:
“REPENTANCE — Now is the time to turn from your sin and embrace God. The act of turning away from sin is called 'repentance.' This word implies an inward decision to follow and obey God's will instead of your self-serving sins. It means changing your mind about sin and seeing it as something that grieves God. The Bible says that God patiently waits for all people to make this decision.” [emphasis added]
SOURCE: “John & Romans,” Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, p. 60
Oh my God! Do you still think I bumped my head? I've been exposing the cult at Bob Jones University (BJU) since 2014, and now I have been exposing the cult at Pensacola Christian College (PCC) since 2021. By God's grace, I will continue to expose these wicked bastardized organizations who are no longer legitimate Bible colleges. Please do not trust your impressionable child to them, lest you feed your son or daughter to the wolves! I am 58 years old and a humble father to four precious adult children, and nine wonderful grandchildren, so I understand family. Trust me, you don't want your kids in a place like PCC, where by example your children will learn to become superficial people without truly caring about individuals. In God's family every individual matters; but at PCC the cult system always comes first.
Kindly said, I wouldn't enroll a dog at BJU, PCC, Moody Bible Institute, Faith Baptist Bible College And Theological Seminary (a preacher's cemetery), or any one of the literally hundreds of corrupt Bible colleges today in America! They all teach the Devil's fallacies of Lordship Salvation, Misunderstood Repentance; and they all either use the Devil's corrupt Bible revisions, or refuse to expose them. PCC uses the King James Bible, but refuses to expose Satan's modern corrupt Bible perversions, which PCC foolishly deems “radical.” No, PCC's leadership is retarded!
Dear reader, I care. I know such a concept is shocking to this untoward generation today, but I really do care. Yes, somebody actually does care! That is why I incessantly preach from God's inspired Word (laboring night and day) on social media, never having asked for nor taken a single penny from anyone (nor will I ever by God's grace). By God's grace, I've been doing this needful ministry work since April of 2002 when I started my Jesus-is-Savior.com ministry website. I have eight total ministry websites, which you can access from my 'Repent Page.'
By God's grace, in May of 2006 I started my Soulwinning.info ministry website. It has been my sweet privilege and honor to serve OTHERS for Jesus Christ all these many 23 years, through much pain and hardships and suffering and losses and adversities, honoring my dear Savior of whose love and blessings I am so unworthy (Genesis 32:10). I love you dear reader with God's unconditional love, the same love of God which sent Jesus to die on a cross because He loves you and me.
Like many people, as a kid and an adult, I have so often wished that I could be a superhero like Spiderman, Superman or Thor, having some special supernatural power to help make the world a better place and save people. But then the blessed indwelling Holy Spirit always comforts and encourages my soul, reminding me that I am already doing the work of a superhero, by preaching the Gospel of free grace that saves men's souls from Hell. I cannot think of a greater role as a superhero than that. My special power is THE GOSPEL, which incredible power is available to every human being. What saith the Scripture? 1st Corinthians 1:18, “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.” We've got God's power folks! Are you using it?
What saith the Scripture? 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.” THE GOSPEL dear friend is “the power of God” to every who who BELIEVES IT! Nuclear fusion can provide astounding amounts of energy to supply millions of homes, but only the power of God can keep a man out of the fires of Hell. There is no greater power than that! All the money power, political power, weight lifting power and military power in this world cannot save a man's soul. Superheroes are real folks—those who preach a free grace Gospel to save multitudes from eternal damnation in the blistering Lake of Fire. You can become a superhero too (Daniel 12:3).
As a side note: I love The Strand Study Bible, which is available in hard copy form on Amazon. You can download the free .pdf version here. I humbly disagree with Pastor Strand's exegesis for Daniel 12:3, where he says that since God is the only one who can save a soul (1st Corinthians 3:6-9), there won't be any soulwinning celebrities in Heaven. I disagree. Daniel 12:3, “And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.” The inspired Word of God is very clear, that soulwinners who have led many lost sinners to Christ will shine in Heaven. I humbly think this will only be because the people whom we have led to Christ will love, cherish and admire us in Heaven, without whose Gospel witness they might likely have spent eternity burning in the fires of Hell. Thank God for soulwinning believers (Proverbs 11:30; Matthew 28:19-20).
Bible separation from religious unbelievers and dangerous false prophets is a forgotten doctrine today. Case in point is the ungodly Family Baptist Church in Pensacola that I attended for 45 months from 2021 to 2025, until they kicked me and my wife Alice out and banned us from returning. In hindsight, I regret that I tolerated there wickedness as long as I did. The church's horrible pastors promote damnable false prophet, Billy Graham (1918-2018). The tragic reason why those wicked pastors do not separate from unbelievers is that they are false prophets themselves! The official Statement of Faith of Family Baptist Church in Pensacola requires that to get to Heaven you must “Repent of your sins,” which is the same demonic tomfoolery, poppycock and tommyrot that apostate Billy Graham preached.
To make matters worse, I heard Pastor Brad Moffett at Family Baptist Church with my own two ears praise infidels' John Calvin and John Piper, who are Calvinist devils. The church also promotes infidel Ken Ham and his ungodly Answers-In-Genesis garbage. Ken Ham preaches a false gospel! The inspired Holy Bible warns against bidding Godspeed to false prophets (2nd John 1:11).
The corrupt Family Baptist Church also supports Operation Christmas Child (OCC), which is a ministry of Billy Graham and his son, Franklin Graham. Regardless of what literature a church may or may not insert into each box they prepare, OCC absolutely DOES include their damnable Lordship Salvation literature with every box, making the gift toxic poison! By partaking of OCC, foolish churches are partakers of Billy and Franklin Graham's evil deeds (preaching a false plan of salvation), and they all have much blood on their hands. This lost and dying world doesn't need more false religion, it needs Jesus Christ!
Kindly said, beware of Franklin Graham's counterfeit plan of salvation. In his helpful book titled, “I Never Knew You: The Horror Of The Great White Throne Judgment And How You Can Avoid It,” Michael P. Bowen exposes Franklin Graham's false gospel in chapter 12. I highly encourage you dear friend to read the chapter for your own edification, so that you will be fully aware of what is wrong with these neo-evangelical ministers today. Every Christian saint should stand guard against Satan's deceptions which are creeping into churches today.
And it's not just the Family Baptist Church that is corrupt in Pensacola. The ungodly Smyrna Baptist Church at 7000 N. Pensacola boulevard distributes toxic Chick Tracts with their “Be willing to turn from sin” damnable heresy in them, propagating the SAME repentance heresy as the pseudo-Christian religious cults do, which I have shewn you. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!
And by the way, the reason why Chick Tracts' Statement of Faith does not match their billions of Chick Tracts is because THEY KNOW JACK CHICK WAS IN ERROR DOCTRINALLY!!! Since all of their Chick Tracts teach that you must be willing to turn from your sinning to get to Heaven, why do they dishonestly leave that out in their official Statement of Faith on how to get saved? What rotten lying false prophets!
Our Baptist churches are in big trouble folks! I visited the horrible Fairfield Drive Baptist Church in Pensacola in 2024, but was saddened to learn that their pastor Josh Thompson teaches a class at Pensacola Christian College (PCC). I met Pastor Josh at the Pensacola Interstate Fair in 2023 (at the PCC booth in the Exhibition Hall) and asked him if he taught Lordship Salvation, which he confirmed that he sadly does. Josh cited Acts 16:31b, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house,” insisting that the word “Lord” proves you must receive Jesus not only as your Savior, but also as the supreme “Lord” of your life to be saved. Folks, that is 100% Lordship Salvation, and it is a counterfeit plan of salvation which cannot produce the required new birth to get to Heaven and escape the fires of Hell forever. Please RUN from these wicked heathen religious houses of iniquity.
The True Meaning Of Repentance
It matters what we believe and teach others. The Greek noun for “repentance” (metanoia) in the inspired King James Bible simply means “a change of mind” (the verb form metanoeo means “to think differently”). It is wicked and very wrong for anyone to embellish and add further meaning to what the word repent means. In fact, the word itself just means a change of thinking, not a change of anything else. So, obviously we need supplemental information from the Holy Bible to determine what we need to change our mind about to get to Heaven, and this is where the problem begins, because everyone has different ideas about repentance.
Since we know that salvation has always been by God's grace (Romans 4:4-7), then we can safely conclude that works can never be a part of receiving God's free gift of eternal life. Furthermore, the Scripture is full of plain passages that teach the only “work” we can do to get to Heaven is to BELIEVE ON JESUS. 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.” In Jonah 3:10 the Bible calls turning from one's evil ways, “works.” Jonah 3:10, “And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.” By the way, God repented Himself in Jonah 3:10, so repentance cannot mean to turn from your sins, because God is incapable of sinning (James 1:13-14). God simply changed His mind.
In Acts 20:21 the Bible speaks of repentance “toward God.” In 2nd Timothy 2:25 the Bible speaks of repentance to acknowledge “the truth.” Hebrews 6:1 speaks of repentance from “dead works.” They're “dead” because such useless human works cannot save a man (Isaiah 64:6). But nowhere does the Bible mention repenting of one's sins, nor turning from one's sins to get to Heaven. In Acts 16:30 the Roman jailer asked Paul and Silas how to be saved. Their simple reply in verse 31 was to “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved...” If turning from one's sinful bad habits is necessary to be saved, then the Apostle Paul and Silas would have told the man so, but they didn't. They simply taught him to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Dear reader, we need to get back to SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURE as Jesus commanded in John 5:39, which the noble Bereans did in Acts 17:10-11. The biggest mistake that you'll ever make is to listen to some damned fool like Billy Graham in the grave, Bobby Moffett at Family Baptist Church, Marty Herron at Faith Baptist Bible College And Theological Seminary, Jeff Redlin at PCC, former Bob Jones University president Steve Pettit, John MacArthur in the grave, Ray Comfort and thousands of other theologically incompetent ministers today.
Jeremiah 5:31, “The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?” This is a remarkable passage of Scripture. The old adage is very true: There is nothing new under the sun. The frightening phrase “what will ye do in the end thereof” simply means that when you stand before God to be judged in eternity, your pastor won't be able to do anything to help you. You and your pastor will be damned to Hell forever because you didn't do the will of the Father (Matthew 7:21-23). John 6:40, “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” Faith alone in Christ alone is God's simple plan of salvation. Look to the Lord (Isaiah 45:22).
The churches are packed full with unsaved tares who are diligently following and serving Christ by their own means, committed to living the Christian life; but they have never been born again, which means they will spend eternity burning in Hell. Satan's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born again. The Devil is a beautiful liar!
Repentance is not a separate event from faith, although they are not the same thing. Here is the best quote that I've found on repentance, by Pastor Harry A. Ironside (1876-1951)...
“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)
Everyone Must Separate From Religious False Doctrine
If you are a pastor, then please obey the inspired Word of God by separating from the doctrine of unbelievers. If you teach your congregation that they must repent of their sins to get to Heaven, then be warned Sir that you are in league with the deadly cults of Mormonism, Roman Catholicism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-Day Adventism, Churches of Christ, and other hellbound religions that require behavior modification to be saved, or to prove that you are saved.
The inspired Holy Bible commands all men to repent from “DEAD WORKS” in Hebrews 6:1. Dead works includes all works, both good and bad works alike. Turning from one's sins is a good work. You don't get to Heaven by doing good works, nor by giving up bad works (which would constitute doing a good work); you get to Heaven by being BORN AGAIN (John 3:1-7), which is by childlike faith alone in Jesus Christ. Galatians 3:26, “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”
I will go to seed preaching against Satan's falsehood that you cannot go to Heaven unless your behavior changes (aka, the “repent of your sins” heresy). If you ever make it to Heaven dear reader, it will be only on the merit of Christ alone who bled and died on a cross to pay your outstanding debt of sins, and mine (Romans 5:6-9). You get to Heaven by simply believing that Jesus did it all for you. Even a small child can do that. We are all woeful guilty sinners, and Jesus is the dear Savior.
It is high time for churches, especially Baptists of whom I am one myself, repent of false repentance and return to preaching a free grace Gospel without works. A false prophet's typical statement will be something like: “Salvation is obtained by God's grace alone and you cannot earn it, but you first must be willing to turn from your sinful ways to be saved.” That is a blatant contradiction, which the cults are infamous for. Case in point, here is a damnable quote from the Jehovah's Witness' Watchtower organization's website...
“Salvation is a free gift from God. It cannot be earned. Yet it does require effort on our part.” —SOURCE: https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1996081
Say what? What a misnomer! What a contradiction! Evangelist Ray Comfort is just as bad...
“If belief is all that is necessary for salvation, then the logical conclusion is that one need never repent.” —SOURCE: http://www.livingwaters.com/witnessingtool/browse.shtml
Ray Comfort is clearly implying that more than faith is required to be saved. In fact, faith is enough to get to Heaven. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do. Ray is guilty of mixing works with grace, because he errantly views repentance as a change of behavior; instead of a change of mind unto the Gospel itself, as it should be. You don't repent AND believe to be saved; you repent TO believe. Repentance facilitates believing. What did Jesus say? John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” The dear Savior's inspired words are so simple and clear—a sinner need only believe on Him to be saved. Since we cannot see Him, the Bible says that a sinner need only believe on Jesus' name to be saved (John 1:12-13). That is true salvation! John 8:36, “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”
It is tragic that over 90% of Baptists today have been caught up into the Devil's lie that you must repent of your sins to get to Heaven. Behavior modification has no place in God's simple plan of salvation. A changed life is the result of the indwelling fruit of the Holy Spirit, if we choose as saints to walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-25). Salvation is a matter of what Christ has done for us; not what we can do for Christ. Human reformation (a change of behavior) must not be confused with Bible repentance (a change of mind).
Our churches today desperately need to separate from the heathen religious world's corrupt concept of repentance. Thank you for reading my ministry blog.
Evangelist Billy Sunday (1862-1935)
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