If You Do Use A Sinner's Prayer

Romans 10:12-14, “For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?”

Let me start by saying that Romans 10:13 is NOT a part of God's simple plan of salvation, it is an add on. That is, you DON'T have to call, ask or pray to receive God's free gift of eternal life. Romans 10:14 plainly teaches that we are saved at the point of faith, when we BELIEVE. A person calls upon the Lord AFTER they have already believed on His name to be saved. The inspired Scripture is very clear about this important matter.

That being said, it is not wrong to utilize a sinner's prayer if you choose to do so. A sinner's prayer is simply the expression of one's faith, a by-product of the faith in one's soul. This is exactly what is meant in Romans 10:10, “For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” The first part of the verse is referred to in Romans 10:14, and the latter half in Romans 10:13. The inspired Scripture speaks plainly if we rightly divide it.

If you do choose to use a sinner's prayer, it is of the most vital importance that you ALWAYS make sure to teach lost sinners that prayer is NOT necessary to get to Heaven. That is, you don't have to call, pray or ask to be born again. The new birth has nothing to do with a radical change of one's behavior and lifestyle as Ray Comfort foolishly teaches. The new birth is a supernatural miracle of God in response to one's faith in the Good News of Jesus Christ. That is, the Gospel according to 1st Corinthians 15:1-6.

A sinner's prayer should be short and simple. Something perhaps like this...

Dear God, I believe your Word that I am a guilty sinner who deserves to be punished in Hell forever for my sins. I believe you died in my place on the cross, were buried and resurrected from the dead the third day. I receive you Jesus as my Savior. Thank you for saving me.

There is no right or wrong way to pray. And again, praying is NOT necessary to be saved, you can simply BELIEVE what God has recorded in His Word. You don't get saved by repenting or prayer, you get saved by BELIEVING that Jesus did it all for you.

That all being said, I DON'T like nor use a sinner's prayer when leading someone to Christ. The reasons why are because: 

1. A sinner's prayer is not biblically necessary to be saved.
2. A sinner's prayer may confuse someone about what they must do to be saved.
3. A sinner's prayer confused me when I got saved at age 13.

I knew at age 13 that praying didn't save me, but I also was misled to believe that prayer is the vehicle by which I put my faith in Christ. No one ever told me THE TRUTH that I could simply believe on the name of Jesus and be saved without praying at all. John 1:12-13, “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.” Since we've never met Jesus in person, all we can do is believe on His name, and that is all that God expects from us.

Oh dear friend, it is so easy to go to Heaven. My father was right that religion is the worst thing that ever happened to this world. The famous singer Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) did an interview for Playboy magazine in 1963, in which he criticized organized religion. It is sadly clear to me that Sinatra wasn't a born again Christian and very likely went to Hell in his sins in 1998, but I couldn't agree with him more about the deplorable history of religion. It was religious nuts who burned the libraries of Alexandria, Egypt. It was religious nuts who burned countless women wrongly accused of being witches.

Still today, it was religious nuts who invaded and murdered 2.3 million innocent people during the Iraqi War (2003-2011). Then, contemptable Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, said President George W. Bush's cruel assault against Iraq was “a plan from God.” By attacking Iraq, the United States broke every one of the Ten Commandments. God had NOTHING to do with what wickedness WE DID! These are religious wackos! Like Mr. Sinatra, I have a very low opinion of organized religion. But unlike Sinatra, who was spiritually blinded to discern the difference between truth and religion, I acknowledge that true Christianity has nothing to do with manmade religion. Unlike Mr. Sinatra, I do believe in a personal relationship with the Creator of the universe. I digress.

I don't recommend using a sinner's prayer, but if you do, make sure to explain that it is not mandatory to get to Heaven. If you fail to tell someone this truth, you are risky causing a lifetime of worry, fear and needless grief if they cannot remember what they prayed years later. This painful experience happened to me after I got saved at age 13. I worried needlessly and tearfully for several years afterwards, wondering if I had prayed correctly and not being able to remember hardly anything. I was a tortured soul suffering from religious scrupulosity. All of this happened because of ignorant preachers, Baptist pastors and Chick Tracts, who all failed to correctly present God's simple plan of salvation to me. I was horribly misled.

That being said, it is quite normal for a lost sinner to desire to pray at the time of salvation. It is normal for someone to express their soul's faith by asking God to save them. In fact, I did quietly ask Jesus to save me. I did it in ignorance, but naturally so. There is absolutely nothing wrong with silently calling, asking or audibly praying to be saved. God honors all such requests, but it is faith and not prayer that saves a man. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do. Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty. Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith.

I wrote this particular blog for two reasons:

1. To discourage others from using a sinner's prayer, because it can be potentially confusing which might cause years of needless painful worrying, fear and uncertainty.
2. To teach you the proper way to use a sinner's prayer if you do choose to use it.

Again, if you do use a sinner's prayer, please make sure to mention that praying is NOT necessary to get to Heaven. Prayer is NOT God's method of being saved. Faith is the mechanism (vehicle) by which we are bon again, not praying.

Also, make sure to include the three elements of THE GOSPEL; namely, Jesus' death on the cross, burial and bodily resurrection. Make sure to include the fact that we are all sinners. A person must know why they need to be saved, and what they are being saved from. We need to be saved because we are guilty sinners and there is a penalty on sin, which is Hell (Romans 3:19-20; Romans 6:23; Revelation 21:8). By trusting Christ, you dear sinner will be rescued from burning in the fires of a literal Hell forever (Revelation 20:15).

God's only begotten Son, Jesus, has already paid for everyone's sins on the cross with His precious blood. This is why God the Father is freely offering eternal life to everyone. Jesus paid it all! Why would you ask God to give you something that He is already freely offering to give you? Asking God for salvation makes no sense.

In John 4:10, Jesus told the Samaritan woman at Jacob's Well that if she knew with whom she was speaking, she would have asked Him for the living water. Yet, nowhere does the Bible say that any of the Samaritans asked to be saved. John 4:39-42 says they simply BELIEVED on Him to be saved. Nowhere does the inspired Holy Bible mandate calling, asking or praying to be saved. Anyone who insists that you must pray to be saved is preaching another gospel.

I'm So Happy That I'm Going To Heaven

Luke 10:20 “Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.”

1st Peter 1:3-9, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.”

I am a happy person because of Jesus, my precious resurrected Savior, Lord, Friend and God. I have plenty of sorrowful past memories. I have many regrets. I have wept bitterly at the lowest points of my life. I suffer from constant chronic neck pain and related nerve burning, tingling in my limbs and the right side of my body feeling half asleep all the time. I have stenosis and radiculitis in my cervical spinal cord. But despite my health issues, broken life and loneliness without a wife for the past 17 years, I am happy in the Lord. I rejoice as Jesus commanded us to do, that my name is written in Heaven in the Lamb's Book of Life. ...

1st Peter 1:3-5, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”

I love that. We have a lively hope (eternal life) that FADETH NOT AWAY. Everything in this world fades away. As an example: I have always liked the music of The Beach Boys, because it has beautiful harmony and pretty melodies. Brian Wilson is a musical prodigy, whose voice is angelic. Yet, Brian ruined his voice by abusing drugs like LSD and alcohol. At one time he had become so obese that he weighed 300 pounds. Sadly, Brian Wilson is an avowed atheist.

Co-founder Mike Love of The Beach Boys is now 81 years old. Mike will be 82 on March 15, 2023. Mike doesn't have much time left on earth. As far as I can find, none of The Beach Boys are Christians. Brian Wilson's younger brother, Dennis Wilson, died by misadventure in 1983, when he got drunk and drowned in California at only age 39. Another of Brian's brothers, Carl Wilson, died of cancer in 1999. These were all exceptionally talented men. Sadly, they and their music are fading away, just as the Bible says:

1st John 2:15-17, “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”

The will of God is that every lost sinner BELIEVE on the name of Jesus Christ to be saved. 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.” But John 3:20-21 says that the love of sin prevents lost sinners from coming to the light of THE TRUTH of the Gospel to be saved. God doesn't send anyone to Hell. Lost sinners are condemned already, because they have not believed on the name of Jesus Christ (John 3:18, 36). If you are damned to Hell, it is your own damn fault!

I am so happy in my soul that I am a born-again child of God. I have no part in my own salvation. It is GOD'S FREE GIFT OF SALVATION. Jonah 2:9b says that, “Salvation is of the LORD.” Neither I, nor you, have any righteousness of our own to offer a holy God. That is why we need GOD'S RIGHTEOUENSS, which is obtained only through faith in Jesus Christ:

Philippians 3:9-11, “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: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.”

Dear reader, if you know that your name is recorded in Heaven, then you ought to rejoice. Even in the worst times of my life, when all hope seemed lost and there was no light at the end of the tunnel of pain and suffering, I still had peace like a river in my soul, knowing that Heaven is my home and that I already posses eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ my blessed Savior. Oh, it is wonderful to be a Christian...

Oh, It Is Wonderful To Be A Christian

Be of good cheer dear friend (John 16:33), for Jesus Christ is risen from the dead and has ascended into Heaven on our behalf (Hebrews 9:12, 24). Jesus is every believer's High Priest. Hebrews 4:14, “Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.” I receive many emails from miserable believers, some even talking about suicide. The reason why they are so sad and miserable is because their mind is broken. They don't go to church. They have no fellowship with other born-again saints. They think negative because that is all they think about and look at in life, the negative things. They talk negative. They think negative. They don't live in God's promises. Of course they are miserable!!!

There but for the grace of God go I, so I am not judging anybody. Dear friend, God is real. The Word of God is not just a storybook, it is the eternally inspired Words of almighty God. I listen to several sermons today by Pastor Bruce Mejia. I listen to sermons by Pastor Steven Anderson all the time, because we all need Bible preaching. We are what we think! Everything in life comes down to a mindset. Whether you think you can or not, you're right! Get your mind out of the doldrums, and start taking hold on the eternal life which God has already given to you by faith dear friend. Life is too short to live with a burden of hatred, anger or regret. Leave your troubled past at the cross of Calvary, and move forward by faith with God your Savior.

What Did Paul Mean: "If Ye Keep In Memory What I Preached Unto You"?

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.”

That is a great question! The Apostle Paul had started several churches on his various missionary's journeys. On numerous occasions, false prophets had crept into some of those churches, after Paul moved on to other cities to preach the Gospel.

I love the Epistle of Galatians, which focuses primarily on this very problem. The Galatian churches has been corrupted by a cult of Judaizers (Galatians 1:6-9; 3:1-3; 5:4), who required keeping Moses' law to get to Heaven, in addition to faith in Jesus. So Paul writes a letter to them to rebuke them, calling them "fools" (Galatians 3:1) for being so soon removed from the Gospel (Galatians 1:6), which Paul received not of man, but directly from Jesus Christ (Galatians 1:12).

Having said that, when Paul wrote 1st Corinthians 15:1-4, he defines "the Gospel" and then warns the Galatians not to be led astray unto another gospel, lest they have believed in vain. We see in Matthew 7:21-23 that a group of religious people followed Jesus as their Lord. They even called Him, "Lord, Lord." There is Lordship Salvation in the Bible! They boasted of having done "many wonderful works," but they never mentioned wholly trusting in Jesus' name.

Likewise, we heard all sorts of plans of salvation today, which contradict what the Holy Bible teaches. Joel Osteen says you've got to turn away from your sinful ways, invite Christ into your life, and follow Jesus as your Lord. Joyce Meyer errantly teaches that to get to Heaven, you must let God take the driver's seat of your life, turn away from your sinful behavior, invite Christ into your life, et cetera.

Hundreds of millions of lost sinners have a false sense of security, just like feeling the calm of the storm in the eye of a hurricane. It is a false security! Pastor Max D. Younce taught me: "A demon's favorite activity is to make people feel comfortable in their false religion." Michael P. Bowen says: "Satan's favorite weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born-again."

I believe Paul was simply teaching in 1st Corinthians 15:2 ("By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain"), that you cannot get to Heaven if you get the Gospel wrong.

We know that Paul was NOT teaching that salvation can be lost, because the new birth is irreversible. Not one verse in the entire Bible even hints that eternal life can be forfeited; for if it could be lost, it would mean that eternal life cannot be a gift. A gift cannot be returned, because it is free.

once witnessed the Gospel to my Seventh-Day Adventist doctor. He said that he believed exactly what I believed. But I knew better than that. So I asked him if he would still be saved if he committed a very bad sin, like God forbid, murdering someone. He immediately replied, "Oh no, I wouldn't be saved anymore." I asked him why he thought that way, since we know that eternal life is a free gift from God (Romans 6:23). He said, "Yes, salvation is a gift, but it can be returned to God if we choose to go into sin." Kindly said, my former doctor is WRONG!

I didn't rebuke my former doctor for speaking as a fool, but I simply told him what I believed, that I could go into gross immorality and still be 100% saved, because I am saved by God's righteousness and not my own righteousness. I then handed him a free hardcopy of Michael P. Bowen's helpful book: "I Never Knew You" (free .pdf online version - hardcopies are available at Amazon.com).

Kindly said, SDA's are a Satanic cult. They are NOT true born-again believers. SDA's are trusting in 100% Lordship Salvation. SDA's believe that keeping the Ten Commandments (i.e., keeping the LAW of God) demonstrates your love for God. So if you don't obey the Ten Commandments, SDA's say that it proves you don't really love God, and you don't have faith, so you are not really saved. This is a 100% WORKS based plan of salvation, which is really DAMNATION.

Again, I think Paul is simply saying in 1st Corinthians 15:1-4 that if you hear the Gospel, but it gets confused and obscured somewhere long the way, you won't be able to receive the new birth. Jesus said in Luke 8:18, "Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have." Carefully notice what Jesus said: "TAKE HEED THEREFORE HOW YE HEAR."

As Pastor Max Younce rightly says: "RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS." It sure does. Jesus is warning everyone to be diligent to make you you hear God's Word correctly. And I think that is essentially the same thing that Paul is saying in 1st Corinthians 15:2. Paul preached the simplicity that is in Christ, which is "THE GOSPEL" (Romans 1:16; 2nd Corinthians 11:3-4). It would have been VERY easy for some false prophet to creep into the church at Corinth. Also, keep in mind that the Apostle Paul penned the Epistle of Galatians approximately 5 years BEFORE he did the Epistle of 1st Corinthians. Here are the years in which each of the 66 books of the inspired Holy Bible were penned by holy men of old, as they wrote under the divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God. 

After the horrifying experience of what happened to the Galatian churches, when they were deceived to follow false prophets (wolves in sheep's clothing who brought in another gospel), Paul was being extra careful to warn the church at Corinth. Paul remembered the horror story of what happened to the churches of Galatia. The apostle had preached a clear Gospel presentation to them, but after he left town to go preach in another city, word later came back to Paul that the churches of Galatia were now cults, requiring WORKS (keeping the law) to get to Heaven. Paul was alarmed! The Greek word word “marvel” means that the Apostle Paul was “astonished.” ...

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."

I humbly think that in 1st Corinthians 15:2, Paul is simply telling them that if they get deceived by the Devil to believe another gospel after he leaves town, they won't go to Heaven. Paul is telling them to guard the accurate of THE GOSPEL which he is preaching to them. I love Paul for that!!! Revelation 3:2, “Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.” Jude 1:3, “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.”

It is the solemn duty of every Christian man who is learned and skilled in the Word of God to contend for the faith. Titus was NOT an apostle of Jesus, yet Paul told him in Titus 1:13-14, “This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.” Lordship Salvation is the commandments of men, not the free grace Gospel taught in the Holy Scriptures.

Corrupt preachers who wickedly tell lost sinners that they must "turn away from your sinful ways" to be saved, are pulling on the same rope as the Devil. They are preaching another gospel. They are sinfully requiring people to keep the LAW as a prerequisite to putting their childlike faith in CHRIST. Romans 3:20 teaches that by the LAW is THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN. That is, the Law shows us our need for redemption, and then brings us to CHRIST to be saved by grace through faith alone. ...

“The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.“ —Evangelist Billy Sunday (1862-1935)

That is what I am doing, day and night as a preacher, warning everybody not to be led away from the simplicity that is in Christ, which is THE GOSPEL. It is a full-time job! False prophets are crawling out of every nook and cranny like cockroaches! 2nd Peter 2:1, "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."

Dear reader, it is IMPOSSIBLE to lose God's free gift of eternal life. If you couldn't get saved by GOOD WORKS, then how could you ever lose it by BAD WORKS? Hebrews 6:1-2, “Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.” Please don't miss that: REPENTANCE FROM DEAD WORKS!!!

Ungodly ERV Changes Plan of Salvation By Corrupting Hebrews 6:1

If you look at the modern Devil's Bible revisions, you'll see that they corrupted the Word of God. Now my friend, you are about to read the ungodly, wicked, blasphemous, PERversion, rendered in the “Easy-To-Read Version” (ERV) of the Bible . . .

EASY-TO-READ VERSION (ERV) — “So we should be finished with the beginning lessons about Christ. We should not have to keep going back to where we started. We began our new life by turning away from the evil we did in the past and by believing in God.” [emphasis added]

Here again is Hebrews 6:1 in the beloved, correct, King James Bible . . .

KING JAMES BIBLE (KJB) — Hebrews 6:1, “Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God.” [emphasis added]

Do you see how the new corrupt Bible versions are horribly changing theology in the churches? The King James Bible teaches that we must repent from our DEAD WORKS to be saved; but the ERV teaches that we must stop living a life of deliberate sin (evil) to be saved. The Alexandrian Greek is of the Devil, teaching a works-based plan of salvation. Salvation is NOT by works (Romans 3:20; Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5; Romans 4:5-6). The doctrine of the imputed righteousness of God silences all the critics.

A baby believer won't see the major theological differences between the ERV verses the KJB, but I tell you that there are THOUSANDS!!! They've butchered the Words of God!!! Hebrews 6:1 in the ERV sinfully changes the entire plan of salvation, which now requires partial faith in Christ + human effort! No wonder our churches are so messed-up nowadays.

The really tragic thing is that many churches use the ERV piece of crap, using the lame excuse that BI-LINGUAL church members need an easier-to-read Bible. In reality, all the church has done is hand some easy-to-read satanic heresy to the victim. The doctrinal soundness of the Holy Scriptures is GONE, GONE, GONE in the ERV! The built-in dictionary is gone! God's Word is special, it is unique, it cannot be watered-down and simplified without ruining its power. I'm telling the truth, the Luciferian-worshipping occult want to bring spirituality into the churches and eliminate theology. It should be obvious to you that this is exactly what the modern corrupted Bible versions are doing.

The reason why they need to do this is to infiltrate, corrupt and take control over the churches, so that they'll all receive the Antichrist when he comes. If you think that could never happen, you are deceived already. The mystery religion which began in ancient Egypt (which is at the core of New Age) teaches to love God and your fellow mankind, which means rejecting Christianity and the King James Bible, because they are [they say] bigoted, hateful and prejudiced. Of course, Luciferians promote a phony type of ecumenical love, which sinfully embraces unrepentant homosexuals, unbelievers and all apostate religious faiths.

I believe that when the Lord appears at the Rapture to catch away the saints, 97% of the churches will be unaffected (because they are not saved). Lordship Salvation is a false plan of salvation, just as Seventh-Day Adventists, Greek Orthodox, Episcopalians, Church of Christ and Lutherans teach a false plan of salvation. Whether you add water baptism or forsaking sinful living to be saved, it is a false plan of works salvation.

Biblical salvation is based solely upon what Christ did for us, and not what we can do for Him. Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith. God will not save anyone who is trying to be saved, He will only save those who are trusting to be saved.

Eternal Life is FREE

Eternal Life IS FREE (a Gift), all a person has to do IS BELIEVE.

THAT’S RIGHT, just believe (Trust in Alone Completely) that the Lord Jesus Christ Died on the cross, shed his blood, was Buried and 3 days later Resurrected from the dead and that is all you have to do.

The moment that YOU DO you are FREE FOR ETERNITY (forever) from ever having to go to hell.

– God said it,

– God wrote it in the Bible,

– That settles it,

– JUST BELIEVE IT.

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.”

Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold Explains How To Be Saved

People Will Tolerate Religion, But Not The Truth

2nd Timothy 4:1-4, “I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 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.”

People will tolerate just about any system of beliefs nowadays except Biblical Christianity. The name of Jesus is offensive to most people. A lot of people will talk about God; but never mention the precious name of Jesus. People will tolerate religion; but they will not tolerate the Savior. The reason is because religion elevates mortal man as their authority.

However, Biblical Christianity elevates the God-man, Jesus Christ. The heathen world will not tolerate the Son of God, the Christ (John 15:19). People are embracing religion today, because there is no Final Authority.

Having said that, one of the biggest cults today is Pensacola Christian College (PCC). I moved from the island of Guam in 2021 to Pensacola. My first choice of church to visit was none other than PCC's Campus Church. I was deeply hurt the first time I contacted their incompetent shameful senior pastor, Jeff Redlin, who took the liberty to scold me for mentioning that I hoped to find a wife at Campus Church. The guy didn't even know me. He had never ate a meal with me. He never offered once to pray for or with me. Pastor Redlin had no right or business belittling me, when he doesn't even know who I am. I say that to his utter shame.

Furthermore, he falsely accused me, scolding me for coming to a big church to find a wife. But I had never stated that was why I came to church, as ASS-U-med that. I realized that quickly that Jeff Redlin has the mentality of an eight year old spoiled brat. To no surprise, it didn't even take 3 months for him to drive me our of Campus Church, because of his ongoing mistreatment of me as a human being, and a hurting divorced person. There is no love at PCC, only a hateful self-righteous intolerance and bigotry toward anyone who dares to question their doctrine or methods in the cult.

I did question their doctrine, and for good reason. On July 21, 2021 I heard incompetent assistant pastor, Timothy Zacharias, teach thousands of cult members at a Wednesday night evening service, that repentance requires a change of behavior to prove that you are saved. I was disgusted by what I heard, as I sat their physically in the pews of Campus Church. The next morning I contacted their competent senior pastor, Jeff Redlin, about the matter. To no surprise he 100% defended Tim Zacharias and said the PCC camp believes that repentance results in a change of behavior. Folks, that is damnable heresy!

God authored one Book, the Holy Bible. In that wonderful Holy Book, God made two great divisions of Old and New Testaments (or, respectively, LAW and CHRIST, or GRACE). The sole function of the LAW in salvation is to give humanity THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN. Romans 3:20, “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.” And then the LAW brings lost sinners to CHRIST to be saved by grace through faith alone. Galatians 3:324-26, “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.”

I have just shown you dear reader THE TRUTH from the inspired Word of God. The Law was never intended by God to be kept as a prerequisite to being saved by faith. Yet, that is the exact heresy being preached by 90% of preachers, pastors and clergy today in churches, Bible colleges, in prisons, in rescue missions, in the military and on foreign mission fields. These lying preachers all say that faith in the Gospel (Good News) Jesus Christ is not enough to get to Heaven; but in addition, they all wickedly teach that you must first “turn away from your sinful ways” to be saved. What they are effectively preaching is that YOU must make an effort to keep the Old Testament LAW to get to Heaven. They are devils behind the pulpit!

A lot of shallow churchgoers have become angry at me for exposing the incompetent Pensacola Christian College (PCC) camp. There is an ongoing spirit of contempt, bitterness and smear campaign against me by PCC cult members and former employees, attacking me on social media because I have the guts to expose their wickedness. In fact, PCC today wickedly bids Godspeed to false prophet Ken Ham. PCC claims to be a liberal arts institution, which one of their former female PCC teachers alleges gives them the right to promote Ken Ham. No, Biblically, it doesn't. 2nd John 1:11, “For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.”

There's another pastor and church in Pensacola that I may need to expose too, that is closely associated with the PCC cult. I can tell you with absolute Biblical authority that anyone who teaches that you must “turn away from your sinful ways” to get to Heaven is pulling on the same rope as the Devil. Pastor Jeff Redlin and Timothy Zacharias are theological liars, who errantly teach, and I quote from their Foundation's Class: “Repentance is a change of mind which results in a change of behavior.” No Sir, that is a counterfeit plan of salvation. No where in the inspired King James Bible are we taught to forsake our sinning to be saved, or to prove that we are really saved. I fully agree with what Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold said:

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

Kindly said, Pastors' Tim Zacharias and Jeff Redlin are theological LIARS!!! They are oh so wrong! They know not what they teach. They do greatly err, not knowing the Scriptures. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!

The FALSE GOSPEL of ANSWERS IN GENESIS and KEN HAM

PCC leadership lives under the delusion that they are doing everything right, and are pleasing to God, as did the foolish Laodicean church in Revelation 3:15-17; but Jesus truthfully called them “miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked” (Revelation 3:17b). WORKS has absolutely nothing to do with going to Heaven, yet Ken Ham and his employees at his Answers-In-Genesis ministry preach another gospel, which requires WORKS. So why does PCC wickedly support, honor and invite ken Ham to speak at Campus Church and PCC? It is because they are ungodly at Pensacola Christian College (PCC).

I actually attempted to reconcile and make peace with the PCC leadership in the summer of 2022. I wrote three humble letters to them. PCC totally ignored me. Pastor Redlin replied by banning me from attending Campus Church ever again. That was August 2, 2022. What hypocrites! What hateful and uncompassionate phonies for Christ.

Ken Ham is in error, falsely teaching that you must repent to be saved, by turning away from your evil ways. The Bible calls Ken Ham a LIAR!!! Nobody can get to Heaven based on their WORKS. Turning from your evil way is WORKS (Jonah 3:10). People who are trusting in their WORKS to get to Heaven will NOT go to Heaven. Jesus said this...

Matthew 7:21-23, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord (There's your Lordship Salvation), shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven (cf., John 6:40). Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord (There's your Lordship Salvation), have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”

Did you see that? They were trusting in their WORKS? You cannot be born-again by trusting in WORKS. What saith the Scripture? Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Turning away from your sinful ways is WORKS! Forsaking a lifestyle of sinning is WORKS! Reforming, being willing to turn from sin, repenting of your sinful ways is WORKS! The Bible says we are saved BY FAITH. Galatians 3:26, “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”

Our Astonishingly Amazing Creator

God is truly more than amazing! Psalms 145:3, “Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.”

What Is Nothing? Exploring the Void of Space
(FULL DOCUMENTARY)

Here are some amazing astronomy facts...

“While we are all likely familiar with the fact that Earth spins and orbits the sun, these are only two forms of motion that the Earth experiences. In addition to those two values, the Earth is also being carried around the Milky Way with the sun. Like all the planets, the sun also has an orbit. In the case of the sun, it orbits the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, and it carries the entire solar system along with it. At this very moment, the solar system is moving through the Milky Way at a speed of 448,000-miles per hour (720,000-kilometres per hour). While that may seem extraordinarily fast, it will still take the sun about 230-million years to orbit the galaxy.”
https://www.worldatlas.com/.../how-fast-is-the-earth...

And more...

“Imagine you’re floating down a wide river. The current is strong and steady, but suddenly you notice you’re veering toward one side, as if something beneath the surface is dragging you toward it. That’s what’s happening with our galaxy. Astronomers have measured the motion of the Milky Way and found that it’s moving at an astonishing speed of about 600 kilometers per second (that’s over 1.3 million miles per hour!). But we’re not just coasting with the general flow of the universe’s expansion—we’re being drawn toward a specific direction in space [i.e., the Andromeda galaxy].

https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/the-great-attractor...

Wow, that is truly incredible!

➦ So, the earth spins on its axis at 1,037 mph
➦ The earth moves around the sun at 66,627 mph
➦ Our solar system moves though the Milky Way Galaxy at 448,000 mph
➦ Our Milky Way Galaxy is moving toward the Andromeda Galaxy at 1.3 million mph (and the Andromeda Galaxy is moving toward our Milky Way Galaxy at 250,000 mph).

The reason why we don't feel these movements is the same as riding in a speeding car. You don't feel the motion as long as the movement is consistent. If any of these movements ever suddenly stopped, it would be the end of life on earth. God is more than amazing!

Approximately 932,884 Earths can fit inside our sun, when considering the packing density of the planets. The commonly cited figure of 1.3 million is based on a theoretical calculation that doesn't account for the physical structure of the earth. Astronomers tell us that our sun is as a mere spec of sand on a beach in comparison to the universe. There are more stars in the universe than all the grains of sand on every beach on earth. Think about that! There are an estimated 200 billion suns (stars) in our own Milky Way Galaxy. Scientists have so far determined that outside of our own Milky Way Galaxy there are at least 20 trillion other galaxies, each having hundreds of billions of suns!

The truth is that mankind simply does not know how big the universe is. Our technology and telescopes are limited. Astronomers talk about "close" stars that are a mind-numbing 20 light years away from earth. That is, you would have to travel at the speed of light (186,282 miles per second) for 20 years to get there! That's 670.7 million miles per hour! We're talking about "close" stars that are hundreds of trillions of miles away from earth. And those are just the suns that are our nearby neighbours. Truly, God's greatness is astoundingly beyond human comprehension.

Psalms 144:3, “LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him!  or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!”

A Deadly Video That Was Very Well Made

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. 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.”

Although I love the sounds and images in the following video, it is blatant false teaching. The gist of the video is that you cannot go to Heaven unless you live a righteous life, follow Jesus and serve Him faithfully. I HATE that video! Watch it for yourself...

This is Damnable False Doctrine, But Well Made

The video teaches that you have to surrender control of your life over to God, and your life must change, or else you won't go to Heaven. The whole video is preaching that you don't have to do works to be saved, but if you don't do works you never had a genuine relationship with God, so you go to Hell. This preceding video is an excerpt from the full audio theater performance titled: "Rescued" by John & Lisa Bevere, two are false prophets who preach another gospel, claim to receive extra Biblical revelation (as did cult leaders' Ellen G. White and Joseph Smith). Their corrupt plan of salvation is very different from what the inspired King James Bible teaches. BEWARE OF WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING!!! (MATTHEW 7:13-15).

I highly encourage you to watch this beautiful sermon by Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold titled: "Why Lordship Salvation Is Wrong," and you will clearly see what is wrong with the video. Whoever made that video IS NOT SAVED!!! You don't have to receive Jesus as your "Lord and Savior" to be saved, just your "Savior." Pastor Jack Hyles also exposes the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation: 'The Lordship Salvation Mess!' Please don't fall for Satan's lies. The Devil's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born again. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do.

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

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

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

If to “repent” means to forsake our sinful ways TO BE SAVED, but Jesus already paid for our sins by dying on the cross, then what are we repenting from? That is why the Bible says in 1st John 3:9, “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.” Do you know why a child of God cannot sin? It is because there are no more sins to forgive! Romans 6:1, “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?” As believers, if you are saved, we fall IN GRACE, never FROM GRACE. Only the unbeliever who knowingly rejects Christ, or adds works to partial faith in Christ, has fallen FROM GRACE (Galatians 5:4). The ONLY way to get to Heaven is to REST completely in the finished redemptive work of Jesus Christ through Calvary's cross. Hebrews 4:10-11, “For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.” This passage of Scripture plainly refutes the damnable false gospel of John & Lisa Bevere.

The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to, YOU.

We must stay true to the simplicity of the Gospel!! Repentance regarding salvation is a change of mind from unbelief to belief!!! We must earnestly contend for the faith (Jude 1:3).

Here Pastor Curtis Hutson exposes Lordship Salvation as: "A Perversion Of The Gospel." You won't find anything in the Gospel of John about following Jesus, making Him Lord of your life, surrendering all to Him, faithfully running the Christian race, living a lifestyle of repentance, counting the cost and paying the price, publicly confessing Christ, being water baptized, serving Jesus, repenting of your sins and forsaking them, having a relationship with Christ nor anything else! That is all junk theology!!! Although it is true that every child of God has a Father and adopted son relationship with the Lord, Judas also had a relationship with Jesus as one of His very apostles. Yet Judas went to Hell forever in his sins because He didn't believe that Jesus is the Christ, the only begotten Son of God. Judas didn't go to Hell because he was a sinner, he went to Hell because of his UNBELIEF in Christ.

Dear reader, you CAN know 100% that you are saved right now. You DON'T need to live a changed life to prove anything. If you have placed your childlike faith in Jesus as the Christ, the only begotten Son of God, and you aren't relying upon anything else (just in case), then you are saved. Jesus plainly warned in 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.” Have you been born-again dear friend? I have been since age 13, in 1980. Oh, it is wonderful to be a Christian!

Back in 2003, I read an article in the Chicago Sun-Times about our U.S. troops over in Iraq, who were getting ready to go into field combat. The article said that the troops were lining up to get water baptized, “just in case” (i.e., just in case they were killed in combat). I was so saddened to read that, because Satan lied to them! That ungodly minister who baptized them with water is a false prophet!

Pilgrim's Progress author John Bunyan said it best, and this is my favorite preacher quote:

“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)

Amen and amen! Bravo John Bunyan!!! And again, here is another helpful quote from one of my favorite preachers, Pastor M.R. DeHaan (1891-1965):

“There is a vast difference between coming to Jesus for salvation and coming after Jesus for service. Coming to Christ makes one a believer, while coming after Christ makes one a disciple. All believers are not disciples. To become a believer one accepts the invitation of the Gospel, to be a disciple one obeys the challenge to a life of dedicated service and separation. Salvation comes through the sacrifice of Christ; discipleship comes only by sacrifice of self and surrender to His call for devoted service. Salvation is free, but discipleship involves paying the price of a separated walk. Salvation can't be lost because it depends upon God's faithfulness, but discipleship can be lost because it depends upon our faithfulness.” Pastor M.R. DeHaan, Hebrews. Zondervan Publishing House, 1959 (p. 117).

I hope you can now clearly see, how the creator of the preceding YouTube video at the beginning of this blog, is perverting God's saving grace. Romans 11:6, “And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.” The video in question is full of demands for the viewer to do works to legitimize their faith, but that is still WORKS!!!

Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold makes these helpful statements:

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

“Salvation is one thing and service is another, and never the two goes together. No man is saved because he serves, and no man has to serve because he is saved. Gotta keep them separate! And if you don't do it, the Scriptures will be confusing to you. You'll not rightly divide what God has to say.” —Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold, “Why Lordship Salvation Is Wrong” 

Those are wonderful truthful quotes! Dear friend, have you ever been born-again? The quickest way to burn in Hell forever is to TRUST IN TOO MUCH to get to Heaven. Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) also said that truth:

“More people will die and burn in Hell, because they're trusting too much!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, a precious quote from the MP3 sermon, “Yea, Yea, And Nay, Nay!”

“Everything that's hard and complicated about salvation is God's side of it!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Yea, Yea, And Nay, Nay!”

Remember, the Devil is a beautiful liar! Whoever made that horrible video is woefully ignorant of the inspired Word of God, wrongly dividing the Holy Scripture. I would RUN away from that deadly video! I'm using the video as a tool to show you dear reader WHAT IS NOT THE GOSPEL, so that you can see the true Gospel of free grace. It is very dangerous because it is well made, has great sound, but it is FALSE DOCTRINE!!! Here is the true Gospel, by my dear friend, Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold...

The Clear Gospel In 4 Minutes
 (Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold)

Shame On Christian Women Who Wear Pants In Public

SHAME on any pastor's wife who wears pants to a church picnic, or anywhere in public. There is nothing more destructive to churches today than ungodly arrogant neo-evangelicals! Yes, I am preaching TO YOU Family Baptist Church in Pensacola!!!

Charlie Kirk Was No Friend To Lost Sinners

2nd Corinthians 4:3-4, “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”

Before I say anything, let me say that I humbly think Charlie Kirk (1993-2025) is an American hero! God bless Charlie's wife and two children. My heart goes out to them all.

That being said, as a born-again Christian myself since age 13, and a fundamentalist Baptist preacher all my adult life, I am gravely concerned about the negative influence Charlie is having on the world for Christ. You read right, negative influence. The tragic and senseless murder of Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, has compelled thousands of young people to attend church. Although that may superficially seem like a good thing, it is a bad thing when you consider that 99% of churches today are preaching a counterfeit plan of salvation of partial faith in Christ plus works (aka, Lordship Salvation).

The Danger Of Using Unbiblical Terminology

Part of me wants to believe that Charlie Kirk was just careless with his words. In his tract, “What Must I Do To Be Saved?,” Evangelist John R. Rice (1895-1980) says that repentance to be saved means to “turn away from sins, earnestly, with all your heart, and trust Jesus to save you” which careless words I hate. Kindly said, Dr. Rice spoke foolishly in ignorance. But elsewhere Dr. Rice wrote in his helpful commentary on the book of Acts, “One who turns from sin to God has done so by trusting in Jesus Christ.” So, clearly Dr. Rice did NOT think you must be willing to forsake your sinful bad habits to get to Heaven, which would be reformation, not repentance. Brother Rice was indeed saved, but he poorly chose his words in this case. 

You cannot shew me one place in an inspired King James Bible where it says to repent “of your sins” to be saved. Acts 20:21 says to repent (think differently) “toward God.” 2nd Timothy 2:25 says to repent (change your mind) to acknowledge “the truth.” Those who errantly teach that Bible repentance is a change of mind that results in a change of behavior are preaching another gospel (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4), which cannot produce the new birth (John 3:1-7).

I believe Dr. Rice was saved because he explained what he meant by turning from sin, which he clearly did NOT think means to forsake sinful bad habits to get to Heaven. That would constitute “works” according to Jonah 3:10. Likewise, I am not sure what Charlie Kirk believed about salvation. Did he believe like John R. Rice did? Or did Charlie literally think you cannot be saved unless you forsake your sinful behavior and serve God? There is a fine line between faith and works. Adding even the slightest work to faith negates grace according to Romans 11:6, “And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.” From nearly every pulpit today we are hearing a false gospel that says salvation is by grace alone, but you must do something to obtain it from God. That is impossible!

The Bible in the hands of an idiot is the most dangerous weapon mankind has ever faced. I heard in the news yesterday that young people by the droves are now attending church in response to Charlie's assassination and his influence for Christ. What greatly concerns me about Charlie Kirk is that he is a poster boy for Lordship Salvation. By saying that he “gave my life to Christ in fifth grade” says nothing. That is not how someone gets saved. By saying that he “accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior” is misleading at best, implying that more than faith is required to get to Heaven. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do.

I am still the fence about where Charlie went in the afterlife, simply because I don't know what he really believed. I am careful not to be dogmatic without knowing more information. The $64,000 question is: Did Charlie believe more than faith is necessary to be saved? 

Regardless, Charlie Kirk spoke with confusing words, using unbiblical jargon that obscures the true Gospel of free grace. The Mormons and Catholics love Charlie, because he refused to tell them the truth that they are unsaved members of dangerous religious cults. I cannot help but conclude that for the sake of further building and protecting his Turning Point organization, Charlie surreptitiously avoided offending different religious groups. That is not wisdom dear reader, it is foolish from Heaven's point of view. This world is literally dying in sin and going to Hell. There has never been a greater need than right now to preach THE TRUTH!

As a side note, I am glad that ABC fired Jimmy Kimmel. I feel sick that tens of thousands of kooky liberal leftists are defending Jimmy, saying that he has a right to free speech. But there is also something called “decency” in society. For anyone to joke, make light of and even cheer the assassination of one of the best men our country ever produced is inexcusable. I hope they fire the other Charlie Kirk haters too. I like what one man said, “Speech is free, but the consequences aren't.” Private companies and institutions do not have to honor free speech laws (within legal limits). They can fire people who say and/or do outrageous things that may damage their company's reputation.

Please avoid using confusing unbiblical terminology when presenting the Gospel; namely:

1. Repent of your sins
2. Give your life to Christ
3. Become a Christ follower
4. Live a changed life
5. Accept Jesus as your “Lord”
6. Perform sacraments
7. Get water baptized
8. Be willing to turn from your sinful bad habits
9. Surrender your life to Jesus
10. Live for others
11. Live a lifestyle of repentance
12. Invite Jesus into your life
13. Join a church
14. Confess your sins to a priest
15. Repeat a 'Sinner's Prayer'
16. Exchange all that you are for all Christ is
17. Invite Jesus into your heart
18. Ask God to make you part of His family
19. Forsake a lifestyle of sinning
20. Faithfully serve Christ

The truth dear reader is that you may do all of these aforementioned things (works), and yet never be born again and still go to Hell forever.

Charlie Kirk Obscured The Gospel

Anyway, I am sad about Charlie Kirk. It is bizarre that a homosexual punk who was raised Mormon, assassinated Charlie while answering a question from a Mormon student. Then again, it is Utah, which is Mormon country. Tyler didn't kill Charlie over politics, he murdered him because he stood for decency and morality, and because Charlie was right!

The reason why I say that Charlie Kirk was no friend to lost sinners is simply because he refused to tell Roman Catholics and Mormons the truth about their false religions. By coddling and hobnobbing with hellbound religious cults, we can only do more damage than good. When Ravi Zacharias (a false prophet) preached to the Mormons in 2014 in Salt Lake City, Utah, they gave him a standing ovation at the end of his watered-down pathetic sermonette. The reason why the Hellbound Mormon cult honored Ravi is because he surreptitiously avoided steeping on their toes, and he wickedly called them his “Brothers and Sisters in Christ.” In my humble opinion, Charlie Kirk is just as guilty as Ravi Zacharias, coddling the cults. A demon's favorite activity is to make lost people comfortable in their false religion.

Please understand that I didn't write this blog to cast a negative reflection upon Charlie; but rather, to draw attention to the reality that “if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” I humbly believe that every redeemed child of God has an obligation to warn lost sinners. In Luke 8:15, the mature believer is the one who bears much fruit. God wants all of His dear children to share the Gospel with lost sinners, so that others may be saved through faith alone in Jesus Christ (John 20:31).

As much as I love Charlie Kirk and am thankful for his stand for decency, Christianity and the nuclear family, I am saddened today that millions of hellbound Roman Catholics and Mormons don't know anything more about going to Heaven, than that Charlie accepted Jesus as his “Lord and Savior” and “gave his life to Christ in the fifth grade.” Ladies and gentlemen, every pseudo-Christian cult on the planet agrees with those two statements. Neither of those statements constitute, 'THE GOSPEL' (an excellent tract written by Pastor Harry Ironside, 1876-1951). If we as born-again saints don't warn lost sinners of God's coming judgment upon the wicked in the everlasting Lake of Fire (Revelation 20:11-15; 21:8), no one else will do the job folks!

Charlie Kirk has often said publicly he gave his life to Christ in fifth grade, but we do NOT give our life to the Lord to be saved. Jesus gave His life on the cross for us to be saved. 1st John 3:16, “Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” Christ died on a cross to pay our debt of sin. He doesn't require that we exchange or trade our lives to be saved. Eternal life is a free gift (Romans 5:15-18, 6:23). Remember that Judas Iscariot also gave his life to Christ.

I understand that a lot of people talk about giving your life to the Lord when talking about salvation. But actually, that’s not biblical. Jesus gladly gave His life for us, so that we could be saved. Amen. We ought to give our lives to the Lord AFTER we are saved BECAUSE we are saved, but NOT to be saved. And we need to stop using unbiblical terminology when talking about salvation, so that we don’t confuse anyone about how to be saved. Amen. God loves people and I do too. My goal is just to be a blessing to others for Christ.

No one is a true friend to lost sinners who changes, obscures or embellishes God's simple plan of salvation.

Now Is A Good Time To Clarify The Gospel

We read in 1st Corinthians 11:19, “For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.” I love that Scripture truth! The Apostle Paul is saying that false prophets and false teachings are necessary, so that Christian men who are learned in the Scriptures can ne identified; so that those learned men can refute false teachings. Put another way, false prophets provide a blank white canvas upon which the truth can be painted. Christians should wisely use Charlie Kirk's death as a time to share the free grace Gospel, and warn others about the dangers of Satan's Lordship Salvation heresy.

Dear friend, I dare say that 99% of churchgoers today have never been born-again. 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.” There are no exceptions! I've heard Pastor John Hagee falsely teach that Jews do not need to be born-again because they have their own special covenant with God, but he is oh so wrong. Jesus warned that everyone MUST be born-again to enter into God's Kingdom. In John chapter 3, Jesus was talking with Nicodemus, a religious leader of the Jews, and a Jew himself. In fact, Jews do NOT have a special covenant with God which excludes them from being born-again.

The dear Savior also confirmed that only a few people are saved. Luke 13:23-24, “Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.” Ironically, the vast majority of the world's population is religious. But religion never saved anybody. My father used to wisely say, religion is the worst thing that ever happened to this world. My Dad was right. Manmade religion blinds men from the truth of the Gospel. This is what is meant in 2nd Timothy 3:5, “Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” That “power” according to Romans 1:16 is THE GOSPEL.

One of the most effective truths that I use when witnessing to lost people is to explain to them that Bible Christianity and manmade religion are two very different things. Salvation cannot be found in any religion; but rather, by faith in the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Biblical truth and religious dogma are often at odds. Such is the case with Lordship Salvation, which is religion and not Bible truth. Mark 7:9, “And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.”

Kindly said, Charlie Kirk's religious terminology was not in agreement with biblical teaching. God's simple plan of salvation is that we are saved by faith alone without works. That means you don't have to receive Jesus as “Lord” of your life to follow, serve and obey Him in other matters. Serving Christ is discipleship, not sonship. It is sanctification, not justification.

Here is my favorite preacher's quote, which plainly shows that Pilgrim's Progress author John Bunyan fully understood the danger of not putting a clear difference between service and salvation...

“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)

Well said Brother Bunyan! That was Charlie Kirk's dire error, he failed to differentiate between discipleship and sonship, which ecumenical amorphous testimony caused the pseudo-Christian cults to follow, praise and support him. If Charlie was saved, his Gospel was hid from lost sinners (2nd Corinthians 4:3-4). Hundreds of millions of churchgoers worldwide have given their lives to Jesus Christ, and they follow Him as their “Lord” (saying “Lord, Lord”) and doing “many wonderful works” in Jesus' name (Matthew 7:21-23); but they have never been born-again by resting completely in the finished redemptive work of Christ through Calvary's cross.

John Bunyan is absolutely right, by failing to put a difference between service and salvation, it corrupts the truth of God's Word and casts stumblingblocks before the people to hinder them from being saved. As much as I love Charlie Kirk and still think of him as an American hero, the fact remains that he failed to put a difference between discipleship and salvation. Consequently, the truth of a free grace Gospel was hidden from the lost.

The Incompatibility Of Lordship Salvation With The Gospel Of Free Grace

The following are some helpful preacher's quotes shewing the difference between service versus salvation...

“It is an inexcusable error to confront sinners with problems that concern the Christian life and call upon them to make promises regarding them. An unsaved person is never called upon to surrender himself to God. The saving act is in no instance represented as our 'giving ourselves to God'; it is, on the contrary, taking His Son as our Savior.” —Charles Ryrie, “Balancing the Christian Life”; Moody Press, Inc., 1969 (p. 170)

“Eternal life is free. Discipleship is immeasurably hard. The former is attained by faith alone, the latter by a faith that works... the former brings with it the righteousness of God so that a man is 'justified freely by his grace' (Romans 3:24). The latter develops a personal righteousness, based on good deeds, so that a man was also 'justified by works' (James 2:24). The former constituted the believer God's workmanship, the latter fulfilled the wonderful purpose for which he had been created. The former cost man nothing, the latter could cost him everything, including life itself.” —Zane C. Hodges, “The Hungry Inherit”; Moody Press, Inc., 1972 (p. 114, 115)

“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.” —M.R. DeHaan, “Hebrews”; Zondervan Publishing House, 1959 (p. 117)

“There are those who, in their zeal to get people to turn from their sinful ways and receive the Lord, almost put repentance on a par with believing... Repentance, as it relates to Christ, means to change our minds about Him, who He is and what He's done to provide forgiveness and deliverance from our sins. When we place faith in Jesus as having taken our place personally on the cross and borne the penalty due our sins, then we're automatically repenting, because we couldn't accept Him in this way without having had to change our minds in some way concerning Him.” —Hal Lindsey, “The Liberation of Planet Earth”; Zondervan Publishing House, 1974 (p. 136, 137)

“Discipleship is frequently equated with salvation and often erroneously made a condition for becoming a Christian." —Dwight J. Pentecost, “Design for Discipleship”; Zondervan Publishing House, 1971 (p. 11)

“Certainly discipleship is a most important aspect of our relation to Christ, but it belongs to the sphere of Christian life rather than entrance upon that life... One does not become a disciple in order to become a Christian, but because he has become a Christian by faith in the Savior, it is fitting that he embark upon a life of discipleship.” —Everett F. Harrison, “Must Christ Be Lord to Be Savior? No.”; Eternity, September 1959 (p. 14)

“There is no more piously subtle abrogation of the Gospel than to tell a Sinner that he must not only believe in the Savior, but dedicate himself to do God's will, crown the Savior Lord of his life, etc., etc. Obviously, dedication and service are highly desirable, but they are the privilege and the duty of the saved, never a condition of salvation for the unsaved (cf. Romans 12:1, 2).” —Merrill F. Unger, “God is Waiting to Meet You”; Moody Press, 1975 (p. 117, 118)

Charlie admitted moments before his assassination that half of his Turning Point staff are Mormons. In sharp contrast, for telling the truth the apostles in the Bible were persecuted, arrested, imprisoned, beaten, threatened and ultimately martyred.

Dear reader, the inspired Word of God defines “THE GOSPEL” clearly in 1st Corinthians 15:1-6 as Jesus DEATH on the cross for our sins, His BURIAL, and His physical RESURRECTION from the dead three days later. This is “the gospel,” the POWER OF GOD by which all who BELIEVE IT are instantly, irrevocably and forever saved (Romans 1:16). Giving your life to Christ is NOT a part of the Gospel. Taking Jesus as the “Lord” of your life is NOT part of the Gospel. Repenting of your sins is NOT a part of God's simple plan of salvation.

“There is power in this Gospel message. Most people just don't know how to present it... The clarity of the Gospel is what makes it easy for them to believe.”—Pastor Yankee Arnold, “WHY GRACE CAN SAVE THE WORST MAN!”

I encourage you dear friend to make sure you know the clear Gospel, so that you'll know you're saved, and can show others how to be saved also. Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty. Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith. The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU. We must stay true to the simplicity of the Gospel. Repentance regarding salvation is a change of mind from unbelief to belief. We must earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints (Jude 1:3).

Thank you for reading my blog. Jesus is precious!!!