Matthew 7:20-23, “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, 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.”
Our text passage of Scripture from Matthew 7:20-23 plainly condemns Lordship Salvation. Satan's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born again. The Bible warns in Galatians 5:4 that anyone who adds works to grace is making the Gospel of none effect to save lost sinners, “Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.” When someone speaks of accepting Jesus as your “Lord and Savior,” they are preaching another gospel.
(by Pastor Curtis Hutson, 1934-1995)
I understand that “Lord and Savior” sounds so good and religious, tantalizing to our human pride and hatred for our neighbour's sins. That being said, it is totally unbiblical to take Jesus as one's “Lord” to get to Heaven. Jesus is Lord, you don't make Him Lord! The moment that you trust Him as your personal Savior, Jesus automatically becomes your Lord. What they mean by receiving Jesus as your “Lord” (Master) is that you will no longer continue to live a lifestyle of sinning, and that you will faithfully serve Christ for the rest of your life, and that you will follow and obey God's will instead of your self-serving sins. These things are NOT part of the free Gospel of grace, nor are they even allowed. We are at war today over God's simple plan of salvation folks, so please don't take this important matter lightly.
I am so sick of the damnable heresy of Lordship Salvation that I want to go regurgitate. I love Charlie Kirk (1933-2025), but he was misled by Pastor Rob McCoy (Charlie's faith teacher) about God's simple plan of salvation. Pastor McCoy preaches hard core Lordship Salvation. I wrote a whole article at my other ministry blog yesterday, which you can read if you'd like. It is titled, “Charlie Kirk Did Not Give A Clear Gospel Presentation.” As with many celebrities, there is a personality cult following Charlie Kirk today. So, I know my blogs will likely offend some readers. But as Charlie would challengingly say: "PROVE ME WRONG!"
The only reason why corrupt religious institutions today; such as, Pensacola Christian College, Liberty University, Bob Jones University, Faith Baptist Bible College And Theological Seminary and Southwestern Baptist Seminary are all preaching Lordship Salvation is simply because not enough born again Christians are calling them out and exposing them. Sadly, the opposite has happened, these corrupt institutions have succumbed to the Devil's popular lie of Lordship Salvation to fit in with the crowd, to follow the herd of mainstream rotten evangelicalism in America. There is a famine of truth today!
The Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation has crept into nearly every Bible college and church today, perverting the grace of God. Case in point is Jeff Redlin, the theologically incompetent senior pastor of Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College (PCC), who preaches hard core Lordship Salvation...
At the end of Jeff Redlin's ungodly heresy-filled video, he invites the viewer to pray these words to be saved...
“Dear God, I know that I'm a sinner, and I know that my sin has separated me from you. I believe that Jesus is God, and I accept Him as my Lord, my Saviour God, please come into my life. Make me part of your family. Save me.” SOURCE: Pastor Jeff Redlin, “A Good Question”; Campus Church at PCC, https://campuschurch.com/a-good-question/
Kindly said, there are numerous things very wrong with Jeff Redlin's toxic plan of salvation, which unfortunately does NOT match up with what the inspired Word of God teaches. I refute Pastor Redlin's damnable false plan of salvation in this helpful blog. The Bible exhorts learned Christian men to “REBUKE THEM SHAPLY” who pervert the grace of God (Titus 1:9-14), so that they might become sound in the faith (so far they haven't listened to the truth at PCC because they don't care). PCC wickedly hobnobbed with the infidels at Bob Jones University, so now they have also been infected with Satan's Lordship Salvation heresy.
Charlie Kirk And The Lie Of Lordship Salvation
The GospelWe believe that all people are, by nature, separated from God and responsible for their own sin, but that salvation, redemption, and forgiveness are freely offered to all by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. When a person repents of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord, trusting Him to save, that person is immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all his/her sins are forgiven, and that person becomes a child of God, destined to spend eternity with the Lord. SOURCE: https://www.godspeak.com/our-beliefs
No, that is NOT THE GOSPEL! There is NO Gospel folks! Where is Jesus' death on the cross, His burial and bodily resurrection from the dead the third day. I mean, this is “the gospel” according to 1st Corinthians 15:1-6. What Rob McCoy is preaching is worthless theological dung! Their plan of salvation is actually a plan of damnation. Godspeak Calvary Chapel is a religious cult! The sad truth is that 99% of professed Christians today are not saved at all. They are merely living the Christian life in Jesus' name, but they've never actually been born again by the Holy Spirit of God in response to childlike faith in the Gospel.
To the man with a hammer in his hand, everything starts looking like a nail sticking up. Likewise, to these misfit neo-evangelicals who are infatuated with the Lordship of Christ, they see all things through a misguided lens of Jesus being “Lord, Lord,” while neglecting to preach the simple truth of a free grace Gospel message. The pure Gospel is “the simplicity that is in Christ” (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4). By adding taking Jesus as one's Lord, and adding repenting of one's sins, to be saved—these FALSE TEACHERS are perverting God's grace.
Misunderstood Repentance: An Enemy Of Soulwinning
(by Pastor Jack Hyles, 1926-2001)
(by Pastor Jack Hyles, 1926-2001)
I humbly think that Charlie Kirk is an American hero, and I am sad that he was assassinated on September 10, 2025, by a hateful monster. God bless Charlie's family. And please understand dear reader that I didn't write this blog to cast a negative view upon Charlie; but rather, to raise awareness to the heresy of Lordship Salvation.
I realize that calling Jesus one's “Lord and Savior” doesn't necessarily mean this is what someone is trusting in to get to Heaven. Albeit, from all that I have learned about Charlie Kirk's beliefs, he did trust in Lordship Salvation. His pastor clearly taught Lordship Salvation. We cannot say with any certainty where Charlie went in the afterlife. My heart wants to believe he is in Heaven with Jesus and the heavenly family; but due to his relentless mention that to be saved you must receive Jesus as your “Lord and Savior,” and that he gave his life to Christ in fifth grade to be saved, concerns me deeply.
You cannot get born again by giving your life to Christ. That is not how God's simple plan of salvation works. For someone who adheres to the fallacy of Lordship Salvation, they have a completely different mindset than a sinner who is simply resting in Christ's redemptive work for salvation. Charlie Kirk endorsed Ray Comfort, which is not a good sign. Ray Comfort literally teaches that faith in Jesus Christ is not enough to be saved.
In addition, Ray Comfort errantly says that you must repent to “live a lifestyle” of turning from your sinning. Ray actually calls trusting Jesus the “second thing” you must do to be saved. He says the first thing is to turn away from your sinning and walk in holiness for the rest of your life. Whereas the inspired Holy Bible says trusting Jesus is the only thing you must do to be saved (Acts 16:30-31). Ray foolishly misunderstands being “born again” to refer to a radical change of behavior. In sharp contrast, we know biblically that being “born again” refers to the supernatural miracle by which a lost sinner is indwelt of the Holy Spirit at the moment of salvation (John 1:12-14; 1st John 3:24; Romans 8:9).
Dear reader, there is absolutely nothing wrong with accompanying one's faith with a sinner's prayer, deciding to follow Jesus as one's Lord, or desiring to turn from one's sinful ways, JUST SO LONG AS you don't add these things to your faith to be saved. If you add any of these things to your faith, you cannot be saved. God the Father will not accept anything more or less than your childlike faith (trust, reliance) in His only begotten Son, Jesus, who died on a cross in your place and mine. Jesus paid a debt He did not owe, because we owed a debt we could not pay. JESUS PAID IT ALL!!!
I don't have to follow Jesus as my “Lord” to get to Heaven. That is strictly a matter of rewards in eternity. I don't have to live a lifestyle of repentance from sins to get to Heaven. I don't have to persevere in holiness to get to Heaven. I don't have to be water baptized, pick up my cross to follow Jesus, go to church, forsake the world, nor serve the Lord to be saved. In fact, biblically, I don't have to do anything to get to Heaven. All I did as a 13-year-old young man was to by faith rest completely in Christ's crucifixtion, burial and resurrection to get to Heaven.
Dear reader, if you will simply take God at His Word as written in the inspired Holy Bible, to receive Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full payment for your sins, believing that He raised up from the dead three days later, you will be instantly and forever saved. You have God's promise of it in 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.”
1st Thessalonians 4:14, “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.”
I cannot say with any certainty that Charlie went to Heaven or Hell. Only God and Charlie know where he went. I just know that Lordship Salvation is a counterfeit plan of salvation. I know that repenting of your sins is NOT taught in the Scripture to get to Heaven. I know that when Charlie says he got saved in fifth grade by giving his life to Christ, that is NOT how a lost sinner gets saved. Judas Iscariot gave his life to Christ too, becoming one of Jesus' apostles, yet we know that Judas died in unbelief and perished into the Lake of Fire forever. But you say, “Wait a minute, Charlie believed.” Yes, but what did he trust in to get to Heaven?
Partial faith in Jesus Christ plus something more is a counterfeit plan of salvation. I once witnessed to a teacher at the Harvest Baptist Church of Guam. I asked him if he believed a person could simply come to God as a guilty sinner and believe the Gospel (Good News) of Jesus' crucified, buried and risen to get to Heaven? To my horror he replied, “Uh, I think a little more is required.” I knew right then that he was still lost in his sins without Christ. This is my concern with Charlie Kirk. Did he trust in Christ alone, or did he foolishly think (as tens of millions of hellbound neo-evangelicals do today) that MORE IS REQUIRED?
John 3:15, “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”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.”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.”John 10:9, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”John 11:25, “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:”Acts 16:30, “And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”Galatians 3:26, “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”
Again and again the inspired Holy Scripture exhorts us to simply BELIEVE ON JESUS to get to Heaven, without any mention of taking Him as one's Lord, water baptism, sacraments, repenting of your sins nor anything else. You just need to believe that Jesus did it all for you! Tragically, 99% of professed Christians today have never been born again, they are merely living the Christian life.
All of the unscriptural talk nowadays in churches of taking Jesus as one's Lord, repenting of your sins, surrendering your will to do God's will, giving your life to Christ, and becoming a Christ-follower to get to Heaven, just further confuses lost sinners and obscures God's simple plan of salvation (2nd Corinthians 4:3-4). I do not question Charlie Kirk's sincerity, but I do contend that he preached a vague, watered-down and amorphous plan of salvation. We must be alert to the danger of the pulpit. The Bible in the hands of an idiot is the most dangerous weapon mankind has ever faced.
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