2nd Peter 2:1-3, “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. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”
The inspired Holy Bible warns the reader that FALSE PROPHETS will come, privily (i.e., surreptitiously; painstakingly avoiding detection) bringing damnable heresies into local churches. Pastor Colin Smith is one such FALSE PROPHET! I learned about him while listening to 'UNSHACKLED' by Pacific Garden Mission, which today is a corrupt 501c3 organization laden with the evils of Lordship Salvation. Former mission Director Harry Saulnier (1902-1990) is absolutely disgusted in Heaven!!!
In a disturbing sermon preached on February 25, 2025, titled “Repentance, Part 2,” Pastor Smith clearly preaches the Satanic deception of LORDSHIP SALVATION (I made this audio clip using THREE excerpts from Smith's sermon). Smith uses Isaiah 1:16-20 as his text passage, perverting the context of Scripture...
Isaiah 1:16-20, “Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.”
Dear reader, you must understand that God is NOT giving His people a plan of salvation here. The way you get saved is found in Isaiah 45:22, “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.” Pastor Curtis Hutson (1934-1995) understood this great biblical truth...
(a printed sermon by Dr. Curtis Hutson)
(an MP3 audio sermon by Dr. Curtis Hutson)
WHAT A GREAT TRUTH!!!
Yet, Pastor Smith is very confusing, which obscures and hides the true free grace Gospel from lost sinners (2nd Corinthians 4:3-4). He's clearly mixing works with grace, confusing service with salvation, preaching the lie of Lordship Salvation. Smith rightly says that our worship, serving and praying (works) to God cannot cleanse us of our sins. The he quotes Isaiah 1:18, “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Pastor Smith goes horribly astray when he adds verses 16 and 17 (works) from Isaiah chapter 1 to God's simple plan of salvation.
At the beginning of his sermon, about one minute into his speech, Pastor Smith says that the difference between a mere mask (or veneer) of religion versus authentic Christian faith is a changed life (which is essentially works). Throughout the sermon he errantly teaches that to be saved you must pursue Isaiah 1:16 and 17 as a prerequisite condition to verse 18. Clearly, Pastor Smith is preaching a works based plan of salvation that requires human effort in addition to faith. The most effective deception is the HALF TRUTH, because in part (the truthful part) it can be contested with irrefutable logic.
The entire wrong premise of Pastor Smith's sermon is that Christ will change your life if you trust in Him, but if your life hasn't changed yet you merely have religion and didn't really get saved. That is pure demonic Calvinism! Smith bases proof of one's salvation upon a changed life. Kindly said, his whole worldview is corrupt.
At no point in his sermon does Pastor Smith mention the truth of the Gospel. He never mentions Jesus' death on a cross, burial or bodily resurrection from the dead. Smith does vaguely mention the sacrifice of Christ's body, Jesus as the “Savior,” and that salvation comes through nothing else but the blood of Jesus. Unfortunately, the entire sermon woefully fails to show sinners the simple way of salvation. By foolishly using Isaiah 1:16-20 as a plan of salvation, which is about avoiding national judgment and not about getting to Heaven, he confuses and obscures the truth of God's inspired Word.
I think Pilgrim's Progress author John Bunyan (1628-1688) said it best...
“If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the man Christ without and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the Word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the Word of God, and cast stumbling blocks before the people.” [emphasis added] —Evangelist John Bunyan
Colin Smith is corrupting the inspired Word of God, casting stumbling blocks before the people, because he woefully fails to put a difference between service versus salvation. Not once in his sermon on repentance does Pastor Colin teach that salvation is by faith alone. We can only evaluate the man's doctrine (fruit) by his statements, many of which are unbiblical.
At the end of his sermon, Pastor Smith horribly misleads the audience to do this...
If you are willing and obedient; if you are willing to receive what I offer; if you are ready to pursue what I command; if you will embrace me, Jesus says, as your gracious Savior AND submit to me as your sovereign Lord, then you (the people who have been laden with iniquity and beaten and bruised) will eat the good of the land.
Dear reader, this passage in Isaiah is NOT a plan of salvation. God specifically authored the Gospel of John to show humanity the way of salvation, which is to simply BELIEVE ON THE NAME OF JESUS (John 1:12-13). We are saved by BELIEVING THE GOSPEL (GOOD NEWS) OF JESUS CHRIST CRUCIFIED, BURIED AND RISEN (John 20:31). Any admitted sinner who receives Christ's sacrifice on the cross as FULL PAYMENT for their sins—embracing THE TRUTH of Jesus' death on the cross, burial and physical resurrection from the dead three days later—instantly, irrevocably and permanently saved.
The inspired Scripture plainly defines “the gospel” for us, so that there is no need for debate...
1st Corinthians 15:1-4, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.”
The Apostle Paul said in Galatians 1:12 that Jesus directly gave him the Gospel. We read in 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.” Here is the simplicity that is in Christ, the Gospel. Jesus died on a cross to pay our debt of sin. He was buried. Three days later Jesus physically resurrected from the dead. These three elements comprise THE GOSPEL. All of the non-essential things that Colin Smith mentioned are NOT a part of the Gospel.
Nowhere does the inspired Word of God require lost sinners to SUBMIT to Jesus as one's sovereign “Lord” to be saved. This is the deadly hoax of Lordship Salvation, requiring discipleship and service to get to Heaven. When Smith uses disturbing phrases like “if you are willing and obedient” and “if you are ready to pursue what I command” and “submit to me as your sovereign Lord,” he is preaching another gospel (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4).
I love what Pastor Harry Ironside (1876-1951) accurately said...
“The Gospel is not a call to repentance, or to amendment of our ways, to make restitution for past sins, or to promise to do better in the future. These things are proper in their place, but they do not constitute the Gospel; for the Gospel is not good advice to be obeyed, it is good news to be believed. Do not make the mistake then of thinking that the Gospel is a call to duty or a call to reformation, a call to better your condition, to behave yourself in a more perfect way than you have been doing in the past …
Nor is the Gospel a demand that you give up the world, that you give up your sins, that you break off bad habits, and try to cultivate good ones. You may do all these things, and yet never believe the Gospel and consequently never be saved at all.”
SOURCE: Harry A. Ironside, from the tract: 'What Is The Gospel?'
And I also love what Pastor M.R. DeHaan (1891-1965) accurately wrote...
"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)
Pastor Smith utterly fails to separate service from salvation; discipleship from sonship; sanctification from justification. Unfortunately, in so doing Smith misleads and damns the audience, by obscuring and hiding the light of the truth of a free grace Gospel from them (2nd Corinthians 4:3-4). A FALSE GOSPEL cannot produce the required new birth to enter into God's Kingdom (John 3:1-7). “YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN” (John 3:3b).
Dear reader, I cannot warn you enough to steer clear of Pacific Garden Mission's toxic 'UNSHACKLED' radio program. After former mission Director Harry Saulnier went to Heaven in 1990, young neo-evangelical yuppies began to take over the rescue mission, who have today turned it into a money-making pseudo-Christian ministry of deadly Lordship Salvation, promoting theological liars; namely, John MacArthur, Colin Smith, Adrian Rogers, Charles Stanley, Dave and Ann Wilson, James Dobson, Robert Jeffress, David Jeremiah and other infidels (to name but a few). Whatever a pastor stops preaching against, his church will fill up with in five years!
Pacific Garden Mission, like ALL neo-evangelicals, refuse to contend for the faith (Jude 1:3), which is how they became neo-evangelicals in the first place. Christian Fundamentalists don't change, people quit being Fundamentalists! A Christian “fundamentalist” is simply someone who is doctrinally correct on the inspired Holy Bible; and they only use the true Bible, which is clearly the inspired King James Bible. ALL of the modern 'Westcott and Hort' based Bible revisions, including the Jehovah's Witness' New World Translation (NWT), ruthlessly attack Jesus' deity and the Godhead (i.e., Trinity). For example: In Matthew 8:2 the King James Bible says a leper came to “worship” Jesus, but nearly all of the modern versions change it to “knelt” or “bowed.” You can knee before a king without worshipping him.
Please read “The Crystal Clear Gospel Of Jesus Christ” by Army chaplain David Rutkin. I also wrote my own blog to proclaim the monumental truth of a free grace Gospel, which is being brutally and relentlessly attacked by the Devil today. Satan fully knows that if he can subtly influence preachers to add, embellish, change and pollute the true Gospel with manmade traditions, then he has successfully obscured the Gospel, rendering it useless.
My ministry friend Michael P. Bowen wrote these helpful words in his free .pdf format book, “I Never Knew You,” page xii (also available for purchase in Kindle or Hardcopy)...
Here is the gospel: God says that we are sinners and that no amount of good works or behavioral changes on our part could ever make us holy enough to enter heaven. God sent His Son to pay for all of our sins. Jesus paid for our crimes by dying on the cross for us all. His dead body was buried in a grave. On the third day, Jesus arose from the dead.
The instant you believe this, He knows it and He saves you. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on Me hath everlasting life”(John 6:47). The free gift is based solely upon your trust in what Jesus did for you and has nothing at all to do with what you do for Him. “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” (Ephesians 2:8-9).
It's that simple dear reader. Shame on Colin Smith for perverting the Gospel. In his sermon titled, “The Gospel Perverts Or Jesus,” Pastor Lester Roloff (1914-1982) says it well, “The worst pervert in America is the gospel pervert!”
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