Our text passage of Scripture from
Galatians 1:9 pronounces a CURSE upon any man who preaches
ANOTHER GOSPEL. Galatians 1:9, “As we said before, so say I
now again, If any man preach any other gospel
unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.”
The Holy Bible only teaches ONE GOSPEL, and here it is...
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 Gospel (Good News) is that
Christ DIED, was BURIED AND bodily RESURRECTED
the third day. If you repent (change your mind, acknowledging
your guilty condition as a sinner (thus realizing your need),
and BELIEVE the Gospel, you are immediately and permanently
saved. Whether or not you CHOOSE to follow Jesus and live a
consecrated life for Him is an entirely different matter. Two
important Biblical words concerning salvation, that the
heretical Lordship Salvation
crowd always avoid, are the words “GIFT”
and “IMPUTATION.”
I heard UNSHACKLED tonight teach that you cannot be saved in a
moment of time; but instead, moments of time, throughout the
rest of your life as you choose Jesus over sin. That is Satanic
teaching! Good night in the morning! What is UNSHACKLED
teaching???
I have heard numerous episodes of
UNSHACKLED lately that teach Lordship Salvation. I am issuing
this warning to others who listen to their program. I still
think UNSHACKLED is valuable and worth hearing, but if they are
misleading people on the plan of salvation, THEN GOD'S CURSE IS
UPON THEM! I have found, so far, that only some of their
programs are contaminated with this heresy. Please note that
I've looked at UNSHACKLED's “How
To Get To Heaven” webpage and I am OK with it, except that
they say to receive Jesus as your “Savior and Lord.”
Yet, that
is not Lordship Salvation per se to use that terminology. Since
they don't actually teach Lordship Salvation on the “How To Get
To Heaven” page, I must give them the benefit of the doubt. I'm
not sure how they select their actors when they record the
UNSHACKLED programs, but it appears to be a wide range of
people. As best I can tell, PGM and UNSHACKLED are straddling
the fence (lukewarm), trying to keep both sides of the issue
happy. What other conclusion can people come to when they hear
two different plans of salvation on UNSHACKLED? Listen to UNSHACKLED for
yourself and you decide.
Warning About “UNSHACKLED”
Radio Program Heresy!!!
In episode
#3081, about James Blair (aired
on January 31, 2010), the following false plan of salvation is
awful. In this episode, there's a 3-way conversation beginning
at 16:30 time in the audio. The mother, father and daughter are
talking. They've just come from church.
The daughter is now an
adult, and she comments that when she was 13-years-old, she HAD
PLANNED to wait until she was 40 years old to get saved, because
she didn't want to deal with THE COMMITMENT THAT COMES WITH
SALVATION.
Daughter (as an
adult thinking back in time to when she was 13 years old) —
Because of the commitment that came with salvation, I had
planned to wait until I was about 40 to get saved.
SOURCE:
Pacific Garden Mission, UNSHACKLED,
Episode #3081 (at
16:30 time in audio)
Do you see how Satan messes up
people's minds and leads them into the Lake of Fire? Ladies and
gentleman, there is no “commitment” required to be saved!!!
Eternal life is a free gift, paid for entirely by Christ's work
of redemption. God does not require, nor expect, anything of
(nor from) us to receive the free gift of eternal life. God is
not a fraudster. God is not a liar. God made every human being a
PROMISE “to save
them that believe” (1st Corinthians 1:21). God made a PROMISE!
Titus 1:3, “In hope of eternal life, which
God, that cannot lie, promised before
the world began.”
God's Gift of Eternal
Life Has Nothing To Do With Personal Performance
My friend, the King James Bible
(which is the only Bible that hasn't been tampered with by the
Devil), teaches that a person must be BORN-AGAIN! (John 3:3; 1st
Peter 1:23). The spiritual new birth happens in a moment
of time, instantaneously, so that every believer can confidently
boast of having eternal life as God promised to them that
believe (1st Corinthians 1:21). I KNOW
that I am saved (1st John 5:13), and it has absolutely nothing
to do with my performance as a Christian. If I went and got
drunk tomorrow, hired a prostitute and snorted cocaine, I'd
still be 100% saved; because the gift of eternal life comes by
the imputed righteous of God, and not by my own human effort.
Of course, if I did those sinful
things I'd also be in trouble with God, and I would have to give
account to the Lord Jesus Christ on Judgment Day, and I would be
disciplined and scourged by God (Hebrews 12:6-8) and lose
rewards (1st Corinthians 3:12-15). We as believers still have to
give account to God for the good and the bad done in the flesh
(2nd Corinthians 5:9-11). 2nd Corinthians 5:10, “For we must
all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one
may receive the things done in his body,
according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.”
No one gets away with sin. However, once a person has
received the gift of eternal life through faith in the Gospel of
the Lord Jesus Christ, they are saved securely and eternally. To
teach otherwise is to require human effort, which is a
works-based false plan of salvation. This is a very serious
matter, because your eternal destiny rests upon it.
On
Dr. John MacArthur's website, he errantly teaches that in
order to be saved, a person must embrace discipleship, making a
wholehearted decision to follow Jesus Christ; and MacArthur says
the price of following Christ is very high! This is unbiblical
in so many ways. MacArthur is a sincere man I believe, and I
like his style of speaking, and he makes some brilliant
statements; however, I am 100% convinced that he is not saved,
because he is trying to be saved instead of trusting
to be saved. MacArthur, as a staunch 5-point Calvinist, views
salvation as a process which requires perseverance. In sharp
contrast, I believe in the preservation of the saints by God's
promise to save them that believe, and not the
foolish nonsense of a
false plan of salvation that requires paying a high personal
price. Lordship Salvation requires paying a high price.
That's not the Gospel taught in the Bible. In the Bible, Jesus
paid it all, bearing the full weight and price of our sins, so
we wouldn't have to, because we couldn't.
Evangelist Billy Graham
pays himself
$633,722 a year (that's $304 an hour for a 40 hour work
week) to so-called “serve God.” What a sad joke!!!
Forsaking sinful living is NOT a
requirement to be saved. The UNSHACKLED program did mention that
the Holy Spirit comes to indwell (live inside the body) of every
new believer. That is true. However, UNSHACKLED horrible goes
astray when they mandate a changed life for salvation.
Biblically, deciding to follow Jesus Christ is discipleship and
not salvation. Judas followed Jesus, but went to Hell when he
died. The thief on the cross never followed Jesus, but he went
to Heaven when he died. You don't have to follow Jesus to get to
Heaven. Discipleship is NOT a requirement for salvation.
Bruce Jenner Walking
Streets of Gold?
Please understand that I am not
defending Bruce Jenner (now Caitlyn Jenner) in any way for his
transgendered wickedness. Personally, I don't think Jenner is
saved, because he refuses to provide a clear testimony of his
salvation. Jenner has no problem boasting of his sick-minded
transgendered behavior, but he is too ashamed to tell the world
about his alleged faith. Yet, that doesn't mean he's not saved.
If you gauge a person's salvation by the life they live, then
you are judging according to the outward appearance, but only
God can see the heart. There are some rebellious believers in
this world, like Samson and Solomon, both sex-perverts.
2nd Chronicles 25:1-2, “Amaziah
was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. And he did
that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a
perfect heart.” Amaziah was a good guy, on the
Lord's side, but he promoted AC/DC Rock music, supported
abortions and let the people worship idols (2nd Chronicles
25:14). This evidences Biblically that imperfect, even
backslidden believers, can still be Christians. Don't lose sight
of the truth that eternal life is a free gift, and anybody who
attempts to stretch, distort or morph that gift into a reward
that you must live a holy life to have is a Satanic devil
liar!!!
Clearly, Bruce (Caitlyn) Jenner has serious
spiritual issues. No one could be faulted for calling Jenner “a
freak,” or as Snoop Dog (Poop Dog) called Jenner, “a science
project!” Shamefully, President Barack Obama has openly praised
Jenner as some kind of national hero. It is wickedness!!!
Proverb 28:4, “They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but
such as keep the law contend with them.” I do not believe
Jenner is saved because I haven't heard any clear testimony to
his claim to Christianity. Remember, even the Devil claims to be
a Christian (2nd Corinthians 11:13-15).
It is professed Christians like world Olympic
champion Bruce Jenner,
who now has become Caitlyn Jenner, that alarm and antagonism
many pastors and Christian leaders; thus, compelling them to
corrupt the Gospel and mix discipleship with salvation to be
saved. But like it or not, Bruce Jenner (he will never be a
woman in God's eyes) could actually be a
born-again
Christian as he professes to be. Biblical evidence in found
in 1st Corinthians 3:15, “If any man's work shall be burned,
he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be
saved; yet so as by fire.” I haven't heard enough
of a clear testimony from Bruce Jenner to discern if he's saved
or not. I agree with Dr. John R.
Rice that the only way to determine if someone is really
saved is by the direct testimony from their mouth. All I'm
reading online is that Mr. Jenner is private and doesn't want to
talk about his faith publicly. Could he be saved? Sure!
Also, consider 1st Corinthians
5:5, “To deliver such an one unto Satan for
the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in
the day of the Lord Jesus.” This verse doesn't
mean to give someone to Satan to kill; but rather, it means
sometimes people have to learn the hard way (and of course, that
could lead to their premature death). Bruce Jenner has
definitely been given over to Satan for the destruction of the
flesh, but he could still be a born-again Christian if he has
received Christ's sacrifice on the cross as payment for his
sins, and believes Christ bodily raised-up from the dead.
Remember, a man's faith is counted for righteousness (Romans
4:5-6; Romans 10:3-4; Philippians 3:9; Genesis 15:6). I don't
care if it harelips every dog in the county, the Bible plainly
teaches in Romans 4:5-6, “But to him that worketh not, but
believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is
counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the
blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth
righteousness without works.”
Many flawed Bible teachers will
read these verses in Romans 4:5-6, and then totally negate it by mandating a
changed and holy life as validation of a man's faith. The
apostle James in 2:18-21 speaks of the FRUIT of a man's faith, being
seen in the eyes of men, not God. The apostle Paul speaks of the
ROOT of a believer's faith in Romans 4:5-6. The Bible teaches
that a saved man ought to bring forth the fruit of God's
righteousness in his life, because he has the Holy Spirit
indwelling him; however, this does not necessarily mean that
there aren't worldly believers who have chosen not to follow
Christ, not to serve Him faithfully. In fact, most believers are
in this rebellious group. Demas forsook Paul, having loved this present
world (2nd Timothy 4:10). Philemon 1:24 indicates that Demas was
saved, a fellow-labourer of the apostle Paul a few years before
he backslid into the heathen world. Like it or not you
hypocrites, Demas was saved and worldly. Heretics like
Evangelist Paul Washer teach that there is no such thing as a
carnal Christian. Washer is wrong, read 1st Corinthians 3:1.
The same is true of
Lot, Abraham's troublesome nephew (2nd Peter 2:7-8). Lot chose
to lived in Sodom. Two of Lot's daughters perished in Sodom with
his son-in-laws. Lot's wife disobeyed God by looking back to
Sodom's destruction and was turned into a pillar of salt. Lot's
other two daughters got their father drunk (with alcohol they
brought out of Sodom), and were impregnated by their own father.
WHAT A MESS! The Bible tells us that this was a righteous man in
2nd Peter 2:7-8. Unshackled may not agree with God, but the
Bible teaches that eternal life is a gift, obtainable without
forsaking drunkenness, adultery and stealing.
You say, what about the Scriptures
that say fornicators and drunks cannot enter into Heaven? ...
1st Corinthians 6:9-11, “Know ye
not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?
Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with
mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers,
nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And
such were some of you: but ye are washed, but
ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord
Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”
Notice in verse 11 the phrase, “BUT
YE ARE WASHED”!!! If you have placed your faith in the Gospel of
Jesus Christ, you are washed and cleansed by the precious blood
of Jesus!!! You have been JUSTIFIED, just-if-I'd never sinned!!!
This speaks concerning God's imputed righteousness in Christ
Jesus which is through faith alone. Once you've made the
choice to trust Christ, then you have to make another
choice as a believer whether or not you are going to
“present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto
God, which is your reasonable service” (Romans 12:1). Just
because many believers DON'T choose to serve God, DON'T depart
from sinful living and DON'T consecrate their life to let God
live a holy life through them, DOESN'T mean that they have never
received the free gift of eternal life. It DOES mean that they
are either immature in Christ or backslidden into the world.
Likely, the Christian who led them to the Lord failed to mentor
them, teaching them the things of Christ as The Great
Commission teaches us to do (Matthew 28:19-20). We need to
stop tampering with the plan of salvation and blaming sinners
and start blaming ourselves as the Church
for not mentoring new converts.
Today “UNSHACKLED!” is broadcast
around the world almost 14,000 times each week on over 2,900
radio outlets. If they are wrong on repentance and the plan of
salvation, woe is unto them because Galatians 1:9 calls them
CURSED!!! I didn't say that, God did!!! 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.”
You get saved by receiving Jesus as
your personal Savior (John 1:12; 1st Timothy 4:10), not
Lord or King. You cannot show me one Bible verse that requires
making Jesus one's Lord to be saved (unless you have a Satanic
counterfeit modern version that perverts
Romans 10:9).
Jesus becomes one's Lord the very moment they receive Him as
their Savior, but that individual must CHOOSE to follow Christ,
just as they have CHOSEN to trust Him. We have a freewill from
God, a choice. Do you think that a Skidrow drunk who continues
in his drunken ways cannot be a genuine born-again Christian?
Does becoming a Christian automatically guarantee that in every
case a man will sober-up and walk straight? No, of course not.
Please don't forget, eternal life is a free gift!
I grew up around Skidrow, going with my father (now in
Heaven) to Pacific Garden
Mission (PGM) regularly for my whole childhood. He'd
preach and I'd quote a Bible verse. When my mom came, she played
the piano (also now in Heaven). This was when PGM were on state
street with the 666 Lounge next door. Literally, the bar's
address was 666 S. State Street. You couldn't make that up it's
so unbelievable. I've been promoting the mission's evangelistic
outreach series called “UNSHACKLED”
(their website) for years in my online ministry, but many of the
UNSHACKLED
radio programs have become so corrupt lately, that I must
expose their false plan of salvation. 