Perhaps you say, “I am too bad to be saved!” No dear reader, you may be TOO
GOOD to be saved, but I assure you that you are not TOO BAD! The only type
of person that God saves is BAD PEOPLE! Notice our text Bible passage from
Romans 4:5-6. Please notice that God only saves “THE UNGODLY.” Some false
teachers today (e.g., Ray Comfort, John MacArthur and Paul Washer)
cherry-pick the sermons of famous preachers of centuries past, attempting to
use them as a secondary authority, since they cannot support their Calvinist
heresy with the inspired Word of God.
Despite Ray Comfort's and John MacArthur's
extensive exploitation of Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon's sermons to
support their doctrinal filth, read for yourself what Mr. Spurgeon said:
“salvation comes to
him before he has any of the results of salvation. It comes to him, in
fact, while he deserves only this bare, beggarly, base, abominable
description, 'ungodly.' That is all he is when God's gospel comes to
justify him. ...May
I, therefore, urge upon any who have no good thing about them—who fear
that they have not even a good feeling, or anything whatever that can
recommend them to God—that they will firmly believe that our gracious
God is able and willing to take them without anything to recommend them,
and to forgive them spontaneously, not because they are good, but
because He is good.”
SOURCE: Charles
Spurgeon; All
of Grace; Chapter
1 - God Justifieth The Ungodly!
Clearly, Charles Spurgeon DIDN'T believe nor teach
that a person must forsake their sins TO BE SAVED. As you just read,
Spurgeon believed that salvation comes to a person BEFORE the fruit of the
indwelling Holy Spirit becomes evident. Spurgeon is 100% correct—a person
is “UNGODLY,” and “that is all he is when the Gospel comes to
justify him!” Amen!!! Nor does a person need to experience any sorrow
(feelings) over sin to be saved. Why doesn't Ray Comfort, Paul Washer and
John MacArthur quote these teachings from Mr. Spurgeon? Do you see how
dishonest they are theologically? And if I haven't been plain enough
regarding Charles Spurgeon, then here is the crowning statement of them all
to silence the Lordship Salvation heretics...
“'Repentance' is a
grace. Some people preach it as a condition of salvation. Condition of
nonsense! There
are no conditions of salvation.” —Pastor
Charles H. Spurgeon
SOURCE: https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/the-repentance-unto-life (Charles
Spurgeon, from a sermon titled, REPENTANCE UNTO LIFE, preached at
the New Park Street Chapel, Southwark, on Sept. 23, 1855)
Gotta love it! Granted, Spurgeon did make some
controversial statements at times in his ministry, as every preacher does
who has been preaching for over fifty years. We must always remember that
men are flawed, incapable of being right every time! Preachers learn and
hone their doctrinal skills over the decades. Albeit, if we examine the
entirety of Spurgeon's preaching, and don't just cherry-pick his sermons, it
is clear that Spurgeon believed in salvation by grace through faith for THE
UNGODLY!!!
But regardless of what Pastor Spurgeon taught,
the inspired Word of God is our final and only authority. 2nd Timothy
3:16-17, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable
for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
That the man of God may be perfect, throughly
furnished unto all good works.” A preacher doesn't need any textbook
other than the Holy Bible! In fact, in every case that I am aware of, where
a preacher denies the inspiration of the King James Bible, he has attended
some apostate religious institution that killed his faith in an inspired
Bible! I say that kindly but truthfully.
Jesus Came To Save Sinners
I
declare unto you ladies and gentlemen—God saves bad people! Jesus is in the
saving business. Luke 19:10, “For the Son of man is come to seek and to
save that which was lost.” I love that! Jesus came to save sinners, not
to condemn people; What saith the Scripture. John 3:16-17, “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.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world;
but that the world through him might be saved.” Likewise, it
is not our responsibility as Christians to condemn sinners, but to preach
the Gospel to get them saved. Albeit, God does command us to “have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them”
(Ephesians 5:11). Christians must expose Satan's works of
darkness (Ephesians 5:9-11), but not to condemn sinners. I preach against
many evils through my website ministry, but I do not condemn anyone. I am a
big sinner just like anyone else.
Beware of any talk about turning away from your
sins to be saved. Does God want us to turn from our sins? Absolutely, of
course He does, but that has NOTHING to do with receiving the free gift of
eternal life. Jesus doesn't forgive sins! You read right! JESUS DOESN'T
FORGIVE SINS! The Lord has already paid for everyone's sins with His
precious blood on the cross! 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.” Did you catch that beautiful statement? ...“EVEN
DENYING THE LORD THAT BOUGHT THEM”! This Bible verse exposes the
Calvinist lie of “Limited Atonement” (a false doctrine which says Jesus only
died for believers, not the unsaved). As you just plainly read for yourself,
Jesus paid for the sins of false prophets too! JESUS BOUGHT THEM!
Therefore, Jesus has already paid for
everyone's sins with His blood! That is why forgiveness of sins is a “gift.”
Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death; but the
gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
You don't have to ask Jesus to be forgiven, because He has already purchased
your redemption. Colossians 1:14, “In whom we have redemption through his
blood, even the forgiveness of sins.” All you need to do is RECEIVE that
gift by faith. Romans 5:15, “But not as the offence,
so also is the free gift. For if through
the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and
the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus
Christ, hath abounded unto many.” I love that phrase in verse 15,
“THE GIFT OF GRACE,” which is by one man, Jesus Christ! Isn't that beautiful and precious?
I don't know about you, but I get happy and excited when I think about what
God has done for me, giving to me eternal life and the forgiveness of all my
sins. Thank you Jesus for dying on the cross in my place, and for shedding
your precious blood for a woeful sinner like me, and for giving to me eternal life.
Lordship
Salvation is of the Devil! Martin Luther (1483-1546) taught the damnable
heresy of Baptismal
Regeneration up until his death.
A popular internet preacher is
Justin Edwards, who says:
If you are a born
again believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, even if you did not understand
the full implications of His lordship or have never heard the term
before, you submitted to His Lordship on the day of your salvation. It
is impossible to be justified by God without submitting to His authority
over your life. You cannot accept Him as
Savior but reject Him as Lord. This idea is absurd really, and is the
result of the modern message plaguing the church in the last century.
[emphasis added]
https://airocross.com/2010/10/13/lordship-salvation-it-will-cost-you-everything
WRONG! Justin Edwards says to be
saved you must be “submitted to His lordship.” In sharp contrast, the
inspired Word of God teaches that to be saved a person must be, SUBMITTED TO
GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS! Romans 10:3-4, “For they being
ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own
righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto
the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of
the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.”
Did you read that dear reader? ...
Romans 10:3-4,
“...submitted themselves unto the righteousness
of God. For Christ is the end of the law for
righteousness to every one that believeth.”
We are saved by coming BY FAITH to Calvary's
hill as UNGODLY SINNERS, and receiving Christ's sacrifice on the cross as
full-payment for our sins, believing that He is risen from the dead!
Here is a helpful quote from Pastor J. Vernon
McGee (1904-1988)...
“You know the
greatest difficulty and hindrance today, is not that people are not good
enough. The great hindrance is they're not bad enough, to be saved!”
—Pastor J.
Vernon McGee, a truthful quote the MP3 sermon, “Why
The Gospel Is Not Preached Today”
And here is another helpful quote from Dr.
McGee...
“The purpose of the
law was never to save; the law has to make us speechless before God,
before grace can even begin with us! ...My friend, God is only saving
GUILTY SINNERS, those whose mouths are stopped, those who say 'I have
nothing to offer God!' I come, just as I AM!”
—Pastor J. Vernon McGee, a
truthful quote the MP3 sermon,
“Why
The Gospel Is Not Preached Today”
What saith the
Scripture? 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.”
How can we reconcile Paul Washer's teachings with the inspired Word of
God? We cannot! Paul is wrong! Romans 4:3, “God forbid:
yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it
is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest
overcome when thou art judged.” What saith the Scripture? Ephesians
2:8-10, “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. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ
Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in
them.”
Any plan of salvation which places the burden of sin upon the
sinner is of the Devil. Jesus bore the full weight of our sins upon the cross,
so that we wouldn't have to pay for them in the eternal Lake of Fire. The
Bible teaches that we are saved by completely RESTING in the Gospel of Jesus
Christ. 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.”
Adding even the
tiniest amount of human effort to the simplicity that is in Christ corrupts
salvation into dead works which cannot save. Religion cannot produce the new
birth by the Holy Spirit of God. Our churches are filled with religious
people, going through the motions, who have never submitted themselves unto
God's righteousness. Romans 10:3-4, “For they being ignorant of God's
righteousness, and going about to establish their own
righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that
believeth.” This my friend speaks of the imputed righteousness of God
through faith in Christ.
“God can't save you as
long as you try to save yourself!”
—Pastor J. Vernon McGee, a
beautiful quote the MP3 sermon,
“Why
The Gospel Is Not Preached Today”
Calvinism is
self-righteousness by the law. The only way to be saved is to get out of the
way, and to let God do the saving through faith in His only begotten Son.
Either God does all of the saving or else you are not saved. God does not
save those who are trying to be saved, He saves those who are trusting to be
saved. Calvinism frontloads the Gospel, demanding that a sinner possess all
the qualities of a mature Christian to be saved. That is a false gospel! In
the true Gospel, NOTHING is required of an admitted sinner except to BELIEVE
THE 'GOOD NEWS' of Christ crucified on the cross, buried and physically
risen!
Many False Prophets Have Gone Out into the
World
1st John 4:1, “Beloved, believe not
every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because
many false prophets are gone out into the world.”
The Bible sure
is accurate! We are bombarded with FALSE PROPHETS everywhere we turn today.
Sadly, these false prophets have crept into nearly all the churches. Most
religious people do not know they are going to Heaven. Evangelist Paul
Washer and Ray Comfort have been instilling fear and insecurity into the
hearts of millions of people for decades, telling them that they are not
safe in Christ because of sins in their life. On page 1513 of 'THE EVIDENCE
BIBLE', under the section “Questions &
Objections,” Ray Comfort addresses the statement: “Because Jesus died on the
cross we are forgiven of every sin.” Here’s Ray Comfort’s reply to this
statement:
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but
inwardly they are ravening wolves." -Matthew 7:15, “The forgiveness that
is in Jesus Christ is conditional upon ‘repentance towards God, and
faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ’ (Acts 20:21). It is a gift that
God offers to everyone, but individuals must receive it by repenting and
trusting in Christ, or they will remain dead in their sins. No
one has Biblical grounds to continue in sin, assuming that they are safe
just because Jesus died on the cross. See 1 John 3:4-6.”
[Emphasis added]
SOURCE: 'THE EVIDENCE BIBLE,' by Ray Comfort, pg. 1513;
2003, Bridge-Logos Publishers, Orlando, Florida
Not safe just
because Jesus died on the cross? Are you kidding me? Whoa! Ray Comfort
teaches that if you are living in willful sin, it evidences that you have
not repented (turned away from your sins, he says) and therefore have never
been born-again. Ray Comfort pressures people at the time he witnesses
his counterfeit plan of salvation to them, front-loading his false
gospel with the unbiblical requirement to turn away from the sinful
activities in your life, or else he says you cannot be saved. Folks, that is
100% works for salvation, which cannot produce the new birth in Jesus
Christ!!!
According to Ray
Comfort, you must forsake the deliberate sinning in your life or else God
won't save you. How then is that a gift? Folks, I'm not kidding, this
garbage theology has absolutely crept into and infected our churches today.
I'm talking about independent fundamental Baptist churches. I'm talking
about the West Coast Baptist College
in Lancaster, California. I'm talking about about
Bob Jones University. The gift of God is WITHOUT WORKS! 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.” To
no surprise, Ray Comfort entirely ignores the great Bible doctrine of
IMPUTATION in his
popular publication, 'THE EVIDENCE BIBLE.' The reason why is obvious,
because he uses the corrupt 'AMPLIFIED BIBLE' (AMP) which completely removes
the word “impute.” This proves what is so wrong with the modern versions.
Ray Comfort didn't even notice the great doctrine of imputation because he
used a Satanic counterfeit of the Word of God!!!
What about Paul Washer? Like Ray Comfort, Paul teaches that you cannot
write your name, date, time and place when you accepted Jesus Christ as your
personal Savior; but rather, you must continue repenting (turning away from
sins, he says) for your entire life “to
prove the reality of your repentance” (an MP3 recording of Ray Comfort
witnessing his counterfeit plan of salvation to a woman on an airplane).
Paul Washer confirms his support of this same satanic heresy when he
heretically says to a man:
“Sir, the evidence
that you truly repented unto salvation on that day is that you're still
repenting today...”
SOURCE: How
Do I Know If I'm Saved?
Where did this
false notion come from, that you must turn from your sins to receive the
free gift of God, and then continue turning away from your sins for the rest
of your life, to prove that you really repented and are saved? My dear
reader, can you plainly see that this is the Devil's lie? I feel sick when I
look on YouTube, and everyone is commenting how wonderful and godly Paul
Washer's counterfeit plan of salvation is. I challenge you to read or listen
to the Gospel of John, and you will notice that the word “repent” is not
mentioned even one time. Yet we find the words “believe,” “believest” and
“believed” mentioned 87 times! The Gospel of John is God's Gospel tract to
humanity. John 20:31, “But these are written, that ye might believe that
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life
through his name.” Clearly, we are saved simply by BELIEVING and not by
turning away from sins.
There is no
mention in the Gospel of John of turning away from sins to be saved. Nor
does the Bible tell us to continue turning away from sins for the rest of
our life to prove that we are really saved. These are all damnable lies of
the Devil, intended to cause men and women to live in uncertainty and fear
with insecurity, always wondering if you have turned from enough sins to
prove that you are saved. Paul Washer causes people to live in uncertainty
and fear caused by his lies and deception. Paul Washer confuses and mixes
discipleship with sonship (salvation). We read in Romans 12:1, “I beseech
you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies
a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable
service.” The apostle Paul is pleading with these believers to surrender
their lives as a “living sacrifice” to live for God. This proves that you
can be saved without following Christ as your Lord and Master. Eternal life
is a free gift! To be saved you simply have to receive Jesus as YOUR
SAVIOR!!! 1st Timothy 4:10, “For therefore we both labour and suffer
reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the
Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.” What a
great and precious Savior!
There is
Great Joy in Preaching the Gospel
There
is great joy my friend is sharing the Gospel with the lost. I have suffered
so much loss in my life. My beloved wife divorced me against my will in
2006. Shortly thereafter I lost my home to pay for legal expenses and have
rented since. I lost my perfect health, having suffered in agonizing chronic
neck and bodily pain every day since 2004. I even bought a couple barbeques
with charcoal to commit suicide in 2009, but the Holy Spirit compelled me
not to do it. I have lived a lonely life for the past 13 years. I've tried
unsuccessfully to find a wife. It seems like the harder I try to get back to
where I once was in life, the farther away it all becomes, and any hope of
finding a happy life ever again is a distant dream not meant to be mine.
By the way, I
heard Dr. Jack Hyles mention John Wesley's (1703-1791) nightmare for a
marriage and disloyal wife (like mine) in his MP3 sermon called, “What
To Do When There's Only One Way To Go?” I thought it was great
what Wesley said, which I echo—'I did not forsake her, I did not dismiss
her, I will not recall her.' Yea buddy, I hear you!
Yet, I find great joy each day in soulwinning. Luke 8:15, “But that
on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard
the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.” What saith the
Scripture? 1st Corinthians 3:8, “Now he that planteth and he that
watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to
his own labour.” What saith the Scripture? Matthew 6:19-20, “Lay not
up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt,
and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves
treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where
thieves do not break through nor steal.” What saith the Scripture?
...
2nd
Corinthians 4:19-21, “To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the
world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them;
and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by
us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath
made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him.”
That “WORD OF
RECONCILIATION” is THE GOSPEL by which lost sinners are reconciled to
God through faith. Philippians
3:9, “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.” I have HIS
RIGHTEOUSNESS by faith, do you? I have great peace in my soul knowing that my
name is written in Heaven. Most people will never know the sweet peace of
KNOWING that their name is written in Heaven. I am so glad to be a
born-again Christian. Most people are hellbound in their sins and unbelief.
If you have been saved dear reader, you are so very, very fortunate and
blessed to have found THE TRUTH! Over 95% of the world's religious people
are going to the Lake of Fire for eternity, because they are trusting in
their own merit and labors, and have not done the will of the Father.
Matthew 7:21, “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.” 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.” So as we see, God's will is that we see Christ
in the Scriptures and BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST!!!
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. My friend, you May BE
TOO GOOD to be saved, but you could NEVER BE TOO BAD. God is in the saving
business, and He invites you to COME AS YOU ARE, JUST AS I AM!
“You must not expect
that you will be perfect in 'repentance' before you are saved. No
Christian can be perfect. 'Repentance' is a grace. Some people preach it
as a condition of salvation. Condition of nonsense! There are no
conditions of salvation. God gives the salvation himself...” —Pastor
Charles Spurgeon
SOURCE: https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/the-repentance-unto-life (Charles
Spurgeon, from a sermon titled, REPENTANCE UNTO LIFE, preached at
the New Park Street Chapel, Southwark, on September 23, 1855)
Charles Spurgeon is absolutely right—THERE ARE NO CONDITIONS OF SALVATION!
Simply BELIEVE the 'GOOD NEWS' and be saved!
People
need the Lord. There is an irresponsible attitude today that says churches
should become worldly to draw in the lost, so they can get saved.
Unfortunately, by making the churches more worldly in an effort to make the
world more churchy, the Gospel has been diminished, corrupted and lost in
the confusion. Over 90% of churches today are teaching the Devil's lie of
Lordship Salvation (which is the theology of Cain repackaged). Lordship
Salvation is a satanic lie, rooted in the damnable heresies of John Calvin
(a psychotic religious madman who killed people for disagreeing with him on
infant baptism). John Calvin (1509-1564) literally murdered 58 people
(including women and children) for merely disagreeing with his damnable
heresy of 
