Lordship Salvation: A Polluted Gospel
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by Rev. Joda Collins.
Do not pollute!
Lordship Salvation is the false doctrine that salvation from Hell is the result of combining faith with any prerequisite promise or condition of being a good person. The rhetoric of Lordship Salvation is the invitation to become a Christian which contains words such as, “Make Jesus Lord of your life,” “Surrender”, “Obey the Commandments,” and “Trust Jesus as your Lord and….,” and “If Jesus is not Lord of all then he is not Lord at all.” Are you offended? Be courageous and continue reading. Let the energy used to be offended be turned into energy needed for repentance. Are you confused? Read on and replace confusion with confidence.
The debate has and will always rage among church members about whether salvation from Hell requires good works/behavior or the promise of good works/behavior – even though the Bible clearly states that salvation is “….by grace through faith and not of works….” (Ephesians 2:8-9). Still, some church members tout the mandate of towing or promising to tow the moral line or else go to Hell. The moral mandate for the salvation experience is kept in place by some even though the Bible clearly states that salvation is “not by works of righteousness which we have done,” commit to do or promise to do. (Titus 3:5-7). Keeping the 10 Commandments, sinless living or near sinless living (or the promise of) is the standard for the salvation experience that is set by many who promote it for others but exempt themselves. Such hypocrisy is long standing among church people. The early church leaders had those who mandated more for the salvation experience for others, than for them.
(10) Now therefore why do you tempt to anger God against you by putting a burden on the neck of others which we cannot meet? (11) Through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ others are saved, just as we are saved. (9) There is no difference between us and them; God saves others by faith just like God saves us by faith and not good works/behavior. (Acts 15:10, 11 and 9). (Paraphrase with commentary)
On the other end of the spectrum are church members who declare that every person who repeats a specific prayer (for salvation) is saved whether or not the speaker is sincere.
Both extremes are wrong.
Between those two extremes are those who by habit or on purpose hint at salvation by works by mixing works and/or keeping the 10 Commandments – plus faith, in their invitation. It goes something like this, “If you will make Jesus the complete Lord of your life and believe in him as your Savior you can be saved.” Sometimes it is worded like this, “If you make a full surrender of your will and life to Christ and believe in him as your Savior you can be saved.” Sometimes it is worded like this, “Trust Jesus as your Lord and Savior and you can be saved.” This is the gospel of faith and the promise of future good works (being good) as the two requirements for salvation. To be fair and to be kind where kindness is warranted, many people who use this language do so because they have heard it so many times they say the words without realizing they are mixing faith and works for salvation. We are all creatures of habit.
Be honest. None of us have made Jesus the full and undisputed Lord of our life; we all have areas of our life where the Lord does not have absolute lordship control. So, why put the burden of full lordship on others as a condition for their salvation experience. None of us have made a full surrender of our will to the will of God. So, how can we in good conscience put the burden of full surrender of one’s will on the backs of others as a prerequisite for their salvation? None of us can boast that we have trusted the lordship of Christ in every area of our life. If that were true, every Christian would give financial support to a church, every Christian would be regular and active in church attendance and every Christian would have a ministry tied to the local church. No Christian would have need of repenting because the lordship of Christ would keep them on the holy road of right living. Since no Christian can boast of living under the full control of the Lord, it is not right that we demand that of others as a condition of their salvation. It is not right. It is not kind. It is not Christian. I have a great idea. Don’t do that!
Many decades ago, I wrote to Chick Publications (a producer of various gospel tracts/pamphlets) and suggested wording to replace their Lordship Salvation message with the gospel message. I forgot exactly how I worded it, but it was something like this, “If you will believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord and that he rose from the dead, you can be saved. Becoming a Christian means that you believe Jesus died for your sins and rose from the grave, and that you want him to be the Lord of your life.” Chick immediately changed their gospel message to the word-for-word suggestion I provided. Again, I forgot exactly how I worded it, it was so long ago and I do not have a Chick tract in my immediate possession to check the invitation wording. One thing I can tell you for sure, I never used the words “Make him Lord of your life,” “Surrender,” “Keep the 10 Commandments” or “Trust Jesus as your Lord.” Neither should you.
Salvation is a free gift with no strings attached. There is no small print and no bait and switch. No good works needed. No moral test required. Trust me, when Jesus the Savior becomes real to a person, Jesus the Lord starts working on and with that person. We do not have to lie or misrepresent the FREE gospel with words of “good works” or threats like Santa Claus — “You better be good or else no salvation for you!”, in our effort to make the life cleaning power of God come alive in the life of a child of God. When we pollute the gospel of salvation from Hell with any insinuation of good works or the promise of good works/behavior as a prerequisite, we diminish the meaning of the Cross and insult the grace of God. When I hear a preacher do that, I feel like burying my head in my hands and weeping. The greatest thing in my life is the grace of God. The greatest motivation for me to live holy is the grace of God. When the saving grace of God is spit upon, even if unintentional and/or by the ignorant, it hurts.
“Then they spit in His face….” (Matthew 26:27).
Romans 5: (1) Therefore, being saved by faith alone without good works, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. (8) God committed his love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinful, Christ died for us. (9) We are saved by his blood and we shall be saved from God’s wrath because of Jesus alone. (15) Salvation is God’s free gift to us. Adam sinned and all of humanity was judged guilty. However, the greater truth is that because of Jesus Christ and the free gift of God’s grace to save us, salvation is experienced by many. (15) Because of Jesus alone and his free gift we are saved. (17) The free gift of salvation is by one man only, Jesus Christ. (18) It is a free gift. (19) We are saved by Jesus’ obedience to go to the Cross and die for us. (Paraphrase with commentary)
Do not pollute the free gift of salvation with forced promises of living under the full lordship of Jesus, mandated obedience to the 10 Commandments, or the use of words that mandate surrender. God is not the enemy to surrender to. God is our loving Father. Fall in love with the Father and you will spend your energy trying to please him. Let the goodness of God lead you to repentance. (Romans 2:4). The weight of failed promises of lordship, Commandment keeping, or surrender will never serve well. Lordship Salvation is a hellish doctrine. It spits in the face of Jesus, degrades/pollutes the meaning of the Cross, frustrates the grace of God, tempts God to be angry with you, and puts a burden on others that no one can bear including me and including you.
Rev. Joda Collins
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/jodacollins
I make no claim that anyone else agrees with me.
Source: http://ppsimmons.blogspot.com/2018/12/lordship-salvation-polluted-gospel.html
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all evangelical gospel proclamation today is polluted. The absurd idea that God will accept a willful and rebellious people that range between no works (belief) and partial works (belief) to doing God’s works in my own way (pride & unbelief) is so totally antichrist it would be laughable if they weren’t so sadly deceived.
For the most part, what passes for faith in Christ today, is only lip service to a message, not actual life changing action which is the very definition of the ONLY requirement that God is interested in. 1Jo 3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ,and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
Believing (hearing and obeying) on the name of Jesus Christ is the action of taking Him on as the only teacher and model of how to walk out all the rest of the Torah ever given. Since Jesus only taught unleavened Torah (the real and true meaning of all of god’s instructions) it would follow that as Messiah and as God he had the authority to inaugurate the New covenant fortold in Jer 31:31 ff.
Therefore the New Covenant (testament) In Jesus’ blood and body (bread) was the Genesis of God writing his law in our hearts and on our inward parts, and us not needing another teacher to know God for all (from the least to the greatest) who hear and obey (believe) Jesus would know Him. Salvation is worked out through the grace given us to hear and obey. Our salvation will always be evidenced by the SPIRIT’s WORK. Jesus is Jahhoveh Now and forever Halelujah.
2 Chronicles 13:5 Ought ye not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him
and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
1 Kings 2:33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David,
and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the Lord.
Gal 6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
wife #1. Jeremiah 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her
a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
Wife #2 Revelation 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come.
And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Wife #2 2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present
you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Daniel 9:11-27 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is
poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil:
for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.
13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might
turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
14 Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which
he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
15 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown,
as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
16 O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem,
thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate,
for the Lord’s sake.
18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name:
for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
20 And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the
Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God;
21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly,
touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore
understand the matter, and consider the vision.
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to
make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the
Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy
the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,
and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Just ask about the free rapture gift ! The whole world, unbelievers & believers got it a hidden gospel, kept them from last 7 years of tribulation & wrath
It is the great awakening of the celestial church of the wise,hidden, quickened spirit, strong meat, congregation of the righteous, in the house of king David
Acts 15 Gentile rapture bride we all come back to war, 2nd coming judge & save wife #1 and some of the Matthew 25 10 repenting born again saints,& rebuild
Revelation 17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords,
and King of kings:and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Obadiah 21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
Bonus God reveals who is Babylon the great
Revelation 18:1-2 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
After these things, I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority,
the earth was lit up by his splendor.
Revelation 18:2 He cried out in a strong voice,
“She has fallen! She has fallen! Bavel the Great![a]
“In her was found the blood of prophets and of God’s people,
indeed, of all who have ever been slaughtered on earth!”
Bavel the Great is old Jerusalem & Temple priesthood, with wife #1 (daughter:Tents of Judah was saved 1st from among them)
‘It is finished,’ in the original Greek,it’s one word:tetelestai, which means “paid in full.”
terrestrial sin loving born again repenters.Not bloody headed cursed celestial-born from above
quickened spirit church,raptured congregation of the righteous.
Psalm 1:5 (KJV)Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Just a few rapture no wrath notes: last 7 years of those that are bloody headed cursed their last 7 years of tribulation & wrath upon
(these mise the rapture @ drink the 1st cup of wrath @ 2nd coming 2nd judgment of wrath only: ungodly,and the sin loving workers of iniquity the born again repenters in the grave or alive book of Revelations poured upon them .) (Now for the 2nd coming the 2nd judgment of wrath only (some J.C. overcomers survive receive the white stone of eternal shame only ~ the strange judgment ~ some of the Matthew 25 sin loving born again repenters can be saved (now for 2nd cup of wrath poured out upon any body
OR things Babylon system and those that were not written in the Lamb’s book of life. )
Just ask !
webpqk@gmail com Randy Lewis