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Was Pastor Dr. Jack Hyles Church The Greatest Soul Winning Church?

The Truth About IFB Baptist Pastor Jack Hyles

Jack Hyles Personal Life and his Ministry was full of Scandal after Scandal. The Hypocrisy of Jack Hyles supporters is BOLD and Shocking. A typical Hyles supporter: “Yes, yes, I know. No one is perfect…” These same people have no problem Exposing and dragging other Pastors through the mud. The more I talk with Hyles supporters, people who attended his Church before he died and after, the more I realize they did not know Jack Hyles Theology.

They sat in the pews listened to him Preach seemingly everything went in one ear and out the other. Because after talking with them it was obvious they did not know what Jack Hyles Believed.

Jack Hyles Bio

“Jack Frasure Hyles (September 25, 1926 – February 6, 2001) was born and raised in Italy, Texas, a small, low-income city in Ellis County, south of Dallas. Hyles often described his less-than-ideal upbringing which, he said, included a distant father. At the age of eighteen, Hyles enlisted in the United States Army and served as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. He and his wife, Beverly, were married during the war.

Hyles was a leading figure in the Independent Baptist movement. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Hammond in Hammond, Indiana, from August 1959 until his death in 2001. He was well known for being an innovator of the church bus ministry that brought thousands of people each week from surrounding towns to Hammond for services. Hyles built First Baptist up from fewer than a thousand members to a membership of 100,000. In 1993 and again in 1994, it was reported that 20,000 people attended First Baptist every Sunday, making it the most attended Baptist church in the United States. In 2001, at the time of Hyles’s death, 20,000 people were attending church services and Sunday school each week.”

Jack Hyles move to Hammond, Indiana

In 1959, Hyles moved to the church-provided parsonage at 8232 Greenwood Avenue, Munster, Indiana, and became the pastor of First Baptist Church of Hammond. When he arrived, the church had a membership of about seven hundred, many from affluent backgrounds. About a third of the members left the church after hearing Hyles’ preaching style, which was very different from that to which they had been accustomed. Hyles then led the church to its status as an Independent Baptist church—freeing it from its ties with the American Baptists. Hyles started his bus ministry and soon shepherded the church from a congregation of several hundred to more than 20,000. In the early 1990s a national survey ranked First Baptist as the largest church in the nation, by average weekly attendance figures.

Beginning in 1969, and continuing for several years, First Baptist received recognition for the size of its Sunday School. In 1969, Elmer Towns wrote a book called The Ten Largest Sunday Schools and What Makes Them Grow which analyzed First Baptist’s Sunday School. Towns presented a plaque to Hyles in 1971, naming First Baptist Church of Hammond the nation’s largest Sunday school. In 1972, and for several years following, Christian Life Magazine proclaimed First Baptist Church of Hammond to have “the world’s largest Sunday School”.

Jack Hyles Huge Ego. His Bus Ministry One Lie after another.

Jack Hyles Bus Ministry, his Children’s Ministry and his Sunday School Ministry were all about Hyles Huge EGO. He was obsessed with Numbers. He Gloried in Falsely Claiming huge weekly Soul Winning Numbers. Workers in his Ministry were publicly recognized and rewarded for their Soul Winning totals.

What Jack Hyles Soul winning method was:

“Get in the door… Put your foot in the door and do not let the door close on you. Always Pray the Sinners Prayer, even if they are not Praying with you, before you Leave.”

So every door a Hyles member went to was counted as people being Saved. The same method is used with Alter Calls at the Church. Some one will Pray a Sinners Pray with them and they will be Counted as Saved. Children from the Bus Ministry are treated the same way.

Forcing a Sinners prayer on People, Yes these Prayers were said despite often being objected to, is not Salvation. I have been in the Christian Ministry for 40 years and I can sense when someone is agreeing with me just to move me along, not because they care about anything I am saying. You do not coach someone in saying a Sinners Prayer like Jack Hyles teaches that will not result in a person being Saved.

If someone Asks me to pray with them. I make them tell me how a person is Saved, without Coaching. If they Believe and understand the Gospel I tell them you have it, that is right. You do not need me to Pray with You.

The Jack Hyles Soul Winning Method is Phony.

It does not Save anyone. To be Saved a Person has to be under Actual Conviction from the Holy Spirit of God. They have to have a real understanding of the Gospel and their need for Salvation.

Below is Proof from Jack Hyles that he was Lost. Jack Hyles never Saved anyone. His whole Ministry was one Huge Lie.

Jack Hyles Soul Winning
Jack Hyles Soul Winning Book
Jack Hyles Soul Winning Method
Jack Hyles Aggressive Un-Biblical Soul Winning Method
Jack Hyles Repent of Sin
Jack Hyles Repent of Sin False Gospel Sinners Prayer

Jack Hyles taught what most IFB Baptist Teach Repent of Sin to Be Saved.

I was Saved with the Good News for Modern man Bible. I was taught the Gospel. I believed the Gospel only to Save me.

Like all Cults they contradict themselves they hold up John and Charles Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, Billy Sunday, Charles Spurgeon and many others as having been great men of God that preached hard against Sin. None of these men were KJV only, they used other versions of the Bible. All these men were Lost, Jonathan Edwards and Charles Spurgeon being Calvinists.

Sin is their focus, not Jesus. I have seen a Pastor run women out of the Church who were just visiting the Church because they were wearing pants. The Pastor called them Whores right to their face. He said I will not allow Whorish Women in my Church to tempt and to corrupt the men of my Church

They coined Easy Believism to say that people who Simply Believed the Gospel only to Save them were, seeking to be able to live in Sin. Anyone who did not make Jesus the Lord of their Lives were not Saved. “If Jesus is not Lord of All, than he is not Lord at All.”

Below is a note I wrote to a friend of mine who Loves Jack Hyles. He doesn’t care about all of Hyles Scandals. He denies Jack Hyles taught Repent of Sin. Even Jack Hyles own 1962 book on Soul winning did not convince him. He told me maybe early ( This book on Soul Winning was the Foundation of Jack Hyles Ministry. This is was what Jack Hyles was taught in his youth. Jack Hyles never rejected The Repent of Sin False Gospel.) on Jack Hyles wrote that book and believed in Repent of Sin to be Saved. But the majority of his Ministry he taught the Gospel Only for Salvation.

My Note: Jack Hyles never rejected his 1962 book on Soul Winning. As far as I know many years after his death it is still for sale by the Sword of the Lord. I bought my copy from the Sword of the Lord just 2 years ago. If a world famous Pastor rejects a popular book / booklet that he has written he would have the publication of that book stopped. He would write a book refuting his former False beliefs and Teachings. Being Wrong on Salvation in 1962 would say that Jack Hyles was not Saved in 1962. When was he really Saved then?  No Jack Hyles was a Wolf in Sheep’s clothing. He, like all False Teachers, constantly contradicted himself. I find it strange how you will defend False Teachers. You will admit some of their False teachings then you will excuse them by going to a different book they wrote. You falsely say they recanted their False Teachings using a different book as proof. You have not shown that I have seen where these False Teachers have Said that they were Wrong and they had changed their False Teachings / Beliefs. They certainly never made any public confessions of being Wrong and having pushed a False plan of Salvation. Someone who admits they are Wrong will make sure everyone knows they were Wrong. They will pull from circulation all Books, videos and audios of their False Teachings. The people you defend as having rejected their False plans of Salvation have not done that.

False Teachers will teach the Truth to break into Churches.

To attract people in IFB Churches in Baptist Churches in mainstream Churches so they can later Teach them their False plan of Salvation.  People like Charles Spurgeon, Dr. Peter S. Ruckman have books long in publication and Sermons in print and on audio and video that teach different plans of Salvation for the Christian Church.

Jack Hyles Said you can only be Saved with a KJV Bible.

I was Saved from the Good News from Modern Man Bible. The Bible Says you do not even need the Bible to Be Saved.

Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Jack Hyles Denies Jesus Died for our Sins. Proof Jack Hyles was a Lost False Teacher.

Jack Hyles Accepting and Encouraging his congregation to Worship Him. Lies about Soul Winning. Sexual Perversion from the Pulpit.

Evidence that Jack Hyles had a life Long Mistress. Child Molestation, Many Crimes…

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJFEiE4GKkvApQEXnELm41r7RvRpbOnnW

People need to understand what these Cult Churches believe and teach so they do not fall prey to them. Or so they can get out of them.

How to Be Saved:

Acts 16:30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

The Greatest possible Question and Answer.

Question? What must I do to be Saved?

Answer: Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

If you Believe the Bible is the 100% True word of God than this is how a person is Saved, period! Plus nothing else.

When you read the Bible you need to look at the entire context of the verse you are using.

Acts 16:25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.

26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.

27 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.

28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.

29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,

30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.

What does it mean to Believe on Jesus? To Believe on Jesus you Believe what the Bible says about Jesus.

John 6:63 “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

I want to focus on “… the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

The condensed meaning is Jesus Words are Alive. A spirit is Alive. “… they are Life.”

They are Life means that Jesus Words are what gives us Eternal Life.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 The same was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

Jesus is literally the Living Word of God. The only Way to Heaven. JESUS ONLY. Not Jesus plus anything else.

John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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.

17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

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The 2 Greatest Evangelists Of All Time: Billy Sunday and Billy Graham?

Billy Graham and Billy Sunday

They will be forever linked because Billy Graham said he was Saved at a Billy Sunday revival. There are numerous books, videos, articles, etc…, from them and about them. Billy Sunday and Billy Graham are credited with reaching the most people in History. They Preached to more people than anyone else in their Revivals / Crusades. Under their Preaching Millions of people were supposedly Saved. I question that either one of them Saved even one person in their entire Lives.

Why? Neither on of them have a Christian Testimony. Billy Graham was a Southern Baptist. The Southern Baptist Church does not teach the Gospel Only for Salvation. They Teach the Gospel plus Works as does every other “Christian” Cult. The Southern Baptist Teach to be Saved you have to Repent of Sin. Repent of Sin is not in the Bible. Billy Graham was a very Good Southern Baptist. He taught you have to Repent of Sin to be Saved.

Billy Graham Hypocritically said repeatedly that Eternal life is a Gift, obtained by Grace Alone through Faith, and it sounds great what he said. But like All False Teachers he double Talks. Many False Teachers will at one time in their Ministry have taught Salvation correctly but later on they add Works to Salvation. Some False Teachers one day will teach Salvation Correctly than the next day they will add Works to Salvation. People will show me where they said Salvation correctly and I will show them where they taught Works. No Saved Pastor will ever teach Works as Part of Salvation.

Typically Billy Graham will Say: “Salvation is 100% Jesus without Works. We are Saved by Grace Without Works…” Then after he gains the crowd’s confidence, he changes direction and he starts adding requirements to be saved. Such as, to be Saved you have to change your behavior. You cannot continue in your current Sinful lifestyle and go to Heaven. You have to Turn From Your Sin before you can be Saved. You must openly confess Jesus Christ before people to be Saved. You have to fully Surrender to Christ’s Lordship to be Saved.. None of these things are the Gospel! Are part of Salvation. Are how a person is Saved. And he said you must CONTINUE doing these things to have Eternal Life! That is NOT the Gospel set forth in the Bible!

Billy Graham Like all Southern Baptist Preachers Taught you Have to Repent of Your Sins to Go to Heaven.

All Repent of your Sins False Teachers Falsely teach that the definition of Repent is to: Repent of Your Sin, To Turn From Sin. They Falsely Claim that this is not Works.

It is Works because according to them you must Agree to Stop Sinning before you can be Saved. Also they teach if you do not Ask For Forgiveness for every Sin that you commit, Another way they define Repentance, you will go to Hell. Turning From Sin is their illustration that to Be Saved You Have to Turn From Sin: Stop Sinning to Be Saved. This is 100% Works. Do not Forget Repent of Sin is not in the Bible.

The Bible Teaches that To Turn From Sin, To Repent of Sin, is Works.

Jonah 3:10 “And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.”

God saw their Works. What Works? That they turned from their Evil Way. Evil Way = Sin. God / the Bible Defines Repent, Turn From Sin as Works. It could not be any more Clear.

Also see God Repented (Changed His Mind) of the Evil, God was going to Kill them, that he had said he would do unto them; and he did it not. So God here Changed his mind, which is Repentance.

Below in this YouTube Video Billy Does what All Repent of Sin False Teachers Do He Falsely Defines Repentance. He Says the Definition of Repent is to Stop Sinning, To Change Your Life Style. To Repent of Sin. The Bible Does not Define Repentance as to Repent of Sin. The Bible Definition of Repentance is to Change your mind. Do you realize that God Repents in the Bible more than anyone Else. Every Time God Repents he changes his Mind. Bible Repentance is to Change your mind from unbelief in Jesus, unbelief in the Gospel, to Belief in Jesus, to Belief in the Gospel as the Only Way to Heaven.

Billy Graham a brief Bio:

William Franklin Graham Jr. (November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018) was an American Evangelist and an ordained Southern Baptist Pastor who became well known internationally starting in the late 1940s. He was a prominent Evangelical Christian figure, and according to a biographer, was “among the most influential Christian leaders” of the 20th century.

Billy Graham held large indoor and outdoor Revivals with sermons that were broadcast on radio and television. Many are still being re-broadcast . In his six decades to this day. On Television, he hosted annual Crusades, Evangelistic Campaigns that ran from 1947 until his retirement in 2005. He also hosted the radio show Hour of Decision from 1950 to 1954. He Repudiated Racial Segregation and insisted on racial integration for his Revivals and Crusades, starting in 1953. He later invited Martin Luther King Jr. to Preach jointly at a revival in New York City in 1957. In addition to his religious aims, he helped shape the worldview of a huge number of people who came from different backgrounds. Leading them to find a relationship between the Bible and Contemporary Secular viewpoints. According to his website, Billy Graham preached to live audiences of 210 million people in more than 185 countries and territories through various meetings, including BMS World Mission and Global Mission.

Billy Graham was particularly close to Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson (one of Graham’s closest friends), and Richard Nixon. He was also lifelong friends with Robert Schuller. Another televangelist and the founding pastor of the Crystal Cathedral. Billy Graham talked Schuller into starting his own television ministry. Graham’s Evangelism was appreciated by mainline Protestant and Catholic Denominations. He encouraged those mainline Protestants who were converted to his Evangelical message. To remain within or return to their mainline churches. Billy Graham embarrassed Catholicism he encouraged unity between Catholics and Protestants.

I must Break in on this Bio… Billy Graham was not A Christian and this Bio makes that absolutely clear. He was an Ecumenicalist. Ecumenicalists Believe all Roads Lead to Heaven. Today’s Ecumenicalists  push “COEXIST” that all Religions are Equally Valid and they Will All Get You to Heaven.

President Lyndon Johnson was a very openly Vile Human Being. He was a well Known Racist Bigot a member of the KKK. The Leftist Press hid this Fact from the Public.

Robert Schuller was a Weirdo. Calling him a Preacher a Pastor is misusing those words. He was like Norman Vincent Peale the Power of Positive Thinking. Schuller was really just a motivational speaker that included Bible Verses. He did not Preach the Gospel.

In the Below YouTube Video Robert Schuller says He Does Not Believe In Everything the Bible Says. He actually Mocks Belief in the Bible.

Billy Graham in the Below YouTube Videos Said that No One will Go to Hell. He said Everyone is A Christian Even if they Do Not Know It. This False Un-Biblical Belief is called Universalism.

Billy Graham’s inclusiveness was all PR. He made more money the more people he allowed into his Revivals, into all of his meetings. His SBC was 100% White when he joined it. The Southern Baptist Church is the most Racist Church in History. Today the SBC is 85% White.

Now the rest of Billy Graham’s Bio:

Billy Graham operated a variety of media and publishing outlets. According to his staff, more than 3.2 million people have responded to the invitation at Billy Graham Crusades to “accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior”. (My Note: That is not what Billy Graham Taught he Taught you have to Repent of Your Sins to Be Saved. When someone made an Alter Call To Be Saved they were met by a person who had them pray a Sinner’s Prayer in that Prayer they had to Repent of their Sins to be Saved. At every Revival Billy Graham had handouts that Said to be Saved you have to Repent of Sin.)

Graham’s estimated lifetime audience, including radio and television broadcasts, topped billions of people. As a result of his crusades, Graham preached the (His False Repent of Sins Gospel) gospel to more people in person than anyone in the history of Christianity. Graham was on Gallup’s list of most admired men and women a record 61 times. Grant Wacker writes that by the mid-1960s, he had become the “Great Legitimator”: “By then his presence conferred status on presidents, acceptability on wars, shame on racial prejudice, desirability on decency, dishonor on indecency, and prestige on civic events.”

Billy Graham was in Love with Hollywood. He spent a lot of his time living it up with Satanic Hollywood Stars.

Billy Graham was Friends with many Country Music Stars. Country Music is Vile these friends sung about Whiskey getting Drunk, Adultery, Random Sex, they Glorified every Sin you can think of.

Billy Graham was the President’s Pastor. Nothing could be more Wicked than to be called the Pastor to POTUS. What Billy Graham was doing is telling Everyone this Guy is a Christian you should support him. None of those Presidents were Christians. Most of them were very Vile and Evil and so were their politics. If Billy Graham was Alive and healthy right now he would be standing with Joe Biden just like he stood up for the Clinton’s. Billy Graham was great Friends with the Clinton’s and the Bush’s some very Evil people.

https://bbcinternational.org/believers/english/articles/topical%20research/ecumenical/billy%20graham.htm

Billy Sunday

His Bio: “Billy Sunday ( William Ashley) (1862–1935) was an American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball’s National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century.

Born into poverty in Iowa, Sunday spent some years in an orphanage before working at odd jobs and playing for local running and baseball teams. His speed and agility provided him the opportunity to play baseball in the major leagues for eight years, where he was an average hitter and a good fielder known for his base-running.

Converted to evangelical Christianity in the 1880s, Sunday left baseball for the Christian ministry. He gradually developed his skills as a pulpit evangelist in the Midwest and then, during the early 20th century, he became the nation’s most famous evangelist with his colloquial sermons and frenetic delivery. Sunday held widely reported campaigns in America’s largest cities, and he attracted the largest crowds of any evangelist before the advent of electronic sound systems. He also made a great deal of money and was welcomed into the homes of the wealthy and influential. Sunday was a strong supporter of Prohibition, and his preaching almost certainly played a significant role in the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919.

Despite questions about his income, no scandal ever touched Sunday. He was sincerely devoted to his wife, who also managed his campaigns, but his three sons disappointed him. His audiences grew smaller during the 1920s as Sunday grew older, religious revivals became less popular, and alternate sources of entertainment appeared. Nevertheless, Sunday continued to preach and remained a stalwart defender of conservative Christianity until his death.

While Billy Sunday was a remarkable evangelist of his time, one of his greatest converts is Dr. Billy Graham. Dr. Graham writes about his conversion in this book, “Just As I Am” published by Harper Collins in 1997.”

Who Billy Sunday really was as an Evangelist.

IFB Baptists love Billy Sunday who was not even a Baptist he was a Presbyterian. Baptists Beliefs are a lot different than Presbyterian’s. Especially IFB Baptists that only use the KJV Bible. I always found it very Weird that in every IFB Church I have attended that Billy Sunday was a Huge Hero. After three years in Professional Baseball, he became a famous Revivalist Preacher. He held packed Tent Meetings across the country. He preached against the Consumption of Alcohol, gaining a reputation as a Temperance Leader.

The Presbyterian Church is not a Christian Church it teaches and has always taught Calvinism.

https://www.learnreligions.com/presbyterian-church-beliefs-and-practices-700522#:~:text=The%20beliefs%20and%20practices%20set%20forth%20by%20the,reformer.%20Calvin%27s%20theology%20was%20similar%20to%20Martin%20Luther%27s

Billy Sunday as a Temperance Preacher preached against Sin!!! His messages were all: “Repent of your Sins before it is too Late. If your do not Turn Away from Alcohol, Adultery, Fornication, all of your Secret Sins you will Go to Hell. Turn or Burn. All Drunks will Go to Hell. Stop your Sinning or Go to Hell.”

This message is why IFB Churches Love Billy Sunday. Preaching against Everything is all the IFB does. The IFB invent Sins to Preach against. They Do not understand the Bible. People do not Go to Hell for their Sins. They Go to Hell for Rejecting Jesus.

John 3:18 “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

See the Bible is Clear a person is Saved by Believing on Jesus Only. A person does not Go to Hell for their Sins. They Go to Hell For Rejecting Jesus Free Gift of Salvation.

1st John 5:9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

Jesus died for All Sin. He paid for all the Sins of the Entire World.

It is impossible to go to Hell for Sin.

Jesus either Died for All Sin or he did not. If Jesus did not Die for All Sin like the Bible says than we are All Lost.

John 1:29 “The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”

1st Peter 3:18 “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:”

Hebrews 10:12 “But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;”

Jesus is the ONE AND ONLY SACRIFICE FOR ALL SINS FOREVER.

Hebrews 10:4 “For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.”

The Bible makes it Crystal Clear that Jesus Died for ALL SIN. ADDING ANYTHING TO JESUS BLOOD ATONEMENT IS WORKS.

Billy Sunday passed out booklets that taught lordship Salvation at all of his Tent meetings. Billy Sunday was not a Christian.

The truth is what Billy Sunday taught about Salvation how to be Saved is not Biblical. I know you can find Billy Sunday saying a lot of Biblical things. He quoted lot of scriptures. The bottom line is he talked out of both sides of his mouth like all False Teachers. He contradicted himself constantly.

Below is Billy Sunday telling how to be Saved. It is not Biblical. It is Works.

“Have you surrendered to Him as your Lord and Master? That is, are you willing to do His will even when it conflicts with your desire? Have you confessed to Him as your Saviour and Master before the world? Is it your purpose to strive to please Him in everything day by day? If you can sincerely answer “YES” to the foregoing questions, then you may know on the authority of God’s word that you are NOW a child of God.”

The Gospel, the only Way to be Saved according to the Bible is not included in Billy Sunday’s False Plan of Salvation.

Billy Sunday is teaching lordship salvation. Lordship salvation says before you can be Saved you must make Jesus the Lord of your Life. The Bible doesn’t say this.

Read the quote carefully. It tells you that you must Surrender to Jesus ( Also commonly said as: Surrender, give your Life to Jesus to be Saved. This is not Biblical. Jesus gave his Life to Save us. We do not give our Lives to Jesus to be Saved.) to be Saved.

It says you have to make A Public Confession of your Faith as part of your Salvation. The Bible doesn’t say that.

Billy says to be Saved you have to agree to strive to do his will in everything you do. That means: You Must Agree That You Will Strive Not To Sin as a Condition a Requirement for you to be Saved. This is not Biblical.

Nothing in his statement is Biblical. A person is Saved by Believing the Gospel Only not by anything in Billy Sunday’s False Plan of Salvation.

We are Saved by Believing the Gospel only, by Asking Jesus to Save us, Accepting Jesus Free Gift of Salvation.

1st Corinthians 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

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Who Was Charles Stanley? Was He A Christian?

Charles Stanley was a Southern Baptist Pastor.

No Christian should ever have a problem defending their Faith. So do not attack me for Asking, was Charles Stanley a Christian. I will firmly say that Charles Stanley was not a Christian. He was a False Teacher.

As a Southern Baptist he held to every False Teaching taught by the Southern Baptists. More on this Later.

Below is a brief Bio of Charles Stanley:

“Charles Frazier Stanley (September 25, 1932 – April 18, 2023) was an American Southern Baptist pastor and writer. He was senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Atlanta for 49 years and took on emeritus status in 2020. He founded and was president of In Touch Ministries, which widely broadcasts his sermons through television and radio. He also served two one-year terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, from 1984 to 1986.

Stanley joined the staff of First Baptist Church of Atlanta in 1969 and became senior pastor in 1971.

In 1972, Stanley launched a half-hour religious television program called The Chapel Hour. In 1977, Stanley founded In Touch Ministries with the mission to lead people worldwide into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ and to strengthen the local church. The Christian Broadcasting Network began televising In Touch in 1978. The show has since been translated into 50 languages. In the United States, In Touch is broadcast on approximately 500 radio stations, 300 television stations, and several satellite networks including The Inspiration Network and Trinity Broadcasting Network. Stanley’s sermons, along with other audio and video programming, are available on the In Touch website. The ministry also publishes In Touch magazine. In Touch uses tools like radio, television, magazines and digital media in its effort to advance the Gospel as quickly as possible. Stanley took the ministry name In Touch from a Living Bible he owned.

Stanley’s writings and broadcasts address issues such as finances, parenting, personal crises, emotional matters, relationships, and Protestantism. According to the In Touch website, “Dr. Stanley fervently believes the Bible to be the inerrant Word of God, a belief strongly reflected in his teaching.”

In 1985, Charles Stanley was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention. In 2017, Stanley named Anthony George to succeed him as senior pastor of First Baptist Church at some point in the future. On September 13, 2020, Stanley announced his retirement as senior pastor and transition to pastor emeritus, but noted that he would continue to work at In Touch Ministries.

With regard to theology, Stanley was a conservative evangelical, and his eschatology was dispensationalist. Over the course of his ministry, Stanley developed “30 Life Principles.” He credited his Pentecostal grandfather, George Washington Stanley, with inspiring one of his most referenced principles: “Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.” In his book Courageous Faith: My Story from a Life of Obedience, Stanley said, “Granddad told me, ‘Charles, if God tells you to run your head through a brick wall, you head for the wall, and when you get there, God will make a hole for it.'” Stanley also addressed his influences and philosophy when he wrote in 2009 that he “began to apply the principles of [Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich] to my endeavors as a pastor, and I discovered they worked! For years, I read [it] every year to remind myself that the truth of God is not just for one career field. It is for all manner of work and ministry.”

Exposing False Teacher Charles Stanley

The above Bio is a real mess. Obviously written by someone who does not understand Christianity. The term Evangelical is a made up Term. It is not a Christian Denomination. It is just like the term Ecumenical which is also not a Denomination. These are broad terms that seek to put specific Churches into one big happy Tent.

Churches that use the term Evangelical are Lost they teach Repent of Sin to be Saved. Repent of Sin is not in the Bible. Repent of sin means that to Be Saved you have to not Sin again. In this False Gospel Jesus does not and cannot Save you. You have to Stop Sinning. Some will say it is Actually you have to Repent of Every Sin you have Ever Committed, Ask God to Forgive each and everyone of your Sins. If you skip even one Sin you will go to Hell.

Repent of Sin False Churches say both. Many who teach it will deny teaching it. When Asked they say: “No you misunderstand. We do not Believe you have to Repent of Sin as such… But what Saved person lives in constant habitual Sin? They in fact do believe you have to Repent of Sin. They claim a Christian cannot live in Sin. My answer to them is to Read Romans Chapter 7 where the Apostle Paul is in Agony over his Habitual Sins that he cannot stop. They are the worsts Frauds, complete Hypocrites.

Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Charles Stanley like most False Teachers took teachings from the Catholic Church, from the Pentecostal Church, and many other Churches. Most Baptists including Charles Stanley are very Calvinist in their beliefs.

His Dispensationalist beliefs are 100% unbiblical. Dispensationalism is not found in the Bible it is completely made up. The short meaning of Dispensationalism is that there is not one plan of Salvation. There are many different plans of Salvation. According to them God kept changing how a person is Saved. They teach the Bible has 12 or more different ways to Be Saved in it. Not one of these plans that they have invented is Jesus Only.

These Dispensationalist Love to say that they Believe right now in the Church Age Dispensation Salvation is through Faith Alone, by Grace Alone, by Jesus Alone. They say this, Charles Stanley always said this, and use the correct Bible verses to defend this. But they do not Believe it for a Second. They all teach Repent of Sin to Be Saved which is Salvation by Works by what you do. They do not Trust in Jesus only for Salvation.

Charles Stanley’s Southern Baptist Convention:

If you want to know what is happening at the Southern Baptist Convention please watch all of the YouTube Videos I am including and open and read all the links I have included.

People often read maybe 1% of my Blogs and want to argue with me. They have not read my Blog but want to argue with me about it. It is obvious when I talk to them. They demand information I have already given in my Blog. I kindly tell them that before they argue with me about my Blog they have not even read they need to read it. Including all the information in my links.

They want me to repeat everything I said in the information I already provided to them. All the questions they ask me I have already answered in my Blog. So please read my entire Blog including all the videos and links. Afterward we can have an Adult conversation if you would like to.

Recently a Woman who engaged me in conversation, well she wanted to argue with me, told me: “Why would I read your Blog?” (She was Angry at my Blog. She possible just read the Head line and the 1st few sentences only. But she did not read 98% of my Blog.)

“I know I will not agree with anything you have to Say.”

The truth is she, the Devil inside of her, did not want to Change her Mind. She wanted to tell me what she Believed. But she refused to hear me out. She wanted a one Side Conversation. “Listen to Me!!! I will just Ignore what you have to Say!!! Just Listen to me and Shut up!!!

That is what happens online typically. People go online to Argue not to Learn and Listen to someone else. They are all know it All’s who in truth have zero idea what they are talking about. They cannot defend their position. 

Repent of Sin to be Saved is the SBC’s plan of Salvation. Calvinism is now and has been Historically upheld. Note Calvinism is not Biblical. It is a non-Christian set of beliefs invented by John Calvin. A former Catholic who created his own Religion. He blended Catholic teaches into Calvinism. This is no different than Joseph Smith inventing Mormonism.

The Southern Baptist Church is a non Christian Cult. Many unsaved Cults have Baptist in their name. Like all Freewill Baptist and all Reformed Baptist. In the link below is the Southern Baptist Convention reaffirming their belief in Repent of Sin to be Saved.
The recent decision by delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention to affirm the use of the “sinner’s prayer” – known as a prayer of repentance and “inviting Jesus into your heart” – has undermined Calvinism in the denomination and placed a renewed emphasis on traditional Baptist soteriology: if you repent, call on the Lord and believe in Christ for mercy, you are saved.
The resolution, which passed Wednesday by a majority vote of around 80 percent, affirmed the belief that “repentance from sin and personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ are necessary for salvation.” Citing Romans 10:13, it also affirmed that “repentance and faith involve a crying out for mercy and a calling on the Lord,” more commonly known as the “sinner’s prayer,” as a “biblical expression of repentance and faith.”

I have included my message on the Sinners Prayer. I sent it earlier in one of my 1st emails. Maybe you did not see it like you missed the pictures I sent you about Jack Hyles book on Soul winning. I have also included the information about Billy Sunday I talked about in the same earlier email that you wanted to see. The Sinners’ prayer is Biblical. Cults like the Southern Baptist always put Repent of Sin or another version of lordship salvation in their Sinners prayer.

People often ask me, not how to be Saved only, but how do I know that I am Saved. I know I am Saved because I have the Holy Spirit of God inside of me. I tell people that after being Saved God speaks to me. The notion of God speaking to people is a reason to put that person in a straight jack and to lock them away in a mental hospital according to the Lost World. A popular police TV series Blue Bloods had an episode with the family praying at the dinner table and the young police officer son told his Father: “Today I arrested a guy who said God speaks to him. Do you think God speaks to people?” Tom Selleck’s character said: “This man you arrested, obviously was very disturbed. There are no burning bushes with God speaking to someone out of.” This good Catholic family is the core of Blue Bloods. TV and movies are used to push Satan’s False Religions and to mock the truth of the Bible.

The Southern Baptist Convention, as the Denomination is formally known, has been in the news recently amid questions over its pro-slavery past and allegations of sex abuse. Last year, one of the denomination’s key seminaries fired its president over an alleged cover-up of rape.

The South and the Southern Baptist Church during Slavery was 100% Democrat. There was not one Republican in a Southern Baptist Church. Republicans freed the Slaves. The Southern Baptist Church is 85% White today and is still full of Racist. I know this from having lived in Virginia, and Florida for over 20 years. I do not believe for one second that it is true that the Southern Baptist Church is by majority Republican now. Many top Southern Baptists were / are big supporters of the Republicans but that is not true across the board.

I hate it how Republicans who claim to be Christians scoff at the issue of Slavery. They wear blinders and falsely claim that people today are not even slightly influenced by the Bigots, the historic Evil attitude towards Blacks that Whites in both the North and South had. Yes most people in the North did not fight to free the Slaves. They fought to keep the South in the United States of America.

The Civil war was fought over States Rights. A popular quote at the time in the North was: “I would never risk my life to Free Slaves. I am fighting for the Union, for the United States.” Lincoln’s speeches were all about saving the United States not about freeing the Slaves. His Anti-Slavery Speeches came after the start of the Civil war. He Said: “If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it.” Lincoln said this because he knew the people in the North would never go to War to end Slavery alone.

Lincoln’s only chance to Save the Union was the plea to Save the Union. The Slavery argument would not have gone anywhere. The argument for the North was to Save the Union. The South was fighting to keep Slavery that was the only issue for them. People feared that England, and France would come back and take over the United States again if it was broken apart. The Civil War is called the 2nd American Revolution for a reason.

Republicans ignore that even today the South is full of Racist Whites. The North if we are honest is also filled with Racist Whites. All of this Racism is because of Slavery. To say otherwise is a Lie. The excuse for Slavery was that Blacks left to themselves were no better than animals. They claimed Blacks were inferior in intelligence and a life in Slavery was a good life for them. Just read Gone with the Wind for proof. Gone with the Wind was Southern propaganda post Civil War. Margret Mitchell was raised by people who lived through the Civil War. She had 1st hand knowledge of how the South was before, during and after the Civil War by people who taught it to her.

To say White Racist no longer exist is a huge Lie. It is not as bad as it was in the past but it is still a huge problem that should not be ignored. All my life I have known White Racist. The military in the 1980’s, when I joined the military, was full of White Racists. A Black man in my squadron was tarred and feathered out in the hanger bay. He was left there for 12 hours for everyone to see. There was a mob of men standing by to prevent anyone from freeing him. He was tied to a chair. The officers, including the Commanding Officer had to have known about this.

Everyone on the ship was talking about it. It was no secret. No one was held accountable for this. I was told if I tried to interfere I would not be tarred and feathered. I would be thrown overboard without a life vest… You know people go missing at sea every cruise. That statement was true. I never went to sea when we did not lose at least one person who went overboard. Death at Sea is a fact. Murder at Sea is also a Fact.

My point concerning Charles Stanley is that he had to be a Racist to be a part of the Southern Baptist Church. At the time he joined the SBC it was extremely Racist.

https://juicyecumenism.com/2015/06/17/southern-baptists-call-for-repentance-revivial/

The below YouTube video is very good at exposing Charles Stanley’s False Gospel of Works.

How to Be Saved:

Acts 16:30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

The Greatest possible Question and Answer.

Question? What must I do to be Saved?

Answer: Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

If you Believe the Bible is the 100% True word of God than this is how a person is Saved, period!!!! Plus nothing else.

It is hard to find any Church that Believes this and teaches this. Either the Bible is 100% True or it is a Lie.

When you read the Bible you need to look at the entire context of the verse you are using.

Acts 16:25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.

26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.

27 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.

28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.

29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,

30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.

What does it mean to Believe on Jesus? To Believe on Jesus you Believe what the Bible says about Jesus.

John 6:63 “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

This is a very deep and powerful verse. I have never heard a Pastor, a Preacher, an Evangelist, no one ever expound on and teach this entire verse.

I am not going to either, there is too much in this verse to be able to explain in one message.

I want to focus on “… the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

The condensed meaning is Jesus Words are Alive. A spirit is Alive. “… they are Life.”

They are Life means that Jesus Words are what gives us Eternal Life. Also we need to live our lives according to the Bible as Christians.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 The same was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

Jesus is literally the Living Word of God. The only Way to Heaven. JESUS ONLY. Not Jesus plus anything else.

Jesus words:

John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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.

17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

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Jesus Died For All Sin.

Hebrews 10:12

“But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;”

Jesus is the ONE AND ONLY SACRIFICE FOR ALL SINS FOREVER.

Hebrews 10:

4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

The Bible makes it Crystal Clear that Jesus Died for ALL SIN. ADDING ANYTHING TO JESUS BLOOD ATONEMENT IS WORKS.

Almost ALL CHURCHES Deny this Fact. People who Believe and Teach this are Falsely called Universal Salvationist.

Universal Salvation means that No One Goes to Hell.

Yes, Jesus Died For All Sin.

No, Everyone Does Not Go to Heaven.

To Be Saved A Person Has to ACCEPT Jesus FREE GIFT of Salvation.

NO ONE GOES TO HELL FOR SIN!!!

You will not Find ONE VERSE That Says a Person Goes to Hell / the Lake of Fire Because of their Sin.

PEOPLE GO TO HELL FOR REJECTING JESUS.

This is what the Bible Says:

John 3:

14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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.

Salvation Happens as Soon as A Person BELIEVES IN JESUS. This Belief is in the Gospel:

1st Corinthians 15:

1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

John 3:

“17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

Jesus did not come into the World to Send people to Hell. Jesus came into the World to Die For ALL SIN, so the world could be SAVED.

18 “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

Everyone that has Believed the Gospel is Saved and will never be Condemned. Right here is Eternal Salvation. Note Salvation is not Salvation if it can be Taken Away, Lost in any way.

EVERYONE THAT HAS NOT BELIEVED ON JESUS, IS RIGHT NOW, CONDEMNED. YES THIS IS WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES.

19 “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”

People do not Go to Hell for their Sins. They Go to Hell for Rejecting Jesus.

People refuse to Accept Jesus because they LOVE THEIR SIN. LOVE OF SIN KEEPS PEOPLE FROM BEING SAVED.

I have talked with countless people who have told me something like this: “I will probably get Saved when I am older. Right now I am young. I am single. I want to have all the FUN (SEX, GETTING DRUNK, DOING DRUGS, ALL MANNER OF EVIL…) I can possibly have. I do not want to be a hypocrite. People HATE CHRISTIANS BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL HYPOCRITES. If I get Saved I will not be a Hypocrite.”

“…Men Loved DARKNESS RATHER THAN LIGHT, BECAUSE THEIR DEEDS WERE EVIL.” People chose their SINS OVER JESUS.”

20 “For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.”

THE LOST HATE JESUS. YES THE LOST, THE UNSAVED HATE JESUS. THEY HATE HAVING THEIR SINS SEEN AND REPROVED.

When I talk with people about Jesus most immediately get MAD: “How DARE YOU Talk to me about JESUS!!! There is a separation between the Church and the State. Leave Jesus in the Church. If I wanted to hear about JESUS I would go to Church.!!!!” “JESUS FREAK SHUT UP!!! I WILL SHUT YOU UP IF YOU KEEP TALKING TO ME ABOUT JESUS!!!”

This instant HATE, ANGER, VIOLENCE, is unnatural. It is SATANIC. I can see the EVIL in their faces in their eyes.

21 “But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.”

What is doing Truth? Doing Truth is when a Christian lives by the Word of God. The TRUTH IS THE WORD OF GOD. Christians LOVE JESUS, they are not ashamed of their deeds because they are living according to God’s Word.

Salvation is a Free Gift offered to Everyone.

The Bible does not say to Repent of Sin. Repent of Sin is not in the Bible. Repent of Sin means to go to Heaven you have to Ask Forgiveness of every Sin you have ever committed. This is not possible and it is Working your Way to Heaven. Because Repent of Sin also means that to be Saved you have to agree Before you can Be Saved that you will not Sin. Part of their False Plan of Salvation: “Be willing to Turn from Sin.” Turning from Sin = To Not Sin.

They say willful sin is what they are talking about… As if they do not willfully have Sexual Fantasies. They willfully consume Alcohol, Smoke, Drink, Lie,

are full of Pride, are Self-Righteous, are easily Angered.

1st John 1:10

“If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.”

They are Lying about NOT Sinning.

Yes this is What people who Believe in Repent of Sin teach. Just look at any Chick Tract.

Jesus Died For All Sin. No One Goes To Hell For Sin. People go to Hell for One Reason Only. For Rejecting Jesus Free Gift Of Salvation.

John 1:29

“The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”

Revelation 1:5

“And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,”

Matthew 1:21

“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.”

Colossians 2:14

“Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;”

2nd Corinthians 5:15

“And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.”

1st Peter 3:18

“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:”

1st John 2:2

“And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.”

1st John 3:5

“And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.”

1st Peter 2:24

“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”

1st John 4:10

“Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”

Titus 2:14 

“Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.”

Hebrews 1:3 

“Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;”  

2nd Corinthians 5:21

“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.”

In John Chapter 3 Jesus Tells us how to Be SAVED. Believe in him. Believe the Gospel. Jesus does not Say to do anything else. He does not Say to Repent of Sin, to Forsake Sin, to Turn From Sin to be Saved. He does not say you have to be Baptized to Be Saved.

To Be Saved Believe the Gospel Only. Believe Jesus Died, was Buried, and he Rose from the Dead to pay for all of your Sins. Ask Jesus to Save You. To ADD ANYTHING ELSE TO THIS IS WORKS AND IS NOT SALVATION.

John 3:

12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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.

17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Believe on Jesus to be Saved. If you have not please Ask Jesus to Save you right now. Trust in Jesus only to Save you. Believe the Gospel Only to be Saved.

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1st John 1:9. Repent of Sin?

1st John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

John was speaking to a Church filled with unbelievers in 1st John.

John exposes Gnosticism a Heretical Counterfeit Christianity.

Gnosticism was a False Teaching going around which Denied the Deity of Jesus Christ. They Denied Jesus was God. They Denied the Gospel. Jesus suffered in the flesh for mankind. Jesus paid for the Sins of the World  Died was Buried and He Rose again on the 3rd day. They Denied the Existence of Sin.

Many variations in beliefs existed among the different Gnostic sects. 

Dualism: Gnostics believed that the world was divided into the physical and spiritual realms. The created, material world (matter) is evil. Is in opposition to the world of the spirit. Only the spirit is good. Adherents of Gnosticism often constructed an evil, lesser god. And beings of the Old Testament to explain the creation of the world. They considered Jesus Christ a lessor god.

God: Gnostic writings often describe God as incomprehensible and unknowable. This idea conflicts with Christianity’s concept of a personal God who desires a relationship with human beings. Gnostics also separate the inferior god of creation from the superior god of redemption.

Salvation: Gnosticism claims hidden knowledge as the basis for Salvation. Adherents believe that Secret Revelation frees the “divine spark” within humans. Allowing the human soul to return to the divine realm of light in which it belongs. Gnostics, thus, divided Christians into two categories. With one group being Carnal (Inferior) and the other being Spiritual (Superior).

Only the Superior, Divinely Enlightened persons could comprehend the Secret Teachings and obtain True Salvation. This is very similar to Calvinism’s denial that Man has a Free Will. In both Religions mankind is incapable of the Free Will to Accept Jesus. Or to Deny Jesus as their Savior.

Christianity Teaches:

Salvation is available to everyone. Not just A Special Selected Few. Salvation comes from Grace through Faith in Jesus Christ Alone. Not from human effort, Works. The only source of Truth is the Bible.

Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.”

Gnosticism was infiltrating the early church.

The church John was writing to had Gnostic believers in the church. Who were actively trying to deceive people.

1st John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.

24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.

27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

1st John Refutes the False Teaching that Sin does not Exist.

In 1st John 1:5-10, John is addressing people who don’t believe in the existence of sin. 

1st John 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Two key verses that gives context to 1st John 1:9

1st John 1:8 “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” 1:10 “If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.”

1st John 1:9 is not teaching Repent of Sin to be Saved, to Stay Saved. It is teaching that people who Deny they are Sinners are Lost. To Confess Sin is just Admitting that you are in fact a Sinner.

Confess / Confessing, Meaning

Romans 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

(vs. 9) Confessing with the mouth the Lord Jesus is to say: “Yes I Stand with Jesus. I Believe in Jesus.” Confess / Confession means to Acknowledge something. To Admit / Acknowledge that you are a Sinner. To Confess, Acknowledge that you are a Believer in Jesus. A public Confession is not mentioned, is not Required. These Confessions are to Jesus. They are a Prayer, a Conversation between you and Jesus.

10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

(vs. 10) You have to Ask Jesus to Save you. Again a Confession is a simple Acknowledgment. YOU MUST ACKNOWLEDGE TO JESUS THAT YOU BELIEVE IN HIM AS YOUR SAVIOR, to be SAVE.

11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

(vs. 13) To Call on the name of the Lord is a Prayer to Jesus. The only way to talk with Jesus is by Praying to Jesus.

Review

1st John was written to a Church filled with Lost Gnostic’s. Who were corrupting the Church with False Teachings: Jesus is not God. Sin Does Not Exist, You Cannot Sin. The Gospel is a Lie.

A person who does  believe they Sin, that deny the existence of Sin Cannot be Saved. This False Belief undermines the Gospel by removing a need for a Savior. If there is No Sin then there is no need for a Savior. 

Why would you call upon a Savior that you don’t believe you need? 

If you don’t believe in Sin then you don’t believe you need the Blood of Jesus to Cleanse you from Sin. You do not need his Death, Burial and Resurrection to Save you.

This is the description of those who are walking in the Darkness of a Lie. If they were to come into the light by Confessing / Acknowledging their Sin to Jesus. Their Belief in Him, in the Gospel to Save them. Then Jesus would Save them. His Blood would Cleanse them of their Sin.

1st John 1:7 “But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”

1st John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Jesus cleansed us from “All” Sin. 

Keeping the Law Saved no one. The Law showed mankind that they were Sinners. It showed that Sin caused Death. That the Forgiveness of Sin would require a one time perfect Blood Sacrifice which the Scripture foretold. The Scriptures taught the Messiah would come to Save them from their Sins, Isaiah 53.

Hebrews 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.

4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

Jesus Christ’s One Sacrifice was Enough to Completely Remove All Your Sins for All of Time.

If you Believe in Jesus: Acknowledge Him As Your Savior / Confess You ARE A SINNER to Jesus in Prayer, Asking Jesus to Save you. Jesus will immediately Save you.

1 John 1:7 – 9 are clear references to someone who is Lost. That if they would Acknowledge their Sin and their Need for Jesus as their Savior. God who is Faithful would then Forgive them. And Cleanse them of All of their Sins. Forgiven for all time!

Jesus is our Advocate. 1st John 2:1-2 says: 1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

That, when you do Sin you have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous. 

An Advocate is someone who speaks on your behalf and pleads your innocence. Jesus Christ is the perfect one to do this for us because in Him we have become perfect. Jesus Blood has removed All our Sin for all time.

Therefore No Sin can ever be counted against us. We have a new legal status in Christ that says “Not Guilty”, “Not Condemned.” Jesus is our Advocate our Defense that pleads our legal status, Not Guilty.

So, 1st John 1:9 Simply means: In order for a person to call on Jesus Christ as their Savior to be Born Again they must first Acknowledge that they are a Sinner that needs Jesus as their Savior. Once they do that then He is faithful to forgive them and cleanse them of all unrighteousness.

If you read the entire Book of 1st John. You will understand what 1st John 1:9 is saying.

1st John makes verse 1:9 clear. It is Abundantly clear that it is not saying to a Believer that they have to be continually Forgiven and Cleansed of their Sins Daily.

Since this completely undermines what the Book of 1st John is saying. It tears out the very heart of the Gospel. The One Time Sacrifice of Jesus Christ for All Sin. It is a Salvation verse to unbelievers who do not Believe in Sin and therefore do not cry out to Jesus to be their Savior to Forgive and Cleanse them of All Sin.

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Unrepentant Sin Explained.

Unrepentant Sin is not in The Bible. 

False Teachers make up Words LIKE UNREPENTANT. They Say if you have UNREPENTANT SIN when YOU DIE YOU WILL GO TO HELL. Guess What That Is NOT In the Bible.

Matthew 9:2 And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.

Jesus has Forgiven All of the Sins of the World. Jesus was Crucified because he Forgave Sins, Raised the Dead Proved he was God.

3 And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.

4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?

5 For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?

6 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.

7 And he arose, and departed to his house.

8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.

Luke 23:35 “Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.”

John 1:29 “The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”

Revelation 1:5 “And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,” 

Matthew 1:21 “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.”

Colossians 2:14 “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;”

1st John 2:2 “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.”

Hebrews 10:12 “But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;”

1st Peter 3:18 “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:”

1st John 3:5 “And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.”

No one Goes to Hell for Sin. Jesus Died for Everyone’s Sins. False Teachers are OBSESSED WITH SIN. People Go to HELL for Rejecting Jesus Free Gift of Salvation. NOT FOR SIN.

Luke Chapter 17 is used to teach the Unbiblical, “Unrepentant Sin.”

Luke 17:1 Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.

6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

7 But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?

8 And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?

9 Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.

10 So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

Cultists use Luke 17:1-10 as the cornerstone of their False Doctrine “Unrepentant Sin.”

They Falsely Claim. If we do not Repent of all of our Sins. Immediately after we commit them than we will go to Hell. Because we have Unrepentant Sin. This is not true. Repent of Sin is not even in the Bible.

False Teachers use this passage to Teach if you have UNREPENTANT Sin you will go to Hell. If you Believe their FALSE Repent of Sin Gospel you will GO TO HELL.

Have you ever heard the saying Ignorance of the Law is no Excuse. This is True with God’s Law (Sin) and with man’s Law.  A Police Officer will give you a speeding ticket for going over the speed limit even it there are no signs posted. You are required to know the speed limit even if it is not posted.

Each State has a Driver’s handbook with many different Laws in it. That drivers must learn. And pass a test on in order to get their drivers license.  Depending on your state. The speed limit in a residential neighborhood and in a business district might both be 25 miles an hour. Like in California. 

We all Sin not even realizing what we are doing.

In Colorado the Law is 25 mph in residential neighborhoods. 30 mph in business districts. The Police will give you a ticket for going 3 mph over the speed limit. When I was stopped the Police Officer told me they were ticketing people starting at 3 mph over. To save children’s lives because they played in the streets and some have been killed.

Once right after I crossed the State line. I got a ticket for going 65 mph in a 55 mph zone. When the Police Officer came to my car window. He was laughing: “Son this is an old fashioned speed trap. On this side of the state-line the speed limit is 55 mph. Also the speed limit sign is posted a half mile down this road. It is true ignorance of the Law is never an excuse.”

Biblically what is a Sin and what is not a Sin is different for everyone.

Romans 14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

20 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.

23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

Romans 14 tells us if we think something is a Sin than it is a Sin.

It is a Sin even if God does not consider it a Sin. It is a Sin to do something that is not a Sin in front of someone who thinks it is a Sin.

Many Christians think caffeine is a Drug. So it must be a Sin to eat or drink anything with caffeine in it. If you obey the Bible. You will not consume anything with caffeine in it. In front of someone who considers that a Sin. So you do not offend them.

It is A Sin to Do Anything without Faith.

An example would be driving in rush hour traffic if that scares you. That would be not having Faith to know that God will protect you. Fear is having a lack of Faith.

You are lying if you say that everything you do is by Faith. You are also lying if you say that you Ask God to Forgive you for everything you do that is not by Faith.

More verses about our Sins:

James 17:15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

If you say: “OK, everyone. Tomorrow we will all have to help prepare for the upcoming audit.”

That is a Sin to say.  Because you are assuming you will be alive to be at work tomorrow.  This is what James 17:15 means.  Be honest, you do not bring your Christian speak into the workplace.

You should say: (I have never heard anything like this by a Christian in the Workplace.) “Lord willing…”

If you did speak like this constantly at work. Your Supervisor would tell you to keep your Christian beliefs out of the Work place.  It is Sin to tailor your speech to fit into the workplace.  We all do it, weather you will admit it or not. Do you ask God to Forgive you every time you slip up this way? You are lying if you say yes.

So many things we do. Are so automatic. We do not even realize half of the things we say or do. Let alone realize that some of our speech, thoughts, and actions are Sinful.

James 17:16 “But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.” 

Boasting Is A Popular Sin for Christians. Boasting about our Christian Service.  Every time I am at Church. Or when I am online on social media. I see or hear something like this:  “Praise Jesus, I had the opportunity to witness to my boss today…”

This is a Sin.  You are praising yourself. To everyone who is listening to you. Or who sees your social media post.  People will say, I only say this to encourage other people to be a good witness.  Guess what there are numerous Bible passages that tells us to be good witnesses.  We do not need to boast and tell the world what a good witness we are.

James 17:17 “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”  This is very difficult because, how many times do we see an opportunity to do good but we pass it up. 

We all miss out on opportunities to Do Good. To Help people who need Help.

We do not always help someone when we can. For many different reasons.  We might be afraid of offending them.  We might be afraid of helping a woman. Because you think she might get the wrong idea. To God these are just our excuses. Excuses we use to keep ourselves from doing what we know to do.

You are lying to yourself. If you think you know what every possible Sin is. You are also Lying if you say. That since you have been a Christian. You have Asked God to Forgive you. For each and every individual Sin you have committed.

Have you asked everyone you have wronged in your life to forgive you?  An honest answer would be no.  When you mess up at Work. Do you ask your Boss to Forgive you? Your coworkers? You might apologize. But I seriously doubt you ask for their Forgiveness.

Repent of Sin?

Luke 16:30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.

31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

Notice Verse 30 does not say to Repent of Sin.  In fact there is not even one verse in the Bible that says to Repent of Sin.  Verse 31 tells us that the only way to be Saved is through our Faith in the Bible.

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Romans 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

We are Saved by Believing on Jesus only to Save us.  Not by Repenting of Sin which is not even in the Bible.  Nothing in Luke Chapter 17 says that to Be Saved a person must 1st Repent of Sin.

We must be careful with New Born Christians.

Luke 17 verses 1-2. Jesus is warning us about offending those who are New Christians. People who are newly Saved Christians. They are very fragile and overly sensitive.

Luke 17:1 Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

We are to strive to be patient with new Christians. We must gently teach them so they will understand and not be offended or overwhelmed. It is like feeding a newborn baby from the breast at the beginning.

Be Like Little Children, Jesus Said.

Matthew 18:1 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?

2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,

3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.

6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

7 Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

Learning Christian Doctrine (A Bible Truth, What the Bible Teaches) takes time. 

A person who is a Baby Christian cannot comprehend every Bible Truth all at once.

1st Corinthians 3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

Luke 17:3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

Repent does not mean to Repent of Sin.  This passage does not say to Repent of Sin.

Verse 3 Explained: “Brother, you know it offends me when you bring Coke over to my house.” It is not a Sin to drink Coke. It is a Sin if you drink Coke in front of someone you know is offended by it. You need to say you are Sorry and ask for Forgiveness. It is easy to forget everything that might offend someone. Even things they told you that offends them.

Being Sorry. Having Sorrow and Grief. Causes a person to Repent. Causes them to Change their Mind. Change your mind is the Bible definition of Repent, Repentance.

What is not a Sin to you. Can be a Sin to other people.  So we need to be sensitive to other people’s feelings.

Genesis 6:6 “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.”

If you read Genesis Chapter 6 you will see that God was Sorry that he made man. He Repented that he made man. He changed his mind about making man.  At first he thought it was a Good idea. Than he Repented and changed his mind. To thinking it was a Bad idea. God was going to Kill all of mankind. But he changed his mind when he looked at Noah.

Genesis 6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Do You Understand?

Luke 17:4 “And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.”

Notice, this verse is not using the word Sin, to Repent of Sin.  Sin is not mentioned because you can accidentally trespass against someone without even Sinning.

Until you know that something is offensive to someone else. A trespass, if you do it. It is not a Sin.  Simply put Christians are to Always Forgive Each other.  When we Wrong someone we are to be Sorry and to Ask for Forgiveness.

Ephesians 4:32 “And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.”

Again just because we might Wrong someone. It does not have to be a Sin that we committed.  All we have to do. Is to do something that offends them. Even if it was an accident.  If someone is Sorry. And asks us to Forgive them. We must Forgive them. No matter how many times they have wronged us.

Luke 17:5-10 does not need any explanation. The meaning is clear.

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Fools Despise Wisdom And Instruction.

Fools Despise Wisdom And Instruction. This is a Bible Truth. It applies to both Saved and Lost people.

Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”

This verse and the entire Chapter is very powerful. Why is the Fear of the Lord the beginning of knowledge? Matthew chapter 10 has the answer:

Matthew 10:24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.

25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?

26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.

28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.

33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.

A person has the beginning of knowledge when they realize they are a Lost Sinner that deserves to go to Hell, and understands that only God has the power to Save them or to throw them into Hell.

This is what the Fear of the Lord is and why it is good.

What does it mean to deny Jesus before men? It is to deny that Jesus is the only way to Heaven. Denying Jesus is to REJECT HIM, it is to DENY HE IS GOD. Many Churches / Religions Deny that Jesus is God. They teach Jesus was just another prophet sent by God. Others say to get to Heaven you need Jesus plus: Church membership, Water Baptism, Repent of Sin, Forsake Sin, Turn From Your Sins, Keeping the Sabbath…

People who do not believe on Jesus only to Save them. They deny the Bible.

John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

John 6:47 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”

Do you understand? Jesus is saying he is the only way to Heaven. You have to Believe on Him Only to be Saved: “He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” It cannot get any clearer than this verse. Jesus did not say “Being Saved is a process with many steps…” “You have to Repent of all of your Sins.” “You must Forsake and Turn from all of your Sins.” To be Saved.

Jesus said: “He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” This is immediate Salvation for just Believing on Jesus. Hath Everlasting Life means exactly that. You are Saved as soon as you Believe on Jesus.This is not an isolated teaching. The Bible says this over and over and over again.

John 3:36 “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”

John 8:24 “I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.”

Belief in Jesus ONLY to Save you is what the Bible teaches.

Acts 4:12 “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”

John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:

23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.

24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

It could not be any more clear that Jesus is the only way to Heaven:

John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 

15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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.

17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Believeth in him… Believeth on him is not Condemned. These are Jesus own words. He does not add anything to Salvation. Believe in me only is what Jesus repeated countless times.

Believing on Jesus means you Believe he is the promised Messiah who died for the Sins of the World. To Believe the Gospel: Jesus Died, was Buried and Rose again to pay the penalty for all the Sins of the world. 

It is important to note that Jesus proclaimed that he was the promised Messiah. The people knew to Believe in Jesus meant to Believe he is the Promised Messiah. So to Believe on Him was to Believe that Jesus came to Die for the Sins of the World.

John 3:36 “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”

Again the fear of the Lord is what opens people’s eyes for their need for Salvation.

Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

The second part is that Fools despise instruction. And they are: running after EVIL. They are GREEDY for Wealth. Not caring who they hurt to get it.

I encounter these people often in my life, in person and online. These are the “Christians” that make unbiblical statements who post unbiblical posts online / on social media. They attack me personally for pointing out that what they said or posted is not Biblical.

Usually they start with making Sarcastic comments. Than they get more aggressive and attack me personally: “You think you are better than me.” “You think you know everything.” “It is not Christian to go around correcting other Christians.” (Excuse me if you are posting things online, commenting online than people have the right to either agree or disagree with what you have said.)

It is important to understand that Sarcasm is not being witty. This is the definition of Sarcasm:

Sarcasm: “The use of irony to mock or convey contempt.” Here are some sarcasm examples:

That mustard stain really compliments your blonde hair.

Just great! (When someone runs into you)
Love this weather. (When the weather is actually horrible)

Oh, he’s the best. (Talking about someone who actually annoys you.)

Everyone has someone in their life—possibly a boss, colleague, friend or parent who loves sarcastic, passive aggressive, barbed modes of communication. The underlining truth is that Sarcastic people have hate, contempt for the person they are being Sarcastic to. This has no place in Christianity.

It is essential to understand that just because a person says they are Saved, are a Christian does not mean it is true. In truth many are:

John 8:44 “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”

This is why people who are supposed to be a Christian suddenly start swearing at you and attacking you with the worst language you have ever heard. Oh yes these people have Jekyll and Hide personalities. They can act the part but as soon as they are challenged for their False Christianity they change instantly into the most vile attack dogs.

Experiencing this is shocking especially when you have had a long time relationship with this person or group of people. Suddenly everything you thought you knew about them is false. They are not who they claimed to be. This is so common online because it is easier to hide who you are. It does not just happen online though. I have been face to face with extreme hostility from people who claimed to be my Brothers and Sisters in Christ for up to 30 or more years. Everything is good until you question them. They hate to be questioned on their false beliefs.

This False Christianity comes directly from Satan.

John 8:44 “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”

2nd Corinthians 11:12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

Satan is a Liar who easily deceives people who are looking for an excuse to make themselves part of their own Salvation. These people actively attack the word of God while claiming to believe it.

Satan of old, has not changed his methods:

Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

2nd Corinthians 2:11 “Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.”

2nd Corinthians 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

Satan is always lying in wait to prevent people from accepting the Simple Gospel of Salvation. He is a roaring Lion:

1st Peter 5:8 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”

If you have not please ask Jesus to Save you right now:

Romans 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Do not trust people just because they claim to be a Christian. Study the Bible and know what you believe so you can avoid Fake Christianity Fake Christians.

 

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2nd Chronicles 7:14 Explained

The True Meaning of 2nd Chronicles 7:14.

2nd Chronicles 7:14 “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

“If my people,” The only people God claims as his in the Bible are the Jews. The Nation of Israel. No other Nation. No other Religion. “Christians” Falsely claim this verse for themselves. This verse is not even a Salvation Verse.

The Context of 2nd Chronicles 7:14 is a Covenant of God with the Nation of Israel. This passage is Not a Salvation Passage.

1st Lie. My People are Christians.

2nd Lie. 2nd Chronicles 7:14 can be applied to the United States of America and other Nations.

3rd Lie. 2nd Chronicles 7:14 teaches to Repent of Sin, To Turn From Sin, To Forsake Sin to be Saved. This False Teaching is sending countless people to Hell.

The Context of 2nd Chronicles 7:14 is a Covenant of God with the Nation of Israel. This passage is not a Salvation Passage.

This Passage Does Not Say to Repent of Sin. To Forsake Sin. Or To Turn from Sin to be Saved. It Does Not promise Salvation, Eternal Life. It is Not a Salvation passage.

The Bible clearly explains Salvation.

Salvation is 100% the work of the Lord Jesus Christ:

Believe the Gospel Only for Salvation. Believe on Jesus.

1st Corinthians 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

How to read the Bible with correct understanding:

When considering any scripture verse. The reader must put it into context. Who is the writer speaking to? What are the requirements? If any?

The context of 2nd Chronicles 7:14 starts in 2nd Chronicles Chapter 6.

Solomon’s “end of praying” was the prayer in 2nd Chronicles Chapter 6 for the dedication of the Temple. Notice the context. God is speaking to Israel and no one else.

2nd Chronicles 6:1 Then said Solomon, The Lord hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

2 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.

3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.

4 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,

5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:

6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

8 But the Lord said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:

9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

10 The Lord therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, that he made with the children of Israel.

God is Speaking to the Nation of Israel in all of these verses.

“…blessed the whole congregation of Israel.” vs. 3 

“…have chosen David to be over my people Israel.” vs. 6 

“And said, O LORD God of Israel,…” vs. 14 

“…O LORD God of Israel,” vs. 16

“And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray…” vs. 24

“…forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.” vs. 25

“…they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin…” vs. 26 

“…forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel…” vs. 27 

Yet if they…turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned…” vs. 37 

“If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity…” vs. 38 

“…forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.” vs. 39

It is Imperative that we recognize Solomon’s prayer is for the Nation of Israel ONLY, No Other Nation.

2nd Chronicles 6:14 “And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts”

God, “which keepest covenant,” refers to the Mosaic Covenant. For example, when God promises a New Covenant in Jeremiah 31:31-34, we are told that Israel was unfaithful in obeying the (Mosaic Covenant Jeremiah 31:32) but God was faithful in keeping His part of the covenant.

Jeremiah 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:

33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Deuteronomy Chapter 6 details commands God told Israel to Obey.

Deuteronomy 6:1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: 2 That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

The surrounding context of Deuteronomy 6:1-25. Is the promise of blessing and cursing. Which is dependent on the obedience or disobedience of Israel. See Deuteronomy 28:1-14 for Blessings. And 28:15-68 and for Cursings.

There is the Promise of Blessing for Israel. Not for the Salvation of their Souls. If they Followed the Commands of the Mosaic Covenant. This didn’t Require Perfection. But that a Majority of the Nation would be Sincere Followers of Jehovah God.

The Davidic Covenant which is the “Seed” Promise. Of the Abrahamic Covenant.

Found in: Genesis 12:22 “And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:”

2nd Chronicles 6:16 “Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.”In Psalm 89, Solomon appeals to God for His mercies based on the unconditional, eternal promise of the Davidic Covenant:

Psalm 89:26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.

28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.

36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

Notice that God’s Covenant with David (vs. 35) is Eternal. (vs. 28.) Not Dependent on Israel being obedient to God. (vs. 30 – 34) And that the Throne of David will Last Forever. (vs. 36) Based on God’s Faithfulness. His Word. And His Holiness. (vs. 33-35). The Unconditional Nature of the Davidic Covenant. Is consistent with the Unconditional Nature of the Abrahamic Covenant. 

The two covenants are important for understanding 2nd Chronicles 7:14. The Mosaic Covenant was Conditional and the Davidic Covenant is Unconditional. Neither Covenant was to Save people from going to Hell. Neither was to anyone other than the Nation of Israel. The Jewish people. Both Covenants are Everlasting, they will never end.

2nd Chronicles 7:14 is for Israel. Not for any Other Nation.

“Christians” in the USA. Twist the meaning of this verse. False Teachers use 2nd Chronicles 7:14 to teach the False Gospel Repent of Sins to Be Saved. To Turn From Sin to Be Saved. And To Forsake Sin to be Saved. To Teach God has Forever Forsaken Israel.

Please Beware of False Teacher’s. Who claim God has Forever Forsaken the Jewish people. The Nation of Israel. They Falsely teach all of the Covenant’s God had with Israel now belong to Christians.

No. People in the United States of America.

God will Not Bless you as a Nation. For Turning from your Wicked Ways. But there is a promise from God of a Blessing for the USA as a Nation. In Genesis 12:3. Actually this promise applies to every Nation. God has Greatly Blessed the USA because of this.

Genesis 12:1 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

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Acts 2:38 Explained.

Acts 2:38 Does Not teach you have to Repent of your Sins to be Saved. It does Not teach that Water Baptism is Required for Salvation.

Why is there a problem with people correctly understanding Acts 2:38? It is very simple and straight forward verse.

Acts 2:38 “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”

When you read Acts 2:38. Understand the Bible Definition of Repent. Is to Change your mind. Also there is No Water in Acts 2:38’s Baptism. This Baptism is the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. NO WATER.

“Repent,” (Change your mind from unbelief in Jesus to belief in Jesus.) See there is a comma after Repent. First comes Repentance. Than after the person Repents. (Believes on Jesus.) They are Baptized with the Holy Ghost. Again Acts 2:38 is not talking about Water Baptism.

Water Baptism is Not required for Salvation. A person who is Saved. Gets Baptized to tell the World that they have been Saved.

Again, Acts 2:38’s Baptism is not a WATER BAPTISM. IT IS THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST.  This is very simple and easy to understand. After you realize there is more than one type of Baptism in the Bible. One Baptism is the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. Another is a Water Baptism. That happens after you are Saved.

It is a dangerous thing to base your Salvation on one verse in the Bible. Especially when you read things into the verse that is not there. And you have the Wrong definition for a word in the verse.

Words that you do not understand the definition of. Look in the Bible at how the word is used. That will tell you the meaning of the word.

Most “Bible Believers” instead of letting the Bible define the meaning of a word. They invent the word’s meaning. So they can create their own False Doctrines. The word Repent for example does not mean: to Turn from Sin, To Repent of Sin, To Forsake Sin. There is no place in the Bible that the Word Repent means any of these things. Yet the vast Majority of Baptist Churches teach these Lies. Actually almost all Churches teach these Lies.

God Repented in the Bible more than anyone else. This should tell you immediately that Repent has nothing to do with Sin. Because God does not Sin. Does God Turn from his Sin? No God Does not Sin. Every time God Repents. He changes his mind. Repent in the Bible means to Change your mind.

There is no place in the Bible. Where Water Baptism is a condition of Salvation.

Remember the Salvation of the Ethiopian Eunuch.

Acts 8:27 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,
28 Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.
29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
30 And Philip ran thither to [him], and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
31 And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

32 The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:

33 In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.
34 And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?
35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
36 And as they went on [their] way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, [here is] water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
39 And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.

The Key verses are:

36 And as they went on [their] way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, [here is] water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

Question: “What doth hinder me to be baptized?” The Answer: “If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.”

A person is Saved as soon as they have Believed on Jesus with their Heart. Baptism is not part of Salvation. Once a person is Saved than they get Baptized.

Baptism is a Symbol of the Death Burial and Resurrection of Jesus.

When you get Baptized you are Saying publicly that I am Saved I have believed on Jesus Death, Burial and Resurrection to Save me.

Let’s look at this more in-depth.

It is Irrefutable that Acts 2:38’s Baptism is the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. Not a Water Baptism.  Water Baptism is Not Required for Salvation. The Bible is very clear that we are Saved by Believing the Gospel Only.

1st Thessalonians 4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

The Bible has a built-in dictionary. By comparing Scripture-with-Scripture, we can solve the puzzle. Rightly dividing (Dissecting) the Word of truth.

2nd Timothy 2:15, “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

John the Baptist said his baptism, was just water. He said when Jesus comes He would baptize them with the Holy Ghost which is not a water baptism. It is a Spiritual Baptism that Saves and Seals a person.

John 1:22 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.

25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?

26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;

27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.

28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.

29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.

31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.

32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.

33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.

34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.

John 1:26 and 33 teach that John the Baptist’s Baptism was just Water. That Jesus Baptism is not a water Baptism. It is a Spiritual Baptism. The Baptism of the Holy Ghost. That Saves a Person’s Soul.

John 26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; LOOK JOHN’S BAPTISM WAS WATER.

John 1:33 Jesus Baptizeth with the Holy Ghost which Saves a person. When someone has Believed on Jesus they are immediately Saved and Baptized with the Holy Ghost by Jesus. This completely explains Acts 2:38 and Water Baptism.

Acts 2:38 Literally means to be born-again (by the Holy Spirit) in the name of Jesus Christ. This is what it means to be baptized with the Holy Ghost. Most people make the error of assuming that “be baptized” in Acts 2:38 must means water baptism, because that is the modern popular understanding.

My friend, your Pastor can Baptize you with water. But that won’t Save you.

You must be Baptized with the Holy Ghost. Which only Jesus Christ can do. When you Believe on Him as your Savior.  Adding water Baptism, Partial Faith in Jesus Christ, to Salvation is a False Religion. It is not the Gift of God. We are saved by completely trusting in Jesus Christ only to Save us.

Throughout the New Testament. We read that we are Saved by Believing on Jesus Christ Only.

John 6:26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.

27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?

29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

30 They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?

32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.

33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.

35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

36 But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.

37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

39 And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

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.

If Water Baptism were Necessary for Salvation, then it would have been Mentioned, but it is Not.

It is Ridiculous to entertain the notion. That the Bible is requiring Water Baptism for Salvation in Acts 2:38. When dozens of times we are told in the Bible that Salvation is solely by Faith Alone. Without Works.(Ephesians 2:8-10; Genesis 15:6; Isaiah 45:22; Romans 4:5-6; Galatians 3:24-26; Titus 3:5; Romans 11:6).

NEVER lift any particular text out of a passage without considering the surrounding context. The entire Bible for that matter, or else you will wrongly interpret the Bible.

Finally Acts 2:38 the Straightforward reading of this verse is: The Baptism of the Holy Ghost. Of which John the Baptist foretold. There is no Water in Acts 2:38.

Water Baptism is a Work. Just as Circumcision is a Work. For which the Apostle Peter Rebuked. The false prophets in Acts 15:1 who were requiring it for Salvation.

Acts 15:1, “And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.”

This Heresy is in the same boat as Water Baptism. That is, it is Human Effort (Works).

In Acts Chapter 15. Paul, the other Apostles and the Elders quickly rejected Circumcision as being required for Salvation.

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Repent Of Sin?

Repent of Sin? Repentance is not correctly defined. (Biblically) By most people and Churches.

Repentance, Repent of Sin is called many different unbiblical things.

Repentance is said to be: Turn from Sin, To Forsake Sin, To Repent of Sin. None of this is found in the Bible.

You will never find any verse in the Bible that Says to Repent of Sin.

Repentance is also said to be Sorry over Sin. This is also not Found in the Bible.

People Falsely use 2nd Corinthians 7:9,10 to say Repentance is Sorrow over Sin.

9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

Verse 9 makes it Clear that Repentance Is Not Sorrow over Sin. To be Sorry at all.

Paul says: “I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry,” he was not Happy that he made them Sorry.

He was happy that they Repented. It is clear that Repentance is not Sorrow. Paul said their Sorrow caused them to Repent.

Repentance is not Sorrow.

10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

No the verse clearly says “godly sorry worketh repentance…” Godly sorry is not Repentance, it causes a person to Repent.

Sorrow causes a person to Repent it is not Repentance.

John 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 

8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 

9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; 

10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;

11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

Repentance is when a person realizes by the Holy Spirit of God. That they are a Dirty Rotten Sinner that Deserves to go to Hell. And they Ask Jesus to Save them.

This Sorrow over being a Sinner causes a person to Repent. To Believe on Jesus only to Save them.

Repentance is not Sorrow. Sorrow leads a person to Repent. To Believe on Jesus.

Notice the above passage does not say to Repent of Sin. It also does not call Repentance Sorrow.

The Holy Spirit is shouting to the entire World “You are a Dirty Rotten Sinner. Jesus Died for your Sins…”

People only seek Jesus. Because the Holy Spirit of God makes them realize they are a Sinner. That needs Jesus to Save them.

It is important to look at the context of verses we use.

2nd Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

2 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.

3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.

4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.

5 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

7 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.

8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.

Right here in verse 8 Paul is defining Repent as to Change your mind.

Paul did not Change his mind. (Repent) Because he made them sorry with his letter. He did not regret what he wrote to them.

“…though I did repent:” What he is saying here is when Titus told him that his letter made the Church sorry at 1st he changed his mind at the letter he had sent and felt it was a bad letter.

Then after he completely understood what affect his letter had on the Church he realized his letter was good and had the needed affect on the Church. So Paul’s final reaction to the news from Titus was to be glad that he sent the letter. To not Change his mind (Repent) of the letter he had sent.

9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.

13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.

15 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.

The entire passage is talking about Titus giving a good report to Paul. About the Change (Repentance) his letter caused in the Church at Corinth.

There is a vast difference between what men think the Bible says about Repentance. And what the Bible actually says. Here are a few facts about “Repent.” As it is found in its various forms. In both the Old and New Testaments. 

The word “Repent” is found forty-five times in the King James Bible. “Repentance” twenty-six times. “Repented” thirty-two times. “Repentest” one time. “Repenteth” five times. “Repenting” one time. And “Repentings” one time. A total of 111 times. In both the Old and New Testaments.

The word in its various forms is found forty-six times in the Old Testament. And sixty-five in the New. Of the forty-six times the word appears in the Old Testament. Twenty-eight times God does the Repenting, not man.

For instance, in Exodus 32:14 the Bible says. “And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.”  

What did God Do? Did God Repent of his Sin?

No God does not Sin.

God Changed his mind. Repent means to Change your mind.

In addition to the twenty-eight times that God repents in the Old Testament. There are nine other passages. That tell of things about which God does not or did not Repent.

Of the forty-six times a form of the word “Repentance” appears in the Old Testament. Only nine times is man doing the repenting. Thirty-seven times it has reference to God’s Repenting. Or telling us of things about which God did not or will not Repent.  

Now, if “Repent” means to Turn from Sin. To Repent of Sin, to Forsake Sin we have a Huge Problem.

That would mean God had to turn from his Sin, To Repent of his Sin, To Forsake his Sin.

God is Sinless and does not Sin.

But if “Repentance” means a Change of Mind. Then it is consistent with the Bible. God Changes His mind over and over again in the Bible.

“Repent of your sins.” Is not found in the Bible.

Repentance means to change your mind.

Acts 17:29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device. 30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at [overlooked]; but now commandeth all men every where to repent. 31, Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. 

What they were to Repent or Change their Mind about. Is clear from verse 29. Here the Scripture says, “…we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver or stone, graven by art and man’s device!” 

They needed to Change their Mind about God. And see that He is not a Graven image made of gold, silver, or stone. But that He is a Living God and is going to be their Judge. 

Jesus told people to Repent.

In Luke 13:5 Jesus said, “I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” The context of this verse shows that they needed to repent or change their mind regarding punishment and sin.

In this passage. Jesus was talking to good people. Who believed that people suffered only because of their sins. And they concluded that those in Galilee. Whose blood Pilate mingled with sacrifices. And those on whom the Tower of Siloam fell. Were greater Sinners. Because they died such horrible deaths.

Jesus contradicts the thinking of these Self-Righteous people. And tells them that they need to Repent or Change their Mind. And see themselves as Sinners, too. Or they will perish in their own Self-Righteousness.  

Everyone is Saved by the Gospel. You will not find Jesus, Paul or any of Jesus other Disciples. Teaching to Be Saved you have to Repent of Sin.

The Gospel.

1st Corinthians 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

Repentance is from unbelief in Jesus to belief in Jesus. To Believe the Gospel only to Save you.

Repentance is not from sinful behavior.

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