Exposing Pastor Jeff Redlin's Damnable False Gospel At PCC's Campus Church

Galatians 1:6-9, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.”

Pastor Jeff Redlin is the theologically incompetent senior pastor of Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College since 2018. When I think of Jeff Redlin I am always reminded of a line from C3PO in the 1977 movie 'Star Wars,' speaking of R2D2: “That malfunctioning little twerp.” Yes, in my humble opinion that is definitely Pastor Redlin.

I went for a routine blood test in September of 2025 at Baptist Hospital, in their new building which just so happens to be located right across the street from Pensacola Christian College (PCC). After signing in for my blood test, I went to sit down in the waiting area and found one of PCC's toxic religious handout cards with a QR code on it. Someone had left it on a table. So, I scanned the code to see what garbage they are peddling at PCC. Sure enough, there is an 8-minute video presentation by Jeff Redlin, in which he shows his utter incompetence as a pastor. Here is the card if you want to scan the QR code to go check it out for yourself. ...

Campus Church Religious Propaganda With QR Code

At the end of his retarded heresy-filled video, Jeff Redlin invites the viewer to pray these words to be saved...

“Dear God, I know that I'm a sinner, and I know that my sin has separated me from you. I believe that Jesus is God, and I accept Him as my Lord, my Saviour God, please come into my life. Make me part of your family. Save me.” 

SOURCE: Pastor Jeff Redlin, “A Good Question”; Campus Church at PCC, https://campuschurch.com/a-good-question/

Kindly said, there are numerous things very wrong with Jeff Redlin's toxic plan of salvation, which unfortunately does NOT match up with what the inspired Word of God teaches. ...

1. You don't have to pray to be saved - The Bible does not require saying a prayer to be saved. Repeatedly throughout the Word of God we are simply taught to believe on Christ to be saved. John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” In Acts 10:43-44 Cornelius and his companions simply believed the Gospel that Peter preached and were saved. No one repeated a prayer. I loath the so-called “sinner's prayer” because it confuses so many people, misleading them to worry if they prayed correctly to be saved. In Acts 10:43-44 Cornelius and his companions simply believed the Gospel as Peter preached it unto them and they were saved. Shame on anyone who ever uses a sinner's prayer without telling a lost sinner that prayer is NOT essential to be saved. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do.
2. “I accept Him as my Lord” - Nowhere does the inspired Holy Bible require that a lost sinner accept Jesus as “Lord” to be saved. This is the heresy of Lordship Salvation. To accept Jesus as one's “Lord” clearly implies following Christ faithfully in service and turning from sinful behavior, which is definitely NOT part of God's simple plan of salvation. 1st Timothy 4:10, “For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.” PCC refuses to distinguish between service versus salvation. They refuse to differentiate between discipleship versus sonship. John Bunyan said it well: “If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the man Christ without and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the Word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the Word of God, and cast stumbling blocks before the people.” PCC are guilty of perverting the Gospel, accursed by God almighty (Galatians 1:6-9; Jeremiah 5:31).
3. “Come into my life” - Asking Jesus to come into your life is NOT part of God's simple plan of salvation. Dear reader, I highly encourage you to read two helpful books in defence of the free grace Gospel. The first is titled “I Never Knew You” by Michael P. Bowen. The second is titled “RELIGION vs. JESES: Do vs. Done” by Princeton Greene (this is the free pre-published edition). Also, please read, “Another Gospel” by Pastor Harry A. Ironside (1876-1951). Shame on Pastor Redlin for perverting and obscuring God's simple plan of salvation. Dear reader, these embellishments to the Gospel clutter, confuse and mislead lost sinners, so that they end up following religion instead of being born again. Remember, Satan's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born again.
4. “Make me part of your family” - Nowhere does the inspired Word of God require that someone ask God to be a part of His family to get to Heaven. This is junk theology folks, religious quackery. Jeff Redlin is the spiritual equivalent of a despicable snake oil salesman!
5. You don't have to “ask” God to save you - If you watch the entire toxic video, Pastor Redlin invites the viewer to “ask” God to save you. Nowhere are we taught to “ask” God for His free gift of eternal life. God is already freely offering eternal life to all humanity, to whosoever receives His gift by faith alone in the sacrifice of His only begotten Son on the cross, and faith in His resurrection. 1st Thessalonians 4:14, “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.” You don't have to “ask” God to save you, you simply need to receive His free gift by faith. Simply believe that Jesus did it all for you. Salvation is a TAKE proposition, not a GIVE proposition. Since God is already freely offering you the gift of eternal life, you don't have to ask to be saved, just believe (John 6:40).
6. There is no Gospel - Worst of all, Jeff Redlin made his biggest blunder by leaving off THE GOSPEL entirely. According to 1st Corinthians 15:1-6, “the gospel” includes Jesus' vicarious (in our place) death on the cross, burial and His bodily resurrection from the dead the third day. As shocking as it may seem dear friend, Pastor Redlin fails to mention any of these elements of THE GOSPEL. Mr. Redlin never mentions the cross upon which Christ died. Redlin doesn't mention Jesus' burial nor His resurrection from the dead. But he foolishly insists that you pray to “ask” God to make you a part of His family, come into your life, and accept Jesus as your “Lord.” That is “another gospel” (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4) which cannot produce the required new birth to enter into God's heavenly Kingdom (John 3:1-7). Shame on Pastor Redlin!

It doesn't surprise me that Jeff Redlin preaches a counterfeit plan of salvation, considering that the ungodly Bob Jones University (BJU) crowd at the rotten Harvest Baptist Church on Guam (where I was kicked out and banned in 2014 for telling the truth) promote Redlin's sermons on their toxic KHMG 88.1 FM religious radio station. Birds of a feather flock together!

The Bob Jones University (BJU) camp are guilty of perverting the Gospel, preaching hard core Calvinist Lordship Salvation. One sick person with mononucleosis (mono) plus one healthy person ultimately equals two sick people. In laying down with infested dogs (false prophets), PCC has become infested too. PCC is NOT a fundamentalist institution anymore (started in 1974), they are ungodly neo-evangelicals! The inspired Holy Bible plainly warns in 2nd Peter 2:1 about FALSE PROPHETS who will “privily” (surreptitiously; painstakingly without detection) try to corrupt a church. They have ungodly false teachers at PCC and their contemptible Campus Church, who wickedly pervert the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

In December of 2022, Bob Jones University (BJU) invited and honored Pastor Paul Washer—a hard core infidel Calvinist preacher. Shame on BJU! Shame on PCC for hobnobbing with the apostate Bob Jones crowd, and for wickedly bidding Godspeed to them (2nd John 1:11). They are all pulling on the same rope as the Devil. When I attended PCC's Campus Church for a few months in 2021, I was told by a long time staff member at PCC's for 23-years, that PCC's leadership despises Pastor Steven Anderson. Let me say in all truth that PCC's leaders and pastors are not worthy to shine Brother Anderson's shoes!!!!

Whereas Pastor Anderson is courageously standing for the truth, faithfully contending for the Christian faith, biblically exposing false prophets and standing on the promises—PCC is just sitting idle on the premises, selfishly serving their own bellies (Romans 16:17-18).

“You say, 'You shouldn't talk trash about other churches!' Well, if they'd stop being trash, I'd stop talking trash!” (a truthful quote by Pastor Steven L. Anderson, from the classic sermon titled, “Queer Sounding Music And Skinny Jeans” - Time 1:07:50)

Dear reader, I recently found FOUR different plans of salvation being taught at PCC and Campus Church today! Please spread the word to everyone to avoid this corrupt institution and by all means whatever you do, don't entrust your impressionable children to these charlatans of the Christian faith. As Morgan Freeman says in the 2014 movie 'Transcendence,' “RUN from this place!”

What these illegitimate pastors are actually doing is sitting on the fence. No matter what anyone says, they can go either way. If someone wants free grace they shew them their Campus Church website. If someone wants Lordship Salvation, they shew them Jeff Redlin's eight minute toxic video, which is only accessible by scanning the QR code on the plastic handout cards (with Campus Church's name on it). These cards are distributed publicly. JEFF REDLIN IS NOT SAVED!!! If he is, then God is a liar and there are multiple plans of salvation. God is NOT the author of confusion (1st Corinthians 14:33).

For the first time, I met Pastor Josh Thompson (pastor of Fairfield Drive Baptist Church in Pensacola) at the Pensacola Interstate Fair in 2022. He was operating PCC's toxic religious booth in the Exhibition Hall building, right next to the Jehovah's Witness' booth. I directly asked Josh Thompson if he was teaching Lordship Salvation, and he confirmed “Yes,” they were. He cited Acts 16:31b, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” He emphasized the word “Lord,” insisting that you cannot be saved without accepting Jesus as the “Lord” of your life. I cringed and told him he was a false prophet. As is typical of PCC's leaders, Josh was belligerent and arrogant. Sadly, Pastor Thompson actually teaches a class at PCC, which explains a lot. Those college students should all ask for their money back!

Folks, these people are theologically dangerous! Please RUN from this place! No one should allow Pastor Jeff Redlin to speak at their church or institution. To do so is to be GUILTY of wickedly bidding Godspeed to false prophets, and a counterfeit Gospel which cannot save. Proverbs 14:5, “A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.”

Dear reader, I cannot stress to you enough the importance of making sure that we present the Gospel as clearly as possible to lost sinners. If we fail to do this, for whatever reason, the Gospel will be hidden so that no one can be saved. God knows that I do not hate Pastor Redlin, but I disrespect him for preaching another Gospel. I have had the unpleasant experience of meeting and corresponding with him. In my humble opinion, Jeff Redlin was rude, arrogant, verbally abusive, cruel and high-minded toward me because of my website ministry, which he openly critiqued, falsely accusing me of finding “weakness in preachers.” IN TRUTH, I am faithfully contending for the Christian faith, exposing wickedness in pastors (Titus 1:9-14; Galatians 2:5; Ephesians 5:11; Jude 1:3).

Kindly said, Pastor Jeff Redlin is woefully guilty of preaching Lordship Salvation, adding works to grace. Evangelist Billy Graham (1918-2018) made the grave error of applying the following Scripture passage to salvation, and in so doing he wickedly perverted God's simple plan of salvation. Matthew 16:24, “Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” Dear reader, the verse I have just shared with you from the Gospel of Matthew literally sounds like the corrupt plan of salvation that is being taught in 99% of Bible colleges and churches today. Lordship Salvation is NOT the Gospel!

You simply DON'T get saved by following Christ, taking up your cross, denying self and coming after Christ! These things are strictly matters of discipleship (service), and not sonship (salvation). So, don't ever foolishly use these passages about discipleship to show someone how to get to Heaven, because you will confuse them and be guilty of perverting God's Word.

Pastor Redlin is very wrong and incompetent as a pastor to invite lost sinners to accept Jesus as “Lord” of their life, and to come into their life, and ask to be a part of God's family. You may do all of these things and yet never be born again at all. It doesn't surprise me that they are preaching the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation at PCC today, considering that they've been wickedly committing spiritual adultery with the ungodly Bob Jones University cult for decades. 

Please read the well written free grace Gospel tract, 'What Is The Gospel?,' by Pastor Harry A. Ironside (1876-1951). SHAME on PCC and their Campus Church for perverting God's simple plan of salvation. The only “Gospel” is defined for everyone in God's inspired Word...

1st Corinthians 15:1-6, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.”

None of the garbage that Pastor Jeff Redlin teaches lost sinners to do in his horrible eight minute video comprises the Gospel of free grace. Even worse, Jeff Redlin didn't bother to mention Jesus' death on the cross, burial or resurrection. They are preaching utter damnable heresy at PCC? Galatians 6:7, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Woe unto Pensacola Christian College!

Jeremiah 5:31, “The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?”

Is BELIEVING In Jesus' Death, Burial And Resurrection ENOUGH To Be Saved?

1st Thessalonians 4:14, “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.”

The resounding answer is, YES. Believing in Jesus' death, burial and resurrection to pay our debt of sin is ENOUGH to get to Heaven. Nothing more is required or permitted.  I love and THANK GOD for pastors who faithfully preach a clear and simple free grace Gospel. Pastor Jesse Martinez succeeded Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold in 2020 as senior pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. I THANK GOD for this influential little church.

Is BELIEVING In Jesus' Death, Burial And Resurrection ENOUGH?

Pastor Reacts to David Platt's Heresy: “Is Jesus Lord of your life?”

Bibleline Ministries

EASY BELIEVISM

By Dr. Hank Lindstrom

What is “Easy Believism”? Usually the phrase “easy-believism” is a slam against those who teach that salvation is not by human works, but by faith in Jesus Christ alone. It is clear from the Scriptures that salvation is received by faith only in the finished work of Jesus Christ. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works lest any man should boast" (Ephesians 2:8, 9).

“Easy Believism” is a way of saying that salvation by faith in Jesus Christ alone is just too easy. “It is too simple,” they say. Those who use the phrase “easy believism” are saying that there must be more to salvation than just faith in Jesus Christ.

The Bible tells us that Satan uses the fact that the Gospel message is so simple to deceive people. II Corinthians 11:3 says, “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” One of the most common objections to the true gospel message is that “it is too simple”.

Satan changes the true gospel into a counterfeit message by addition and subtraction. In other words, Satan adds human works or effort to the plan of salvation in order to make the message of none effect (I Corinthians 1:17). Satan used phrases like “easy believism” and “it is too simple” to ridicule the true message of faith only (Romans 3:28).

To not believe the record as God gave it makes it null and void. “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" (I John 5:10). To add one human work to the plan of salvation would place a person before God without grace. Romans 11:6 says, “And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.”

When we talk about believing, we are not talking about mental assent to a historical fact. We are talking about a personal trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as the One who gave His life on the cross of Calvary, was buried and then rose again from the dead. The word “believe” comes from the Greek word “pisteuo”, which means to trust, to rely upon, to place one’s weight upon, etc. When a person puts his trust in Jesus Christ alone as his Saviour, he is saved.

Christ died-that is history. Christ died for me-that is salvation. The fact that Jesus Christ died is a historical fact. Accepting that truth about Jesus Christ’s death as a historical fact does not save. But the personal acceptance of Jesus Christ as a risen Saviour, who died for me does save.

This conflict over grace vs. works has been going on ever since Cain and Abel. Even the apostle Paul was slandered when he preached the gospel of the grace of God. Romans 3:8 says, “And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.” Some people were affirming that the apostle Paul taught that salvation by faith only was a license to sin. “Let us do evil, that good may come.”

We have now seen the two major objections to the true gospel:

1. “It is too simple”, and 
2. “easy believism” means that I could live as I please and still go to Heaven.

Amazingly, when a person is saved, he is saved forever and cannot be lost. Jesus Christ gave His word in John 6:37 and 39, that “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. ...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.” If one person were ever lost that was ever saved, then Jesus Christ would be a liar (John 6:39).

Therefore, it is true that no matter what a person does after he is saved that person is still saved. What the person can lose by living as he pleases is not his salvation, but rewards, joy, fellowship, power, testimony, etc. The things related to the Christian life and eternal rewards can be lost but not one’s salvation. This can also include the Lord taking a Christian home to heaven early. Many of the Corinthian believers were taken home to heaven early according to I Corinthians 11:30 which says, “For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.” Also, I Corinthians 10:8 tells of 23,000 that the Lord took home to heaven in one day. It is clear that there are numerous illustrations throughout the Bible that God sometimes will take a Christian home before his time. God will not cast the delinquent Christian out, but God might take him home to heaven early.

Concerning the saved, God says in I Corinthians 11:32, “When we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.” God deals with His children as a loving father would correct his erring child. God is interested in our welfare and wishes for us to live a life that He can bless and reward. (See Hebrews 12:6-11).

So the Christian does not have a license to sin when he accepts Jesus Christ as his Saviour, even though the person is saved eternally and cannot be lost. Again, salvation is by faith in Jesus Christ alone. Romans 4:5 says, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”

To add works to the plan of salvation would be heresy and would mean no salvation at all. Ephesians 2:8, 9 says “For grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” I would hate to stand before God having no grace (mercy). To anyone who adds works to God’s grace, they will have no grace (mercy) according to Ephesians 2:8,9.

In conclusion, those who say “easy-believism” are rejecting the true gospel of grace (Ephesians 2:8,9), by saying “it is too simple” and “it is a license to sin.” Remember the true gospel is simple (II Corinthians 11:3), and God corrects (chastens) those that are truly saved (Hebrew 12:6).

We pray that you can say as the Apostle Paul said, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek” (Roman 1:16).

Charlie Kirk's Unbiblical Toxic Ecumenism And False Gospel Message

2nd Corinthians 6:14-18, “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.”

Charlie Kirk was WRONG to coddle unsaved Mormons and Catholics in their damnable heresy. You'll never win lost sinners in false religions to Christ by babying them in their hellbound state. I am sick and disgusted by Charlie's ecumenical influence.

Clearly, he was sitting on the fence, playing both sides of the table. I do not know if Charlie Kirk went to Heaven, but I do know that you don't get to Heaven by giving your life to Christ, nor by accepting Jesus as "Lord" of your life. It seems like half of the country is idolizing Charlie Kirk right now, but Christians needs to speak up to warn others that what Charlie Kirk promoted WASN'T the Gospel.

I don't hate Charlie, not at all, but I do hate the accursed deadly Roman Catholic and Mormon cults. I hate the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation. I hate ecumenical compromise that always leads to a works-based plan of salvation and apostasy. Bible fundamentalism is separating from false religion, worldly Christians and those who stray from biblical teaching.

Charlie Kirk was the product of neo-evangelical churches that preach the "repent of your sins" crap to get to Heaven, like nearly every Baptist church wickedly does in Pensacola. God's curse is upon any church that distributes toxic Chick Tracks, which pervert the Gospel of free grace.

You all can bow to Baal if you want, but I am standing with the Gospel of free grace, exposing Charlie Kirk for the ecumenical compromiser that he was. SHAME on Charlie for kissing up to the hellbound Catholics and Mormons. All he did was obscure God's simple plan of salvation. I think he was sincere, but sincerely wrong (Proverbs 16:25).

If anyone is so far from God and spiritually blind to claim that Charlie innocently used Mary's good character to allure Catholics to Christ, you are woefully wrong in your thinking. The Apostle Paul didn't go along with the cults to win their favor. Paul said he refused to tolerate false prophets for even one hour (Galatians 2:5).

Christian men should be exposing the WHORE of Rome, not boasting that your wife was baptized in the Catholic church, which is exactly what Charlie Kirk did. It couldn't be more obvious that he was trying to coddle them. It does matter, very much so. Roman Catholics everywhere love Charlie and his wife Erika because of their shallow and lame testimony. SHAME ON CHARLIE!!!

Someone made a stupid comment today on Facebook, falsely accusing me of hating Charlie Kirk. I unfriended and blocked out his stupid ass. Unbelievable! Folks, I don't hate anybody, certainly not Charlie Kirk. I hate what God commands us as believers to hate, "EVIL" (Psalms 97:10).

I hate the accursed Mormon sex cult. I hate the accursed whore of Rome, the despicable Roman Catholic cult. I hate the Devil's falsehood of Lordship Salvation. I hate the Satanic lie that you must "repent of your sins" to get to Heaven, which nonsense is not taught in the inspired King James Bible.

In the following video you will hear Charlie Kirk for yourself saying these heretical words:

“If your Christianity is nothing more than an insurance plan for the afterlife—that is not a conversion—that is not legitimate Christianity. If you're like, 'Hey, I went on Easter, I raised my hand (just in case the Christian thing is right); I'm going to Heaven because I did the thing, I signed the paper.' That is an insult to God. ...it's you acting as if God is there like BlueCross and BlueShield in case you have a broken leg.” —Charlie Kirk

Dear reader, that is so wrong on numerous levels. 

Charlie Kirk STUNS hosts on Jesus Christ and the True Gospel

In the preceding video interview, Charlie is clearly implying that you cannot just raise your hand in response to a Gospel invitation. He clearly implies that more than faith is required to get to Heaven. Dear reader, there is absolutely nothing wrong, unbiblical or illegitimate about trusting the GOOD NEWS of Christ crucified, buried and risen to escape the fires of Hell. That is why most people get saved!

I have serious doubts about Charlie's salvation. You must keep in mind that every hellbound follower of Roman Catholicism, Mormonism, the Church of Christ, Lutherans, Seventh-Day Adventists and Calvinists—all agree with Charlie's vague and lame theology. They've all given their life to Christ. They're all trying to turn from their evil ways (works according to Jonah 3:10). What Charlie preached was simply NOT a free grace Gospel.

Please don't misunderstand my post. Today was Charlie Kirk's funeral. I just read that 200,000 people attended in Arizona at the State Farm Stadium. They said Charlie's funeral was the most televised event ever. I love Charlie Kirk. Someone today horribly accused me of hating him, but that is not the case at all. I love what Charlie stood for—decency, faith in Jesus, life for the unborn, family stability and normalcy. That being said, Charlie made some controversial statements, such as the one I just shared with you a moment ago, which cause me to doubt his salvation. Sadly, Charlie was so vague that it's hard to discern if he was saved or not.

I found the following article today, which is very disturbing...

‘A Hero’: Catholic Cardinal Hails Charlie Kirk as ‘Modern Day St. Paul’

Cardinal Timothy Dolan hailed Charlie Kirk as a “modern day Saint Paul” as he praised the conservative activist as a “hero” and “evangelist.”

Kirk was assassinated on September 10 during a public speaking event at Utah Valley University.

SOURCE: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hero-catholic-cardinal-hails-charlie-153610627.html

It is tragic when the biggest Satanic religious cult on the planet, Roman Catholicism, praises Charlie Kirk. The reason why is clearly because Charlie was ecumenical, who surreptitiously avoided offending the cults; namely, Mormons and Roman Catholics. Moment before his tragic assassination, Kirk told the audience that half of his staff are Mormons. I am not trying to cast a negative reflection on one of American's greatest people. Charlie Kirk is an American hero!

The reason I wrote this blog is to draw attention to Kirk's sinful ecumenical compromise with false religions, and to expose the counterfeit plan of salvation that he promoted. Kirk said in fifth grade he gave my life to Christ. That is NOT how you get to Heaven. He has often said that the way to Heaven is to receive Jesus as your “Lord and Savior,” but in fact you don't have to take Jesus as “Lord” of your life to be saved. You just need to trust Jesus as your personal Savior, receiving His sacrificial death on the cross as full payment for your sins.

The big problem with Charlie's statements about salvation is that every pseudo-Christian religious cult on the planet agrees with his shallow and lame statements. Every hellbound Mormon and Roman Catholic agrees with Charlie that Jesus is the “Lord and Savior,” and they have given their lives to Him. But Catholics also foolishly trust in their Seven Sacraments to get to Heaven, and errantly teach that there is no salvation outside of the Roman Catholic church. These are damnable heresies!

Mormons have another Jesus, teaching that He is not almighty God. Mormons trust in good works to get them to Heaven, yet speak of salvation by grace through faith. It is imperative that Christians warn the cults that sacraments, water baptism and good works are NOT necessary or permitted in God's simple plan of salvation. Charlie Kirk was so vague that after his death Catholics everywhere are suggesting that he was about to convert to Catholicism.

Report: Charlie Kirk was ‘this close’ to becoming Catholic just prior to his death 

Turning Point U.S.A. CEO Charlie Kirk speaks at the Republican National Convention on July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. 

By Daniel Payne

CNA Staff, September 19, 2025 / 12:02 pm

Slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk was reportedly strongly considering becoming Catholic just prior to his assassination, according to a bishop who spoke to him shortly before his killing. 

Robert Brennan, a Los Angeles-based writer and the brother of Fresno, California, Bishop Joseph Brennan, said in a Sept. 18 column in the Los Angeles archdiocesan newspaper Angelus that Kirk had a “personal exchange” with the California prelate about a week before Kirk’s murder at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. 

The writer Brennan, who said Bishop Brennan gave him permission to share the story, wrote that Kirk had spoken to the prelate at a prayer breakfast in Visalia. The conservative activist “told the bishop about his Catholic wife and children and how he attended Mass with them.” 

Kirk acknowledged “speculation” about his possible interest in becoming Catholic, Brennan wrote in Angelus; he subsequently told Bishop Brennan: “I’m this close” to converting. 

In his Angelus column Brennan pointed to a recent video Kirk made in which he acknowledged some “big disagreements” with Catholicism but claimed that Protestants “under-value” the Blessed Mother. 

“We don’t talk about Mary enough. We don’t venerate her enough,” Kirk said, arguing that Mary is “the solution” to “toxic feminism” in the U.S. 

I am concerned that Charlie Kirk may have been more religious than a born-again Christian. The fact that he said if your Christianity is nothing more than an “insurance plan for the afterlife” to escape Hell, your conversion is not legitimate. Free grace believers don't talk that way! I am disturbed that hellbound Roman Catholics and Mormons are cheering and embracing Charlie Kirk, who coddled these false religions with ecumenical compromise.

Whether Charlie went to Heaven or not is irrelevant to me. I hope he did, but I am concerned about those lost sinners who are still living and still have an opportunity to get saved.

Praying At The Time Of Salvation Is Merely An Expression Of One's Faith

Isaiah 65:24, “And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.”

Many Christians who witness the Gospel to others have been taught to use what is commonly known as a “Sinner's Prayer.” The Roman's Road is a popular set of Scriptures from the New Testament book of Romans which is used to lead a lost sinner to Jesus Christ, which presentation usually ends with an invitation to pray a sinner's prayer. Praying silently, asking or calling audibly to be saved are mere expressions of one's faith, but are not faith in and of themselves. We are saved by faith, plus nothing!

These expressions are not necessary to receive the new birth. I believe when someone responds to a salvation invitation to walk down a church aisle, they were saved before they even left their pew. Isaiah 65:24, “And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.” They simply went forward to find out what just happened, that is, they were saved by faith in Jesus Christ.

By the way, I agree full with my long time ministry friend Pastor Max D. Younce (1935-2023) that no one should ever be required to walk down a church aisle to learn how to be saved. By requiring lost sinners to walk forward to be saved, those preachers are adding an unnecessary step to God's simple plan of salvation. In fact, Dr. Younce felt so passionately about the issue that he wrote an entire book about it, titled: 'Salvation And The Public Invitation.'

Romans 10:13 is not part of the Gospel. The Bible plainly says in Romans 10:14 that a sinner is saved when they "believe," and then people usually call, ask or pray as an expression of their faith. That is quite normal, but not required. Neither calling, asking or praying saves a person, nor are they mandatory to be saved. You are correct that these are mere expressions of one's faith. Well said my friend.

I don't like the sinner's prayer because it confused me for several years after I got saved at age 13, but that is how I was later taught to go soulwinning at Hyles-Anderson College (1985-1993). I stopped using the sinner's prayer about 20 years ago. But if I do, I will always explain to people that praying is not necessary to be saved. I like something that Pastor Jack Hyles said in a sermon: “Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do.”

Not all New IFB pastors preach that you cannot be saved unless you pray. Pastor Jonathan Shelley is guilty of doing it. He even preached a whole sermon against me for disagreeing with their heresy. Pastor Bruce Mejia on the other hand is okay, he doesn't teach that nonsense.
I heard Pastor Anderson say in a sermon about 15 years ago that even though they use a sinner's prayer at Faithful Word Baptist Church, you can still be saved by faith alone without praying. But in recent years he seems to have changed his doctrinal position, now insisting that unless you call, ask or pray you cannot be saved, which is simply FALSE.

Many in the New IFB (the nuts) have relentlessly attacked my ministry friend Onorato Diamante on YouTube for his correct biblical preaching that faith is enough to be saved, without praying. I stand 100% with Onorato and am thankful for his YouTube channel and correct Bible exegesis.

More Unbiblical Garbage From 'UNSHACKLED' Radio

John 6:28-29, “Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.”

Kindly said, Pacific Garden Mission (PGM) in Chicago should change their radio program's title from “UNSHACKLED” to “SHACKLED,” because that is what they are actually doing, shackling lost people to a counterfeit plan of salvation.

Tragically, if you look at their employees, they're all young yuppie types who are neo-evangelicals caught in Satan's deadly trap of Lordship Salvation. Dear reader, UNSHACKLED radio today is a stinking toilet full of religious dung. I am being honest, not crude. One of the things that God hates in Proverbs 6:19 is “a false witness that speaketh lies.” PGM is very wrong on God's simple plan of salvation.

I listened to one of their recent episodes (#3890) titled, “Jilla and Mahmoud - Part 2,” in which you will hear Jilla telling her mother that she knows she is saved because she was bold to express her faith in Jesus publicly. Folks, that is absolutely NOT how you can know for sure that you're saved. Jilla says to her mother (as her Mom is trying to silence her)...

“I am a follower of Jesus and I don't care who knows it. I am not ashamed of Jesus and I do not care who knows it.”

Jilla then says...

“This is the moment I knew that I was born again. I knew it, and because she witnessed me going forward, my mother knew it too.”

Dear reader, this is the nonsensical rubbish that is typical in UNSHACKLED's problematic episodes, which are woefully devoid of a free grace Gospel message. You don't get to Heaven by becoming a follower of Jesus, as the unsaved false teachers in Matthew 7:21-23 learned the hard way, to their eternal horror and damnation in the fires of Hell. So, following Jesus cannot be used as evidence that someone is saved.

Furthermore, Peter was ashamed of Jesus and he was saved. So, not being ashamed of Jesus cannot be used as evidence that someone is saved.

And walking forward in response to a public church invitation is not evidence of salvation. PGM's UNSHACKLED radio programs are lame at best, and damnable heresy at worst. Please be aware of these dangers my friend. I care, which is why I am warning everyone. I have no doubt that PGM's staff are sincere, but what saith the Scripture? Proverbs 16:25, “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” No one in the Bible was saved by walking down a church aisle, following Jesus, repenting of their sins or surrendering to the Lordship of Christ.

Pastor Harry A. Ironside (1876-1951) said it well...

WHEN THE REVIVALIST comes promising salvation to those "who make a full surrender" of all that they have to God, and who "pay the price of full salvation," he is preaching another gospel, for the price was paid on Calvary's cross and the work that saves is finished. It was Christ Jesus who made the full surrender, when He yielded Himself unto death for us that we might be redeemed from the curse of the broken law and forever saved from the judgment to come upon all who refuse His grace. —Pastor Harry Ironside, 'Another Gospel'

On their website, UNSHACKED wickedly promotes and bids Godspeed to some of the most corrupt preachers of our generation, including false teachers: John MacArthur, Chuck Swindoll, Robert Jeffress, Dave and Ann Wilson, James Dobson and David Jeremiah (to name but a few). It is sad and tragic that PGM's new management has succumbed to the demonic false teachers of our generation. All of the aforementioned names are wrong on the Gospel.

For example: Dave and Ann Wilson's lame messages that you must “surrender and repent” is not going to get anybody saved. It is discipleship not sonship. It is service not salvation. We must never confuse the two. Pilgrim's Progress author John Bunyan said it very well...

“If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the man Christ without and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the Word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the Word of God, and cast stumbling blocks before the people.” —John Bunyan (1628-1688)

Lordship Salvation is the mixing of service with salvation, so that their plan of salvation now requires following Jesus as the “Lord” of your life, full surrender of your will to live for God, and a willingness to turn away from your sinful bad habits. This is all contrary to the free gift of God, which is eternal life through faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ. Turning from one's sins is an act of human reformation (behavior modification), not biblical repentance (a change of mind). The problem today is that 99% of people follow the false teachers, instead of obeying the dear Savior's command in John 5:39 to SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!

Repent Of Your Sins: A False Gospel Exposure

John 6:28-29, “Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.”

I don't see anything in our text passage of inspired Scripture about being willing to turn away from your sinful bad habits to get to Heaven, do you? No, you do not. Yet, the demonic lie that you must first commit to turn from your sinning to be saved is being taught in nearly every church today, which churches are actually now corrupt religious cults.

Here are some helpful videos exposing the Devil's lie that you cannot go to Heaven unless you repent of your sinning. Remember dear reader, Jesus Christ died on a cross to pay our debt of sin. God does not require that you first commit to forsake your sinning as a prerequisite to receive His free gift, for if He did it wouldn't truly be a gift (Ephesians 2:8-9).

REPENT OF YOUR SINS - Documentary,
A False Gospel Exposure - Part One

REPENT OF YOUR SINS - Documentary,
A False Gospel Exposure - Part Two

Good works are not the payment for sin, the payment for sin is death.

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty!

Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith.

Turning away from sinful ways would be a work. Faith puts all of the merit where it belongs, on the object of our faith, Jesus and His work.

If to “repent” means to forsake our sinful ways TO BE SAVED, but Jesus already paid for our sins by dying on the cross, then what are we repenting from?

The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.

We must stay true to the simplicity of the Gospel. Repentance regarding salvation is a change of mind from unbelief to belief. We must earnestly contend for the faith (Jude 1:3).

To Him That Worketh Not

“But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” —Romans 4:5

What can you say to that? How can you argue with such plain and simple Words? The Word of God boldly proclaims that eternal life is obtained WITHOUT good works, i.e., works of self-righteousness. This Scripture silences the Lordship Salvationists. This Scripture silences the Pentecostals, like Wayman Mitchell, who teach that salvation can be lost if we do bad works. No sir, the Word of God does NOT teach any such lies. Jesus clearly stated in John 6:37, “...him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.”

What a wonderful statement... BUT TO HIM THAT WORKETH NOT! So many imposters today behind America's pulpits, like John MacArthur, deceitfully teach lost sinners that works must accompany faith. In John MacArthur’s 1988 book titled The Gospel According to Jesus, he clearly teaches Lordship Salvation! MacArthur writes on page 173 that faith ‘encompasses obedience,’ and on page 174 that obedience is ‘an integral part of saving faith.’ Indeed, obedience is bound up in the very ‘definition of faith’ (page 171) being a ‘constitutive element in what it means to believe.’

Thus any ‘concept of faith that excludes obedience’ (page 174) must be rejected because obedience is ‘indivisibly wrapped up in the idea of believing’ (page 176). In fact, ‘the character of true faith’ is nothing less than the ‘higher righteousness’ of the Beatitudes of Matthew 5:3-11 (page 176). Mr. MacArthur is deathly wrong! He needs to ponder Romans 4:5, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” Did you read that Mr. MacArthur... HIS FAITH IS COUNTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS!!!

Why do men make salvation difficult? Jesus said in John 10:9 that salvation is as easy as walking through a Door... “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” What can you say to that? Jesus said in John 4:10 that salvation is as easy as drinking a cup of water... “If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.” There is nothing hard or difficult about God's salvation. We just need to receive it through Jesus Christ, because He shed His blood to take away our sins. And by the way, no one can WORK their way into Heaven... “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us...” (Titus 3:5).

Dr. John Rice (1895-1980), founder of the Sword of the Lord, makes the following excellent statements . . .

“When you get saved, you get saved not because you deserve it, but because you simply let God save you and because you confess your own poor sinful state and your inability to save yourself.”

SOURCE: Dr. Rice... Here is My Question, by Dr. John R. Rice, pp. 304; 1962, Sword of the Lord Publishers; ISBN: 0-87398-158-8

This is what the Bible teaches. Dr. Rice also states in his Gospel tract, What Must I Do To Be Saved...

“The change in your heart, sinner, is God's part and you may be sure He will attend to that. Your part is to simply believe in Him. Whatever else is necessary in your eternal salvation, the Lord attends to when you trust in Him, or believe in Him.”

SOURCE: 'What Must I DO To Be Saved,' by Dr. John R. Rice

Dr. Rice is 100% correct!

Why do some ministers require lost sinners to walk an isle to be saved (.pdf book)? Why can't people be saved right in their pew? The saving power of the Gospel should be presented to those in the pew as well. Why do some ministers require people to feel sorry for their sins to be saved? Why do some preachers tell lost sinners to “be willing to turn from sin” to be saved? This implies Lordship Salvation. If I say... “I'll lend you my car if you're willing to fill the gas tank” ... what am I really saying? Obviously, I expect you to fill my gas tank. Is not the same type of message placed in the minds of lost sinners when we require them to "be willing" to do anything.

Did Jesus require the adulterous woman in John 8 to “be willing to turn from sin” to be saved? No, Jesus saved her and then simply told her to “go and sin no more.” When we come to Jesus Christ in repentance, realizing that we are hellbound sinners under the condemnation of God's Law and place our faith in Jesus to forgive and save us, then we are saved eternally. It is after we are saved that Jesus says to all of us... “Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more” (John 8:11). “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus...” (Romans 8:1). You must be “in Christ Jesus” not to be condemned.

There are several favorite Scriptures that I cherish, but none greater than the precious truth of Romans 4:5, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”

...BUT TO HIM THAT WORKETH NOT!

Sadly, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart Is Now Suffering In The Fires Of Hell

Galatians 1:6-7, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.”

It was announced in the news recently that Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart (1935-2025) died on July 1st, 2025. I am fully convinced that Mr. Swaggart went to Hell forever. If Jimmy Swaggart went to Heaven, then God is a horrible confusing author and a liar, and there are two different Gospels. According to Galatians 1:6-7 there is ONLY one Gospel. According to 1st Corinthians 15:1-6, and John chapters 19 and 20, the Gospel is: Christ's death on the cross, His burial and physical resurrection from the dead three days later. Faith in this GOOD NEWS alone saves a man; not his willingness to turn from sin, follow Christ and do better moving forward.

I will now quote the helpful words of Christian author Michael P. Bowen, who refutes Jimmy Swaggart's FALSE plan of salvation...

Swaggart then directs the reader to pray a special prayer. Swaggart’s salvation prayer, like so many other salvation prayers mentioned in this book, requires the one praying to 1) realize “you” are a sinner, 2) believe Jesus died for “you” on the cross, 3) open “your heart” to Jesus as both Lord and savior, 4) let Him take “full control” of your life, and 5) let Him make “you” everything that He wants you to be. Swaggart says that anyone who prays this prayer “in all sincerity” is now God’s child.

Now, if you will visit Swaggart’s Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section of his Jimmy Swaggart Ministries Website, then scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, you will see where he states that a truly born-again Christian can lose his or her salvation. Swaggart says that if a truly born-again Christian stops believing in Christ, or that if he or she deliberately turns their back upon their salvation, that they can lose their eternal salvation. Swaggart then affirms that salvation is free, but that the “just” shall live by “faith.” Swaggart again claims that salvation is “not of works” but he then claims that salvation is, in fact, “maintained” by a person’s good works and acts of righteousness. The aforementioned (paraphrased) materials you have just read constitute the plan of salvation according to Jimmy Swaggart. 

SOURCE: Michael P. Bowen, "I Never Knew You," p. 99

Michel Bowen continues on pages 108-109...

No, reader, you cannot lose your salvation the way Swaggart says you can. And the bible is also very clear that God is the one who keeps us saved. We do not maintain our born-again status by doing works of righteousness or by living the Christian Lifestyle. Look at what Romans 4:5 says, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” That “righteousness” is the exact same righteousness that Christ imputes to us at the moment we trust Him. From that moment onward, we are seen positionally by God as “as righteous as Christ” because at the moment of belief Christ swaps our unholiness for His righteousness. 

Swaggart, on the other hand, says we have to “maintain” our salvation by living the Christian Lifestyle, yet, in rebuke of such viewpoints, Jesus says, “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” (John 6:39). Jesus said He won’t lose you; yet, Swaggart is telling us that how we live our lives between the time we are born again until the time we die is what determines whether or not we get into heaven. 

Swaggart says that if a truly born-again Christian doesn’t want his or her salvation anymore, that they can turn their backs on God and they will go to hell as a result. But according to Christ’s own words, that is impossible. If you could ever be lost after Jesus Christ said He would give you everlasting life the moment you trust Him as your savior, then Jesus lied to Nicodemus and He lied to all of humankind.

SOURCE: Michael P. Bowen, "I Never Knew You," p. 108-109

I couldn't have said it any better.

Dear reader, if you can lose God's free gift of salvation, then it is only because there is something that YOU must do to maintain it, and that is WORKS, not the free grace of God. Romans 4:4, “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”

The Prodigal Son Just Came

Luke 15:17-20, “And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.”

The father had no idea why his son was coming home. The father didn't know if his son was sorry or if he had changed. For all the father knew the son wanted to ask for more money.

Yet, the inspired Holy Bible says that the father ran to meet him on the way. I heard this great sermon truth today from Pastor Jack Hyles. The sermon is called, “When He Was A Great Way Off.” I made this helpful sermon excerpt and titled it, “The Prodigal Son Just Came.” Dear reader, God loves you so much and wants to give you eternal life, that even before you get to Him, He'll will save you while you're coming!

“Come as you are” God says, and “I'll clean you up when you get there!” 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.” You don't have to commit to forsake your sins to get to Heaven, you JUST COME AS YOU ARE! Whatever changes that God wants to see happen in your life is His department. You don't have to forsake your sins to get saved; Jesus paid for your sins through Calvary' cross with His blood, sprinkling that literal blood upon the heavenly Mercy Seat (Hebrews 9:12, 22-24; 12:24). No matter who you are, oh needy sinner, COME to the Lord and He will give you rest!

“We suppose there are many faulty ideas about repentance, but we will deal here with the more popular ones. Perhaps the most popular false idea is that repentance is turning from sin. We have heard some well-known preachers say, If you want to be saved, repent of your sins, turn from your sins.' If turning from your sins means to stop sinning, then people can only be saved if they stop sinning. And it is unlikely that anyone has ever been saved, since we don't know anyone who has ever stopped sinning.” —Dr. Curtis Hutson (1934-1995), booklet titled: “Repentance,” p. 4; © 1986, Sword of the Lord Foundation

“Several years ago I read a book by a professor at a fundamental university. Under the chapter on salvation, he said, 'Quit your sinning, and God will give you a new heart.' He presented repentance as turning from sin. I wrote this dear brother and expressed my concern, knowing that such teaching frustrates the unbeliever and makes him think that salvation is unattainable since he cannot live a sinless life.” —Dr. Curtis Hutson (1934-1995), booklet titled: “Repentance,” p. 5; © 1986, Sword of the Lord Foundation 

“You don't get better to get saved; you get saved to get better. You can't get better until you do get saved.” —Dr. Curtis Hutson (1934-1995), booklet titled: “Repentance,” p. 5; ©1986, Sword of the Lord Foundation

Woe unto all the wicked pastors today who are preaching a counterfeit plan of salvation of partial faith in Christ plus something else!

You don't have to repent of your sins to be saved. 

You don't have to take Jesus as the supreme “Lord” of your life to be saved.

You don't have to be water baptized to get to Heaven.

You don't have to become a Christ follower to get to Heaven.

You don't have to keep any sacraments to be saved.

You simply need to COME AS YOU ARE AS A SINNER and receive Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full payment for your sins, believing that He was buried, and then physically raised up from the dead three days later. This is THE GOSPEL (Good News) by which all who BELIEVE IT are saved. The Gospel is not a lifestyle to be lived, it is simply GOOD NEWS to be BELIEVED! Romans 1:16, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”

1st Thessalonians 4:14, “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.” BELIEVE IT, oh sinner, and the work is done! John 6:28-29, “Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” Believe! Believe! Believe! John 20:31, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.” Believe! Believe! Believe!

Just as the Prodigal Son just came to his father, that's all you need to do dear reader to be saved, just come to God by faith in His only begotten Son, Jesus, the Christ. Simply believe that Jesus did it all for you! John 3:16, “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.” Believe! Believe! Believe!

What Is Genuine Biblical Repentance?

2nd Timothy 2:25-26, “In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.”

Carefully notice in our text passage of Scripture that repentance means to acknowledge THE TRUTH. This has nothing to do with turning from your sins, nor forsaking the world, nor being willing to turn from sin, nor feeling sorry for your sins, nor having a desire to forsake sinful bad habits, because these things constitute WORKS (Jonah 3:10).

Repentance is a change of mind to acknowledge THE TRUTH of two things: 1) You are a needy SINNER, and 2) Jesus is the only SAVIOR. Anyone who comes to God as a needy SINNER, and by faith takes God at His written Word in the Holy Bible—to receive Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full-payment for your sins, believing that Jesus was buried, but then raised up three days later—is instantly, irrevocably and forever saved. You have God's PROMISE of it (1st Corinthians 1:21; Titus 1:2; 1st Corinthians 15:1-6).

Most churches today have adopted a Roman Catholic interpretation of repentance, which includes penance, forsaking sinful living and changing one's ways to be saved. The Bible teaches something VERY different. Biblical repentance unto life simply means “a change of mind,” that is, a change of mind about whatever was hindering you from coming to the Lord to be saved. John 3:20 says that sin hinders people from coming to the light (Jesus, John 8:12) to be saved, because people living in sin don't want to be reproved and told they are wrong. When a man repents, he acknowledges that he is a guilty sinner in the eyes of a holy God, and so now he comes to Christ by faith to be saved.

Repentance simply means that you acknowledge your sinnership and thus need for Christ to save you. Romans 3:19, “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.” We are saved by believing, not by repenting, but we wouldn't believe if we didn't repent. This is why the words “believe” and “believed” appear 85 times in the Gospel of John, but the word “repent” is never mentioned even once.

A person MUST repent to be saved, but repentance does NOT mean changing your sinful ways and turning over a new leaf for God. Repentance simply facilitates believing. That is, repentance makes believing possible, and they happen simultaneously. Repentance and faith are not the same thing, but they happen at the same time. The man who believes has repented; the man who repents has believed. I am worried about the salvation of umpteen Independent Baptists in our churches today, who have told me that they don't think believing the Gospel is enough to be saved. They have been caught-up into the damnable heresy of Roman Catholicism.

One Baptist man who teaches in a local Bible college said to me a few months ago, “I think there needs to be a little bit more.” That is, he believes it is NOT enough to trust upon Christ's death on the cross for our sins, His burial and bodily resurrection three days later to save us. This is the Gospel (Good News) according to 1st Corinthians 15:1-6. That foolish man also believes that you must purpose in your heart to stop living in a lifestyle of sin, to get to Heaven. The guy needs to get saved! My friend, there is a fine line between Christianity and the religion of the cults. Grace is not earned, it is offered!

Pastor Harry A. Ironside (1876-1951) correctly understood repentance . . .

“Repentance is the very opposite of meritorious experience. It is the confession that one is utterly without merit, and if he is ever saved at all it can only be through the merits of our Lord Jesus Christ, 'who gave himself a ransom for all.' Here is firm footing for the soul who realizes that all self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.”

SOURCE: Harry A. Ironside; Except Ye Repent, p. 36)

Clearly, Ironside taught a Free Grace view of the Gospel. Harry A. Ironside correctly recognized repentance as the confession that “one is utterly without merit” and that if one is “ever saved at all it can only be through the merits of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Salvation is without works of self-righteousness. Romans 4:5 plainly teaches that a man's faith is COUNTED for righteousness, i.e., the righteousness of Jesus Christ is imputed to one's heavenly record by faith.

“Repentance is the recognition of my sinnership — the owning before God that I am as vile as He has declared me to be in His holy Word.”

SOURCE: Except Ye Repent, by Dr. Harry Ironside, chapter 3

All that God requires for salvation is that we receive Christ's death, burial and resurrection as full-payment for our sins. Concerning salvation, “repentance” does NOT mean to cease from sinful bad habits, nor turn over a new leaf, nor make a full surrender to Christ, nor to forsake the world, nor to even be willing to turn away from sinning. A person may do all of these things and yet never have believed the Gospel at all. The Gospel is Good News to simply be believed, and not conditions to be achieved.

Dr. Mark G. Cambron Is 100% Correct On Repentance

Acts 20:21, “Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Here is an excellent and needful writing by Bible Professor Mark G. Cambron (1911-2000) on the subject of REPENTANCE. Please read the following quote carefully, because Dr. Cambron is one of few theologian who gets it right, that is, he understands the simplicity of the Gospel and that repentance does not mean turning from sin as proponents of Lordship Salvation foolishly teach...

Repentance is necessary for salvation.

The Greek word for repent is metanoeo, which, translated into English is: to change ones mind. It does not mean to turn from sin. That would add works to salvation.

Repentance for salvation means a change of mind from men's ideas of salvation and religion, to an acceptance of Gods only way of salvation.

This results in a completely new creation, not a reformation of the old. The old nature remains as evil as ever after salvation and has not been reformed . . . The old nature can now be controlled by the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit.

God guarantees salvation. This is His gift to us.

God guarantees reward and fruit to the obedient son.

God guarantees chastening and loss of rewards to the disobedient son.

God does not cast out disobedient children, but in some cases, does take them home. He does not permit His children to live as they please without His discipline and guidance.
Many teach repentance for salvation incorrectly, by including some form of human effort or righteousness, such as willingness to turn from sin, or turning from sin. This is heresy and has confused many people. It adds works to salvation and causes many to not understand Gods great gift. It is probation, not salvation. It is completely unscriptural. It is Galatianism and a counterfeit of the gospel.

It is a tragedy that many Christians live shallow Christian lives. The Cambron Institute is dedicated to the task of training Christian men and women in the importance of total dedication and making Jesus the Lord of their lives not to be saved but because they are saved.
Shallow Christianity cannot be cured by adding works to salvation.

Salvation is not the result of what we do, but is by receiving what God has done for us. Acts 13:38-39; Acts 20:20: Galatians 1:8-9; Galatians 2:4; Galatians 2:21; Galatians 3:1-3; Galatians 5:1-4; Ephesians 2:8-10; II Corinthians 5:21; John 3:16-18; Philippians 3:9; Titus 3:5-8; II Corinthians 11:13-15.

SOURCE: The Cambron Institute

Professor Cambron taught at Tennessee Temple University for many years, and then went to work teaching at Florida Bible College in Tampa, Florida until his went to Heaven in 2011. Dr. Cambron was exactly right about repentance. The best way to interpret the Bible is to let it speak for itself. There is no mystery what the word “repent” means in the Greek. As Dr. Cambron points out, repent means “a change of mind,” nothing more or less.