Today's Bible Colleges Are A Major Threat To Churches

1st Corinthians 5:6-8, “Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”

The inspired Word of God likens moral and doctrinal corruption to yeast (leaven) that causes fermentation in bread and wine.

That being said, I am convinced that all Bible colleges do today is neuter the pastors of tomorrow. Just between Pensacola Christian College (PCC) and Bob Jones University (BJU), those two religious institutions have influenced thousands of churches through their incompetent graduates who have been infected by their corrupt doctrine.

It is tragic that BJU and PCC have been infiltrated and corrupted by the Devil's Lordship Salvation crowd of false prophets. Dr. John MacArthur (1939-2025) was a personal friend of Dr. Steve Pettit (long time shameful president of Bob Jones), and an alumnus of BJU. Birds of a feather flock together!

It is unthinkable that a young person could enroll into a professed Bible college, and by the time they graduate a few years later no longer think we have an inspired perfect Holy Bible today; they no longer believe in a free grace Gospel by faith alone. If you read their corrupt statements of faith, neither PCC or BJU think that the King James Bible is infallible or inspired by God. They claim that only the “original autographs” were inspired, which autographs no longer exist.

But if only the original manuscripts were “given by inspiration of God” (Greek: theopneutos, meaning “God + breath” - 2nd Timothy 3:16), then we do not have God's Word today. If God didn't inspire the King James Bible, then man did and we do not have the very pure words of God. Psalms 119:140, “Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.”

Let me ask you a $64,000 question. What would be the purpose of God inspiring His very pure Words if those “very pure” words were not preserved indefinitely? What good is preservation without inspiration, and what good is inspiration without preservation? The very idea is absurd that God gave His perfectly inspired pure Words to mankind, but then allowed those words to lapse and become contaminated by men. Does that make any sense?

Remember what the Bible warns in 1st Corinthians 14:33, “For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.” The false claim that we do not have a perfectly inspired Holy Bible today is a Trojan Horse ploy for Satan to introduce hundreds of perverted English Bible revisions into society. As long as gullible people buy into the Devil's lie that man can create a “new” and “better” Bible revision, new versions will keep coming from the greedy publishers.

“Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and beware of the confusion created by the senseless rash of new versions, translations, editions, and improvements upon the tried and tested Bible of our fathers and grandfathers.” —Pastor M.R. DeHaan (1891-1965),  “THE TABERNACLE,” p. 101

The average pastor today is an unfortunate casualty of some corrupt Bible college. Even my favorite preacher Pastor Jack Hyles, admits that he was misled and corrupted when he attended Bible seminary...

John 12:47-48, “And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.” 

John 14:23, “Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.” 

Folks, I'm going to go to seed [to become worn] before I die on defending this Book—I'm going to go to seed on it! I'm a little tired—by the way, every preacher in America, before he met a theologian, believed exactly what I'm preaching tonight! Theologians messed us all up—they messed me up for a while, I'll be honest with you—messed us all up! 

When I went off to college, I thought I had the words of God in this Book right here. When I was in college for awhile I found out I didn't. Not only that, I found out nobody did! Not only that, I found out you couldn't have them! Not only that, I found out there was no such thing as any book in all the world that had the words of God in 'em! 

But my Bible said that we're supposed to keep His “WORDS”; not His truths, not just His doctrine, but His “WORDS”! ... 

Mark 8:38, “Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

Folks, here's what's happening in America. The old-time preachers that built this country believed that this Book right here had the words of God in it! Your grandpa and grandma, that built this country, shed their tears on this Book, thinking they had the very words of God in their hands. 

And fundamentalists ALL believed what I'm preaching tonight, until we got our own Bible colleges, and seminaries, and sent our professors off to train at the feet of Karl Barth, and Reinhold Neuber, Emil Brunner, and others, who said that the Bible does not have the “words” of God, it is the Word of God, and that all the Bible is not inspired word-for-word. 

So, we did not want to be considered “unintellectual” by the intellectual community; we're not willing to be called “nuts” and “fools”—just chalk me up as a nut! Chalk me up as a fool! Yea! Chalk me up as an uneducated illiterate if you want to, but I guarantee Ya—I'd rather study my A-B-C's in Heaven, then Greek and Hebrew in Hell! 

Whosoever shall be ashamed of “ME AND MY WORDS”; it didn't say His “WORD,” it says His “WORDS”!

SOURCE: Pastor Jack Hyles, “There Are Too Many Smiths In The Land”

I THANK GOD with al my heart, mind and soul that I had the wonderful privilege and grand opportunity to attend and graduate from Hyles-Anderson College (1985-1993), back when they still believed that the King James Bible is inspired. Tragically, under the incompetent leadership of Dr. Jack Schaap, the First Baptist Church of Hammond and Hyles-Anderson College which they control, NO LONGER believe since 2009 that we have an inspired Holy Bible today. Dr. Russell Anderson (1931-2023)) wrote open letters to both Jack Schaap in 2009 and John Wilkerson in 2015, requesting that they remove his name from the college. They betrayed that dear saint of God! To their shame, the First Baptist Church of Hammond never made peace with Brother Anderson before he graduated to Heaven in 2023.

I have exposed PCC and BJU, but you can now add Hyles-Anderson College (HAC) to the list of deadly Bible colleges today that are doing more harm than good to the cause of Jesus Christ. There is NOTHING more important than the inspiration of God's Word. If you doubt that, then listen to what atheists have to say about inspiration:

“The Bible is not the inspired, inerrant and 100% historically true words of God. ... If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man’s belief in the Bible.” —Voltaire (French philosopher and former unbeliever 1694-1778 - He now knows better [in Hell])

As one liberal theologian pointed out in his review of Harold Lindsell’s, The Battle for the Bible, the only real difference between the conservative and liberal positions on the Bible is that the conservatives say the Bible USED TO BE inspired and inerrant, whereas the liberal says it NEVER WAS inspired or inerrant. BOTH positions agree that the Bible IS NOT NOW inspired or inerrant. 

As brother Daryl Coats so aptly says in his article The Two Lies: “If the Bible was inspired only in the original manuscripts, no one in the entire history of the world has ever had an inspired Bible. The original autographs of Job and the books of Moses had disappeared more than a thousand years before the first book of the New Testament was written, so no one has ever owned a complete Bible made up of the 'divine originals.' Nor, has anyone ever owned a complete New Testament made up of 'inspired originals,' because the originals were distributed among more than a dozen individuals and local churches.” [emphasis added]

The original Bible completed in 96 AD was a BINDING COLLECTION OF COPIES OF PREVIOUSLY WRITTEN AUTOGRAPHS. Thus, it is clear that a copy can be inspired, for that was all the early church elders had to work with.

Some “experts” today (who think they're smarter than God) claim that a copy [translation] of God's Word cannot be inspired, but that is untrue. Yes, a translation of the originals can be inspired. “Inspiration” means that God got a hold of the head of those men, the heart of those men, and the hand of those men, and guided them to say what He wanted them to say!

We DO have a perfectly inspired, infallible, incorruptible, inspired, Holy Bible today in 2026, which is the King James Bible in the English language. But don't expect to hear that truth taught in 99% of today's incompetent Bible colleges! These modern corrupt Bible versions pervert God's simple plan of salvation. It shouldn't come as a surprise that wherever you find the Devil's false bibles, you will also find the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation.

Please beware of today's dangerous religious colleges that are pulling on the same rope as the Devil. Thank you for reading my ministry blog. To God alone be all the glory (John 15:5).

Beware Of A Perverted Gospel

Galatians 1:7b, “but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.”

It is tragic that a counterfeit gospel is being preached from nearly every pulpit today. The same can be said of nearly every religious film, Christian book and contemporary Christian music (CCM) group. Heresy is everywhere!

Part of man's sinful human nature is to add works to faith.

The Devil is a beautiful liar. The serpent's lies were so attractive, alluring and believable that Eve ate the forbidden fruit and paid for it dearly for the rest of her life. All of Satan's apples have worms! You'd think that if anyone would tell the truth today it would be church pastors, but sadly they are the biggest liars!

It is tragic that 97% of pastors have succumbed to the “repent of your sins” Lordship Salvation garbage, which the Southern Baptist Convention (SBA) as a whole have succumbed to. The same is sadly true of the toxic 'UNSHACKLED!' radio broadcast by Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago. The same is sadly true of Bob Jones University (BJU) and Pensacola Christian College (PCC) and their toxic Lordship Salvation counterfeit plan of salvation. The entire religious world is following after Satan's false gospel.

There is only one plan of salvation, which is faith in the Gospel (Good News) of Jesus Christ crucified, buried and risen the third day (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). Anyone who adds repenting of your sins, turning from your sinful bad habits, being willing to turn from sin, surrendering “all” to Christ, becoming a Christ follower, living a lifestyle of repentance, inviting Christ into your life, being sorry for your sins, or receiving Jesus as “Lord” of your life, is a bold-faced liar.

Lordship Salvation Or Easy Believism?

Philippians 1:17, “But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.”

Here is an excellent sermon by Pastor David O'Steen of the Hope Bible Church in Jackson, Georgia. Dear reader, there is nothing in this universe as important as God's simple plan of salvation. Without it you cannot go to Heaven, and spending eternity in Hell is the only alternative.

Lordship Salvation or Easy Believism? Q&A 226

Thank God We Don't Live In Communist North Korea

Revelation 22:9, “Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.”

Our text Bible verse commands us to worship God, not men. In North Korea, citizens are required to sinfully worship their leaders, particularly Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, and Kim Jong-un, as part of the state's ungodly ideology known as Juche.

This cult of personality is enforced through propaganda and strict social controls, on penalty of death if you fail to comply. Christianity is not allowed in North Korea, as the regime strictly controls all religious activities and views Christianity as a threat to its power.

While there are a few state-sanctioned churches, they are largely considered to be for show, and practicing Christianity can lead to severe punishment. Churches are present in Pyongyang, but critics say they serve only as a deceptive façade for religious freedom. ...

North Korea claims victory in 'war on religion'

Julian Ryall | November 28, 2025

Pyongyang boasts of crushing underground churches, but defectors and rights groups say secret worship persists despite harsh crackdowns and severe punishments.

North Korea is continuing its crackdown on underground churches, with dissident media reporting that the authorities are "patting themselves on the back for bringing religion under control."

The Seoul-based DailyNK news site reported on November 18 that its sources within North Korea say the regime is confident that it has "practically exterminated" underground churches and worship groups.

However, defectors and human rights activists told DW they are confident that small groups and individuals who remain secretly committed to their faith still exist in the North.

"They have been targeted by the regime and many people have been detained, but we know there are still strong Christians who are worshipping in small groups or as individuals," said Song Young-Chae, a South Korean academic and activist with the Worldwide Coalition to Stop Genocide in North Korea. READ MORE

North Korea has no known official statistics on religion, and it is officially an atheist state. In practice, religion is tightly controlled, and the main religions are Buddhism, Shamanism and Chondoism. I THANK GOD that I wasn't born in North Korea, enslaved to an insane madman named Kim Jong Un and his spoiled rotten family. What an evil villain!

Isaiah 14:9, “Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.”

Dear reader, the next time you start to feel down or depressed, just thank God you don't live in North Korea. Go watch some YouTube video documentaries about life in North Korea, and I guarantee that you won't feel so down anymore. We should all be grateful to God every moment of every day for our liberty and freedoms in the United States, despite how messed up our country is today. At least we are free as individuals!

Secret State of North Korea (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

Kim Jong Un will split Hell wide open when he dies someday. North Korea is officially an atheist tyrannical state. The old adage is true: Those who refuse to be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. And so it is in North Korea today.

The True Measure Of Our Success In Life

Daniel 12:2-3, “And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.”

I believe this passage of Scripture speaks of the imputed righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ. Philippians 3:9, “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.”

Dear reader, the measure of our success as a Christian won't be how many people show up to say goodbye at our funeral; but rather, how many people are waiting to greet us when we get to Heaven. That is, how many people we lead to the Lord Jesus Christ in our lifetime.

The Apostle Paul made this remarkable statement, writing under the inspiration of the blessed Holy Spirit:

1st Corinthians 9:16, “For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!”

Do you think that “woe” only applies to an apostle if he fails to preach the Gospel? Every child of God is commanded by God to share the Gospel, as set forth in The Great Commission:

Matthew 28:18-20, “And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”

God intended for the Gospel to perpetuate from one generation to the next. For example: I lead you to Christ, and then teach you the things of Christ so that you can go soulwinning and lead lost sinners to Christ, and then those converts learn the ways of Christ and they go preach the Gospel to win more sinners to Jesus, and so forth. This is The Great Commission.

Are you soul-conscious dear reader? Are you a born again Christian? There is nothing in this life more important than knowing that your name is written in Heaven in the Lamb's Book of Life (Luke 10:20).

I keep this Gospel tract by Army chaplain David Rutkin with me everywhere I go. I have a rubber band around my phone that holds a dozen tracts. I wear my phone around my neck on a chain. I used this pad to prevent the chain from irritating my neck. The tract is titled, “Nothing But The Truth.” I pass them out to people. By doing so, I am planting a seed at a minimum. At best, they might even get saved by believing the Gospel. It is not our job to save anybody; but rather, to just give them a clear Gospel presentation. God saves sinners (1st Corinthians 3:6). Proverbs 11:30, “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.”

Having Everything And Yet Nothing

Today, I was reading about Hollywood actors who were fired for being greedy. It sickens me with all the tens of millions of dollars that Hollywood actors already have, they want more, more, more! Albeit, I think in some instances it is more a matter of principle than the money.

For the 2014 movie sequel “Expendables 3,” The Hollywood Reporter said that Bruce Willis' exit from the franchise was due to a huge paycheck demand. According to The Hollywood Reporter's source, “Willis was offered $3 million for four days of consecutive work,” but he demanded a pay bump to $4 million. Can you imagine? Bruce Willis wasn't content with $750,000 per day of work! It takes the average hard working American 10 to 15 years to earn that amount of money!!! Unreal.

In fairness to Bruce Willis, that single movie grossed $209,500,000 in profits, so he probably loathed the greedy of the studio. Hollywood studios exploit the actors' fame to boost their film sales. Willis fully knew that, which is why I think he refused the role unless they paid him more. It wasn't about the money, it's the principle of the matter.

Just as a side note of trivia, Jason Statham earned a massive $25 million just for his role in the 2023 “Expendables 4” film. Wowza! For Statham's role in all four films in The Expendables franchise he was paid $52 million total. His net worth is $120 million.

While I was researching the outrageous salaries of Hollywood actors today, I noticed that Robert DeNiro has a staggering net worth of $500,000,000. Sadly, DeNiro is an atheist. Matthew 16:26, “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”

Most rich people have everything they already need on earth, so they don't think they need God, provisions or Heaven. But the poor, imprisoned and broken people of this world are desperate for a better life. 

1st Corinthians 1:17-18, “For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.”

I also read about Hollywood actor Jack Black this week, who is an avowed atheist. His net worth is $50 million. I could mention the names of thousands of Hollywood actors and famous people who have a shocking net worth, and yet they are oh so poor without Jesus Christ. They are some of the most selfish people on planet earth. It breaks my heart whenever I read about a famous person who has everything they could want in this life, except Jesus.

Brian Johnson of the hard rock band AC/DC is an atheist. He denies that Jesus is God. To deny the deity of Jesus (the truth that He is almighty God) makes one effectively an atheist.

“Well I don't believe in religion, let's put it that way,” Johnson said. “I believe all religions are bad. I think they're a waste of time. Jesus was a clever man. He wasn't the son of God. We all know that he was a very clever, wonderful man and he said, 'Church is in here, meaning you are your own church.'” [emphasis added] SOURCE

What saith the Scripture? 1st John 2:22-23, “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.” Kindly said, woe unto Brian Johnson when he enters the afterlife.

At age 78 in 2026, Brian Johnson has a net worth of $90 million. What good is all that money, since they cannot take one penny with them into eternity. 1st Timothy 6:7, “For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.”

The Only Happy Life is Living For Souls

It was Pastor Dwight Lyman Moody in Chicago who rightly said:

“It is the only happy life to live for the salvation of souls.” —Pastor D. L. Moody (1837-1899)

When this life is over and we are in God's hands someday, all that will matter then is if we died in the Lord (Revelation 13:14), and what we did for Christ with our life (Ecclesiastes 12:13). The true measure of our success as a Christian won't be how many people show up to say goodbye at our funeral; but rather, how many people are waiting to greet us when we get to Heaven.

God calls the feet of the soulwinner “beautiful.” Notice that the Bible doesn't say that our mouth or lips are beautiful, but our feet. ...

Romans 10:15-16, “And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?”

The reason why is obvious, because even the most eloquent words of wisdom are worthless if our feet are too lazy to carry those needful words to lost sinners. 2nd Corinthians 4:3, “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost.” Winning lost sinners to Jesus is so important to the heavenly Father that I have dedicated an entire website just to soulwinning...

https://www.soulwinning.info

Very Few Preachers Are Correct On The Gospel Today

Romans 4:4-7, “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. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.”

The inspired King James Bible could not be any clearer that salvation is a free gift from God without works. You cannot earn it. You cannot merit it. You don't deserve it. We all deserve to go directly to Hell and burn in fire and brimstone for all eternity for our sins. That is what we justly deserve from God. But in His unspeakable love our Creator has made a way of escape through faith in His only begotten Son, whom He sacrificed on Calvary's cruel cross 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem. 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.”

One of my favorite free grace preachers is Dr. Harry A. Ironside (1876-1951) who taught a free grace view of the Gospel. Consider further the following beautiful quote by Pastor Ironside:

“The Gospel is not a call to repentance, or to amendment of our ways, to make restitution for past sins, or to promise to do better in the future. These things are proper in their place, but they do not constitute the Gospel; for the Gospel is not good advice to be obeyed, it is good news to be believed. Do not make the mistake then of thinking that the Gospel is a call to duty or a call to reformation, a call to better your condition, to behave yourself in a more perfect way than you have been doing in the past …

Nor is the Gospel a demand that you give up the world, that you give up your sins, that you break off bad habits, and try to cultivate good ones. You may do all these things, and yet never believe the Gospel and consequently never be saved at all.”

SOURCE: Harry A. Ironside, from the sermon: 'What Is The Gospel?'

Bravo! That is just wonderful.

Tragically, the doctrinally sound teaching that you've just read is the exact opposite of the garbage being taught and preached in most churches today, including in Independent Fundamental Baptist Churches (my own camp for the past 46 years, since I got saved at age 13 in 1980). I am absolutely disgusted with what I have found in most Baptist churches. I am at the place where I consider myself more non-denominational today than in the past. I am just about done with the Baptists. I mean, how can I continue to call myself a fundamentalist Baptist when over 95% of Baptist churches today are wrong on God's simple plan of salvation?

Today's Doctrinally Corrupt Baptist Churches

Case in point, take a look at the Statement of Faith of the Phaniels Baptist Church in Rockwell, North Carolina. I just randomly found this church, for no particular reason, just to make a valid point how corrupt the churches are today...

We Believe that all people are lost and have no hope outside of God's free gift of eternal and abundant life by repentance of sin and relying on Jesus Christ and His finished work on the Cross. [emphasis added] SOURCE

Where does the inspired King James Bible teach that you must repent “of your sin” to get to Heaven? It doesn't. We know that repentance is necessary for conversion, which is simply a change of mind unto the Gospel itself; but the phrase “of your sin” doesn't appear in Scripture. The false idea that you must first be willing to reform your life of sinful behavior as a prerequisite to saving faith is Satanic. No such teaching is found in the King James Bible.

I intentionally mentioned the King James Bible, because the Devil's modern English revisions have changed and corrupted God's inspired Words, perverting the true meaning of repentance. See for yourself...

KING JAMES BIBLE (KJB) — Mark 1:15, “And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.” [emphasis added]

EASY-TO-READ VERSION (ERV) — Mark 1:15, “He said, “The right time is now here. God’s kingdom is very near. Change your hearts and lives, and believe the Good News!” [emphasis added]

That is so horribly wrong! You don't have to change your own life as a requirement to be saved. Rather, it is the Holy Spirit who comes in to indwell a sinner at the time of salvation, who changes one's heart and life over time as we grow in the milk of the Word (1st Peter 2:2). Remember, Christians grow in grace not in strength (2nd Peter 3:18).

The Greek word for “repent” in Mark 1:15 in the King James Bible is metanoeo, which means, “to think differently.” It is a change of mind. It DOESN'T mean to “change your hearts and lives,” which is what the corrupt ERV says!

Beware Of The Southern Baptist Convention

Here's another example of a corrupt Baptist church. In their horrible statement of faith, the First Freewill Baptist Church in Stanley, North Carolina, writes:

FBC Stanley is associated with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), and we hold to the statements made in the Baptist Faith & Message 2000. Below is a short summary of our core beliefs. SOURCE

Oh my! The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has become as corrupt as can be, both doctrinally and morally. Here is the damnable doctrine of the SBC:

Repentance is a genuine turning from sin toward God. Faith is the acceptance of Jesus Christ and commitment of the entire personality to Him as Lord and Saviour. — “Baptist Faith & Message 2000,” Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)

Whoa Horsie! Where does the Bible teach that to be saved you must:

1. Turn from sin?
2. Commit your entire personality to Jesus Christ?
3. Commit yourself to Jesus as “Lord”?

I hope you can clearly see how evil and unbiblical this junk truly is dear reader.

The Bible Way To Heaven

In the inspired Scripture there are at least two different instances of someone asking how to be saved:

1. The first was when some people asked Jesus in John 6:28b, “What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?” Here was Jesus simple reply in John 6:29b, “This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.”
2. The second instance is found in Acts 16:30b, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” The Philippian jailor at Rome asked Paul and Silas what he needed to do to be saved. Here was their simple reply in Acts 16:31b, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”

Nowhere in these two helpful passages of Scripture do we read anything about being required to turn from your sin, commit your entire personality to Christ, or commit yourself to Jesus as “Lord” to get to Heaven. The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU. If salvation is truly by grace, then you don't need to start or stop anything to be saved. Eternal life is a free gift from God (Romans 6:23). One is saved by God's grace through faith in the finished Work of His Son on the Cross as payment in full as our pardon for sin.

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty. What the SBC is teaching is of the Devil. It is certainly not sound Bible doctrine! Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith. Whatever happened to that beautiful 1836 hymn of the Christian faith written by Miss Charlotte Elliott (1789-1871)...

JUST AS I AM

Just as I am, without one plea,

But that Thy blood was shed for me,

And that Thou bid’st me come to Thee,

O Lamb of God, I come! I come!

Anyone who tells you that you must first be willing to change your ways, habits or sinful lifestyle to be saved is a BIG LIAR! Eternal life is a free gift (Romans 5:15-18, 6:23; Ephesians 2:8-9). A gift can simply be received without any obligations whatsoever to the recipient. We've got a bunch of sincere but very corrupt preachers and theologians today, who would be wise to resign their positions to instead become plumbers, dog catchers or barbers.

I cherish Pastor Harry Ironside. I really do. I cherish him because, unlike most preachers, he saw the plain truth of a free grace Gospel and defended it. Here is another great statement that he made in his Gospel tract titled, “Another Gospel”:

"When anyone comes promising salvation to those ‘who make 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 His life on Calvary that saves us, not our surrender in any way to Him."

SOURCE: Harry A. Ironside, from the Gospel tract, 'Another Gospel'

Amen and amen. I love it! 

The inspired Holy Bible already plainly defines “the gospel” for us:

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

This is the gospel which saves those who believe it (Romans 1:16). The Apostle Paul didn't mention anything about turning from your sin, committing your entire personality to Christ, or committing yourself to Jesus as “Lord” to get to Heaven, did he.

Tragically, we've got a bunch of lying false prophets behind America's pulpits today, who have succumbed to the deadly influence of other corrupt preachers, merely following what they are preaching instead of SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURES as Jesus commanded in John 5:39, “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.”

Here is the gospel: God says that we are guilty sinners and that no amount of good works or behavioral changes on our part could ever make us holy enough to enter Heaven. God sent His only begotten Son to pay for all of our sins. Jesus paid for our crimes by dying on a cross for us all 2,000 years ago. His dead body was buried in a grave. On the third day, Jesus miraculously physically arose from the dead.

The instant you believe this dear reader, Jesus knows it and He saves you. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on Me hath everlasting life” (John 6:47). The free gift is based solely upon your trust in what Jesus did for you, and has nothing at all to do with what you do for Him. “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).

God Loves The Sinner

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.”

I was reading an intriguing book today from my library published in 1980 by Pastor Lee Robertson (1909-2007) titled, “Ten Thousand Tears.” I want to share with you something beautiful that I read on pages 48-49...

GOD LOVES THE SINNER

   The death of Christ is the manifestation of God's love. Jesus said, “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.”

   Paul wrote to the people of Rome, “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom. 5:8). As we contemplate the matter of life and death and the future, we would remember certain things.

   First, God knows the eternity of the soul of man. He made man, and He knows what is in man. Man is an eternal soul. That soul will live on throughout eternity. In the presence of God, the soul of man will enjoy blessedness and peace. In the place called Hell, “prepared for the devil and his angels,” the soul will have only suffering forever and forever. God knows the soul of men. Hence, we should understand the great love that God has for the sinner.

   Second, God knows the awfulness of Hell. The suffering of Hell is known to the Father. In this Book, the Bible, we are told of Hell and its suffering. In the account of Hell given by the Lord Jesus recorded in Luke 16, we find the story of the rich man. He died and went to Hell. In Hell he said, “I Am tormented in this flame.” I remind you that this is the Word of our Saviour.

   Again, we find a picture of the awfulness of Hell in Matthew 25:4.

   “Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.”

   God has done His best to save men. He sent his Son to die for us. The Saviour shed his blood upon the cross, fulfilling gods requirement for salvation. “And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission” (Heb. 9:22).

   God gave His Son that we might have life. God has given us the Bible to be a barricade to Hell. The Bible warns men of the awfulness of Hell, and the Bible plainly points the way to life everlasting. God has spread around this world gospel churches, many faithful preachers, and thousands of missionaries all with one task—to tell the story of salvation through Jesus Christ. God loves the sinner! —Pastor Lee Roberson, Ten Thousand Tears, Chapter 5 - “Concerning Them Which Are Asleep,” pp. 48-49

Amen and amen. God loves the sinner unconditionally. It matters not who you are or what you may have done, God still loves you. God hates all sin and evil, but that is a separate matter from His great love for humanity. ...

Romans 5:6-9, “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.”

The Lord desires for all men to repent to believe the Gospel to be saved, but even if you don't, Christ died on a cross 2,000 years ago because He unconditionally loves you dear sinner. Please don't neglect such great love and salvation being offered to you.

Pastor Phil Kidd Is A Dangerous Preacher

Romans 16:17-18, “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.”

His ministry website says that at the age of 16, Pastor Phil Kidd was trapped in a cycle of drugs, gangs and street life. Phil Kidd staggered into a church and after hearing of the grace of God was saved. Two years later he answered the call to preach. He has spent his years doing the work of an evangelist and traveling the country and abroad. His serious no nonsense approach has wielded him the title: 'One of Americas Most Controversial Evangelists.'

Unfortunately, Dr. Kidd is also caught between grace and works. Read what he says in this 2020 heretical sermon titled, “The Heresy Of Eternal Security”...

Lasciviousness means a license to sin. I worry about people, that when you address them about something in their life that is Biblically wrong, they say back to me: “Well, I'm saved anyhow it doesn't make any difference.” You didn’t get the same grace of God I got in my heart! Oh yeah, I don’t care if you shout or pout, I don’t care. When you confront somebody about drinking and the first thing they want to talk about is eternal security, that's lasciviousness! When you talk about people and shacking up, and say: “Look here's what the Bible said” and they say: “Well I'm saved anyway,” that's last seriousness! Here's what your Bible said, “the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men.” What’s that grace of God do? “Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present evil world.” If you say, “I know Jesus therefore I can live like I want to — that's eternal security,” that is heresy! You have been deceived! You are twisted in your doctrine, and you're gonna fry like a sausage in Hell when you die! You don't live like that and stay right with God. That is heresy! And for all you've fallen-from-gracers and free-willers, and all of you all that are hanging on; the next time I hear you go around talking about Baptists giving people a license to sin, I'm going to flat out call you a liar! I've never given anybody a license to sin. You get born again; you'll get out of the sinning business! [15:11 time in his sermon] —Pastor Phil Kidd, 'The Heresy Of Eternal Security'

In essence what Phil Kidd is errantly teaching is that you are not saved unless you have declared war on your sinning. That is works, not grace (Romans 4:4). The only prerequisite to be saved is to admit that you are a guilty sinner in need of the Savior. Romans 3:19-20, “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. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” The law shows humanity our SINNERSHIP, and brings us to the SAVIOR to be saved by grace alone through faith alone in Him.

I am sick and fed up and tired of corrupt preachers demanding that you commit to give up your sinning as a requirement to receive God's free gift of eternal life. And let me say that Eternal Life and Eternal Security are not two separate Bible doctrines. They are one and the same thing! If you have been born again from above by the Holy Spirit of God, then you have eternal life and it is eternally secure. You have been indwelt and sealed with God's blessed Holy Spirit, and that is eternal security dear reader. If saved, always saved!

Beware of Evangelist Phil Kidd, because he is wickedly mixing works with grace, confusing tens of thousands of his listening audience. Somewhere along the way these incompetent sailing preachers have lost sight of the harbor. That is, they have lost sight of the Biblical truth that eternal life is a free gift, paid for in full by the precious blood of Jesus (Romans 5:15-18, 6:23; Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5; 1st Peter 1:18-19).

No Child Of God Has The Lord's Permission To Sin

And let me clarify that no one has God's permission or blessing to commit sin. Romans 6:1-2, “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?” A Christian can only fall “in grace,” but never “from grace.” You cannot out-sin the grace of God! Sin cannot triumph over the cross and the blood! The more that a believer sins, the more God's saving grace will abound, so that one's eternal life can never be jeopardized, given back to God or forfeited.

2nd Timothy 2:19, “Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.” God's redeemed children should be the most honest, decent, upright, cheerful, forgiving and good people in town.

But just because some believers may not be living for the Lord doesn't mean that they were never saved. That is why God put Galatians 6:1-2 in the Bible, “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.” God is literally reminding you and me dear friend that we are no better than the sister in Christ who commit adultery, or our Christian brother who just went to prison for committing a crime. We all have dirt on our hands!

Once Saved, Always Saved

The old adage is very true: ONCE SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED! If you deny that truth you are not saved. The reason why you are not saved is because you obviously think that YOU must do something to maintain a state of salvation. But dear friend, salvation is not a state, it is a new birth by the Holy Spirit of God (John 1:12-13).

That is why I expose the ungodly Salvation Army, who in their official Statement of Faith refer to salvation as a state that YOU must maintain...

“We believe that continuance in a state of salvation depends upon continued obedient faith in Christ.”

SOURCE: 1878 Foundation Deed Of The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army follows the heresy of their founders, William and Catherine Booth, who considered salvation a “state” that could be lost if one fails to continue in obedient faith. May I say, salvation is NOT a “state,” it is a new birth. It is a second birth, a spiritual birth. The teaching that salvation is a “state” that is conditional upon “continued obedient faith” is demonic works-salvation. The believer's salvation is secure in Christ's finished work of redemption. The blood has been applied to the heavenly Mercy Seat (Hebrews 9:12,24). The price has been paid. The PRICE is Jesus' blood, and the PLACE is the heavenly Mercy Seat.

Tares Among The Wheat

But what about those professed Christians who stray away from the faith years later, some even claiming to become atheists? What saith the Scripture? 1st John 2:19, “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.” The Bible is clear that they were never saved at all. If you are truly saved, then the indwelling Holy Spirit will persevere. I didn't say that the believer will persevere (which is what Calvinists falsely teach), I said that the Holy Spirit will persevere (Hebrews 13:5). ONCE SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED!

Dr. Kidd is subtle, intentionally mixing truth with error to confuse his listeners. He is right that it would be wrong for a believer to have a dismissive attitude toward sin. Nobody has a right to live in sin just because we are saved. But dear reader, that is exactly what we all do, isn't it. 

We all sin continually in one way or another, both in deed and in thought, but God never once sanctions our sinning. 1st John 2:1, “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.” You see, the Lord doesn't want us to sin, but since we are still in the flesh in human form we will sometimes sin, and Jesus is our Advocate (our Defense Attorney who stands by our side on our behalf as our Redeemer). And you ought to thank God continually that this is so, or we'd all burn in Hell fire and brimstone forever for our sins!

No One Ever “Turns” From Their Sins

There is no such thing as “repenting of your sins” or “turning from your sins.” I don't care how long you may have been a born again Christian, you still sin every day, and so do I. You may clean up your life enough to live above reproach, but you are still a dirty wicked sinner. We are still filthy pigs! The whole idea of telling someone to “turn from your sins” to get to Heaven is flawed, because you are asking them to do something that is IMPOSSIBLE.

Do you not understand that to enter into God's Kingdom you must be absolutely sinless and perfect in every way? Good people don't go to Heaven, perfect people do! That excludes you and me, and the other 8.3 billion imperfect sinners on the planet today. So how does anyone get to Heaven? Ah, that is why God sent His only begotten Son Jesus into the world, who lived a perfect sinless life, and died a sinner's death on Calvary's cross for you and me. Jesus paid a debt that He did not owe, because we owed a debt that we could not pay. JESUS PAID IT ALL!!!

So, we can go to Heaven on Christ's merit. The moment that you come to God as an admitted guilty sinner, and by faith (taking God at His written Word) place your childlike faith (trust, reliance) in Jesus' death on the cross, burial and physical resurrection from the dead three days later, God reads your mind and He saves you. It's that simple.

The only thing that changes at the moment of salvation is that God gives you His gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and He begins to work to change you. But depending on the influence of your friends and family, whether or not you attend a good Bible-believing soulwinning church, if you use only the King James Bible, and other factors, will determine if you grow in grace or languish in immaturity as a babe in Christ.

Many believers never mature (as we learn about in the parable of The Sower And The Seed in Luke 8:11-15). This parable is commonly mistaken as a passage on salvation, but it is about maturing as a believer to win souls. Many babes in Christ today are not in an environment conducive to growth in grace, so they become stunted and retarded as saints, still worldly and out of church. That is the local church's fault for not obeying The Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20).

Ignorance Of The Scripture Is The Problem

The main reason why there is so much false doctrine circulating in the churches today is simply because of woeful ignorance of the Scripture. We live in a nation of Biblical ignoramuses today! Pastor J. Vernon McGee (1904-1988) said that, and he's absolutely right.

I am sick and fed up and tired of hearing ignorant pastors teach that repentance results in a change of behavior. No Sir, that is the heresy of Lordship Salvation, requiring works to prove that you've been saved. In sharp contrast, the inspired Holy Bible teaches in Galatians 5:22-26 that a changed life is the result of the fruit of the indwelling Holy Spirit. ...

Galatians 5:22-26, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.”

Do you see dear reader? God saves the vilest sinner, just as you are without the least desire to live right or turn from your sinning; but then once you are IN CHRIST (2nd Corinthians 5:17), the indwelling Holy Spirit starts to convict and change you, and in time if you choose daily to Walk in the Spirit, then Jesus will live the Christian life THROUGH YOU. What saith the Scripture? Galatians 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” Many new believers try to live right and fail and fail and fail, because they haven't learned yet that you live the Christian life the same exact way that you got saved, BY FAITH. 2nd Corinthians 5:7, “For we walk by faith, not by sight.”

The dire mistake that Dr. Phil Kidd is making is that he is placing the impossible heavy burden upon the sinner's shoulder to live right, associating their eternal security with their behavior, which is evil and wrong to do. My favorite preacher's quote is by Pilgrim's Progress author John Bunyan (1628-1688)...

“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)

During Phil Kidd's sermon, 'The Heresy Of Eternal Security,' he pauses half way through and says that it is quite in the auditorium. Of course it was, because he freaked them out by denying one of the most fundamental teachings in God's Word, that every redeemed child of God has eternal security!!! Those poor people were as confused as ever because of a bad and theologically incompetent preacher. Eternal Life is Eternal Security!

We Have Liberty Through Faith In Jesus

The Bible teaches that before someone is saved, we are in bondage under the curse of the Mosaic law (aka, the Ten Commandments). But when we get saved, all of our sins (past, present and future) are washed away by the precious blood of the Lamb. We are now under liberty, so that we can never (no matter how we choose to live) be under bondage again. If we couldn't be saved by good works, then we cannot be lost by bad works. We are under grace.

That being said, God doesn't want us to use our new found liberty in Christ as a cloak for sin:

Galatians 5:1, “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”

Galatians 5:13, “For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.”

James 1:25, “But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”

1st Peter 2:16, “As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.”

When we got saved, our POSITION in Christ was forever settled; but how we choose to live from day to day is our CONDITION in Christ. One thing has nothing to do with the other. The former is salvation, the latter is service. The former is sonship, the latter is discipleship. We are saved by faith in “the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29b). How we choose to live our life as a child of God has absolutely nothing to do with being saved, for if it did then it couldn't be a free gift.

Phil Kidd couldn't be more wrong. I have no doubt that he is sincere, but Hell if full of sincere people. Proverbs 16:25, “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” This is a very serious matter folks.

In the quote from Phil Kidd that I shared with you at the beginning of this article, he says that you'll “fry like a sausage in Hell” if you're still shacking up, getting drunk and living in sin as a Christian and refuse to stop. He is very wrong and confused as a preacher!

Later in the sermon he says:

They’re deluded in thinking that a prayer that never altered their life will get them into Heaven. [21:06 time in sermon]

Well, first of all you don't get saved by praying, although it is perfectly okay to accompany one's faith in the Gospel with a sinner's prayer (which is a natural desire to do). You just need to understand that you could just as easily believe on Jesus in your heart, and never open your mouth, and still be saved. Furthermore, getting saved DOESN'T alter your life! As I explained earlier, a changed life is the fruit of the Spirit of Christ (Romans 8:9) living the Christian life through you by faith. Repentance (thinking differently) from unbelief to belief at the time of salvation has NOTHING to do with behavior modification.

That is why I expose Pensacola Christian College (PCC) for errantly teaching that “Repentance is a change of mind resulting in a change of behavior.” That is their official teaching at Campus Church in their Foundation's Class. It is damnable heresy! That is the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation! Any time a preacher associates your behavior changing with God's free gift of eternal life, he has perverted the grace of God.

Kindly said, run from Dr. Phil Kidd!

Where Did The Repent “Of Your Sins” Heresy Originate?

Acts 3:19. “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.”

The “repent of your sins” heresy is often traced back to misunderstandings of Biblical teachings on repentance and salvation, particularly the conflation (mixing) of repentance with a requirement to turn from sin for salvation. This view has been justly criticized by various theologians, laymen and clergy who argue that true Bible repentance is a change of mind, rather than a prerequisite to forsake sinful behavior to be saved. The concept is a misinterpretation of inspired Scripture, which wickedly emphasizes works over faith.

KING JAMES BIBLE (KJB) - Acts 3:19, “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.”

EASY-TO-READ VERSION (ERV) - Acts 3:19, “So you must change your hearts and lives. Come back to God, and he will forgive your sins.”

I loathe the toxic modern English Bible revisions, which are corrupted by Satan. Repentance has absolutely nothing to do with changing your heart and life. To “repent” simply means to think differently to agree with what God says in His inspired Word.

Here's a bizarre translation... 

AMPLIFIED VERSION (AMP) - Acts 3:19, “So repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, regret past sins] and return [to God—seek His purpose for your life], so that your sins may be wiped away [blotted out, completely erased], so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord [restoring you like a cool wind on a hot day].”

Unreal! Dear reader, none of what you've just read is Biblical. Repentance for salvation does not mean to change your inner self, which would be reformation, not repentance. Nor does Bible repentance to be saved require regretting your past sins. Seeking God's purpose for your life is a matter of service and discipleship, not salvation and sonship.

One of my favorite Bible teachers is Pastor Brad Strand in Texas. I recently purchased his 'The Strand Study Bible.' I love it so much that I bought five of them (2 new and 3 used). Here is Brother Strand's commentary for our text passage from 2nd Corinthians 7:8...

Repentance may include “remorse” (made you sorry), but remorse is not repentance. If so, then Judas repented because he was remorseful over what he had done to Christ (Mt 27:3). You can weep over sin and even express great remorse, but until you “change your mind” as to who you are and who Christ is and agree with God (Mt 3:2), you have not repented biblically.

Repentance may include “sorrow” (you were made sorry), but sorrow for sin is not repentance. Hell is full or sorrow, but only for the consequences of sin. The rich man who died and went to Hell uttered not a word of sorrow for his sin, only sorrow for his pain (Lk 16:19-31). You can weep over sin and even express great regret, but until you “change your mind” as to who you are and who Christ is and agree with God, you have not repented biblically.

Repentance may include “conviction” (after a godly manner), but conviction is not repentance. If so, then Felix repented when he trembled before Paul (Acts 24:24-25). You may be convicted that you are a sinner and even admit that you are lost, but repentance is a two-sided coin. You not only have to “change your mind” as to who you are, you have to also “change your mind” as to who Christ is and call upon Him to be your Savior (Rom 10:9-13). Otherwise, you have not repented biblically.

SOURCE: Brad Strand, “The Strand Study Bible,” p. 1938

I am so thankful for Pastor Strand, that he is one of few preachers today who gets repentance correct. Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) in a sermon titled: “A Vote For Preaching,” spake in this excerpt about the false gospel of Lordship Salvation which is unfortunately being preached from nearly every pulpit today. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!