You Can't Pray For Someone To Get Saved

Proverbs 27:1, “Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.”

I have often heard Christians say such unbiblical things as, “I am praying for his salvation” or “Please pray for so and so to come to Christ.” Unfortunately, all such praying is in vain, simply because God has given to every human being a free will to decide for ourselves. God never forces anybody to trust His only begotten Son to be saved.

If you are concerned about someone's eternal destination, then all you can do is pray for God to give them another opportunity to be saved. You can pray for God to work in their life and heart with Holy Spirit conviction. But you cannot pray for God to make someone get saved.

I don't like it when people ask me to pray for someone's salvation, because that is not a reasonable prayer request. John 5:40, “And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.” Carefully notice that Jesus didn't say “ye cannot come”; but rather, “ye will not come.” God offers His “free gift” (Romans 5:15-18) of eternal life to every human being.

I vehemently detest the heresies of reprobate John Calvin (1509-1564), who is sadly burning in Hell forever. Calvin foolishly taught that Christ didn't die for all men (aka, the heresy of “Limited Atonement”). What saith the Scripture? 1st John 2:2, “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.” The inspired Word of God couldn't be more clear that Jesus died for ALL MEN, not just for the saints. Sadly, Pastor Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) was a 2-point Calvinist who taught the same tommyrot, poppycock and balderdash of Limited Atonement. Spurgeon also taught the Calvinist heresy of the Perseverance of the Saints (aka, the damnable heresy of Lordship Salvation).

You can pray for God to send a soulwinner to share the Gospel with a lost person, but you cannot pray for their salvation. Granted, I think when most people pray for a lost sinner's “salvation,” they don't literally mean for God to force them to be saved; but rather, to work in that person's life in hope that at some point in the future they will come to Christ in faith to be saved. So, I wouldn't criticize someone for praying for another sinner's salvation.

That being said, I wrote this blog to teach you that God never forces anyone to respond favorably to the light of the truth of the Gospel. Jesus plainly said in John 5:40, “And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.” That is why we are told in Jude 1:22-23, “And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.” We certainly can and should do all that is possible to lead lost sinners to Jesus with the Gospel, but they alone must make the decision, we cannot make it for them.

The False Gospel Of A 'King James Bible' Website

Galatians 3:1-2, “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?”

Dear reader, right doctrine matters! There is nothing in this universe as important as God's simple plan of salvation, because if you get the Gospel wrong you cannot be born again, which means you'll spend eternity without escape in a burning Hell of fire and brimstone. ...

Revelation 21:8, “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”

That being said, here is the counterfeit plan of salvation put forth by the 'King James Bible' website...

Sample prayer

"Dear God, I believe in you and that your Son, Jesus Christ, is Lord. I believe He died for my sins and was resurrected. I repent and ask for forgiveness of my sins. I've decided to follow Jesus for all the days of my life. Thank you for your forgiveness and for the hope of eternal life. I ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen." [emphasis added]

SOURCE: https://www.kingjamesbible.me/become-a-christian.php

At the bottom of the same webpage, the writer of the preceding counterfeit plan of salvation asks the reader: “Did you make a decision today to follow Jesus Christ?” THAT IS NOT PART OF THE GOSPEL! Dear friend, that is NOT how you get saved!

There are four problematic issues with the preceding plan of salvation:

1. Jesus' being “LORD” has nothing to do with receiving God's free gift of forgiveness of sins and eternal life. What saith the Scripture? 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.” You simply need to accept Jesus as your personal Savior to be saved, but not your LORD! Christ automatically becomes your LORD (Master) when you get saved. BEWARE of Satan's Lordship Salvation! The Devil's modern perversions of the Holy Bible corrupt Romans 10:9 to read that you must say, “Jesus is Lord,” to be saved, but that is a false translation, not the truth of God's Word (Romans 1:25). Please use only the inspired King James Bible.
2. Nowhere does the inspired Word of God require you to pray a Sinner's Prayer to be saved. Religious men have added this extra step to God's simple plan of salvation. John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” There is nothing inappropriate or wrong about accompanying one's faith with a prayer, but it is faith and not saying some words in a prayer that saves you. By not explaining this to lost sinners, you run the risk that they won't understand the Gospel.
3. Nowhere does the inspired King James Bible require anyone to “follow Jesus” to be saved. In Acts 16:16b-17a, “a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: The same followed Paul and us...” A demon possessed woman followed the Apostle Paul. Just because someone follows Jesus doesn't mean they are saved. Judas Iscariot followed Jesus as one of His apostles and yet was a known thief whom Christ called “a devil” (John 6:70, 12:6). Many people FOLLOWED Jesus merely for a handout of food. John 6:26, “Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.” It is damnable heresy to tell someone to “become a Christ follower” to get to Heaven! This is simply not the Gospel. Although it is true that all of Jesus' sheep do follow Him, you don't get saved by following Christ; you get saved by resting in Him as your Savior (Hebrews 4:10-11; John 6:40).
4. The writer of the preceding counterfeit gospel tells the reader to “repent,” but doesn't explain what that means. In today's wicked American culture where most churches falsely require people to be willing to forsake a lifestyle of sinning to be saved (which is reformation not repentance), it is absolutely necessary nowadays to explain what it means to “repent.” I personally never use the word at all, simply because the Gospel of John (God's Gospel track according to John 20:31) doesn't mention the word “repent” even once. That is simply because repentance is automatically included with believing. That is, you have changed your mind from unbelief to belief when you trust Christ. Bible repentance simply means to “change your mind,” nothing more. The context of a particular Scripture passage provides the necessary supplemental information to know what we must change our mind about. It is deceptive to merely require readers to “repent,” knowing fully that the reader can go either way in meaning. Repentance means different things to different people, which is why it is so vitally important to explain what the word means if you ever use it. You don't repent AND believe to be saved; you repent TO believe. Repentance facilitates believing.

A helpful illustration of repentance is flying from Chicago to Hawaii. I can simply instruct you to fly to Hawaii. It is not necessary for me to first tell you to leave Chicago, and then secondly go to Hawaii. The same is true with leading someone to faith in Jesus. You can simply preach the Gospel (which means “Good News”) to a lost sinner, without first telling them to leave their unbelief. This is exactly why we find the word “believe” mentioned 85 times in the Gospel of John, but the word “repent” is not mentioned even once.

Dear reader, you don't repent AND believe to be saved; you repent TO believe. Repentance facilitates believing. Jesus commanded the reader in John 5:39 to 'SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES.' Tragically, 99% of churches, social media sites, religious books and movies, and so-called Christian colleges are WRONG on Bible repentance and God's simple plan of salvation. There are not different variations of the Gospel, there has alway been only one plan of salvation (Galatians 1:6-8). As did the Apostle Paul, I marvel how most churchgoers have fallen so easily hook, line and sinker like a hungry fish for the Devil's bait.

It saddens and frustrates me that a King James Bible website is preaching a counterfeit plan of salvation. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!! Thank you for reading my ministry blog.

Are You Going To Hell

Revelation 20:11-15, “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”

I am always amazed that any professed Christian could read this disturbing passage of inspired Scripture, which plainly teaches that Hell is a literal place where all Christ rejecters will suffer in torments for eternity, and yet deny the reality of a burning Hell. The following video features a sermon excerpt by Evangelist Tom Williams (1935-2024)...

Are You Going To Hell?

Many years ago when I was a teenager, I tagged along and helped my father, who directed numerous Skid Row rescue missions. My Dad labored for Christ as a Skid Row preacher for over 30 years. At the Chicago United Mission located at 34 S. Desplaines in downtown Chicago (which was turned into a parking lot a long time ago), my father allowed a group of men from off the street stay at the mission. They would mop, clean, cook and do work around the mission to earn their keep.

I distinctly remember a guy named Smithy, who was the mission cook. Smithy taught me as a teenager how to cook eggs with butter, which I still enjoy making to this day.

Tragically, one day Smithy picked up a 5 gallon pot of scalding boiling water and the handle broke off. Smithy was burned severely and rushed to the local hospital. When he returned a week later, Smithy had a white body cast covering his entire torso. He told me that he thanked God it was water and not oil, because oil doesn't cool down near as quickly as does water, and scalding oil does a lot more damage.

Smithy told us of the nightmarish conditions in the burn ward. He said you could hear people screaming in excruciating pain, as doctors and nurses peeled away the dead layers of skin day by day. Smithy said it was as close to Hell on earth as someone could imagine. I have never forgot the frightening things Smithy saw and heard in the hospital's burn ward that he shared with us that day.

Dear reader, I don't know about you, but I am not willing to take the risk to going to Hell forever. That is why I accepted Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full payment for my sins when I was 12 years old. I simply trusted the 'GOOD NEWS' (Gospel) of Jesus crucified, buried and physically resurrected from the dead three days later, as my only hope for Heaven. That is the only way to Heaven dear friend. There is nothing that you need to do to go to Heaven, except simply believe that Jesus did it all for you. John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”

Only God Can Save A Sinner

1st Corinthians 3:6-7, “I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.” I cannot save anybody! Romans 1:16 clearly identifies “the gospel of Christ” as “the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.”

Carefully notice that no mention is made in Romans 1:16 of repenting of your sins, confessing Jesus publicly, getting water baptized, partaking of sacraments, inviting Jesus into your life, becoming a Christ follower, asking Jesus into your heart, being willing to turn from your past sinful ways, surrendering your will to live an obedient life, living a lifestyle of repentance, nor any other garbage; the inspired Scripture simply promises eternal life to “every one that believeth.” Why do men complicate God's simple plan of salvation? John 6:47, “ Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”

The False Gospel Of Pastor Jeff Pollard

Galatians 3:1-2, “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?”

I was watering my flowers yesterday in front of my home, when three younger fellas came by from the Mount Zion Bible Church in Pensacola. They invited me to their church, offered to prayer for me, and then left me with some literature written by their former retired pastor (2002-2025), Jeff Pollard (born 1951).

Dr. Pollard's Toxic Religious Literature

The religious tract is titled, “Do You Know Jesus Christ?” (.pdf). Sadly, kindly said, this literature is so lame that it could never lead anyone to Jesus. You can read it for yourself in the link I just provided. Here's another in case the link goes dead.

In Pastor Jeff Pollard's “gospel” tract you will not find the words “death,” “cross,” “burial,” “resurrection,” “risen” or “raised” mentioned even one time. Yet, these are the elements which comprise the true biblical Gospel...

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.”

That is THE GOSPEL; namely, three things:

1. Jesus DIED on Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago in our place to pay our debt of sin.
2. Jesus was BURIED, thus proving that He was indeed dead. It wasn't staged.
3. Jesus physically RESURRECTED bodily from the dead after three days.

Although Dr. Pollard does mention Christ's sacrifice and shed blood, it's not effectively the same thing as clearly presenting the Gospel to a lost sinner. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!

Pastor Jeff Pollard Fails To Put A Difference Between Service And Salvation

I do not question the sincerity of Pastor Pollard, but his religious tract is impotent to win a lost sinner to Jesus Christ, and in my humble opinion he is incompetent as a preacher.

“There is power in this Gospel message. Most people just don't know how to present it... The clarity of the Gospel is what makes it easy for them to believe.”—Pastor Yankee Arnold, “WHY GRACE CAN SAVE THE WORST MAN!”

As I read Pastor Jeff Pollard's 8-page religious brochure from Mount Zion Bible Church in Pensacola, I cringed in frustration as he mumbled needlessly about “knowing Jesus,” but dear friend, did not Judas Iscariot know Jesus? Yes, he certainly did. Judas was one of Christ's very chosen apostles. And did not the lost sinners who did “many wonderful works” in Jesus' name  in Matthew 7:21-23 also know Jesus? Yet, Jesus rejected them? Yes, they knew Jesus well, even calling Him “Lord, Lord.” And does not Satan know Jesus? Yes, Lucifer, ole smut face himself, knows Jesus, even casually approaching the throne of grace in Job 1:6-7.

You see dear reader, it matters not if you know Jesus. The $64,000 question is: DOES JESUS KNOW YOU? Does Christ recognize you as one of His redeemed sheep in His fold? That is, have you been born again by the Holy Spirit of God? There are billions of lost sinners who are familiar with Jesus. They know about Him. Sadly, Jesus doesn't know them!

In page IV of his poorly written tract, “Do You Know Jesus Christ?” (.pdf), Jeff Pollard writes...

The awakened sinner who thus believes will cleave to the Lord Jesus because God has given him a new heart; and he will walk in loving obedience to his Lord and Saviour, discovering the glories of His mercy and grace: “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” (John 14:23). 

This false teaching is confusing at best, and damnable heresy at worst. Walking in obedience to Jesus as one's LORD has absolutely nothing to do with getting saved. Respectfully said, Pastor Pollard makes the common dire error of mixing service with salvation, and in do doing he casts stumblingblocks before lost people. I humbly think Pilgrim's Progress author John Bunyan (1628-1688) said it best...

“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.” —Evangelist John Bunyan

Evangelist John Bunyan is exposing the Satanic fraud of “Lordship Salvation,” which deadly counterfeit plan of salvation has crept into nearly every so-called “Christian” pulpit, radio station, missionary board, website, film and book today.

Few Preachers Clearly Present The Gospel

On page 17 of his excellent book in defense of a free grace Gospel, Evangelist Michael P. Bowen writes these edifying words...

“I am at eternal odds with the false, counterfeit messages of salvation-by-works that are taught from virtually every pulpit today, on every television channel, and on every Christian radio station; however, I am not at eternal odds with the individuals who preach these counterfeit messages. My heart literally goes out to all of them because they simply do not understand Christ’s plan of salvation. They have been lied to by a crafty enemy named Satan, whose sole aim is to take as many people with him to the lake of fire as he can possibly manage to steal away from God using a counterfeit plan of salvation that appears so real, so genuine, and so holy that few ever realize they have been deceived by it. Oh reader, so many of today’s professing Christians who think they are going to heaven when they die are not going to make it to heaven as they had assumed because they’ve been lied to by today’s error-filled gospel messages. Radical? Yes. But I am nonjudgmental toward the bearers of false messages; I am only judgmental toward the false plans of salvation they emphasize as being equal to the plan of Christ. There is only one plan of salvation in the bible; therefore, there cannot be two plans.” —Michael P. Bowen, “I Never Knew You: The Horror Of The Great White Throne Judgement And How You Can Avoid It,” p. 17; © 2009

Another one of my favorite Bible preachers is Pastor M.R. Dehaan (1891-1965), who penned these helpful words...

“There is a vast difference between coming to Jesus for salvation and coming after Jesus for service. Coming to Christ makes one a believer, while coming after Christ makes one a disciple. All believers are not disciples. To become a believer one accepts the invitation of the Gospel, to be a disciple one obeys the challenge to a life of dedicated service and separation. Salvation comes through the sacrifice of Christ; discipleship comes only by sacrifice of self and surrender to His call for devoted service. Salvation is free, but discipleship involves paying the price of a separated walk. Salvation can't be lost because it depends upon God's faithfulness, but discipleship can be lost because it depends upon our faithfulness.” —Pastor M.R. DeHaan, “Hebrews”; Zondervan Publishing House; 1959 (p. 117)

I have just shared some excellent resources with you dear reader. Very few churchgoers today have been properly taught by the leaders to differentiate between service versus salvation, between discipleship versus sonship, between sanctification versus justification. One thing has nothing to do with the other, and if you do not put a difference between them you will corrupt God's inspired Word and cast stumbling blocks before the people. It is clear to see from John Bunyan's teachings that he had a keen understanding of the free grace of God...

John Bunyan Was 100% Correct On The Gospel

What a great meme! Any unlearned preacher who says that you must “repent of your sins” or “turn from your sinful ways” to be saved is a theological liar! You cannot show me one Scripture from an inspired King James Bible which says to repent “of your sins” or “turn from your sins” to receive God's free gift of eternal life. You simply need to acknowledge your guilt as a needy sinner (Romans 3:19-20; Galatians 3:26-29). You need to know why you need to be saved, because you are a wretched sinner (and so am I and everybody else), and the penalty for sin is to burn in the fires of Hell forever (Revelation 20:11-15; 21:8).

God Made His Plan of Salvation Free, Easy And Simple

When the Philippian jailer in Rome asked Paul and Silas the simple question in Acts 16:30b, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?,” the plain answer given in Acts 16:31b was to, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved...” There was no additional requirement to make Jesus the “Lord” of his life, invite Jesus into his life, become a Christ follower, repent from his sins, live a lifestyle of repentance, be willing to forsake a sinful lifestyle, get water baptized, keep the Sabbath Day, confess Christ publicly, partake of sacraments, faithfully run the Christian race until the end—nor any other religious garbage that is being wickedly preached in today's neo-evangelical churches and religious seminaries.

The free grace Gospel has always been under attack by the Devil, but not like today. Satan knows that his time is short, and the earth's population just reached 8 billion people in 2022. There are billions of religious people on the planet, but so few are saved. Luke 13:23-24, “Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.” I believe a big reason why so few people are saved is because the god of this world has deliberately blinded their minds from the light of the truth of the Gospel (2nd Corinthians 4:3-4). Jesus warned about FALSE PROPHETS, ravenous wolves who come to us in sheep's clothing to deceive their victims.

Pastor Jeff Pollard is correct that if you have the Son, you have life; but if you don't have the Son, you don't have life. 1st John 5:12, “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” Unfortunately, Jeff Pollard doesn't ever tell you how to actually get saved. He never once presents the Gospel. To make matters worse, he talks about obeying Jesus if you love Him. Jeff speaks of walking in obedience to Christ, but at best he is mixing service with salvation, thus confusing the lost reader. At worst he is obscuring the Gospel and misleading people concerning how to get to Heaven.

On the last page of Jeff Pollard's tract “Do You Know Jesus Christ?” (.pdf), in the very last paragraph, he foolishly writes...

Hearing that Jesus is the Prophet is not the same as hearing God’s prophet; believing that the Priest died is not the same as faith in the Priest that died; nodding the head that there is a King is not bowing the heart to that King. “Knowing” Jesus Christ is the very life of God working in the soul of man, leading him into a living, personal relationship with the Son of God and conformity to His blessed Word. Do you know Jesus Christ?

How in the world could anyone ever read those words and know how to be saved? Furthermore, having a “relationship” with Christ is NOT the same as being born again. Judas Iscariot had a “relationship” with Jesus, but still went to Hell in his unbelief forever. Satan has a “relationship” with Jesus. You don't get saved by having a relationship with Jesus, you get saved by resting in Christ's finished work through Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago. 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.”

Here is the church's sermon web page. In Pastor Pollard's sermon preached on November 12, 2017, titled: “Judas In Hell: The Dangers Of False Repentance,” Pollard heretically teaches that if you haven't turned from your sins that you are not saved. He specifically mentions that Judas was still a thief, proving that his repentance was false. This is a counterfeit gospel that Jeff Pollard in preaching, not grace. Clearly, Mr. Pollard associates forsaking your sinful behavior with the free grace of God, and by doing so perverts the grace of God.

Pastor Jeff Pollard resigned, thankfully, in October of 2025. Unfortunately his sermons are still circulating on social media, and Mount Zion Bible Church in Pensacola where he pastored for 23 years is still handicapped by his false teachings. Again, in Pastor Jeff Pollard's “gospel” tract you will not find the words “death,” “cross,” “burial,” “resurrection,” “risen” or “raised” mentioned even one time. Where is THE GOSPEL?

False Christianity Exists Everywhere

2nd Corinthians 11:13-15, “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.”

The word “Christian” is perhaps the most misused, misapplied and misunderstood word in the English language. Scripturally, believers in Jesus were first called “Christians” at Antioch. Acts 11:26, “And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.” So, the official meaning of a “Christian” is a born again sinner who is following Jesus as one of His loyal disciples.

However, that is not the accepted modern meaning of the word among the saints. When we speak of a “Christian” we mean someone who has been born again by the Holy Spirit of God in response to one's faith in the Gospel, regardless if they are a disciple or not. I hope you do realize that it is possible to have faith in Christ without following Him as a disciple. I humbly think Pastor M. R. Dehaan (1891-1965) said it best...

"There is a vast difference between coming to Jesus for salvation and coming after Jesus for service. Coming to Christ makes one a believer, while coming after Christ makes one a disciple. All believers are not disciples. To become a believer one accepts the invitation of the Gospel, to be a disciple one obeys the challenge to a life of dedicated service and separation. Salvation comes through the sacrifice of Christ; discipleship comes only by sacrifice of self and surrender to His call for devoted service. Salvation is free, but discipleship involves paying the price of a separated walk. Salvation can't be lost because it depends upon God's faithfulness, but discipleship can be lost because it depends upon our faithfulness." —Pastor M.R. DeHaan, “Hebrews”; Zondervan Publishing House; 1959 (p. 117)

Now that we've got those preliminaries out of the way, let's go to the purpose of this article.

False Christianity Exists Everywhere

Tragically, nearly everyone considers Roman Catholics to be “Christian,” but in reality Catholicism is the biggest false religion on the planet. From the cradle to the casket, Catholics do religion right. I said “religion,” not Christianity. Satan is a beautiful liar. The Devil's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born again. There is nothing taught in the Bible about “sacraments.” Yet, somehow Catholics managed to pull Seven Sacraments out of God's inspired Word, perverting the Gospel of free grace to include partaking of mandatory manmade rituals and human work to get to Heaven. I tell you with all biblical certainty as a fundamentalist preacher that Catholicism is a prisonhouse of religion!

Please don't miss the stern warning in our text passage of Scripture from 2nd Corinthians 11:13-15 that false prophets' “end shall be according to their works.” Since they have never been born again by resting in Christ's finished redemptive work, they will be judged according to their own self-righteous works, and damned to spend eternity in the fires of Hell.

According to the Catholic Herald...

“The global Catholic population is approximately 1.406 billion as of 2025. This makes the Catholic Church the largest Christian denomination in the world.” SOURCE

Dear reader, Catholics are NOT Christians! No one is a born again Christian who trusts in the sacraments, the power of the Catholic church, priests to absolve sins, the confessional booth, et cetera. John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” There is nothing in Jesus' words about partaking of sacraments, confessing your sins to a sinful priest in a confessional booth, getting dunked in a baptistry, nor anything else. Manmade religion is the worst thing that ever happened to this world. Dear reader, there is no salvation in the Roman or Russian Orthodox Catholic religions. Salvation is of the LORD.

Then there's the Lutheran religion who idolize Martin Luther (1483-1546), a corrupt theologian who taught the damnable heresy of Baptismal Regeneration (aka, Sacramental Salvation) his entire life. If Luther is not burning in the fires of Hell, then God is a liar, because the inspired Holy Bible warns in 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.” The Gospel presented by the Apostle Paul in 1st Corinthians 15:1-6 (which Paul received directly from Jesus Himself - Galatians 1:12), does NOT include water baptism nor taking communion.

Then there's the demonic Seventh-Day Adventist religion who idolize false prophetess Ellen G. White (1827-1915). SDA's wrongly redefine what “faith” means. Instead of simple trust (reliance), SDA's redefine “faith” to mean fulfilling all the obligations of the Christian life, walking in holiness and obedience to all of God's commandments. As with nearly all false prophets, SDA's deceitfully profess to believe in salvation by grace through faith; but then horribly contradict themselves in their writings...

Faith is not simply looking at a distant, historical Jesus. Rather, it is responding to His invitation to "follow me." That is how I become a disciple. It is by accepting the obligation to live a life of discipleship that faith becomes obedience. Surely this is what Mrs. White meant when she wrote that the faith that leads to salvation "is not a mere intellectual assent to the truth. . . . The only faith that will benefit us is that which embraces Him as a personal Saviour" (ibid., p. 347). "To have faith means to find and accept the gospel treasure, with all the obligations which it imposes" (Christ's Object Lessons, p. 112) —Jan Paulsen, 'SALVATION BY FAITH'

Heresy! Salvation is not “accepting the obligation to live a life of discipleship.” This negates the gift of God. Romans 4:5 plainly teaches, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” SDA's ignore and disregard Romans 4:5. Salvation is without works of self-righteousness. The man who believes on Christ is saved because his faith is COUNTED for righteousness. I tell you plainly that Seventh-Day Adventism is going straight to the pits of Hell. SDA preaches another gospel.

So, thus far in this article we have excluded Catholics, Lutherans and Seventh-Day Adventists from the list of who is a “Christian.” We should also add the Jehovah's Witnesses, a religious cult who deny Jesus' deity. They deny the Godhead (i.e., the Trinity). JW's deny Jesus' bodily resurrection from the dead after He was crucified and buried. JW's falsely teach that Jesus only raised up in spirit. They are NOT Christians!

Then there's the wicked Mormon cult with their bizarre temple beds, magic underwear and Satanic worship rooted in Freemasonry, who preach a counterfeit gospel which requires water baptism, turning away from one's sinful behavior, works and faith in another Jesus who is not God. Mormons are not saved. They are not Christians! So we can add them to our list of pseudo-Christians.

And let us not forget the damnable Lordship Salvation camp today, hellbound Calvinists, who pervert the Gospel of free grace to include following Christ as the supreme “LORD” of your life, serving Jesus, repenting from your sinful ways to walk in holiness from now on, inviting Christ into your life, living a lifestyle of repentance, et cetera.

I humbly think Pastor Harry A. Ironside (1876-1951) said it best...

“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.” —Pastor Harry A. Ironside, from the ministry tract: "What Is The Gospel?"

Also, my ministry friend Michael P. Bowen wrote those doctrinally sound words...

"I am at eternal odds with the false, counterfeit messages of salvation-by-works that are taught from virtually every pulpit today, on every television channel, and on every Christian radio station; however, I am not at eternal odds with the individuals who preach these counterfeit messages. My heart literally goes out to all of them because they simply do not understand Christ’s plan of salvation. They have been lied to by a crafty enemy named Satan, whose sole aim is to take as many people with him to the lake of fire as he can possibly manage to steal away from God using a counterfeit plan of salvation that appears so real, so genuine, and so holy that few ever realize they have been deceived by it. Oh reader, so many of today’s professing Christians who think they are going to heaven when they die are not going to make it to heaven as they had assumed because they’ve been lied to by today’s error-filled gospel messages." —Michael Patrick Bowen, from his book: "I NEVER KNEW YOU," p. 17

I have mentioned several false religions, but I could bring up thousands more false religions. These are the main ones in the United States. No one who adheres to the corrupt teachings of these pseudo-Christian cults is a born again Christian. NONE OF THEM! No one is saved who adds to Christ's finished work of redemption. More people will die and go to Hell someday because they trusted too much to get to Heaven. I believe this is why Jesus warned in Matthew 7:13-15 that only a “few” people will enter into Heaven in eternity (cf. Luke 13:23-24). God's simple plan of salvation is so free and easy that most people pass right over it, like driving through a tiny town without even realizing that you've missed it.

“More people will die and burn in Hell because they're trusting too much!”—Pastor Jack Hyles, “Yea, Yea, And Nay, Nay!”

“Everything that's hard and complicated about salvation is God's side of it!”—Pastor Jack Hyles, “Yea, Yea, And Nay, Nay!”

Oh that well-meaning religious men would stop tampering with the Gospel, and allow the blessed Holy Spirit to do His work of convicting lost sinners of sin, righteousness and judgment (John 16:8). It's not our job to pervert the Gospel in a sinful attempt to coerce lost sinners to commit to change their lifestyle as a prerequisite to saving faith. This is exactly why the false teachings of Lordship Salvation and Misunderstood Repentance exist. NO ONE is saved who is trying to live above sinning to get to Heaven.

When I visited the ungodly corrupt Family Baptist Church in Pensacola in 2021 for their annual church revival, they invited 'The Thrift Family' bluegrass Gospel group from Texas to perform. On Sunday the wife of Jonathan Thrift gave her testimony. I sat there numb as I listened to her testify that she is trusting in Lordship Salvation.

She said she had previously thought she was saved, but then after listening to her pastor in Texas, realized she'd never turned away from her sinning. She foolishly said now she no longer lives in sin and knows she's saved. I felt like walking out of the revival. That is the dung theology taught at Family Baptist Church in Pensacola. The church's ungodly senior pastor, Bobby Moffett, preaches the demonic lie that you must “repent of your sins” to be saved, a false teaching that is nowhere found in the inspired King James Bible.

Dear reader, if you think you are saved because you have turned away from a lifestyle of sinning, you are NOT saved. Every false religion that I have mentioned in this article falsely teaches that you must turn away from your sinful behavior to get to Heaven. Let's take Mormons for example...

"To repent we need to recognize and feel sorry for what we’ve done wrong, do whatever is possible to repair the damage it may have caused, and to leave our sinful behavior behind. Repentance can be difficult and requires a lot of honesty, but the joy and freedom we feel when we turn away from our sins are well worth the effort. Because Christ suffered for our sins, we can be forgiven when we repent. That’s why the Atonement is so important to all of us."

SOURCE: Jesus Christ | Mormon.org

HERESY! Notice that Mormons say “repentance can be difficult,” just as Dr. John MacArthur (1939-2025) teaches in his toxic book titled “HARD TO BELIEVE.” In sharp contrast, the Bible teaches 2nd Corinthians 11:3, “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the SIMPLICITY THAT IS IN CHRIST.” The Bible teaches that salvation is simple in Christ. Mormons preach ANOTHER JESUS, ANOTHER GOSPEL AND ANOTHER SPIRIT that are all of the Devil.

I could likewise show you similar quotes from every false religion I have mentioned in this blog. Only the inspired King James Bible teaches a free grace Gospel without works. Man in his inherent sinful carnal pride has always felt compelled to add, embellish and tamper with God's simple plan of salvation, requiring MORE than simple childlike faith in the crucifixtion, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Most pseudo-Christian cults hypocritically claim to believe in salvation by grace through faith, but then they subtly add works to pervert God's grace.

False Christianity exists everywhere today! Tragically, ninety-nine percent of professed Christians are not saved. They are all hellbound in their sins of false religion, pride and self-righteousness. They call Jesus “Lord, Lord,” but they are not His sheep (Matthew 7:21-23).

When I used to live in Chicago before 2004, I used to enjoy reading the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper. They had a daily section which displayed something called “Magic Eye.” If you placed your eyes close to the image and then slowly backed away while staring through it, you'd see a floating object in 3D in the foreground. It was surreal. I loved it! But for whatever reason, perhaps colorblind, some people never could see the hidden image. And also, Magic Eye doesn't work as well online as it does when printed.

I realized a few years ago that the Gospel is just like Magic Eye. That is, you can look at religion your entire life without seeing the true Gospel. Literally billions of people on the planet spend their entire lives delving into religion (as did George Harrison of The Beatles), and yet never come to the saving knowledge of the truth by faith in Christ. 2nd Timothy 3:7, “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” Dear reader, the $64,000 question is: Have you been born again?

Satan's Modern Bible Revisions Corrupt The Gospel

2nd Corinthians 2:17, “For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.”

I cannot warn you enough dear reader to avoid and throw away your modern Bible revisions if you have any. They are deadly! The Devil is not fighting religion. He is too smart for that. He has produced a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one, that true Christians are afraid to speak out against it. False prophets will come at you with a word salad.

Romans 10:9

Here is a prime example of how the Devil has perverted God's simple plan of salvation in the new Bible revisions. Whereas the inspired King James Bible simply teaches to put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ to get to Heaven, the Devil has changed it so that now you must take Jesus as the “Lord” of your life, which clearly implies serving Him. Here is a comparison between the trustworthy King James Bible and the Southern Baptist Convention's (SBC) corrupt Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)...

 KJB - Romans 10:9, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”

HCSB - Romans 10:9, “If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”

There is a vast difference between trusting the Lord Jesus Christ versus confessing “Jesus is Lord” to be saved. This manmade perversion is in all the new Bibles. The most popular Bible version in 2026 is the New International Version (NIV), followed closely by the English Standard Version (ESV) and then the King James Version (KJV). ...

ESV - Romans 10:9, “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”

NIV - Romans 10:9, “because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”

Do you see how wicked neo-evangelicals wrest the inspired Word of God to their own destruction?

Mark 1:15

Here's another example of how Satan's crowd has corrupted the Holy Bible to fit their ungodly agendas. This time from Mark 1:15. Here's a comparison between the King James Bible (KJB), Easy-To-Read Version (ERV), The Voice (VOICE) and the Tree Of Life Version (TLV)...

KJB - Mark 1:15, “And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.”

The Greek word from which “repent” in this Scripture passage is translated is metanoeo, which simply means “to think differently.” It does NOT mean to turn from your sins, change your life or change your actions. Wicked men added these extra words to the Holy Bible. What saith the Scripture? Proverbs 30:5-6, “Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.” Satan has entered into the Bible publishing business! ...

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!'” 

VOICE - Mark 1:15, “Jesus: It’s time! The kingdom of God is near! Seek forgiveness, change your actions, and believe this good news!” 

TLV - “'Now is the fullness of time,' He said, 'and the kingdom of God is near! Turn away from your sins, and believe in the Good News!'”

Again, do you see how Satan's crowd cleverly perverts the truth of God's Word? True Bible repentance is simply to think differently (change your mind) to believe the “GOOD NEWS” (GOSPEL) of Jesus Christ crucified, buried and risen three days later. You get saved by turning from unbelief to belief, not by changing your behavioral actions. Behavior modification has absolutely NOTHING to do with going to Heaven.

When Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus, he repented to turn from his sins (Matthew 27:3). Judas changed his actions, returning the thirty pieces of silver (which was the typical cost to buy a slave). Judas confessed to the wicked Pharisees that he had betrayed innocent blood (Matthew 27:4). But they refused his silver, calling it blood money! Judas was a changed man. He regretted his actions. Judas felt sorry. Yet, Judas commit suicide and went to Hell forever in his unbelief. You see, Judas repented to turn from his sins, but he never repented from his unbelief toward God to embrace the truth of the Gospel (Acts 20:21; 2nd Timothy 2:25-26).

I could spend a whole day showing you the corruptions in today's modern Bible revisions. It couldn't be more obvious why the Devil is doing this, to hinder lost sinners from seeing the light of the truth of the Gospel, lest they be converted. 2nd Corinthians 4:3-4, “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” Unless the free grace Gospel is presented clearly and without embellishment, no one can be saved.

“There is power in this Gospel message. Most people just don't know how to present it... The clarity of the Gospel is what makes it easy for them to believe.” —Pastor Yankee Arnold, “WHY GRACE CAN SAVE THE WORST MAN”

I cannot warn you enough about the Devil's modern English translations of the Bible. They are all corrupt and misleading, dangerous to the reader.

WRONG REPENTANCE - NO SALVATION

Romans 6:23. “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23)

Pastor Hank Lindstrom was the founding pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. In this message, Dr. Lindstrom explains exactly what biblical repentance is, and what it is not. He went on to be with the Lord in 2008. Dr. Lindstrom's sermon, 'Wrong Repentance - No Salvation,' will help solidify your salvation beliefs, or lead you to Christ is you're lost.

A Miami native, the Pastor Lindstrom graduated from the University of Florida with an electrical engineering degree, then he went to Florida Bible College. Dr.  Lindstrom taught Bible at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago for 14 years in the good old days before they tuned Calvinist. He later taught Bible at Florida Bible College.

Dr. Hank Lindstrom led me to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ years ago, and has since gone home to be with the Lord, but his crystal clear presentation of the gospel lives on and on and on. The following article was written by Pastor Hank Lindstrom (1940-2008).

“For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.” (Ephesians 2:8)

HOW TO CLAIM THE GIFT OF GOD

Rule #1 -  The Holy Bible is the only book that you will use to confirm what I will be showing you. That is because it is God's word, it is perfect. 2nd Timothy 3:16, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” This phrase, given by inspiration of God, translates a single Greek word. Literally the word means God-breathed. If you follow God's plan of salvation written down in His Holy Bible and you don’t get into heaven I think you would be able to stand in God's presence in heaven itself and call Him a liar! (The Bible states many times that God cannot lie) Never rely on any other book or person, not the Pope, not Mohammed, not the Koran, not the book of Mormons, not Buddha, or any other book or person because your eternal life depends on it! The Bible is the only book in the world that has been PROVEN to be the word of GOD. You can prove the Bible to be God's word just by looking at the things that were written in it about the coming Messiah.

This information was given 500-1000 years before Jesus was born and yet each item came to pass exactly as written in the Bible. This is how God Himself tells us to identify His word, when the word comes to pass it was from Me and if it does not come to pass it was not from Me. The Bible has and continues to tell us of future events, hundreds if not thousands of years before they are to come to pass. No other book of any religion has proven it's ability to tell the future like the Bible has for thousands of years. The Bible was not written by men but was written thru men by God Himself.

Rule #2 - There is only ONE way to get to heaven. John 14:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." Notice the bible verse does not say (Jesus is A way); because that wording would mean that He is one of many ways. The Jews have one way, the Muslims have another way and the Christians have even more ways depending on the denomination. If you’re church, synagogue, or mosque tells you that there is ANOTHER way to heaven other than thru the shed blood of Jesus Christ on the cross, run don’t walk to the nearest exit and NEVER go back!

I am not trying to get you to join my church or get you to convert to my religion or get you to buy a prayer cloth or some other ridiculous item. I am warning you of the dangers of being in any false religion! No religion can save you! The only thing that matters is WHO you are trusting to get you to heaven. Galatians 3:6 "Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." Abraham was saved, given eternal life, made righteous just like we are today, he believed (trusted) God! Abraham was not a member of ANY church, he was not water baptized, he did not have any Priest or Rabbi or Imam praying over him. All he did was trust what God told him about the coming Messiah who would wash him of his sins. What we do in this age is exactly the same, Trust God by believing, trusting in the Messiah that came 2000 years ago who washes us of all our sins and we are then given the Gift of God, Eternal Life and His righteousness.

Rule #3 - Jesus is God in the flesh, the Creator of all things seen and unseen, the giver of ALL life, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father. John 14:7 "If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him" You can see in this passage Jesus is saying very clearly when you see me you have seen the Father! That’s why when Jesus (God) died on the cross to pay for our sins, we can be sure that He paid for ALL our sins past, present and future. Do you really think that you going to church every Sunday or you giving your 5, 10 or 20 dollars a week to church is going to put a dent in the vast amount of sins you have committed during your life? It won't! When you do good things in order to help yourself get into heaven it’s like spitting in Gods face!

You are basically saying that you appreciate what He did on the cross 2000 years ago, you appreciate Him suffering and dying for your sins, but just in case it's not enough to get ME to heaven here is a few of MY good works to put me over the top. Most people don't understand that God is a trinity, (3 parts in 1 God) but you can see for yourself that God IS a trinity by just reading the Old Testament for yourself with a passage like Genesis 1:26 “And God said, Let US make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness…” notice God clearly says “in OUR image” God is a triune God, God the Father = the Soul, God the Son = the Body, God the Spirit = the Spirit, but put all three together and it equals one God.

It is hard for us to understand, but when you see that we are made in His likeness it becomes a little clearer. We were created with a soul like God the Father (that’s the real you, your personality, your memories, your very essence), we also have a body like God the Son, Jesus (this is how we interact with this world, we can see, hear, feel and act upon this world whether for good or bad it's our choice), and we also have a spirit like God the Holy Spirit (this is how we communicate with God in Heaven, thru our spirit).

We really were created in his image, three separate parts (Body, soul and spirit) in one package. When you get to heaven you will not see God the Father (the soul of the trinity) like an old man with white hair and a long white beard because he is described as pure unwavering light, and you will not see the Holy Spirit either because he is an invisible spirit. What you will see is Jesus Christ who is God in the flesh. You will see the scars on his hands and feet, and the scar in his side from the spear of the roman soldier; that is how you will be able to identify God in heaven… look for the scars that he got while on this earth paying for all of your sins!!!

Rule #4 - You will never get to heaven by being good. The Bible says in Romans 3:10 "As it is written, there is none righteous, no not one." and Romans 3:23, “For ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” So if you try to get to heaven by being good and following the Ten Commandments, the Bible is guaranteeing that you will fail! All the false religions of the world teach that good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell.

The problem is that no one is reading their Bible that CLEARLY states that ALL have sinned and that there is NONE righteous no, not one. It only takes one little lie to send you to hell forever and all of us have told a lie! You must be absolutely perfect to enter heaven. The wages of sin is death (Hell). There is no forgiveness of sin without the shedding of blood. You need a blood sacrifice to pay for your life of sinning! You have no blood sacrifice and you WILL die in your sins if you continue to practice in any of the false religions of the world!

One example of a false religion is the Jewish Faith, you are indeed God’s chosen people and Jerusalem is God’s Holy City but the vast majority of Jews will go to Hell when they die because they continue to reject their Messiah Yeshua, (Jesus) the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Jesus is your blood sacrifice and if you die without trusting Him as the lamb without spot you will be the one paying for your sins in hell forever. All you need to do is read the Bible for yourself so that you can learn how to identify the Messiah when you see Him.

The Messiah must...

1. be born of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14)
2. be born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2)
3. be crucified with thieves (Isaiah 53:12)
4. be sold for 30 pieces of silver (Zechariah 11:12)
5. have His hands and feet pierced (Psalms 22:16)
6. have his clothes fought & gambled over at his death (Psalms 22:18)
7. be God Himself in the flesh (Isaiah 9:6)
8. be crucified and shed his blood to pay for our sins (Isaiah 53:6)
9. be risen from the dead (Isaiah 53:10)
10. the temple would be destroyed AFTER the Messiah had come and given His life (Daniel 9:26)

Jesus did all these things and more exactly as the Old Testament said He would. Don’t wait for your Rabbi to tell you these things because they won't, they want to keep you in the dark. I want to bring you into the light with the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Rule #5 - Your religion will not save you. Those practicing the Jewish religion will go to hell because they have no blood sacrifice to cover their sins. YOUR sins must be covered by a blood sacrifice before you die. The Jewish people have no temple and they have no priests. All these things were taken away from them by God because they rejected Him 2000 years ago when He walked into the temple that was built for Him as Jesus (Yeshua) and told them He was God.

The Jewish people of the day however loved Jesus (Yeshua) and witnessed all of His miracles and were amazed. The Jewish rulers were the ones who plotted to kill Him because he was about to make the Jewish faith obsolete. The Jewish leaders of this day are still leading their followers away from the true God who we Christians call Jesus and the Jewish people call Yeshua the Messiah. They are one in the same, God in the flesh.

Why did the Jewish rulers arrest Jesus (Yeshua) in the middle of the night? Simple, the Jewish people would not have allowed anyone to lay hold of Him during the day because they loved and worshipped Him. No other man before or after Jesus has raised a man from the dead after 4 days (Lazarus) John 11:38-45, or gave sight to a man born blind John 9:1-7, or told someone crippled 38 years to get up and he did John 5:1-9.

They rejected their Messiah Yeshua and because they did, God has blinded them to the truth and has turned to the Gentiles for the past 2000 years. Jesus is Yeshua, the God that saves His people from their sins, trust in Him and receive forgiveness for all your sins and eternal life. Read the Old Testament for yourself and see how to identify the real Messiah! Do not expect your Rabbi to tell you, because he is the one who is keeping you in darkness. Pray to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and ask him to open your eyes, so that you may see His truth, and He will answer that prayer even if He has not answered any other prayer.

Those practicing the Muslim religion will go to hell because they are following another book and are worshipping another god. The Koran is NOT the word of God nor is it holy. They do not believe that Jesus is God; they believe He is a prophet of God. Jesus said that if you do not believe that I AM you will die in your sins. John 8:24, “I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.” What He meant by that statement is that you must believe that He (Jesus) is God himself in the flesh in order for your sins to be paid for by Him.

The Muslims are worshiping the Moon god Allah, a pagan god, not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who is the real God of the Bible. It is just another religion made up in a man’s imagination and promoted by the devil, sword and gun, a false religion indeed. So many souls are being led needlessly to hell because of this false religion. I use the word led because you can go to the nearest exit of the mosque and never look back any time you want.

God will always protect the man or woman or child who is diligently searching for Him, thru war, thru famine, thru any calamity He will protect you from anything and anyone and no harm will come to you if you truly are searching for the truth. This goes for any false religion that you may be stuck in at this time. The Jewish ruler Nicodemus, was a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin and came to Jesus in the middle of the night in order to find out how to get to Heaven.

He knew if he came during the day he would be thrown out of the synagogue or worse. Do not fear the one who can kill the body, fear instead the One that can kill the soul. An Arab Woman named Ruth who came from a Muslim country made her decision known in this Bible passage. Ruth 1:16-17, “Do not urge me to leave you or return from following you,” she said. “For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. “Your people shall be my people, and your God my God...” This was a great Arab woman of the Bible and one of the great stories of the bible. Do not fear those that ARE leading you to the slaughter of Islam, leave while you still have the breath in your lungs to run to the Lord God Jesus Christ!

Those practicing the False Christian religions will go to Hell if they don’t follow Gods REAL plan of salvation as stated in the Bible. The devil knows that he can deceive many more people by having churches that look, smell, and taste like a real Christian church but are just a little bit off on doctrine. This little bit off that I am speaking of is usually adding a little bit of works to the plan of salvation.

If your church says that in order to have eternal life:

1. you need to turn away from your sin,
2. you need to give your life to Jesus,
3. you need to give money to the church,
4. you need to go to church every week,
5. you need to confess your sins to a priest,
6. you need to ask Jesus into your heart,
7. you need to be a member of our church,
8. you need to be water baptized,
9. you can lose your salvation
10. you can't know that you are saved right now

...RUN, don’t walk, to the nearest exit and never go back!!!

These are ALL false doctrines promoted by the devil and his demons!!! The god of this world is the devil and if you don’t think so just read about all the pain and suffering that is going on all over this world.

Rule #6 - Forget everything you’ve ever learned in any church if you did not personally look the information up in the Bible! I have found that over 99% of the religions being taught on this earth are wrong. I know how crazy it sounds but it is very true. That means if you have 100 churches in your town only 1 will be teaching correctly and giving you the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Bible clearly states in Matthew 7:13-14, "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat, Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." You must be looking for this narrow path that leads to Heaven.

Do you want to be in the huge group on the wide path that leads to destruction or do you want to be in the small group that has found the narrow path that is Jesus? I plan to show you that narrow path that leads to Heaven and I expect you to confirm everything I tell you by checking everything I say against what the Bible says. This is the most important decision of your life so don’t take it lightly. Some churches are way off from what the Bible teaches and some are just a little bit off. In order to get to heaven you MUST be 100% correct according to the Bible, not according to me, so please check and recheck all the information I give you against the word of God.

May God open your eyes, ears and heart to His truth, may He protect those who are truly seeking Him and His plan of salvation, and may He bless and protect this ministry and our website as we do His will of spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth. In Jesus name we pray, amen

“Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift” (2nd Corinthians 9:15)

The golden key to your salvation, eternal life is Trust, Faith, Belief. All three basically mean the same thing, To lean upon, to cast your weight upon or to TRUST. In order to receive this Gift of God, you must transfer the trust that you had in a church, synagogue, Mosque or yourself and put all your trust in Jesus Christ. The moment you do this, God in Heaven knows and He saves you now and forever.

Who do you trust right now to get you to Heaven; be honest and think about it? ALL of the false religions are telling you to put your trust in yourself or them. The Jewish person must follow a set of rules which state what they can and cannot do and what they can and cannot eat and when they can and cannot worship. If you do these things you will go to Heaven and if YOU don’t do these things you will go to Hell. That makes you the savior, not God.

I will repeat this again, it makes you the savior! The Muslim person must pray 5 times a day, they must give to the poor, and they must make a pilgrimage to Mecca if able to do so financially. They must be a good person and if so, God might show them favor and allow them into Heaven. Again, guess who the real savior is: you are, again. The false Christian must go to church every week, must give 10% of his income, must confess his sins, must be water baptized, must keep the faith all the days of his life, and live a good life.

Again he is the savior. If he is good he will go to Heaven and if he is bad he will go to Hell when he dies. ALL false religions make you the savior. This statement is very, very important! Think about the church you are in right now… what happens if you stop doing what they keep telling you to do every week. You will go to Hell. But on the other hand what happens if you do all the things that they tell you to do, you might get to Heaven.

It’s not even a sure thing when you go thru all the hoops! What you are doing is trusting in YOUR actions to get you to heaven! If you really want to know if you are going to heaven or hell just ask yourself who is MY savior. If the answer is my Church, Synagogue, Mosque, Rabbi, Priest, Buddha or yourself consider yourself toast when you die!

If on the other hand you can say:

1. I am a sinner in need of a Savior.
2. The wages of my sin is death (Hell).
3. I understand I must be perfect to enter Heaven.
4. I understand I cannot save myself.
5. I understand that Jesus made a complete payment for all my sins.
6. I trust Jesus Christ as my Savior.
7. I believe Him to be God in the flesh.
8. I believe he shed his blood & died on the cross to pay MY sins.
9. I believe he was buried and rose from the dead after three days and three nights.

...then you are saved dear reader. The moment you put your trust in Jesus Christ ALONE, God who can read your mind knows, saves YOU, makes you perfect in His eyes, and gives you the Gift of God, Eternal Life.

You do not need anyone to pray over you, or pray for you, because this is between you and God in Heaven. Because of your new trust in the shed blood of Jesus Christ you are now a child of God. Before you trusted in Jesus, God was your Creator but now and forevermore He will be your Father.

You are saved in a moment of time, because you are trusting in the true Savior now, not working your way to Heaven day by day, which is not even possible.

Once saved, you can never be lost for any reason. This is because you were born spiritually the moment you put your trust in Him. Just like your physical birth which brought you into this human world, your spiritual birth gave you a new spiritual life that is permanent. You were born-again, made righteous and holy in Gods eyes. In fact, you have the righteousness of God Himself You are sinless and perfect in God's eyes now and that's why you can enter into a perfect Heaven.

My favorite saying is: “God will not save anyone who is trying to be saved, He will only save those who are trusting to be saved.”

You MUST put ALL your trust in Jesus to be saved, trust in the blood that He shed on the cross, trust that He is God in the flesh, trust that He made the complete payment for your sins, not just part; He paid for ALL of your sins (past, present, and future)! Trust that He rose again from the dead after 3 days and 3 nights, and in return for this trust, He gives YOU Eternal Life. 

All false Christians put part of their trust in Jesus and part of their trust the Church and part of their trust in themselves. If you put 99.99% trust in Jesus and 00.01% in something else, you will go to hell. It must be 100% trust in Jesus and what He did and 0% in you or your church! This information in critical... (adding your works to Gods plan of salvation will cancel out Gods grace!) You are going to hell if it's by your works or you are going to heaven by Gods grace alone. It's as simple as that.

So I guess the question comes down to who are you trusting. Are you trusting yourself to get to heaven by being a good person and giving lots of money to your church or are you trusting Jesus, the lamb of God, that was slain for the sins of the world to get you to heaven? You receive the Gift of God (Eternal Life) as soon as you stop trusting in yourself, your church, your synagogue, your mosque, your money, or any other works and put your trust in Him and Him ALONE, Jesus Christ, Yeshua, The King of Kings, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, the Alpha and Omega, the Mighty God.

False religions are everywhere and they will find you, the one true God and His plan of salvation must be found.

If all this makes sense to you and you would like to trust Jesus as your personal Savior right now then tell the Mighty God in Heaven of your decision to trust Jesus Christ as your only hope of heaven. Tell Him that you are no longer putting your trust in your actions, or your church, or your church membership, or in your money, or in your Rabbi, or in your synagogue or your Mosque but that you are putting all of your trust in Him and the shed blood of the cross to pay your sin debt. Thank Him for doing it for you! Thank Him for giving you the Gift of Eternal Life that He paid for with His life. There is no greater deed than that of laying down your life for another.

Will you trust Jesus as your Savior right now, the one who shed His precious blood on the cross of Calvary to pay for all your sins?

Sinners Prayer:

Lord, I admit that I'm a sinner & I don't understand a whole lot about the bible, but I do believe that Jesus Christ died & paid for my sins in full, by His death & shed blood on the cross. I trust right now the He died for me, was buried & rose again from the dead and will live forever more. I trust Jesus Christ right now to save me, to be my savior, to forgive my sins & to give me the GIFT OF GOD Eternal Life. Amen

By reading this sinners prayer aloud, you are putting your trust in God and His plan of salvation. You are not saved by saying this prayer, you are saved the moment your mind made the switch from trusting in yourself to putting your COMPLETE TRUST IN JESUS CHRIST. 

That moment may have been five paragraphs up on this page or that moment may have been on another one of our pages. You will not feel any different, but you will be changed and changed for the better forever. Once you have trusted Jesus as your savior and received his gift of eternal life, this gift can NEVER be lost. You can NEVER go to hell for ANY reason. Your past, present and future sins were paid in full the moment you put your trust in Him.

You are blameless and Holy in God's eyes now and FOREVER. If you have eternal life today what kind of life will you have in five years? ETERNAL! What kind of life will you have in ten years? ETERNAL!! What kind of life will you have in 50 years? ETERNAL!!! God does not give probationary life or temporary life, His gift is ETERNAL LIFE! Thanks be to GOD!

Why be good, now that I am assured of going to heaven? Because God's law of sowing and reaping still applies to you and me. You will reap what you sow. You will reap more than you sow and you will reap later than you sow. If you drink alcohol like a fish, you will reap a diseased liver. If you smoke like a chimney everyday, you will reap lung cancer. If you rob, murder, and steal you will reap a life in prison. You will reap what you sow.

I guarantee it! Now that you are saved, when you do good things you WILL be rewarded here on earth and in Heaven. And when you do bad things you WILL lose rewards that God had planned on giving you here on earth and in Heaven. But you will NEVER lose your guarantee of going to heaven. That can never be lost for any reason!! You have God's word that your salvation can never be lost for any reason. You did not earn salvation and you do not work to keep salvation! Eternal Life, salvation, being born again, becoming a child of God, was, is, and always will be the GIFT OF GOD.

Remember: If your not saved forever, you are not saved!

Why is this true you might ask? Because if a person is not sure that they are saved TODAY, RIGHT NOW it means that they are still trying to be the savior! They can't be sure they are going to heaven because they don't know what sin's they may commit next week, next month or next year. We who have trusted in Jesus alone, can have comfort knowing that all our sins have been paid in full on the Cross of Calvary (past, present, and future sins).

Jesus has already died for my sins so I don't need to pay for any sin I have or will commit in the future because Jesus already paid the price in full with His blood. So called Christians who say that you can lose your salvation because of suicide or murder or falling away from the church don't have a clue what the Bible says and clearly have not trusted Jesus ALONE!

Biblical salvation is forsaking any other means of salvation, but Christ, and casting ourselves fully upon Him for eternal life.

This article was written by Pastor Hank Lindstrom (1940-2008).