The Holy Bible teaches that all humanity is depraved. Each and every human
being is a sinner, who has COME SHORT of God's glory. NO ONE lives up to
God's expectations. NO ONE is all that God wants them to be. NO ONE has
arrived morally. NO ONE is completely pleasing to God. That is why God sent
His only begotten Son into the world to die on a cross to pay for our sins,
so that God could offer us eternal life as a free gift. Romans 6:23, “For
the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus
Christ our Lord.”
Through Christ's body and blood sacrifice on Calvary's cross, I am able to meet all of God's expectations, attaining absolute holy perfection through God's imputed righteousness! Romans 4:5-6, “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.” Amen! Whew that's great stuff!
I don't care if you are saved or lost, NO ONE is living a life up to par to God's holy standards of perfection of their own accord. That is why the whole idea of “Lordship Salvation” is ridiculous. That is why the whole idea of turning away from sinful ways to be saved is ridiculous. NO ONE can turn from their sins. As much as I admire Evangelist Ray Comfort in many ways, I have to expose him as a deadly reprobate minister, who preaches an accursed false gospel (video). Galatians 1:8, “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.” Ray tells the confused woman on the airplane that to be saved she must turn from her sins. RAY COMFORT LIED TO HER! Here are Ray's exact accursed words to the unsaved woman:
“It's a matter of saying, 'God 'I'm sorry,' and then living a lifestyle that proves the reality of your repentance. That's what repentance is, it's a continual thing! 'God, I'm sorry, but I'm never going to lie or steal or blaspheme your name again.' It has that attitude. And the second thing is trust in Jesus!” Folks, Ray Comfort is a spiritual bastard in the pulpit!
SOURCE: Ray Comfort - YouTube title: “I've Never Killed Anyone”
Kindly, Ray Comfort is a theological IDIOT! How can such a brilliant man be so foolish? And his sidekick Kirk Cameron is just as bad. This dysfunctional Batman/Robin duo are public enemies! Anyone who goes around adding works to grace is a threat the Bible says...
Titus 1:10-13, “For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.”
What does the Bible mean by “THEY OF THE CIRCUMCISION”? It refers back to a ceremonial law which was required of male Jews in the Old Testament. Jewish men were commanded under the Mosaic law to be physically circumcised, in the foreskin of their private part. This was required eight days after birth (Philippians 3:5). Ceremonial laws were intended by God to teach the Jews spiritual lessons, in this case separation from the world. These laws were never meant to give salvation. Romans 3:19 teaches that the Mosaic laws (about 720 laws total) were intended to show men their sinnership, “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.”
Galatians 3:24-26 teaches that the law was intended to bring men to Christ to be saved by faith, “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” So the LAW shows humanity that we are depraved sinners incapable of saving ourselves, and then the law brings us to GRACE in the New Testament to be saved solely by faith in Jesus Christ.
But what happened was that the ungodly Jewish religious leaders, instead turned the law into a plan of salvation. ...
Acts 15:1, “And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.”
Do you see their error? These ungodly men came to Jerusalem, like Ray Comfort, requiring people to keep the LAW to be saved. ...
“It's a matter of saying, 'God 'I'm sorry,' and then living a lifestyle that proves the reality of your repentance. That's what repentance is, it's a continual thing! 'God, I'm sorry, but I'm never going to lie or steal or blaspheme your name again.' It has that attitude. And the second thing is trust in Jesus!”
SOURCE: Ray Comfort - YouTube title: “I've Never Killed Anyone”
Does the Bible require that you resolve in your
heart to never lie again, never steal again and never blaspheme (i.e., take
the Lord's name in vain) again, to receive the free gift of forgiveness of
sins and eternal life? What saith the Scripture? 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.” The plan of
salvation given by Jesus is very different than the one given by Ray
Comfort.
Trusting Jesus is Not the 'Second' Thing, it is the ONLY Thing Required To Be Saved
According to Ray Comfort, trusting Jesus comes second. ...
“And the second thing is trust in Jesus!”
SOURCE: Ray Comfort - YouTube title: “I've Never Killed Anyone”
Second thing? My dear friend, trusting Jesus as your personal Savior is not the second thing, it is THE ONLY THING to be saved! John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” To “trust” means to rely upon. It means to place your sole hope in Jesus Christ—the sinless Lamb of God Who became the sacrifice for your sins (and mine) upon the cross, was subsequently buried, and then bodily raised up miraculously three days later (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). Jesus said all we have to do to be saved is to simply BELIEVE that 'GOOD NEWS.'
Perhaps you ask: “Don't I need to turn from my
sins to be saved?” No! That is not part of the Gospel. You are not saved by
what you do, but by relying upon what Christ did on Calvary's cross to pay
your debt of sin. Jesus paid a debt He did not owe, because we owed a debt
we could not pay! 2nd Corinthians 5:21, “For he hath made him to be sin
for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in
him.” Thank God for the cross! Thank God for the Lamb of God! Listen,
the only requirement to be saved is to BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 16:30-31, “And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be
saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.” The phrase “AND
THY HOUSE” simply means that the invitation for salvation by faith is
extended to the whole family. Again and again, the Bible simply instructs us
to “BELIEVE” to be saved. I love that wonderful truth! Kindly, God had to
make salvation simple, so that even stupid people can be saved, because the
world is filled with stupid people. The Gospel is so simple—JUST BELIEVE!
Repentance is Simply 'a Change of Mind' Unto the Gospel Itself
Does
a person need to REPENT to be saved? Yes, of course! But the only place that
repentance has in salvation is “to
change one's mind” from whatever has been hindering you to believe the
Gospel. The object compliment (noun) of the verb repentance (metanoeo) is
'THE GOSPEL.' We repent TO believe. It is a false gospel to teach that a
person must repent AND believe, which is the heresy taught by Evangelist Tom
Ferrell. Hence, a person who is willing to trust the Savior has repented, or
else they wouldn't want to believe. ...
John 3:19-21, “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.”
Carefully notice that the issue is TRUTH, and not SINS. The phrase “HE THAT DOETH THE TRUTH” simply means that a person has acknowledged THE TRUTH of the Gospel. 2nd Timothy 2:25, “In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.” Please pay attention friend, because so many preachers get this wrong, woefully ignorant of the Scriptures. Repentance is not turning away from sinful behavior to be saved, which would effectively constitute keeping the LAW (living right). We all live wrong! We all sin every day. No one is a shining example of what a Christian should be. We've all fallen short of God's glory. False prophets abound today, just as they did in Bible times...
Galatians 2:21, “I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.”
Galatians 3:2, “This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?”
Galatians 3:11, “But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.”
Kindly,
Ray Comfort frustrates the grace of God. John MacArthur frustrates the grace
of God. Paul Washer frustrates the grace of God. We are saved by “THE
HEARING OF FAITH,” and not by the “KEEPING OF THE LAW.” Turning away from
sins to be saved is the same as keeping the law to be saved! What I showed
you earlier by Ray Comfort is pure heresy, of the Devil. Ray tries to lead
the woman on the plane to commit to never lying, stealing or blaspheming the
Lord's name again, and then she declines his very difficult and complicated
offer. To place that kind of burden upon a person—demanding that they commit
to forsake lifelong sinful bad habits to receive God's FREE GIFT—is as
Satanic as it is evil, wrong, ridiculous and unbiblical. Mr. Comfort is not
saved.
The
Gospel of John is God's Gospel tract. John 20:31, “But these are written,
that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and
that believing ye might have life through his name.”
Again we see that BELIEVING is all that is required to be saved (i.e.,
born-again). In fact, we find the word “believe” mentioned 87 times in the
Gospel of John, but the word “repent” is not mentioned even once! There is
no mention about turning away from sins, nor forsaking the world, nor making
Jesus' one's Lord, nor committing your life to God, nor following Christ,
but simply to “BELIEVE”! 1st Corinthians 1:21, “For after that in the
wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the
foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.” There it is
again... “TO SAVE THEM THAT BELIEVE”!
Beware
of false prophets who cloud the plan of salvation, making it murky,
complicating “the simplicity that is in Christ” (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4).
The simplicity that is in Christ is the Gospel. You simply BELIEVE it to
be saved. That is so simple that even a child can do it. The apostle Paul
said to the young preacher Timothy in 2nd Timothy 3:15, “And that
from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures,
which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through
faith which is in Christ Jesus.” Notice that “FROM A CHILD”
Timothy knew how to be saved from the Holy Scriptures. And here again we
learn the beautiful truth that we are saved “THROUGH FAITH WHICH IS IN
CHRIST JESUS”! What saith Pastor John MacArthur...
No matter where you go in this world, you'll
never find paradise, because you'll still be there. We are miserable
creatures as human beings. And if you are in constant chronic bodily pain as
I am, you're definitely unhappy. I am unhappy every day. The essence of
unhappiness is not being okay. But what if I am okay with being in a state
of unhappiness? Then I am okay, right? Sound crazy? I don't mind being
unhappy. When you are completely okay with being unhappy, then you'll no
longer complain about being unhappy! I do not mind being unhappy and am 100%
okay with it at age 52, but I have the joy of the Lord in my soul as a
born-again Christian, which sustains my spirit from day to day. People have
this big thing they go around moaning about called, “MY LIFE!” No my friend,
if you are saved you're life belongs to God, and CHRIST IS YOUR LIFE NOW!
