Featured Lordship Salvation VS Easy Believism

My wife and I left a church that was teaching "free grace" (also known as cheap grace). Now, grace is free, and a wonderful blessing, but what those who hold to this specific view teach is that discipleship is optional, that one can commit the most grievous sins, leave the faith and live in the world, or even simply make a profession of faith and be saved though their lives show no evidence, and they continue in their worldliness.
One of the most grievous teachings I heard was the pastor at my former church taught from 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and claimed that there was a difference between entering and inheriting the kingdom of heaven and that those mentioned in v. 9 and 10 were saved and would enter heaven, but not inherit it. It was at this point I decided that it was time for us to leave.

 

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

For my yoke is easy,

and my burden is light.

 

Casting ALL your care upon Him, for He careth for you.

for He CARETH for you.

for He careth FOR you.

 

Those are both evidences that are the result of the Holy Spirit's work in a person who is saved, my friend.
They are not things a man must do before they can be saved.

 

Read the above, and then read this:

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

Do you see any difference?

 

And thank you for posting one of his sermons that proves my point. Here is a quote from that sermon.

Repentance in the context of the new birth means turning from sin to the Savior. It is an inward response, not external activity, but its fruit will be evident in the true believer's behavior (Luke 3:8).

It is an evidence of salvation.

 

That is a succinct way that MacArthur put it "turning from sin to the savior" - it is a part of faith, that later manifests itself post-rebirth in outward acts.

 

I know. It's just funny that you bashing him for "heresy" in one thread, then a few days later starting a thread praising a movement he started in the modern church.

 

As the old saying goes, even a heretic is right twice a day.

 

I can't see that because that is not what JM preaches. Again, you take things out of context and twist things.

 

How does a spiritually dead person repent. If God allows the person to repent, even though separated from God (spiritually dead). Did the prodigal son "come to his senses?" Yes.

 

Lordship salvation is a misnomer, as ALL once saved have already Jesus established as the Lord over them, but the truth is that he seeks to have us surrender more and more of what we consider our lives to be under that dominion and reign!

We are justified and saved moment believe and receive lord Jesus, but then we start progressive sanctification, and this is where I see Lds erring, as mixing and mingling the two!

 

Already was saved and in a relationship with the father!

 

Think that both sides have a partial aspect of the full truth, as its true that one is justified and saved by faith alone, but once saved, God will expect us to mature and grow as disciples!

So free willers miss that maturity aspect, but Lds at times borders on a works salvation