Pastor John MacArthur is an alumni of Bob Jones University (BJU). BJU has
gone apostate, today
teaching a Satanic
counterfeit gospel of being willing to “turn away from sins” to be saved!
Nowhere in the Word of God are we taught to turn away from our sins (nor to
be willing to turn away from our sins) to be saved! John MacArthur is their
hero at BJU today, and at the apostate Harvest Baptist Church (HBC) on Guam
who promote his false teachings! Also, Faith Baptist Bible College And
Theological Cemetery in Iowa teaches this Satanic garbage, where the former
HBC pastor of Harvest fled. A coward's face is the back of someone's head as
they run away from a battle!
I recently heard Dr. John F. MacArthur Jr., speaking on the radio (his sermon tape,
'The Call To Repentance'). Dr. MacArthur quoted and
misrepresented Pastor Harry A. Ironside
(1876-1951) in an
attempt to support his damnable heresy of Lordship Salvation. MacArthur states:
Let
me
quote from the book he wrote entitled 'Except Ye Repent.' He was a
champion for repentance and rightly so. He wrote this, “The doctrine of
repentance is the missing note in many otherwise orthodox and
fundamentally sound circles today.” This is not a new battle. This is an
old battle. People today are preaching a gospel that says, “Well, look,
just believe, don't worry about your sin, don't worry about your past,
just believe and that will all come later.”
Ironside fought that battle in 1937.
Further he said this, he
spoke of, quote: “Professed preachers of grace who like the antinomians
of old decry the necessity of repentance lest it seem to invalidate the
freedom of grace and that was the core issue.” There were
some who said if you call for repentance you're invalidating the freedom
of grace and grace is so gracious and so free you don't have to do
anything but just believe. Ironside recognized in his day the dangers of
an insipient easy believism.
SOURCE:
'The Call to Repentance' - Dr. John MacArthur
John MacArthur deceitfully picks and chooses
quotes by great men, twisting their words, in a malicious attempt to
support his false teachings. This has been the deceitful, lying tactic
incorporated by the entire Lordship Salvation crowd. However it shows the
fatal flaw and weakness of their perverted theology. They cannot use the
Bible, so as a secondary authority, “great men of the past” are being
erected as straw-men to bolster their false gospel. Pastor Harry Ironside DIDN'T teach Lordship
Salvation, as Mr. MacArthur wickedly claims, he simply taught that Biblical repentance was necessary for
salvation, which is evidenced in the following precious quote by Pastor Ironside:
“Repentance is the very
opposite of meritorious experience. It is the confession that one is
utterly without merit, and if he is ever saved at all it can only be
through the merits of our Lord Jesus Christ, 'who gave himself a ransom
for all.' Here is firm footing for the soul who realizes that all
self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our
salvation.” —Harry A. Ironside;
Except Ye Repent, pg. 36
Clearly, Dr. Ironside taught a free grace view
of the Gospel, and not the damnable heresy of Lordship Salvation.
Completely contrary to what Mr. MacArthur implied, that Dr. Ironside
taught turning from sins to be saved; in fact, Pastor Ironside just
said: “Repentance is the very oppossite of meritorious experience.” False prophets like John MacArthur take excerpts carefully chosen from
archived sermons, twisting them out of context, well
suited with the error of Balaam, to deceive the Church. So now we have Satan’s
new gospel (actually the same old lie) for our modern day.
These men are motivated by the flesh, so it is not strange they will use the
sins of the flesh (lying) to exalt the flesh. Sadly, they believe that they
are spiritual! They do not fully understand true GRACE and Christ’s imputed
righteousness. How can a person truly be saved and follow the perverted
gospel of Lordship Salvation? There are really only TWO religions in
the world—salvation by human works or by God's Grace alone.
It is
apparent to me that ministers like Ray Comfort, Paul Washer and John
MacArthur are all trying to maintain a middle-of-the-road
position on the issue of Free Grace versus Lordship Salvation.
Pastor John MacArthur is clearly the modern-day godfather of Lordship Salvation,
as was Charles Finney (1792-1875) and John Calvin (1509-1564) before him. The
Bible teaches Free Grace. Eternal life is obtained by receiving, not giving.
Salvation is a TAKE proposition, not a GIVE proposition. And if that's not
plain enough for you to see, that Pastor Harry Ironside didn't believe in
the meritorious type of turning from sins that Dr. MacArthur
heretical teaches, then please read this quote from Dr. 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.”
[emphasis added]
—Harry A. Ironside, from the sermon:
What
Is The Gospel?
Do you see what a stinking, dirty, rotten LIAR,
John MacArthur is theologically? Harry Ironside absolutely did NOT
believe a person needed to turn from their sins to be born-again. Yet,
that is exactly what evil accusation Mr. MacArthur lays at his doorstep.
That is bearing false witness! That is damaging slander against a godly
man, who is now in Heaven!
John MacArthur teaches you MUST give up your sins to be saved!!!
These two men are diametrically opposed to each other on God's plan of
salvation!!! Yet, as false prophets always do, Mr. MacArthur sinfully
attempts to attribute his ungodly reprobate 'Lordship Salvation' heresy
to Harry Ironside! Woe unto John MacArthur!!! Woe!!! Some dirty
scoundrels did the same evil thing to
Evangelist Alexander Marshall (1846-1928).
I highly suggest that John MacArthur
actually read Dr. Ironside's books before making any more naive quotes,
because he's really making a fool out of himself. I'm not trying to be
unkind, but MacArthur is trying to make a case where there is NONE; and
moreover, he is slandering a godly man who had the Gospel correct! Dr.
Harry Ironside was right on the Gospel; Mr. MacArthur is wrong on it,
because he is wrong on repentance!!!
Read what else Dr. Ironside said in his
doctrinally sound Gospel
tract, '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.”
—Harry
A. Ironside, from the Gospel tract, 'Another
Gospel?'
In your face John MacArthur! Harry Ironside just
contradicted everything MacArthur teaches concerning salvation. In sharp
contrast to Harry Ironside, here are
some of MacArthur's foolish
unbiblical
teachings from his book, 'The Gospel According to Jesus' (Zondervan
1988). In MacArthur's own perverted words, he states:
Saving faith is
“unconditional surrender, a complete resignation of self and
absolute submission” (page 153).
“Salvation is for those who are
willing to forsake everything” (page 78).
“Saving faith is a commitment to
leave sin and follow Jesus Christ at all costs. Jesus takes no one
unwilling to come on those terms” (page 87).
“Eternal life brings immediate
death to self” (page 140).
Are these statements true? Absolutely not, but
Bob Jones University says they are! Read again
the preceding quotes I shared with you from Dr. Harry Ironside. These
two men are diametrically opposed to each other theologically on the
subject of Biblical repentance and salvation. John
MacArthur is of the Devil and his Calvinistic doctrines are demonic!!!
Shame are BJU for supporting this garbage. Dr. Steve Petite is a
dangerous man theologically! There is no
way possible to reconcile the beliefs of Harry Ironside with those of
John MacArthur, and only a wicked person would even dare to try. MacArthur clearly
teaches that no one can be saved unless they are willing to
UNCONDITIONALLY SURRENDER and FORSAKE EVERYTHING. If you didn't visit
the link I provided earlier, please do so now, where John MacArthur adds
7 unbiblical
requirements to the Gospel to be saved. This is not what the
Word of God teaches.
Conclusion Of The Matter
Clearly, Ironside taught a Free Grace view
of the Gospel. Dr. Ironside correctly recognized repentance as the
confession that "one is utterly without merit" and that if one is “ever
saved at all it can only be through the merits of our Lord Jesus
Christ.” Salvation is without works of self-righteousness. Romans 4:5 plainly teaches that a man's faith is COUNTED for
righteousness, i.e., the righteousness of Jesus Christ is imputed to
one's heavenly record by faith.
Many
pastors and theologians fail to grasp that a changed life is not the
result of manmade repentance; but rather, the “fruit” of the indwelling
Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:21-22-23). We don't repent AND believe, we
repent TO believe!!! Any changes in the believer's life are the fruit of
the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-25), and not self-reformation
as a requirement to be saved. Romans 3:20, “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.”
One of my favorite quotes is from
Evangelist Alexander Marshall (1846-1928), who correctly taught the
Biblical meaning of repentance unto salvation as “a change of mind”...
“I HAVE NOT REPENTED ENOUGH”
What do you mean? “I am not
sorry enough for my sins.”
And if you were very sorry,
would God be more willing to save you than He is now? “I think so.”
Then you are completely
mistaken.
“But does it not say, unless we
repent we shall perish?”
Yes; but what do you think is
the Scriptural significance of “repentance”? If you say “sorrow for sin” you
are wrong. It does not mean sorrow for sin: it means a CHANGE OF MIND
(Matt. 21:29). This change will doubtless produce sorrow; but sorrow
and repentance are two very different things (Heb. 12:17. margin, and
II Cor. 7:9). When God calls on you to “repent, and believe the Gospel,” He
wishes you to lay aside your wrong thoughts, and believe the glad tidings that
He proclaims to you. Formerly you may have imagined that you were required to
feel very sorry before being saved. Change your mind. You may
have supposed you must first “feel” some great change in order to know
you were saved. Change your mind. First believe in God's great love
to you, as revealed in His gospel, and you will KNOW that you have eternal
life (John 5:24).
SOURCE:
The Horrible Misrepresentation of Evangelist Alexander Marshall
Yes, that is
excellent. Brother Marshall is 100% correct! Don't miss it! Biblical
“repentance” is the Greek noun, metanoia, which means, “a change of
mind.” Or in the beautiful words of Alexander Marshall, God wishes for us
“TO LAY ASIDE YOUR WRONG THOUGHTS, AND BELIEVE THE GLAD TIDINGS THAT HE
PROCLAIMS TO YOU.” Boy that's good stuff! This is true repentance unto
salvation, which is a change of mind unto the Gospel itself. For a wonderful
explanation of Biblical repentance, please read “THE
GREAT MEANING OF 'METANOIA.'” Amen!
Repentance means,
“TO LAY ASIDE YOUR WRONG THOUGHTS, AND BELIEVE THE GLAD TIDINGS (GOSPEL) THAT HE
PROCLAIMS TO YOU.” Dr. Lawson wrongly understands repentance to mean
“remorse, sorrow for past sins, turning away from sin.” This is the modern
definition found in an English dictionary, but it is NOT the Greek Biblical
meaning. The English dictionary has been influenced by the apostate Roman
Catholic church.
Pastor Harry
Ironside understood that a plan of salvation which fails to include an
admission of sinnership is a false Gospel. No man has ever been saved who
didn't admit that he is a sinner in God's sight. Yet, he also understood that
Biblical repentance unto salvation simply means “a change of mind,” laying
aside one's wrong thoughts to embrace the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Either extreme is heresy! A person absolutely must acknowledge that they are a
guilty sinner in God's eyes to be saved, which is the purpose for which God
gave His law to man (Galatians 3:24-26). Romans 3:19, “Now we know that
what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law:
that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become
guilty before God.” My friend, if you see yourself a guilty sinner in the eyes of a holy God, and you receive Christ's
sacrifice on the cross as full-payment for your sins, believing that Jesus
was buried and bodily raised up three days later—YOU ARE BORN AGAIN!
This is the
'THE GOSPEL'
(GOOD NEWS), which is our only hope for obtaining forgiveness of sins
and eternal life. Do you believe?
