2nd Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore
if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new.”
I visited the famous Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago (where Billy
Sunday was saved) as a kid hundreds
of times. My father was a Skid Row preacher and regularly preached at
PGM, taking men into the Prayer Room after the sermon to lead them to
Christ. After my father preached and prayed with the men who came
forward during the invitation, we ate lunch at the mission.
I have fond
memories of Pastor Jay Pierce. I remember that he witnessed to me as a
boy, in the dining hall at the mission. This was in the 1970's and 1980's when Harry Saulnier was the
mission's director. This was back when PGM preached the accurate Gospel of free
grace, and none of this “turn
from your sins” crap,
and follow “Jesus as the leader of your life” garbage to be saved,
that they preach today in 2020. Here is “THE
GOSPEL” in case you don't know how to be saved.
I was listening to their latest Unshackled
program today, titled: “Bill
Terrell, Part One” (program #3590 - aired in 2020). I
was disgusted as I listened to Bill's testimony. He was a career
criminal, who found religion in prison. PGM's favorite GO-TO Bible verse
is 2nd Corinthians 5:17,
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are
passed away; behold, all things are become new.” This verse simply
means that when you get born-again, the indwelling Holy Spirit now lives
inside you. Your spiritual understanding has now been opened (1st
Corinthians 2:14-16). The Comforter is now with you for the rest of your
life. Everything is new! However, this Bible verse does NOT mean that
your addictions, lusts and desire to live in wickedness is suddenly
taken away! If you listen to the 'Unshackled' program, you will hear
Bill say at 19:10 in time:
BILL - “I found a verse I like in 2nd
Corinthians 5:17, 'Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new
creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become
new.' A new creature. It's funny. I have no desire for drugs or
any of the things that controlled my life before. Could that be
what it means?
FRIEND - That's
exactly what it means!
SOURCE:
Bill Terrell, Part One
(Program
#3590 - Aired in 2020)
That is not what 2nd Corinthians 5:17
means! Getting saved doesn't mean that your desire to do drugs is
miraculously gone! That is another gospel! Getting saved is simply
receiving God's free gift of eternal life. By choosing Jesus Christ as
your Savior, this does not miraculously remove your desire to live in
sin and forsake “
the things that controlled my life.”
Pacific Garden Mission (PGM) is horribly perverting the Gospel of free
grace, presenting it to lost sinners as a lifestyle (process) that must
be lived. By teaching that getting saved requires surrendering CONTROL
of your life over to Christ, PGM has added Lordship to God's plan of
salvation. That is another gospel!
I am so sick and tired of professed
Christians using oxymora (plural of oxymoron) to present the Gospel.
An oxymoron is
use of conflicting words or concepts. For example: “hot ice.” I like to use the plural of the
word, “oxymorons.” A
few moments later in the program, Bill calls his Mom from prison to tell
her, “I
turned my life over to Jesus!”
That is discipleship, not the free gift of eternal life. PGM peddles
Christianity as a life-changing experience, mandating reformation to be
saved. That is where they go theologically astray. Certainly the Gospel
is the answer to the world's problem. Only by becoming a born-again Christian
can a person begin to
transform as their mind is renewed by the inspired Word of God (Romans
12:1-2)
1st Peter 2:2 , “As newborn babes,
desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:”
It is just as ridiculous to expect a newborn Christian to turn from
their sins, and change immediately, as it would be to expect a newborn
human baby to walk or run a marathon. Sanctification merely begins at
the receipt of eternal life, and takes a lifetime to develop. For
someone who has come out of a terrible life of sin, their life may never
change to the point where they live above reproach (i.e., they will
continue in open sin). It is dangerous what Pacific Garden Mission is
preaching, because it emphasizes change rather than the grace
of God by which salvation is made possible. Eternal life is a free
gift, which does NOT require your willingness to reform, turn from sins,
change your lifestyle, nor make full surrender to Christ as the “Lord”
(Master) of your life. You don't make Jesus Lord, HE IS LORD!!! The
moment you get saved, Jesus is your Lord, whether you accept Him as such
or not. Thankfully, God only expects for us to receive Jesus as our
Savior to be saved (1st Timothy 4:10). To preach anything else is to
pervert God's grace (Galatians 3:2).
We absolutely need to keep discipleship
and salvation separate from one another, otherwise we are effectively
requiring people to keep the law to be saved. Romans 3:20 says that no
one can be justified by keeping the law (i.e., works). 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.” God does not
accept works for salvation. The Bible calls these “DEAD WORKS”
(Hebrews 6:1). DEAD WORKS include both GOOD WORKS and BAD WORKS. We
don't get saved by doing good works, nor by giving up bad works!
Salvation is without works!!!
In the same program I just mentioned from
'Unshackled,' Bill's friend tells him: “Yes,
I knew there was something different about you. Praise God! It will
change your life.” This is
the idea that Pacific Garden Mission pounds into people's minds, that
giving your life to Jesus will change your life. This is the heresy of
Lordship Salvation (aka,, Calvinism), and not the Gospel of free grace!
'Unshackled's Wacky Theology And Damnable False Gospel
The story is about a man named Doug Ehrhardt (Program
#3613 - Aired in 2020). After
going through drug rehab, Doug returns to his job and looks for “The
Jesus People.” He finds Barry, who advises him at 22:59 time in the
program that he will someday stand before “The Great White Throne Of
Judgment.” That
is not true. The Great White Throne Of Judgment is only for the unsaved
(Revelation 20:12-15). PGM's theology is not very good at all.
Barry tells Doug that everyone will one
day be divided between the sheep and the goats. Again, PGM horribly
misinterprets the Bible. “The
Judgment Of The Nations” (Matthew
25:32-33) will happen at the end of the 7-year Tribulation period, when
Jesus Christ returns at His Second Coming. Only those people who have
survived the Tribulation will be judged at this time, not everyone. This
event has nothing to do with The Great White Throne Judgment, which
happen 1,000 years later! Only the unsaved will appear at The Great
White Throne Judgment, to be judged and sentenced to the eternal Lake of
Fire. PGM is really off in their theology!!!
“You see what happened here, right
Doug. God has given you a second chance. And you better get this
right, 'cause one day it's gonna be just you, stand before a Great
White Throne in front of the Lord. And on that day, just like the
Bible says, before Him shall be gathered all nations. And he shall
separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep
from the goats. And He shall set
the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. The sheep
(those are the ones who receive Jesus in their heart), they follow
Him and they go right on into Heaven. The goats live a life of
sin, like you; they follow their own way, and you know where they
go, Doug? They go to Hell? Now I'm telling it to you
straight, no sugar coating. So you tell me, what's it gonna to be?
You gonna be a sheep or a goat?” [emphasis added]
Dear reader, that is another gospel of self-righteousness! You don't go
to Hell because you live in sin! You go to Hell because you reject the
free gift of eternal life through faith alone in Jesus Christ. At 24:59
in the program, Doug heretically says:
“I
repented of all my sins, all my past! And I believed in Jesus, to be the
leader of my life!” —Doug
Ehrhardt (Program
#3613 - Aired in 2020)
That is a counterfeit gospel! That is not
what the inspired Word of God teaches. Sadly, religious reprobates have
taken control over Pacific Garden Mission, who are not saved. Harry
Saulnier NEVER would have allowed this garbage theology to be taught on
'Unshackled.' No one has ever repented of all their sins! You cannot
show me anywhere in the Scriptures that requires a person to repent from
their sins, or turn from their sins, to be saved. That is the garbage
that Pastor Marty Herron and Dr. Steve Pettit teach, and the unsaved Dr.
John MacArthur crowd teaches, not the inspired Holy Bible!!!
'Unshackled' is theologically confusing at
best! I am saddened that all of their hard work at PGM and 'Unshackled,'
literally tens of thousands of hours over recent decades, is mostly in
vain. Galatians
5:4, “Christ
is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the
law; ye are fallen from grace.” The
dear folks at Pacific Garden Mission are fallen from grace, because they
add reformation to the grace of God. They are not merely off a bit in
the their doctrinal teachings, they are preaching ANOTHER GOSPEL!!! ...
2nd Corinthians 11:3-4, “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. For if he
that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or
if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another
gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.”
Who hath bewitched you Oh Pacific Garden Mission? (Galatians 3:1-3).
Their 'Unshackled' programs are filled with junk theology, preaching the
counterfeit gospel of Lordship Salvation. The idea that a person must
turn away from their sinful behavior to be saved is human reformation,
not the Gospel of free grace. Eternal life is the free gift of God,
obtained by faith alone. Mark
7:9, “And
he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye
may keep your own tradition.” Satan
has crept into most churches, missions, Bible colleges and religious
institutions today, preaching a counterfeit gospel of partial faith in
Christ plus works!
Arthur Valder's False Gospel
In another 'Unshackled' program about Arthur Valder (program #3615 -
aired in 2020), Arthur says at 17:18 time in the presentation that
he needs Jesus in his life. In the conversation that follows with
his friend Norm, we hear more junk theology. At 20:15 in the
program, Arthur's friend Norm advises him: “When we come to Christ,
we have to do our best to make a mends when we have wronged people!”
That is another gospel. PGM horribly fails to make a clear
distinction between discipleship and salvation. No, we don't have to
do penitence (righting our wrongs) to be saved. Salvation is not
penance (sorrow for sins). It is not reformation (turning for sins).
Salvation is a new birth, by REGENERATION!!! Jesus said in
John
3:7, “YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN”!!!
Here are some excellent helpful quotes, showing the incompatibility
between Lordship Salvation and the Gospel Of Free Grace:
"It is an inexcusable error to confront sinners with
problems that concern the Christian life and call upon them
to make promises regarding them. An unsaved person is never
called upon to surrender himself to God. The saving act is
in no instance represented as our 'giving ourselves to God';
it is, on the contrary, taking His Son as our Savior."
—Ryrie, Charles. Balancing the Christian Life. Moody Press,
Inc., 1969 (p. 170).
"The second approach finds faith in the
gospel alone an 'easy Believism' and seeks to add something
to faith in order to accomplish salvation. To repent is to
'change one's mind,' and to believe is to remove one's trust
from that in which it has rested and place it in Christ."
Howard, William. "Is Faith Enough to Save?" —Bibliotheca
Sacra. January-March, 1942 (p.99).
"This kind of faith is not 'easy believism'. It is not easy
to say, 'I can't save myself, I must recognize that there is
something wrong with me, and I must seek help from someone
else.'" —Hook, H. Phillip. "A Biblical Definition of Saving
Faith." Bibliotheca Sacra. April-June, 1964 (p. 133, 138).
"Eternal life is free. Discipleship is immeasurably hard.
The former is attained by faith alone, the latter by a faith
that works... the former brings with it the righteousness of
God so that a man is 'justified freely by his grace' (Romans
3:24). The latter develops a personal righteousness, based
on good deeds, so that a man was also 'justified by works'
(James 2:24). The former constituted the believer God's
workmanship, the latter fulfilled the wonderful purpose for
which he had been created. The former cost man nothing, the
latter could cost him everything, including life itself."
—Hodges, Zane C. The Hungry Inherit. Moody Press, Inc., 1972
(p. 114, 115).
"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." —DeHaan, M.
R. Hebrews. Zondervan Publishing House, 1959 (p. 117).
"For the unregenerate man, repentance is the
change of mind whereby he turns from unbelief to faith in
the person and work of Jesus Christ." Post, Roger. "The
Meanings of the Words Translated 'Repent' and 'Repentance'
in the New Testament." —Master's Thesis, Wheaton College,
June 1972 (p. 80).
"There are those who, in their zeal to get people to turn
from their sinful ways and receive the Lord, almost put
repentance on a par with believing... Repentance, as it
relates to Christ, means to change our minds about Him, who
He is and what He's done to provide forgiveness and
deliverance from our sins. When we place faith in Jesus as
having taken our place personally on the cross and borne the
penalty due our sins, then we're automatically repenting,
because we couldn't accept Him in this way without having
had to change our minds in some way concerning Him."
—Lindsey, Hal. The Liberation of Planet Earth. Zondervan
Publishing House, 1974 (p. 136, 137).
"Discipleship is frequently equated with salvation and often
erroneously made a condition for becoming a Christian".
—Pentecost, J. Dwight. Design for Discipleship. Zondervan
Publishing House, 1971 (p. 11).
"Certainly discipleship is a most important aspect of our
relation to Christ, but it belongs to the sphere of
Christian life rather than entrance upon that life... One
does not become a disciple in order to become a Christian,
but because he has become a Christian by faith in the
Savior, it is fitting that he embark upon a life of
discipleship". —Harrison, Everett F. "Must Christ be Lord to
Be Savior?-No." Eternity, September 1959 (p. 14).
"There is no more piously subtle abrogation of the Gospel
than to tell a Sinner that he must not only believe in the
Savior, but dedicate himself to do God's will, crown the
Savior Lord of his life, etc., etc. Obviously, dedication
and service are highly desirable, but they are the privilege
and the duty of the saved, never a condition of salvation
for the unsaved (cf. Romans 12:1, 2)." —Unger, Merrill F.
God is Waiting to Meet You. Moody Press, 1975 (p. 117, 118).
"People are sometimes led to believe that there is saving
value in some public confession of Christ, or profession of
a decision. "With the heart man believeth unto
righteousness." This is salvation. "With the mouth
confession is made unto salvation." This is the voice of the
newborn child speaking to and of its father. The only
condition on which one may be saved is to believe." —Chafer,
Lewis Sperry. Salvation. Dunham Publishing Company, 1917 (p.
46).
Have you been deceived by Calvinism? It is commonly known today as
“Lordship Salvation”! This is not the Gospel dear friend. You don't
trust Jesus as your Lord or King to go to Heaven, you simply trust
Him only as your personal Savior!!!
Unshackled's GO TO Bible verse is
2nd Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new
creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
Carefully notice that this person is already “IN CHRIST.” Like so many
false prophets today, Pacific Garden Mission tampers with the Gospel in a
sinful attempt to force people to reform! Committing to turning away from
sins, or surrendering all to Christ as the leader of your life, or making
Jesus your “Lord,” has nothing to do with receiving the free gift of eternal
life. When well-meaning sincere men change the Gospel to accommodate their
agenda to change lives, they have perverted God's grace! Christ died for the
ungodly. Romans 5:6-8, “For when we were yet without strength, in due
time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man
will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us.”
Romans 4:5, “But to him that worketh
not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is
counted for righteousness.” Jesus only justifies the UNGODLY, not the
self-righteous! I am so sick and tired of preachers and Bible professors
corrupting the Gospel in an attempt to force people to change. That is not
how God's plan of salvation works! When you get saved, the lifelong process
of sanctification (becoming Christlike) begins. It is not my place nor yours
to decide where a believer is at on their sanctification journey. Religious
people are dangerous!!! The gift of eternal life is simply received. The
sanctification process is God's department alone.
Anyone who tells you that
you must work at sanctification to make sure you are really saved, is a
lying false prophet!!! You simply accept God's free gift of eternal life,
and then it is a done deal. You CAN know that you are absolutely saved,
eternally secure, and safe in the arms of the Father, by faith alone. In
fact, you CAN choose to continue living in sins, and still KNOW 100% that
you are saved and have eternal life! Anyone who teaches otherwise is NOT
saved!!! Either your saved forever or else you are not saved at all. God
doesn't give temporary life or probationary life, He only gives a person
eternal life, by faith alone!!!
Eternal Security
BELIEVE “THE GOSPEL” 2B SAVED!
Confession Is Never A Requirement For Salvation
'The Gospel' In
Just One Minute
(by Pastor Max D. Younce)
John 3:16, “For God
so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
“As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner
by
which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.”
—Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Another Gospel Which Is Not
Another (a red-hot MP3 by
Dr.
Curtis Hutson exposing Lordship Salvation)
Psalm 34:8, “O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that
trusteth in him.”
“If you have to look at
your life to prove that you are saved, it proves that you're not!”
—Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold; an excellent quote from
the awesome YouTube sermon titled, “Why
Lordship Salvation is WRONG! |
MP3.”
