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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, and that today’s concluding message of this teaching will be a blessing to you and your family. We have to be careful of the things that we say, the words that we say, the message that we tell people because see we will have to answer to the Lord for the gospel we preach. It’s not left up to you and I to change it, to manipulate it.

And just because we see the wickedness in so many Christians lives, you can’t change the gospel message to solve the immaturity in Christians. You have to hit them with the doctrines of other things that pertain to the child of God, but salvation is totally separate. But because many preachers don’t know how to do that, they put the disciplines of discipleship with the clearness of the gospel and put it all together and give them a glass of mud that they cannot discern.

So now they don’t know if they’re really saved or not because now they have to look at these works that they do, how they live, and it produces turmoil. It produces fear. It produces terror because there’s no absolute, there’s no surety, there’s no confidence. So in this statement I have here, after salvation, your yielding to the lordship of Christ will save your life from the power of sin, but it cannot save your soul from hell. People can seek to make Christ the Lord in the master of their life and how they want to live, but that cannot save your soul from hell, impossible.

To be saved from hell, you must accept the payment he made for your sins. And that is made by you trusting in Christ and Him alone without any works of yours whatsoever. The next statement in the book of Acts in chapter 4 and verse 12, It says, neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. According to that verse, there is no Savior outside of Jesus Christ.

Christ is the Savior. You can choose whether or not to accept Him as your Savior, Accepting Him as my Savior does not make Him a Savior. He already is a Savior. I am just allowing Him to save me. But if I don’t trust Him as my Savior, He is still a Savior. That’s what He does. I am thankful that I can stand here and say, He is my Savior because He has saved me. If He has not save me, he is not my Savior.

And if he has saved me, then I cannot be seeking salvation. Those who are still seeking to be saved are saying they are not yet saved and still need to be saved. And therefore they think they have to wait till the end of their life to see if they’re going to make it or not. Salvation is a gift. Look at the next statement. belief or lack of the belief in the savorship of Jesus does not change the fact that Jesus Christ is truly the Savior.

When a man, this is a very important statement here, when a man recognizes the fact that Jesus Christ is truly the Savior. And trust him to be his Savior, then and only then does that man receive the benefits of Christ’s saving power? Outside of it there is none. You see, the new birth is a miracle. The new birth is a spiritual birth. The new birth is of God, and God has to do it. man cannot give himself a new birth.

Then it would be of the flesh by the will of man, and it is by the will of God. The next statement, Christ died and rose again for all Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 9, that Jesus Christ was made lower than the angels for the suffering of death, that He might taste death for every man, so that every man can have salvation. In 1 John chapter 2 and verse 2, it talks about how that Jesus is our propitiation. He is the satisfaction for ours and God was satisfied with the payment Christ made for our sins.

But he also says, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. So not just those who believe. He also paid for the sins of those who don’t believe. But the payment is not put to their account unless they believe it. They still must have the righteousness of God given to them as the gift in order to go to heaven. The next statement here, but he saves only those who trust him, that is to say, even though he is the Savior of the world, he saves only those in the world who personally and individually receive him by faith.

God invites whosoever will to trust in his Son, but it is an amazing truth of God’s word that men can forbid the Savior to save them. Such men die without a Savior, though one was available to them all the time, like in John 3, 16 through 18. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Christ did not come into the world to condemn the world but that the The world through Him might be saved.

And He that believeth is not condemned, but He that believeth not is condemned already, because He believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God. The last paragraph on this page, just as you receive the Savior by faith and He becomes your Savior, when you allow Christ to control your life, He becomes your Lord. He is Lord. But see, there’s a great benefit in submitting your will to His will. There are great blessings in this life by the Lord, been the master of my life.

In other words, someone who can tell me what I should and should not do. But God wants us as His children to voluntarily yield to His authority. Now you can if you want. You can rebel if you want. But to yield to Him, God will bless your life and reward you when you get to heaven. If you do not, then God is going to have to chase and then discipline. Maybe take you home before your time. But now notice, there is an increasing number of evangelicals today who are preaching that in order for a man to be saved, he must not only receive Christ as his Savior, but also must make him absolute Lord and Master of his life.

Christ is the Lord. He is the Lord Jehovah, God in the flesh, and Lord can also mean Master. And that is who he is. In Mark Chapter 12, verse 28 through 33, I want to read these verses to you, and then I want to make some comments. Because see, if Christ must be the Lord and the Master of my life, what am I actually doing with an individual? If I tell a lost man, this is what you must do in order to be saved.

Christ is not your Savior or your Lord, unless He is Lord of all. He is not Lord at all. And therefore you must make Christ the Lord and the Master of your life. That sounds so spiritual. It sounds so good. It’s just the same as telling a person. You must love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, mind, body, soul, and strength. And you must love your neighbor as thyself. I wonder why I’ve heard those before. Look in verse 28 of the book of Mark, one of the scribes came, having heard them reasoning together and perceiving that he had answered them well, ask him, which is the first commandment of all?

Jesus entered him, the first of all the commandments is here, O Israel. Lord our God is one Lord. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy.”., and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment. And the second is like namely this. Now shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these, and the scribes said unto him, well master, master? Thou hast said the truth, for there is one God, and there is none other but he, and to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself is more than all whole burn offerings and sacrifices.

Do you notice there’s a word, three little letter word, not IRS, the word all, mentioned over and over and over and over. Do you know the main thing about the Lordship salvation? He must be Lord of all, or He’s not Lord at all. Well, what does that mean? This is what it means. This is the law. When you tell a person that he must make Christ the Lord and the Master of his life, you are placing that person under the law to obey the law.

All the law. Every law. Look what he says in verse 30, and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, all thy soul, all thy mind, all thy strength. This is the first commandment. This is a commandment. So when you tell a lost man, this is what you must do. He has to be Lord of all. You’re putting that person under the law to be saved, which means that you’re telling a lost man he has to prove that he’s worthy of salvation by the commitments that he’s made, by the life that he’s lived, by the sacrifices that he’s made, all of that, all boiled together and not just between him and God, but the second commandment is likened to this.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. So it’s not just you living wholly between you and God, you must live a certain way with people. And if you don’t, you fail the law. And the penalty for breaking the law was death. And yet there’s preachers that take lost people. This is though Christ’s crucifixion, his death, burial, and resurrection had absolutely no effect, meant zero, and are trying to keep people under the law. And there’s a lot of people on radio and television that preach this dandable message.

In the little box there I wrote this. Lordship salvation is totally the keeping of the law. Lord of all or not Lord at all, which is shown to be impossible to perform. Can a man save himself by his works? No, he cannot. And yet that’s what that message… presents to the lost man. It gives them an impossibility. The next statement, he is the Savior and he is the Lord. You may or may not accept him as your Savior. You may or may not accept him as your Lord.

What you do or don’t do does not change who he is. He is who he is. that he has done what he has done. I believe that it’s a shame and a disgrace for preachers to take that wonderful sacrifice that Christ made for the sins of the world because of the love of the Father and to totally annul that sacrifices, though it has absolutely no effect, no power, it didn’t have to be done. Because if a man can serve God and earn the right to be saved.

Why did Christ have to die? Then He died in vain. There was no reason for Him to die because there was another way. And yet the Bible tells us there was no other way, and that there’s no other name under heaven. That is the exclusivity of the Son of God. There is no one else that can save except Jesus Christ in Him alone. Look at the next statement. Jesus Christ is the all-knowing, all-powerful, creator and controller of the universe.

Colossians 1-16 says, all things were created by Him and for Him. 17 adds, by him all things consist, or are held together. God led Paul to write that Jesus Christ is the blessed and only potentate the King of kings and Lord of lords. That’s who he is. The one who was crucified on Calvary was none other than the Lord of glory. And he says, if the princes of this world had known who he really was, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

That’s how blind they were. That’s why they did what they did. But what is the excuse that so-called Bible-believing teachers have for creating such a monster as to cause people to believe something that God totally is against and why Christ died because there was no other way. So just to say, you know, there’s people who believe in lordship salvation as though it’s not a big deal, it is a big deal. It’s wicked and it’s wrong and the preachers have no authority to preach such a message.

Makes me upset. Some may ask if Jesus was really Lord when men by wicked hands crucified Him. Absolutely. You mean when Jesus Christ was here and they nailed Him to a cross, He was still the Lord? Yes He was. Do you realize that because He was the Lord and He had all power and He could have done anything He wanted to do? He says, I have the power to lay my life down and to take it up again. He could have stopped anybody from doing anything.

He wasLaun in charge when they put the spirit in his sight and they put the nails in his feet. When he was crucified on the cross, he was still the Lord. He says, I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again. He is the Lord now, though some men refuse to let him rule in their lives. Certainly the Bible says, know it surely, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

Their unbelief did not change the fact about who He is or what He has done. Jesus Christ is the Lord. And the Bible says, one day, one day, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord to the glory of God the Father. Until then, understand this. Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. He is the only Savior of the world. He is the only remedy for all mankind. There is no other hope.

There is no other way. Therefore we preach Christ. We preach Christ crucified. We preach Christ crucified, dead, buried, and rose again from the dead. And that He is alive. And that He’s coming back again someday. Because we believe that, we have eternal life. We have the free gift that lasts forever. And because we have eternal life, I now have an option as far as my life goes. I can be an obedient child of God, or I can be a disobedient child of God.

But I am still a child of God. But because of who He is, and because I know what I am, I need, I need someone to direct my path. I need someone to lead me. I need someone to guide me. I need someone to protect me. And there’s only one that can do all of that. That’s the Lord. I want Jesus Christ, who is my Savior to be my Lord. I want to worship the Lord because of who He is.

He is God, and as you study the book of Revelation, it keeps making this statement. He is worthy to receive praise and honor and glory and majesty. And all these things that’s listed there. Over and over again He is worthy to be worship. He is worthy of our submission. He is worthy of our surrender. It behooves every child of God to submit His will to the will of God. Nobody can make you do that. And if you don’t, He is still Lord.

And because He He still, Lord, He still has the power, the ability to manipulate anything in this world that He wants to and bring whatever catastrophe in this world He wants to against you. And He can chasten you in such a way that you’ll never forget it. And He may even take you home before your time. So how can He do all of that? Because He is Lord. He is the Lord. And the sooner we recognize it, the better off we’ll be.

So we trust Christ as our Savior that gets us to heaven. But we’re not there yet. All rewards that are earned only because Christ was not only your Savior, but He was the Lord and the Master of your life. Look up here. This hand represents you and me. So all it represents sin, we all have sin upon us. The Bible says that God loves us. Hays what we do wrong, but He loves us. And He says for us to pay for the sin that we’ve committed is eternal separation from God in hell.

But He wants us to go to heaven, and to go to heaven we have to be perfect as righteous as God. No one is perfect. No one is righteous. No one deserves to go to heaven because of sin. The sin we commit is only because there’s a sinful nature on the inside of us. And even though you were to try to take away some of your sins that people can’t see, doesn’t change what you are. You still have a sinful nature.

So God says you cannot save yourself. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He is the Lord. He came into this world, took upon flesh. God in the flesh. no sin didn’t have to die, but because he loved us, he took all the sin of all the world upon himself and paid for it in full. Came back from the dead and said that whosoever believe it in him, believe that when he died he paid for his sins and God said, I will give to you as a freak gift ever lasting life.

So when you believe that you have eternal life, you’re going to heaven when you die. Now that I have eternal life and I know that I’m going to heaven when I die, the one who came back from the dead is still the Lord. And he still wants to tell me how to live. And he says, if I would yield my will to his will, that he would bless my life. He’d reward me when I get to heaven. You can choose to obey or you can choose to disobey.

But because he is the Lord, he is in charge and he is on the throne. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bowed and every act closed and no one looking around. If you’re here tonight or if you’re watching by internet, understand that God does, yes, He loves you. And He wants to be your Savior. He wants to save you from hell. There is no one else. There is no other way. You cannot save yourself by your good deeds. To try to make Christ the Lord and the Master of all is to place yourself under the law which no one, and over 1,500 years ever kept.

Because God says, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but by His mercy He have saved us. So if you’re here tonight and you’ve never trusted Christ as your savior, would you trust Him right now? And if you will trust Him, I’d like to know it. I’d like to have prayer for you. And so I’m gonna ask you in just a moment raise your hand. If you’ve never trusted Christ and you will do it right now, you say yes I will right now except Jesus Christ is my savior.

I’d like to know and I’d like to have prayer for you. Is there anyone all before we close? Just slip it up very quickly and put it right back down. With your head still bow in your eyes closed. Is Jesus Christ your Lord? Is He the master of your life? Maybe not in every area, because you see, growing in the Lord is yielding more and more of your life to Him in different areas of your life. And some people are struggling with that which you’ve already resolved.

And you may be struggling in some area of your life that somebody else has already got resolved. You see, everybody’s a personal walk between you and the Lord. make sure that you want to serve him. Say, Lord, this is your life. I belong to you and I want to serve you. I want to honor you with my life. Our Father, we thank you so much for all you’ve done for us, for the free gift of eternal life and free it is.

But Father, as your children, there’s so much you want us to do, not to get to heaven, but because we’re going there. You are the Lord. You are the one that wants to tell us how to live, how to think, how to talk, how to walk. And help us Father to walk in obedience to you. In Christ’s name we pray, Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold.

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