You Don't Have To Be Willing To Give Up Anything To Be Saved

Titus 2:11-15 “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.”

Jesus gave His life on the cross to pay for your sins, He doesn't demand that you meet Him half way. He doesn't demand that you give up your sins or follow Him as “Lord” to receive His free gift of eternal life. All God requires is for you to believe that Jesus did it all for you. That's it!

I cannot warn you enough to RUN from today's corrupt Baptist churches (or any so-called church) that requires you to first be willing to forsake your sinful bad habits to get to Heaven. That is a works-based plan of salvation (damnation), not Bible salvation. For example: Here is a quote from their Statement of Faith at the Baptist Christian Church in Royal Center Indiana...

We believe that repentance is a change of mind and purpose toward God brought about by the Holy Spirit. Repentance is characterized by godly sorrow for sin which is offensive to God and destructive to the soul. True repentance is inseparably related to true faith causing one to purposely turn away from sin and move instead toward God as an act of faith. (Luke 13:1-3; Luke 15:7; Acts 8:22; Acts 20:21; Romans 2:4; 2 Corinthians 7:10) SOURCE

There are THREE major heresies in the preceding Statement of Faith:

1. Repentance means a change of mind, period. Nowhere in the Bible do we learn that repentance also includes a change of purpose toward God. Wicked people added those extra words to God's Word (Proverbs 30:5-6).
2. Nowhere does the inspired Word of God require someone feel sorry for their sins to get to Heaven. I triple-dog dare you to show me where the Bible says that! When the Apostle Paul mentioned godly sorrow in his second epistle to the church at Corinth he was addressing saved Christians, not the lost.
3. Nowhere does the inspired Holy Bible teach that we must turn from our sins to get to Heaven. In sharp contrast, Jesus died on the cross to pay for our sins. He does not require that we be willing to forsake a lifestyle of sinning to be saved.

Do you see how bad churches today wrest the inspired Word of God, teaching false doctrines which poison men's souls and damn them to the Lake of Fire forever? Dear reader, you don't have to be willing to give up anything to be saved, Jesus gave up His life for you on the cross. 

All you need to do to be saved is simply come to God by faith as a needy sinner. “By faith” I mean to just take God at His promises as recorded in the written Holy Bible. If you'll simply receive Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full payment for your sins, believing that Jesus died, was buried and physically resurrected three days later, you will be instantly and forever born again (saved). This is the Gospel as recorded in the Bible...

1st Corinthians 15:1-4, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”

That is the official “Gospel,” which means, “Good News”:

1. Jesus DIED for our sins on a cross
2. Jesus was BURIED.
3. Jesus RESURRECTED three days later.

If anybody SUBTRACTS or ADDS to the Gospel, he or she is preaching another Gospel. The only thing that you need to know to BELIEVE THE GOSPEL is why you need to be saved, which is because you and I are guilty sinners, and the penalty for our sins is eternal damnation in Hell's fire and brimstone (Romans 3:19-20; Revelation 20:11-15, 21:8).

NO ONE has ever been saved who refused to admit that he or she is a SINNER (1st John 1:8-10).

One of my favorite historical preachers was Pastor Harry Ironside (1876-1951), who made this excellent observation concerning the Gospel...

“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.”

SOURCE: Harry A. Ironside, from the sermon: 'What Is The Gospel?'

Amen and amen! I encourage you to read Pastor Ironside's Gospel tract, 'What Is The Gospel?' Please don't allow any false prophet, who is really a wolf in pastor's clothing, to take you to Hell forever with himself. Jesus paid your debt of sin through Calvary's cross. He raised up from the dead and ascended into Heaven. Jesus sprinkled His literal liquid blood upon the heavenly Mercy Seat in the presence of His Father (Hebrews 9:12, 22-24; 12:24). All you have to do to be saved is to BELIEVE that Jesus did it all for you!

Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do. Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith. Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty! Turning away from sinful ways would be a work. Faith puts all of the merit where it belongs, on the object of our faith, Jesus and His work. If to “repent” means to forsake our sinful ways TO BE SAVED, but Jesus already paid for our sins by dying on the cross, then what are we repenting from? The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.

And remember, In Jonah 3:10 God repented, that is, He changed His mind not to destroy the people of Nineveh. If repentance means to turn from your sins, then how could God repent, since He is incapable of sinning? Tragically, many Baptist preachers (pastors and clergy) today are bold-faced theological LIARS! They are mere fools parroting and regurgitating the things that they've heard other fools saying, propagating the lies. This is why the inspired Word of God exhorts every believer to SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES (John 5:39; Acts 17:10-11), so that we may RIGHTLY DIVIDE the Word of Truth (2nd Timothy 2:15).

No one has ever turned from his or her sins. The very idea is preposterous! That is why Jesus Christ had to die on a cross to pay our massive debt of sin, so that we wouldn't have to burn in the fires of Hell forever to pay for our own sins. You may clean up your life superficially, so that you cleverly hide your sins from others (living above reproach), but God still sees your sins. No human being has ever achieved sinless perfection (Romans 3:10-23). Jesus was the only person who was completely without sin (Hebrews 4:15). Jesus is the sinless Lamb of God (John 1:29).

God freely offers the gift of eternal life to anyone who wants it. You need not give up anything to receive it. Just come to God as a needy sinner and take His gift by faith, by simply BELIEVING the Good News of Jesus crucified, buried and risen the third day. There is nothing else that you need to do, nor that you are allowed to do, to get to Heaven.

Jesus Is The Good Shepherd

𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘄 𝟵:𝟯𝟲, “𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝘀, 𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺, 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱, 𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗱.”

The Simple Gospel

Where Could I Go But To The Lord?

“Where Could I Go But To The Lord?” is a wonderful enduring Gospel hymn written in 1940 by James Buchanan (aka, J.B.) Coats (1901-1961). Thank God for this dear saint. Brother Coats was born on April 6, 1901 in Summerland, Mississippi. By the time he was fourteen years old, J.B. was teaching music classes and leading evangelistic singings.

Where Could I Go But To The Lord

As the true story goes, Mr. Buchanan was inspired by a dying neighbor, an elderly African-American man named, Joe Keyes. Mr. Coats asked the old man if he knew where he would spend eternity and the neighbor kindly replied: “Where could I go but to the Lord?” Several years later while teaching at a singing school, J.B. remembered those prolific words and wrote this time enduring classic hymn, which is still cherished today by the Christian world. Thank you J.B.!

The $64,000 question reminds us that—whether we are riddled with life's problems, enjoying a beautiful day, suffering through a hellish nightmare that won't seem to ever end, or making our final journey home to be with the Lord—there is nowhere else to turn except to the dear Lord. I have been there more times than I care to remember, when the only direction I could look was UP. Psalms 142:4, “I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.” Please notice David's immortal words, “refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.” I know that helpless lonely feeling, where there is nowhere to turn for help at a dire criticial moment in one's life. At those perilous times, all I could do was humble myself in lowly prayer before the throne of God in Heaven, and plead for His mercy to find grace to help in time of need (Hebrews 4:14-16).

J.B. Coats wrote numerous songs including “A Wonderful Place,” “I’m Winging My Way Back Home,” “Where There Is Love” and “Tomorrow May Mean Goodbye.” This dear saint of God graduated to Heaven on December 15, 1961.

Lyrics

Living below in this old sinful world
Hardly a comfort can afford
Striving alone to face temptation so
Now won't you tell me

Where could I go but to the Lord
Where could I go oh where could I go
Seeking the refuge for my soul
Needing a friend to save me in the end
Won't you tell me
Where could I go but to the Lord

Life here is grand with friends I love so dear
Comfort I get from God's own word
Yet when I face that chilling hand of death
Won't you tell me
Where could I go but to the Lord

Where could I go but to the Lord
Where could I go oh where could I go
Seeking the refuge for my soul
Needing a friend to save me in the end
Won't you tell me
Where could I go but to the Lord

Amen and amen! I cherish this classic hymn of the Christian faith.

“𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁.” —𝗘𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗳𝗳

God Never Gives Up On Anybody Being Saved

2nd Peter 3:9, “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”

Part of my website ministry as a Baptist preacher for the past 22 years, since 2002, has been to refute false teachers on the internet. As you can imagine, this has been a full-time job in my ministry. Most people are proud and stubborn, so religiously indoctrinated that no one can change their views. This is why I have often said, that the hardest part about getting somebody saved is first getting them lost. Proverbs 26:12, “Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.”

For this blog I want to do something different than usual. I'm going to share with you an actual unedited Facebook debate that I had today with a fella, who insisted that God gives up on sinners. It all started with the following meme that I uploaded in a new post. ...

CARLOS: When God gives unsaved people who repeatedly reject Him to reprobate minds like Romans 1:21-32 proclaims that's when God permanently rejects them that they are doomed for hell with no hope of salvation ALL BEFORE PHYSICALLY DYING.

ME: Kindly, I totally disagree with that teaching. Pastor Steven Anderson is guilty of hating sinners with his unbiblical rubbish (aka, his infamous "Reprobate Doctrine"). He errantly teaches from Romans 1 that God gives up on someone ever being saved. That is not true doctrine.

Nowhere does the Bible say in Romans 1 that God gives up on a lost sinner ever being saved. The Bible says God gives them over to their uncleanliness to dishonor their bodies between themselves. 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝟭:𝟮𝟰-𝟮𝟱, “𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗴𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀, 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘀: 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿, 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿. 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗻.” 2nd Peter 3:9 plainly teaches that God is not willing for ANY man to perish. As long as a human being is breathing air and their heart is still beating, there is hope for their salvation. God desires for ALL MEN to repent (change their mind) to be saved by faith alone without works.

CARLOS: no one doesn't disagree that God wants all to be saved.... Yes, it is true....however the Bible makes it totally clear that there is such thing as unsaved people crossing the line with God...how else do you think satan got to who he is? What else are you to make of Jesus telling the pharisses who blasphemed the Holy Ghost in Matthew 12 that committing such blasphemy causes them to never have forgiveness in neither THIS LIFE or the life to come? With all due respect, only someone who's really shallow on this subject believes Pastor Steven Anderson started this doctrine....what he said is true whether he ever spoke it or not....Christians have been conditioned to believe such a lukewarm view of hell thanks to "progressive modernist ideologies that have been undermining Christianity for centuries and you know exact what I'm referring to (contemporary Christianity)...

ME: I didn't say he started this doctrine. Pastor Steven Anderson has popularized the heresy of being a "reprobate" beyond hope of ever being saved. He is teaching blatant heresy to say that homosexuals cannot be saved. He dishonestly tries to convince people that he is preaching the same truth as Dr. Jack Hyles, but as I evidence in the following eye-opening article, Pastor Jack Hyles taught something VERY different about reprobates than does Pastor Anderson. I fully agree with Dr. Hyles, but disagree with Brother Anderson.

Yes, there is a point of no return that a lost sinner can cross, but it's not because God refuses to save them; but rather, it is simply because God knows that they will never be saved, so God gives them over to their unbelief and sin. 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝟮:𝟱-𝟲, “𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘂𝗽 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝘄𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗼𝗱; 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀...” And as far as blaspheming the Holy Spirit, Jesus was simply refering to people who refuse to get saved, not to reprobates who are beyond the hope of the Gospel.

CARLOS: being reprobate literally means being beyond hope of ever being saved, that's what it means to be rejected and Jeremiah 6:30 tells us what reprobate, as the Bible uses it, means. 2 Timothy 3:7-8, 13, and Jude expound on reprobation and it never implies that those whom are unsaved that become reprobate still have a chance at salvation....."EVER LEARNING BUT NEVER ABLE TO COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH" (2 Timothy 3:7)....what's that "TRUTH"? That's Jesus Christ, who said He is the Way THE TRUTH and the life in John 14:6...in otherwords reprobates are never able to come to Christ. They're never able to come to realize they are a lost sinner, they are never able to see their need to be forgiven of sin, they are never able to see their need to have Christ in their lives since Romans 1 already stated such people don't want to retain God in their knowledge.

"As as far as blaspheming the Holy Spirit, Jesus was simply refering to people who refuse to get saved, not to reprobates who are beyond the hope of the Gospel".... Ok refusing to get saved entails more than just not having an interest for Christ, it entails having complete intolerance and having complete intolerance equates having hatred for God (which Romans 1 states reprobation involves being a hater of God in verse 30) and it does lead to being permanently rejected by God, otherwise nothing Jesus said in Matthew 12:30-32 was meant to be taken serious and Romans 1, 2 Timothy 3, Jude, or even the entire book of Revelation would be nonsense.

God takes things very seriously and He doesn't play around with the matters of salvation. The "death bed" conversions of someone who lived.his entire life unsaved, going so far as to deliberately disrespect and blaspheme God all his life, to where at the last few moments of his life he's crying out to God for mercy are really not of reality or even Biblical, and the thief on the cross is not a good example because people will blindly assert he was everything Romans 1:21-32 describes and be like "see? Not every God hating reprobate was beyond hope" (thereby insinuating scripture contradicts itself).... The problem with that assertion is that if the thief on the cross was a reprobate Christ wouldn't have told him that he would be with Him in paradise.

ME: Kindly, I totally disagree with you on this matter. I don't think God ever gives up on even the worst sinner being saved. Nobody is ever beyond the hope of the Gospel. I won't argue or debate with you on this, I think you're biblically wrong. The things you said are based on assumptions, not facts.

CARLOS: respectfully, you're disagreeing with The Bible in that regard because there's several instances where it's made clear that God DOES give up on CERTAIN UNSAVED INDIVIDUALS...from King Pharoah, to Balaam, to the sodomites (gee, if they weren't without hope the why did God drop fire and brimstone on them? He said He'd spare the population if He found even at least one righteous person) to the scribes and pharisses in Matthew 12 THAT SAID JESUS WAS POSSESSED WITH A DEVIL ...Matthew 23:33 He rips on them more basically saying to them "what makes you filthy people think you're gonna avoid going to hell now?" (Obviously not verbatim but this surely means the same thing)... This is almost the calvinistic approach you're taking even though Ive read your articles ripping on Calvinism because calvinists are the ones who say that those whom He elected for salvation before birth will get saved no matter what because they're eventually gonna submit to His predestined will.

ME: You are way off base. The Bible never says that God gave up on anybody. Jesus rebuked His disciples when they wanted to pray down fire and brimstone to destroy the Samaritans. 𝗟𝘂𝗸𝗲 𝟵:𝟱𝟱-𝟱𝟲, “𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗯𝘂𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱, 𝗬𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝘁 𝘆𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳. 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝗻'𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗴𝗲.”

Like the wayward New IFB, you are deceived to think that God actually wants His children to hate sinners, instead of the sin. Psalms 97:10 commands saints to "hate evil," not hate evil people. God loved the sinful world so much according to John 3:16, that He gave His only begotten Son to die for all of us. Yet, you and the wacky New IFB falsely claim that God gives up on hardened sinners and throws them under the bus. That is heresy!

I humbly think that your thinking is backwards friend. The problem has never been that God gives up on man; but rather, God in His omniscience knows that some people reach the point of no return, where they are never going to come to Christ; but this is not because God has given up on the unrepentant sinner, it is because they have given up on God.

Furthermore, God alone knows when a hardened sinner has crossed the line of no return, not you or the New IFB. For anyone to foolishly say that homosexuals have crossed the line and can never be born again is 100% blatant heresy! You are literally elevating yourself to the place of God, becoming a judge over that person, condemning them to Hell in your self righteousness. Who do you think you are, to deem any human being beside yourself as unreachable with the Gospel? You are NOT God!!!

The Bible plainly says in Jude 1:7 that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha as an EXAMPLE of what He would do to the ungodly in Hell, burn them! Kindly said, you are confusing God's justice, holiness and judgment with His mercy, love and grace.

I don't like to unfriend people, I really don't; but unfortunately, it is the only way I can silence the heretics, since Facebook doesn't allow me to turn off your commenting ability. So, Carlos, I have already unfriended you. I refuse to allow anyone to spread lies, heresy and false teaching on my ministry webpage, whether it be my blogs, websites, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, et cetera.

The Bible says in 𝗔𝗺𝗼𝘀 𝟯:𝟯, “𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿, 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱?” There's no reason for me to keep so-called "friends" who wrongly accuse me of going against the inspired Word of God, which is very harsh language. Clearly, you think that I am going against the Holy Bible, by my preaching that God never gives up on any sinner being reached with the Gospel.
Obviously we all have an appointed time to die (Hebrews 9:27), and at that moment one's opportunity to get saved will have forever ended.

God's mercy, love and grace have their limits for the disobedient sinner who refuses to rest in the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ to be saved; but I biblically contend that until each living sinner breathes their last breath, God desires for that individual to repent (change their mind) to come to Christ by faith as a needy sinner to be saved (2nd Peter 3:9).

END OF DEBATE

Dear reader, I run into religious fools like this all the time. Carlos is not a fool because he is ignorant, he remains ignorant because he is a fool. He mentioned Sodom's destruction in Genesis as an example of God giving up on people.

God sent His angels to deliver the righteous from Sodom before destroying that city with fire and brimstone. Previously, God had made an agreement with Abraham, that if he could find just 10 righteous (saved) people, the Lord would spare Sodom of being decimated. Abraham desperately tried no doubt, but utterly failed to find even 10 righteous people. Abraham's nephew Lot was the only bonafide righteous man that he could find (2nd Peter 2:7). We don't know if Mrs. Lot was saved or not, the Bible doesn't say. We do know that she looked back at Sodom, likely because her heart never left the city, and she was turned instantly into a pillar of salt.

God delivered Lot's entire family, who were willing to flee the city him and the angels, but no one else. This is NOT because God gave up on the sinners in Sodom; but rather, because God knew that they had permenently given up on Him. I find no evidence in the inspired Word of God, where God ever gave up on anybody if there was even a ray of remaining hope for their salvation. The Apostle Peter writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, said in 2nd Peter 3:9 that GOD IS NOT WILLING FOR ANY TO PERISH!!! So, for anyone to claim to the contrary, saying that God gives up of Sodomites—so we shouldn't bother sharing the Gospel with them because they are beyond hope—is totally unscriptural.

The most important truth I want you to see here, that Carlos totally ignored, is that God HADN'T given up on Sodom's sinners, even though the Lord was about to destroy the place. Abraham went to Sodom preaching the Gospel, desperately searching for 10 righteous people. Do you think that Abraham spoke softly and only told a few people what was about to happen? This was literally a matter of life and death. If Abraham could only find 10 righteous people, God would change His mind and spare Sodom from being annhilated. You had better believe that Abraham told everybody he could, running through the city, diligently warning the people of the imminent coming judgment.

So, God hadn't given up on them, the good Lord gave everyone in Sodom a chance to repent. It should be clear to you now, that it was the sinful people of Sodom who gave up on God, and not God who gave up on them. God knew (as only God knows) that no one in Sodom would have ever repented, otherwise I don't believe the good Lord would have destroyed the city. 

The same situation existed before the flood of Noah's day, when for 120 years Noah preached the Gospel, but not even one person got saved. Jesus foretold in Matthew 24:37-39 that in the end times, conditions in society will once again return as it was in the days of Noah. As we draw nearer to the End Times, fewer people will heed the truth. With all the false bibles, counterfeit plans of salvation, false prophets and ecumenical apostasy in the churches today, we already clearly see the conditions of Noah's time now developing.

I love you dear reader with Christ's uncondiitonal love, whoever you may be. I enjoy answering emails, so whatever may be burdening your heart, or any hankering Bible question(s) you may have, or perhaps you just need a Christian big brother while going through a tough time, I am your humble servant in Christ. Everything you share with me is kept confidential. I am here by God's grace to help others, which has always been my heart's sincere desire since I surrendered to serve God for the rest of my life at age 15. I got saved at age 13. I just want to be a blessing. Thank you for reading my ministry blog.