Go to Acts chapter number 20, go to Acts chapter 20.
Yet there's so many doctrinal statements, even of Baptists today,
that will pollute salvation with works today.
They pollute salvation with works.
They add a repentance of sin for salvation today, and it's garbage.
It's false doctrine, it's heresy, and it's not getting anybody saved.
Anybody that teaches this is teaching a false gospel.
Now what do they turn to?
Well, there is no verse that says repent of your sins, okay?
So they can't turn to that verse.
It's not like, well, yeah, you have to repent of your sins.
It's like, which verse is that?
The only English Bible I know of that has that phrase is the New Living Translation,
which should be called the New Luciferian Translation, really.
It adds it in there tons of times.
You know what?
That's a bad translation, and it's not what the Bible teaches.
Look at Acts chapter 20, verse 21.
The Bible says, testifying both to the Jews and also the Greeks,
repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
Next thing, the Bible often restates things.
So when it says repentance towards God, what's equivalent to that?
Faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
That's what he's defining repentance for you.
He's defining what that repentance looks like or means, specifically.
If in Acts chapters 13 through, all the way up to this point,
every time they're preaching to the Gentiles, they're all worshiping false gods.
They all have a false religion.
What do you think they probably need to do to go ahead and believe on Jesus?
Don't they have to stop believing in their false god?
Stop believing in Diana?
Stop believing in their false god, whatever it is?
Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Hey, that's a carved stone, isn't it?
Isn't it interesting that all the idols are carved stones?
But what is the salvation?
Yeah, it's a whole stone.
It's only what God created, isn't it?
So you have to get rid of those carved stones and grab a whole stone.
And here's the thing, just because you don't have in your church a picture of
Diana, what if your little stone has repent of your sins written on it?
It's just as garbage.
It's just as wrong.
And they have to repent of that stone and get rid of that stone and
grab a whole stone.
It's either a whole stone, you're either all saved or not saved.
There's no percentage of, well, I'm kind of saved.
No, you're just either saved or you're not.
You either have the right repentance or you don't.
And you say, well, what's the right repentance?
Flip back and look at chapter 19, verse 4.
He'll define for you what repentance is.
Then said Paul, John verily baptized with a baptism of repentance,
saying unto the people that they should believe on him which had come after him.
That is on Christ Jesus.
So notice what repentance even means.
Believing on Jesus Christ in the context of salvation.
Now hey, the word repent can have multiple meanings.
Just like the word go could have multiple definitions.
Going to the store, I'm going to the bathroom, right?
I mean, go is a word that just could be put in any kind of context and
you could use it however you want.
That's the word repent.
But every time the word repent is used in relation to salvation, what is it?
Stop trusting in whatever you're trusting to get you to heaven that's not Jesus and
put it all in what Jesus did.
That's all it is.
Yet I've looked at a lot of doctoral statements, this is what they say.
Repentance is a persistent turning away from sin.
And I'm going to say it's turning away, it's persistent.
This is from a Baptist church.
They say that faith is inseparably united with repentance.
Now here's the thing, properly defined, I agree.
But here's the thing, they define for you what repentance is.
What was it?
A persistent turning away from sin.
That would be what?
Faith plus work salvation.
Isn't that what everybody, that's what the Catholics believe.
That's what every false religion believes.
That it's just faith towards God and
living the best life that you can possibly live and God will finally get you in there.
You ask the Hindu, that's how they get saved.
You ask the Muslim, that's how they get saved.
You ask the Catholic, that's how they get saved.
You ask the Protestant, that's how you get saved.
You ask the Baptist today, that's what they say.
It's sick.
It's gross.
They're polluting salvation with works today.
Look, it has nothing to do with repenting of your sins.
And we need preachers to be clear on this issue.
Not more confusing.
Not having a hewn stone altar and
trying to get people to offer sacrifices on the wrong altar.
Who cares about every other issue?
Honestly.
I mean, if you are going to a church with the wrong altar and
they're trying to get you to put every sacrifice under the sun on that altar,
that's gonna profit you nothing.
They should be thundering forth the right gospel message.
And look, there's so many Baptist churches today that they have this kind of
doctoral statement, they don't preach on salvation.
And if you try to ask them, they get offended and they won't tell you.
And it's like, what could be more important?
We gotta, brother, we need to worry about more important things like tithing and
church attendance and the COVID restrictions, what the government's doing,
blah, blah.
Look, there's nothing more important than the gospel.
If you can't give me a clear message on the gospel, bye.
Why would I want to even listen to a preacher that's mixing up the gospel,
not clear, not thundering it forth, not making it manifest?
And look, their view of salvation is a very Calvinistic view when you think about
it, a persistent turning away from sin is inseparable with your faith.
And they say this is a grace wrought by the Holy Spirit.
This inseparable adding of faith and
repentance is this grace wrought by the Holy Spirit.
But here's the thing, their view of salvation, let me give you my parable,
okay, is like riding on a carnival cruise ship.
And then singing this song, row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream.
Here's the thing, from a Calvinistic viewpoint, you didn't choose to believe,
you didn't choose to do the works, it's just all automatic.
Just like you getting on that cruise ship,
you're not gonna do anything to determine where it goes.
I mean, that ship's going where, you're just along for the ride.
Whereas the Bible is like you with a canoe and a paddle.
And then it's singing, row, row, row your boat.
It's like you either go or nothing happens.
And here's the reality, you get saved and
after you get saved, you have the choice to either row or not.
Your works are not automatic.
You persistently turning away from sin, you have to be like, all right,
not gonna sin, not gonna sin today, not gonna sin today.
You're not just on this carnival cruise ship, just like, woo, praise the Lord.
I just gave up every sin automatically, the Lord saved me.
These guys are fake, they're phony.
The Lord saved me from drugs, and he saved me from alcohol, and
he saved me from this, and he saved me from that.
Look, those guys are just getting on and putting up a show, a vain show.
They're just like on the little carnival cruise, you know, saying like, woo.
How does that even make sense when the Bible's constantly instructing you to
row your boat?
It's constantly telling you to give up sin and die daily and crucify the flesh.
Like, if it's so automatic,
then why do I have so many commandments telling me it's not automatic?
That doesn't make very much sense.
Why are you giving me, you know, all these instructions on how to
go down the stream if I don't even need them?
I don't even have a choice.
Now, when it comes to this issue, we should never compromise on this issue.
And yet, there's a lot of Baptists today that are gonna compromise on this issue.
And you say, how could a church like us compromise on this issue?
I'll tell you exactly how they do it.
Friends.
Baptist churches want to be friends with another Baptist.
And guess what this Baptist does?
He pollutes salvation with works.
So they'll get up and they'll say, well, I know that this preacher gets up and
says that salvation's repenting of your sins, but he doesn't really mean it.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone told me they don't really mean
what they say.
I'd have enough to buy a two by four by now.
What's the point of getting up and preaching things that you don't mean?
Go to Matthew chapter 12.
What if I sat up here and I built an altar that's all hewn stone, and
I'm like, this is the type of altar that you need.
And then someone comes up and they're like, well, that's not gonna do it.
God's not gonna be pleased with that.
Well, that's not what I meant.
It's like, it's not unclear.
It's either you don't grave it or you do.
People that are getting up and saying,
all you have to repent of your sins to be saved are lying.
They're teaching false doctrine.
They should be called out.
You should separate from these people.
You should have nothing to do.
But what do they, Baptists, they don't want to separate from these people.
They don't want to distinguish themselves from these people.
So what do they do?
They compromise and they say, well, I know he says that, teaches it, and
explains it, but that's not what he meant.
What?
Why would I get up and try to show you a brick that I've carved and
say this is salvation, but I don't really mean it.
Just grab one and don't do anything to it.
That doesn't even make sense.
How can it make sense?
The most important doctrine, I'm confusing.
I'm polluting.
I'm, then why are you a preacher?
What's the point?
Well, I get up and I teach all kinds of other stuff.
Yeah, but if you're putting all kinds of sacrifices on the wrong altar,
it doesn't matter.
Nothing matters.
If you have the wrong foundation, imagine we're going to go ahead and
build the most beautiful house on the sand today.
Who cares, because the oceans is going to come and knock it all down.
But did you see the curtains that we put in there?
Did you see all the beautiful marble and the tile, and who cares?
It's going to get knocked down.
You either have the right foundation or nothing.
And these preachers that are getting up and, and being a compromiser and
saying, well, yeah, you're attacking good men that are preaching work salvation.
Well, they don't wear it that way.
You're attacking good men that are confused on repentance.
Well, then you're not good.
How could you say he's good?
How could you say that that's good preaching?
How could you say, well, but he puts really good sacrifices on the wrong altar.
I, have you heard this sermon that's not about salvation?
That he preaches is really good.
Yeah, what does he teach on salvation?
Well, I know it's wrong, but then get away from that person.
Have nothing to do with that person.
Don't compromise.
Why do they, why do they want to be friends with this person?
Because it's political.
And let me tell you what, independent fundamental Baptist churches are
political today.
You say what, Republican?
No, I'm saying within themselves.
They're all buddies of the certain Bible college.
They're all buddies with a certain area.
They want to be invited to certain conferences.
They want to have certain guest preachers come to their church.
They want to rub shoulders with the right guys.
They want to get recognition.
They want to have notoriety.
They don't want to have to separate from people.
They don't want to ruffle feathers.
They don't want people to get mad at them.
So they compromise on this issue.
Why would you compromise on salvation?
Why would you get up and rub shoulders with somebody
that's teaching a works-based salvation?
You're a compromiser.
It's wicked.
It makes no sense.
Now, hey, maybe there's someone that uses the wrong terminology,
and I'm not going to throw them in hell, but they're a bad preacher, period.
Don't get up to me and defend to me somebody
that's preaching works salvation and say this guy is a great preacher, though.
Yeah, but he doesn't really mean it when he teaches works salvation.
I don't care if he means it or not.
What does the Bible say?
Because does it really matter what I think?
No.
It only matters what the Bible says, OK?
So let's ask this question.
If I teach something wrong, but I don't mean it, does it matter?
OK, well, let's ask.
Matthew chapter 12, verse 35.
A good man under the good treasure of the heart
bringing forth good things, and the evil man under the evil treasure
bringing forth evil things.
But I say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak,
they shall give an account thereof in the day of judgment.
For by thy words, thou shalt be justified, and by thy words,
thou shalt be condemned.
Now, let me ask this question.
Does it say, by what you meant, you shall be justified?
And by what you meant, you shall be condemned.
Or does it say the words?
It's the words.
And here's the thing.
It's sick how many preachers get up and preach lies and heresy,
and they can say, well, that's not what I meant.
And people are like, OK, no problem then.
Yeah, well, what did you mean, whatever you want me to mean?
I know I taught repent of your sins, and that if you're not
living a righteous life, then you're not saved.
But what I meant by that is it's all by grace.
What?
Look, I visited other Baptist churches,
and I've talked to their assistant pastors and other.
And this one assistant pastor told me
he got up in front of his church and he said,
if you don't have works, you're not saved.
And he was acting like he was real tough and big,
and I'm just thinking, I want to stay away from you.
I just want to, before the lightning bolt strikes.
Yeah, I know all kinds of other Baptists
that fall all over themselves to be friends with these people,
because they're popular, because they have a big YouTube
channel, because they have a following,
because they're so much more gracious and loving.
I'm not going to be gracious towards a works salvation.
I'm not going to be loving.
Well, you're mean about it.
Good.
I would hate it for someone to say,
you're really nice to people that teach a works salvation.
I hope they say, you're the meanest person about it.
You're ugly about it.
You call people out about it.
You make everyone uncomfortable about it.
Great!
Because the whole world's going to die and go to hell.
Because people are compromising on this issue.
People are not making it clear on this issue.
In fact, the majority of the people that we reach,
or people that come to a church like ours,
they were confused on this for a while.
They don't want someone to get up and kowtow, and be vague,
or not saying what they mean, or getting up and just,
well, some people believe in pretty weird sins, whatever.
It's not a big deal.
No, it is a big deal.
Get rid of your stupid doctrinal statement.
Well, I don't think it's fair that people
should be able to call me and ask me what I believe.
Aren't you a preacher?
What profession are you in?
This is like all those states, wherever
they're doing these election audits, and they're like,
you don't have any right to audit us.
And it's like, well, what are you hiding?
Why would you not be able to audit?
I mean, why would you not want to be able to check these things
and ask these things?
But I don't get mad at somebody asking me what I believe.
I want the whole world to hear what I have to say,
especially on salvation.
Why would I think, like, someone's calling me.
They want to know about salvation.
I don't want to have to tell them that.
I thought it was I love to tell the story.
How hard is it for you to declare His righteousness?
Is that really difficult for you to say?
You get really offended when you have to tell people
about Jesus Christ, right?
Think about it.
These preachers, they're, I'm so offended.
Somebody wants to know what I believe about salvation.
Is it because you teach a work of salvation?
Because if you don't, why are you so offended?
Why can't you just tell us what you believe?
Here's the thing.
There's people that just make it clear where they stand,
and then there's vague people, OK?
All the vague people are trash.
And the people that are clear and wrong, they're trash.
You know what's good?
The people that are clear and right.
That's it.
Why would I want to be?
And look, riddle me this.
Let's find all these people that don't
believe wrong on salvation, but they do teach it wrong.
Like they're polluting it with repent of your sins,
but they somehow believe it right in their heart.
Show me all their fruit.
Show me all the people that they got saved,
that are fired up, serving the Lord, doing great things.
Because what I notice is they're not doing great things.
What I notice is that basically they're
just riding on the coattails of whoever
was that gave them a church, or whatever Bible
college they're riding the coattails of.
And these people that are friends,
that end up befriending these heretics
and these false preachers, they also
don't have good fruit either.
Because when you start compromising on this issue,
you're not going to be making waves and changing the world.
Look, who's really getting lots of people saved?
The people that are super clear, unapologetic,
really mean about it.
Those are the people that are getting lots of people saved
that have lots of fruit.
Look, why would I want to sit here and compromise just
to be friends with a certain person?
Friendship, that's being respected of persons.
I'm not interested in that kind of person.
And notice, I'm basically aligning myself potentially
with lots of false prophets that can literally
say a work of salvation, I'm not going to separate
from that person.
Just skip back a few verses.
Verse 33, either make the tree good and this fruit good,
or else make the tree corrupt and this fruit corrupt.
For the tree is known by its fruit.
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil,
speak good things, for out of the abundance
of the heart, the mouth speaketh?
Well, why do you want to pick on this guy
for preaching false doctrine?
Well, either make the tree good and his fruit good,
or make it corrupt.
What's the point in being, well, I kind of have
some corrupt fruit, but I'm a good tree?
What?
Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.
You know what you're never going to catch me
accidentally preaching?
Work salvation.
I'm not going to, you know, I can stumble over my words.
I could call David Daniel and Daniel David.
I could mix up a name, I could mix up a place,
but I'm not going to be like accidentally just like,
oh, and by the way, if you don't have works,
then you're not going to heaven and you can lose
your salvation and the Bible's not real.
Oh, I was so nervous up here that I just started
preaching heresy.
It's like, what?
That's what people act like.
They're like, well, when you get up there
and there's all these people in front of you.
When you get really nervous, you know what starts
coming out, what's ever really in your heart?
Look, when you start getting, that's why cops
put people under pressure and they bring all the pressure
and the heat and they're making you nervous
because they know the truth will eke out.
The truth ekes out when you get up and start preaching.
And when you can't ever eke out the right gospel,
it's not there.
It's funny, I look at preachers and I can tell
everything they believe by what I can't find.
When I can't find salvation by faith,
I can't find a sermon.
Look, go look at a preacher, go find a preacher
that you have respect for, that you're not sure
where he stands and find me any sermon
where he's preaching clearly on salvation.
You're like, well, I can't find one.
It's because he's wrong.
How could you be saved and there's no gospel presentation,
there's no sermon about it?
You're just never preaching the right gospel?
Well, the few times he did, he's taught something wrong.
That's because he's wrong.
Why would I wanna compromise with these people?
Here's why they wanna compromise them?
Because they have a beautiful altar.
Have you seen that guy's pulpit?
Have you seen that guy's church?
It's so beautiful.
And that pulpit, I mean, it just looks like it came down
from heaven and it's all carved all nice.
Yeah, but what is he preaching behind that pulpit?
And people just wanna go preach for that guy
or be that guy's buddy or be that guy's friend.
Look, I'm not interested in being friends
with compromisers on this issue.
You say, well, is that gonna cost you friends?
I hope so.
I don't wanna be friends.
Anybody that wants to compromise on this issue,
just stop being my friend immediately.
And you say, well, were you gonna call people out
for preaching this?
I hope so.
I hope I have enough courage to call people out
if they start compromising and getting weak
on this doctrine and weak on this issue.
And what is it gonna benefit you
if I start befriending people that teach repent
of your sins but don't mean it?
That's just gonna make you more weak,
you more watered down, you more compromised.
It's not gonna get anybody saved.
It's sick, it's gross, it's disgusting.
And what are these compromises and heretics do?
Instead of producing good fruit,
they just choke someone else's.
You know, there's a lot of people that are quote unquote
new IFB these days, but I know there's a lot of them
are compromisers.
And you say, which ones?
Well, I don't know, they change every week.
But you know what I notice about these compromisers?
You know what I know about these people that get so offended
at calling out somebody who preaches repent of your sins?
They don't have any fruit of their own.
They're just choking the fruit that was given to them.
They all have this fruit from somebody like Pastor Anderson
or Pastor Jimenez that are coming to their church
that are doing a lot of great works,
but they haven't produced any fruit.
All they're doing is just choking all the fruit
that's in that church by being a compromiser.
And why, of all the people that offend on this planet today,
why am I gonna fall backwards defending people
that are preaching a false gospel?
Preaching a works-based salvation.
That doesn't even make any sense.
Isn't the most important thing getting people saved?
Don't we go out and preach the gospel just day after day,
week after week, just every, we have so many times
all the time where we're going out
and trying to make it clear,
and who are we fighting against?
We're fighting against all the preachers
that have been lying to these people
and telling them the exact opposite.
How could I then say that this guy's my friend
when he's literally producing people
that I'm gonna have to go out and reteach the gospel to?
He's not my friend.
If you're against me, you're not with me.
You're either on my team or not.
Hey, I don't remember in the Bible
where Moses drew a line in the sand and said,
well, some people are standing on the wrong side,
but that's not where they really wanna stand.
They didn't mean to stand over there.
No, it's like, get on the right side or die.
Well, that's mean.
Look, he's killing the heretics.
I haven't killed a single heretic yet, okay?
Start calling me mean when I start killing heretics, okay?
Well, you preached against them.
Oh no, sticks and stones may break my bones,
but words hurt way worse.
Yeah, but good people leave my church
whenever you preach against me.
Great!
Isn't that wonderful?
All the heretics stay with you
and all the good people leave.
Look, we should never stop calling people out for this.
And look, if my church member calls somebody out for that,
I'm not gonna be like,
why are you attacking great men of God
for calling out this guy believing a wrong gospel,
for believing a false gospel?
And like, well, whose job is it?
Is that your job?
Well, you know, the apostle Paul
didn't cease to warn night and day.
And guess what, he wasn't a pastor.
Well, you're not a pastor, you don't get to do it.
Should I have said that to Paul?
Acts chapter 20, he's like,
I cease not to warn night and day.
Well, you're not a pastor, Paul, so you don't get to do it.
You don't get to warn about anybody.
Look, I hope you warn everybody
about every false prophet that ever exists.
And even if they're saved and mixed up, warn about them.
Why would I wanna hang out with somebody
that's saved and mixed up either?
We're supposed to be separated from the world.
We're supposed to be different, we're independent.
Independent, independent!
I'm independent of any work of salvation,
of any false gospel.
Don't ask me to compromise,
don't expect me to compromise.
And if you want me to be friends
with any of these compromisers, just leave now.
Before you get your feelings hurt, all right?
Let's go to prayer.