Amen the verse I want to focus on this morning or in Galatians 1 verse 6 through 10 the Bible reads in verse 1
I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ
unto another
Gospel, which is not another
But there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ
But though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel
Unto you than that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed
So if anybody preaches another gospel
Then that which we've received
What are we what are they to God they're a curse the Bible says and the curse means that they're damned to hell
Okay
Verse 9 as we said before so say I now again, so he said it before he's saying it again
If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that which you have received let him be accursed
for now
For do I now persuade men or God or do I seek to please men for if I yet please men?
I should not be the servant of Christ
And see the thing is is that there's a gospel out there that does please men and that gospel is a works-based
Salvation it's in every religion in the world and it's even crept into Christianity to the point
that people believe that it takes works to be saved and
You know I'm gonna get more into that but today. I'm preaching a sermon
An entire sermon against just a man, and he's a false prophet
He's definitely a false prophet a man
That's an heretic and a false prophet and against his ministry his name is John
MacArthur anybody ever heard of him hurt raise your hand if you've heard of John MacArthur
Okay
His ministry is called grace to you, and he gets the name of his ministry from this chapter in Galatians 1
We'll look at verse 3 it says grace be to you see, but his his ministry is called grace to you
So there see that B right there see how it's in italics
So he doesn't believe that that's part of the Word of God
So he just salt calls it grace to you instead of grace be to you
Okay, and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ
So he gets the name of his you know and obviously Paul says this in a lot of his different epistles
Grace be to you
But now like I said his great his ministry is called grace to you
But what it really should be called is hell to you
because that's what he's promoting because
His his gospel is a false gospel
And he proudly displays it on his website if you look up the terms lordship salvation
You're gonna come up with grace to you, and it'll say what John MacArthur believes about lordship salvation
It'll say that he believes you have to repent of all your sins and all this other stuff
But I don't want to get too far ahead of myself
So the title of my sermon this morning is really
Simple and easy to remember the title of my sermon is called John MacArthur go to hell
John MacArthur go to hell. Let's have a word of prayer Heavenly Father
We thank you Lord for the scriptures Lord
And I pray Lord that people would hear me and not just tune me out and think man this guy's hateful
But Lord you hate false prophets, and I pray that the Bible would clearly show that today and Lord
I think it already has in Galatians 1 spray you put your spirit upon me Lord. Help me to preach boldly and help me to
Lord just expound on the scriptures as you'd have me to do in Jesus name amen
So I'm gonna be actually using grace to use own
They have a website and you know he it's got tons
It's he's a really big into websites
And he has all the sermons recorded just like we might have in our movement
but
I'm gonna use his own words and things he said personally, and I'm gonna compare those things to what the Word of God says
Let's see
Whether he's a false prophet because me just saying it doesn't make it so does it so we got to see what what?
Does this man believe?
So well, let's just check it out. Okay. I'm just gonna read a little blurb about
Who John MacArthur is okay, he was born in 1939
Is an American pastor and author for known for his?
internationally syndicated Christian
Teaching radio program grace to you
He has been the pastor and teacher of grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California
since February 9th 1969
And also currently is the president of the Masters
University in Newhall, California and the Masters
Seminary in Los Angeles, California
Theologically MacArthur is considered a Calvinist and a strong proponent of expository preaching
He has been acknowledged by Christianity today is one of the most influential preachers of his time
And was a frequent guest on Larry King live as a representative of evangelical Christian perspective
MacArthur has authored or
Edited more than 150 books most notably the MacArthur study Bible who's seen a MacArthur study Bible before okay?
Which has sold more than 1 million copies and received a gold medallion book award?
Other best-selling books include his MacArthur New Testament commentary series
More than 1 million copies of sold of that and then 12 ordinary men more than
500,000 copies and children's book of faith to grow on
Which garnered an
ecpa
Christian book award so that's basically who he is he's got a huge church down in California. He's widely known
He's on the radio every day on KPDQ the local Christian radio station in town
Grace to you. I think it's on like a noon or something. I don't know I don't listen to it
But I've heard like it come on before anyway
So
This that source that I just read that from it's not from independent Baptist comm or anything like that is from that source is from Wikipedia
Okay, so also here's another quote. He's weak
Okay, that's from the source is Joe Jones. Okay. That's a that's a direct. That's a direct quote
So anyway if you don't know who Joe Jones is see me after the service, okay?
So I want to show you what he teaches
it's not what the Bible teaches and
It's about not just about salvation
But many other things and look I would have we would have been here for two hours if I you know
I'm not gonna do that to you. Okay, so I'm gonna try to preach fast
I do have ten points of doctrine that he believes that I want to
Take a look at today
But here's what he believes
Here's what grace to you website teaches. They believe about salvation
We teach that salvation is holy of God by grace on the basis of redemption of Jesus Christ
The merit of his shed blood and not on the basis of human merit or works that doesn't sound so bad does it?
You know that sounds that actually sounds good
But let me read on
regeneration
We teach that regeneration is a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit by which the divine nature and divine life are given
It is instantaneous and is accomplished solely by the power of the Holy Spirit through the instrumental
instrumentality of the Word of God
when the repentant
sinner as
enabled by the Holy Spirit
Responds in faith to the divine provision of salvation
So apparently you have to be a repentant sinner before the Holy Ghost will save you. That's what that's what it's saying. Okay?
Genuine regeneration is manifested by fruits worthy of
repentance as
demonstrated in righteous attitudes and conduct
Good works are proper evidence and fruit of regeneration
That's what he that's what he says that salvation is
Okay, and then he sources 1st Corinthians 6 19 through 20 and Ephesians 2 10
so
What he's saying is if you don't have manifested fruits of repentance aka
Good works a righteous attitude and conduct then you're not saved
That's what he's saying
He's so the first part says we believe that it's all grace and not of works
But then he says that if you don't have the works that he don't really have the faith. That's what he's saying
So and a lot of people believe that a lot of people believe that but is that what's right?
Is that what salvation is? Is that is that what we believe? No, it's not
So he says that these works are the evidence of the faith that you have he's a liar
All right, that's not what the Bible teaches at all
So, let's check his source scriptures and see what what it says
Okay, turn to 1st Corinthians 6 19 1st Corinthians 6
19
See, he's real slick with the way he puts his wording on things and some of it sounds like oh that doesn't sound so
Bad, but if you really look into what he's saying, he's he's a liar. He's full of dead men's bones
He's a wicked false prophet
1st Corinthians 6 19 says
What know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you
Which you have of God and you're not your own
For you're a bot with a price
Therefore glorify in your body and your glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's
Okay, I agree with that. We should glorify God in our body. We should glorify God in our spirits
God has purchased us. We should do the things that God wants us to do
But that's not what he's saying, is it?
If you want to argue that you have to live a godly life in your body after being saved as a command
I would say that that's true. It is a command. God does say we're supposed to live a righteous life. Okay?
But where in those verses that I just read does it say if you if you keep it
That is evidence of a genuine regeneration. If you keep that commandment is that does this say right there? That's that's evidence
This is the evidence that you're saved. It doesn't say that does it it just says
That you're bought with the price therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit which are God's you're supposed to do that
But that doesn't make you saved
That doesn't mean you're saved
It's just saying that God tell that's what God expects from you
But do we all keep God's commandments all the time?
You know
It's really funny the people that believe that you have to do works to stay saved or they have to do works to be
saved
They they never think that the sin that they commit is the one that would make them lose their salvation
So let's look at this next text. That is a source text for being a fruit inspector
This is what we call being a fruit inspector. Well, you should know them by your fruits. Okay?
Ephesians 2 10 let go to Ephesians 2 10
Ephesians 2 10 says
For we are his workmanship
Created in Christ Jesus unto good works
Which God hath before ordained that now notice these next two letters these next two words. We should
We should walk in them
So we should walk in them
But does it say that if you don't walk in them, then you don't really have the fruits
You if you don't have the fruit then you're not really saved
Is this saying that verse anywhere that if you don't have the you don't have the works that you're not really saved
Does it say that there? Let's read it again for we are his workmanship
Created in Christ Jesus unto good works
Which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. So should we walk in good works?
Should we do good works? Of course we should
But does that mean that we're saved because let's let me read what he said again
What John MacArthur said again?
Good works are proper evidence and fruit and and fruit of regeneration
Ephesians 2 10
So where's he getting that from because he's just making it up because anybody that teaches works salvation believes this garbage
Okay
So should we do good works? Yes, we should
I've I will never teach that we shouldn't do good works. We should keep God's commandments
We should do good works. But if we don't that doesn't mean we lost our salvation. That doesn't mean we're not saved
You can't look at someone and just know that they're saved or not
Because people backslide people get people get in and out of church people have good days and have bad days
Well, that's why the Bible says morning by morning new mercies. I see right
You know, we're supposed to
Pick up our cross daily and follow after him
But sometimes you stumble with the cross in your hand and you fall down, right?
So but you're supposed to rise back up again the next day pick that old cross back up and go again
What if you don't does that mean you're not saved? No, see because Christ did all the work for us
Christ did that work for us, but he still does expect us to do good works and be and do good things
so
Those proof texts are are not what he said they were I mean do you follow that?
so he also says genuine regeneration is manifested by fruits worthy of repentance as
Demonstrated in righteous attitudes and conducts good works or the proper evidence and fruit of regeneration
so
So but he's just pull
He's just taking those verses and just turning them on their head and making them say something that they don't
That's garbage. That's janky and that's twisted. Okay, it's you know, jankies like the new word or whatever
It just means that it's weak, right? So I'm trying to be relevant here in this sermon. Okay?
Turn to for a second Peter
second Peter to second Peter to
I had to actually look up what janky meant before I use it my sermon because I want to make sure I wasn't saying something
bad
All right, so second Peter to look at verse 1 the Bible says but there were false prophets also among the people
So what's he talking about back in the Old Testament?
There were false prophets among the people and it says even as there shall be
false teachers among you
So are there gonna be false teachers among us in the world? Yes, there are how do we spot them out?
Who shall privilege shall bring in damnable
Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift
destruction and many shall follow their pernicious ways by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of and
Through covetousness shall they be shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you whose judgment now
Of a long time lingereth not and their damnation slumbereth not look false prophets. They know they're false prophets
They are going to hell. That's what the Bible teaches. It says their damnation slumbereth not
They have a day appointed and they're gonna be judged by God
It's not accidental that they're like that
These preachers that get up and preach a works based salvation
And you can't you can show them in the Bible that it says something different and they will never accept it
Because they're a false prophet and look John MacArthur makes a lot of money doing what he does make no mistake about it
His he makes a lot of money
Off of what he does and so basically what's a false prophet want to do they want to make money
They want to subvert people because they work for the devil. They work for Satan their reprobate false prophets
Okay, so here's number one
about
One thing that so I already showed you what what he teaches about salvation, but let's look at what he teaches about lordship salvation
Okay in his grace to you website
It says scripture here
This is what he says scripture teaches that Jesus is Lord of all and the faith he demands involves
unconditional
Surrender in other words Christ does not bestow eternal life on those whose hearts remain set against him
Surrender to Jesus's lordship is not an addendum to the biblical terms of salvation
the summons of some to submission is at the heart of the gospel invitation through scripture and
contrast easy believe ism
Teaches that submission to Christ supreme authority is not to germane to the saving transaction
So as not to germane the saving to the saving transaction
So basically he's he's he's hacking on easy believe ism that that it's we believe it's see we believe in easy believe ism at this
Church okay, it's easy to be saved Christ made
Salvation easy for us he did the work
I don't know why people have such a hard time understanding that Christ did it all all we got to do is trust in him
That's pretty easy
okay, so
It also says this scripture teaches that behavior is an important test of faith obedience is
Evidence that one's faith is real is that true. We just saw that. That's that that's not what the Bible says, okay?
On the other hand the person who remains utterly unwilling to obey Christ is not is does not evidence true faith in
Contrast easy believe ism
Teaches that disobedience and prolongs sin are no reason to doubt the reality of one's faith
Now I understand that people will look at people and go well
I don't know if they're really saved or not because they're living a wicked life
Look we tend to be that way we tend to look at people know that but do we know that for sure
Do we know that if you looked at King Saul's life in the Bible would you have thought he was saved I?
Mean after killing the Lord's priests after killing himself
After trying to kill David the whole time
You know the bug the Bible is very clear that Saul's God changed Saul's heart when he was little in his own sight
He was in he was in a right standing with God
But he became backslidden, and he just refused to obey God and so God destroyed him. He took away his kingdom
Okay, but that doesn't mean that he wasn't saved because it went before when he went to see the witch at Endor
He
Said tomorrow you and your sons will be with me and work and where does God live where was Samuel the Prophet?
He Samuel prophets in heaven God lives in heaven
So if he said tomorrow you and your sons are gonna be with me where did where did Saul go when he died?
He went to heaven okay, and he killed himself
So people will say well if you kill yourself. That's the unpardonable sin. No, it's not
It's a wicked sin, but it's not the unpardonable sin
Turn to Acts chapter 16
See because John MacArthur says you have to
You know submit yourself to the lordship of Christ, and if you're not keeping his commandments, and you're not really saved, okay?
Well, let's see what the Bible says about that turn to Acts chapter 16 look at verse 30
This is the only time that this is ever asked in the whole Bible
Okay this question right here says and brought them out and said sirs
What must I do to be saved?
Okay, that's the only time that's ever asked in the whole Bible
And they said believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved
Does this say make him the Lord of your life?
Does this say if obey all his commandments does this say you have to have the fruits of repentance does this say you have to?
Show a good life and be a good person no it doesn't say that that is
That's not what the Bible the Bible teaches. It's very simple to be saved that all you have to do is believe on Christ
That's easy believeism. That's what the Bible teaches and what's that heretic teach?
That you have to submit yourself, and look I'm not saying you shouldn't submit yourself to Christ
But if you don't submit yourself to Christ every day does that mean you're not saved no
Number two John MacArthur teaches Calvinism he believes a Calvinist and look
There's I think he like maybe calls himself a Baptist or something. I know that there's Baptist Calvinists, okay?
Which is an oxymoron?
Because we don't believe that junk
Here's what John MacArthur says we teach that in Adam's sin of disobedience
To the revealed will and Word of God man lost his innocence now. He's really
Theologically you know he's got all these fancy
terms that he uses incurred the penalty of
Spiritual and physical death became subject to the wrath of God it became inherently corrupt now listen to this it says
utterly
incapable of choosing or
Doing that which is acceptable to God apart from divine grace
So what's he saying?
That we can't even choose to be saved
That's what he's saying. That's what Calvinism teaches that we can't choose to be saved that it's all God
We don't have any part in our own salvation that we're predestined from the foundation of the world to either
Be
Like Justin was saying last night in the sermon
You're made to either be go to hell for all eternity and burn in hell
Just because God didn't like you when he made you or you were pre
Pre-made to go to heaven and that no matter what you're gonna get saved because you're you're predestined to be saved, right?
No, God just knows who's gonna be saved because he's all-powerful. He's all-knowing. He's almighty
So there is a difference just because you know
Who's gonna be saved doesn't mean that he true that he chose the people that would be saved. That's a wicked God
My god doesn't isn't that way my god doesn't just choose people to go to hell straight from the womb
No or straight before the the foundation of the world. He doesn't choose people. Oh, I don't like that guy
He's going to hell. That's not how God is
God is not God wants all people to be saved all people
That's why he died for the sins of the whole world. See Calvinists have a problem with that word all
They don't believe that all really means all
So but all really does mean all
So what's Ephesians 2 8 and 9 and 10 say for my grace are you saved through faith and
That not of yourselves it is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast
For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works
Which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them, okay?
So but here's what a Calvinist will say
See the gift of God they say the gift of God is your faith. That's what they teach
so it says
For by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God
So they'll take that verse and flip it on its head and say no
God God gives you the faith so that you can be saved. No, that's not true. You have to that's your choice
You have to choose to be saved and then once you choose to be saved then you are chosen of God
That's how that works
Roman 623 says the wait for the wages of sin is death
But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord
So what's the gift of God? It's eternal life
So they're lying when they say that they that in in Ephesians 2 that the gift is faith
That's a lie that see that's twisting the scriptures
And it's very clear turn to John chapter 4 John chapter 4
John chapter 4 look at verse
9
Then sayeth the woman of Samaria unto him
How is it that thou being a Jew askest drink of me which am a woman of Samaria for the Jews have no dealings
with the Samaritans
Jesus answered and said unto her if thou knewest the gift of God
and who it is
That sayeth unto thee give me to drink thou wouldest ask of him and he would have given thee
Living water see the gift is living water
It's eternal life and you have to ask God for it to get it. You don't just it doesn't just
Come upon you like a dove. It doesn't you know, I
Didn't put this in the sermon, but there's he said that he led this homosexual to the Lord in
In the hospital and one of his little things about homosexuality
He said he was holding this homo's hand right and that he prayed that God would would save him
He prayed this long prayer, you know, what does the Bible say about people that play it pray long prayers anyway
So he didn't say that that guy trusted Christ. He just said hey
Now is your opportunity to ask God to forgive you for the things that you've done. Is that how you get saved?
No, that's not how you get saved. So even if that guy hadn't been a homo
Even if that guy hadn't been a homo, that's not how you lead someone of the Lord by you praying a prayer for them
That's not how that's not how it works
They have to ask Christ for salvation and just asking someone to forgive you of your sins doesn't save you
You know, you can repent of all your sins and still go straight to hell once you ask juice is scary it
Well, hopefully you don't have to ask him because he's in hell
You know and hopefully nobody in here is headed there
but
the Bible is very clear that salvation is a gift that you choose to get because
You have to choose to believe to be saved
That's why the Bible says choose you this day who you'll serve, you know
If you don't have a choice in the matter, then that's kind of weird that God would use that wording
Is that you know what when Moses says who's on the Lord's side?
You know, they had a choice
Hey
I'm gonna come over and stand with Moses or I'm gonna stay over here and get killed and they decided hey
I'm gonna stay over here and get killed. All right, they had a choice in the matter
Joshua said choose you this day who you'll serve as for me in my house. We will serve the Lord
That's what he said. All right, so
Here's another wicked thing that he teaches number three. John MacArthur teaches that the blood of Christ
It's just not that important, you know
He
He and he got in trouble with that a long time ago and has tried to go back and say over and over again
You know try to cover up for it a little bit here and there but he still sticks to the same thing
So
The Bible says turn over to let's see. I'll have you turn over to Romans 3 and while you're turning over to Romans 3
I'm gonna read for you in Romans 10 verse 29
It says of how much sore punishment suppose he shall he be thought worthy who have trodden
Underfoot the Son of God and have counted the blood of the Covenant
wherewith he was sanctified an
unholy thing
And have done despite the spirit of grace
That's Hebrews 10 29. Look if you count the blood of the Covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing
You know, I'm not saying that he says it's an unholy thing he's just saying it's not that big of a deal
Okay
What's the Bible so and here's some quotes that he said I'm gonna before I show you what the Bible says
I'm gonna just show you what this is what he said from his own mouth. Okay?
He said
From an article in 1976
Entitled not his bleeding but his dying
He said it was his death that that was
Ephesus not his blood
Christ did not bleed to death. The shedding of blood had nothing to do with bleeding. It simply means death
nothing in his human blood saves
It is not his blood that I love it is him it is not his bleeding that saved me but his dying
No, John MacArthur. It's both
It's both it takes it takes the death and it takes the blood
So without the shedding of blood, there's no remission of sins. Okay
But that's John McCarthy said that that his blood didn't save him
Well, he's right because he's not saved because he's a false prophet. All right
So the blood is mentioned the word blood is mentioned
392 times in the King James Bible
So do you think that blood is an important topic in the Bible then
Yeah, and I'm not saying that every mention is about the blood of Christ
But there's many mentions about the blood of Christ
And it's funny how these new versions like to take the blood of Christ out of their their Bible versions
So you're in Romans chapter 3 look at verse 24. It says being justified freely
See that word freely
By his grace through the redemption that is in Christ
Jesus whom God has set forth to be a propitiation
And what's this next one say through faith in his what blood?
To declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God
So do you have to have faith in his blood?
That's what the Bible says right to declare I say at this time
His righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus
See that word believeth in Jesus. So you have to believe in Jesus. You have to believe in the death. You have to believe
That he shed his precious blood for you have to believe in the in the burial and resurrection of Christ to be saved
That's not just one thing. It's not just the death
So
He's wrong. It's not the death. It's everything. There's a combined package
Because if Christ didn't rise from the dead, then we we are not going to be saved, but he did rise from the dead
Turn to Hebrews chapter 9
Hebrews chapter 9
Hebrews chapter 9 look at verse 11
The Bible says but Christ being come and high priest of good things to come
By a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands that is to say not of this building
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own
blood
See that by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place having obtained
Eternal redemption for us. So how did he enter into the holy place in heaven with his own blood?
He took his own blood up there with him. Okay
For if the blood of bulls and goats and in the ashes of a heifer
Sprinkling the unclean sanctified to the purifying of the flesh how much more
Shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God
See Christ offered himself as the sacrifice for us
Purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God
And for this cause he's the mediator of the New Testament that by means of death
for the redemption of the transgression
That were under the first testament they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance
for where a
Testament is there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. So what?
Christ took his blood up there, but he also did have to die
Okay says in verse 17 for a testament is a force after men are dead
Otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth
So if you have a last will and testament, right you go and get your your your will done, right?
Gary's gonna give me his house when he passes away is what he said
Everybody knows it. No, okay. I'm just kidding. But but if he did leave me his house
So does do I get it before he dies?
No, yeah. Yeah, I have to wait until after he dies and then it's willed to me. But so
There's also could be stipulations in that will that say
Well, as long as he still goes to church and he still keeps the commandments and you know, whatever
That's that's his last will and testament so it's the same thing with with Christ
There was certain there's certain things that have to take place
so
Christ had to die in order to make a New Testament or a new covenant and he had to shed his blood and that
Blood had to be taken into the tabernacle in heaven. Okay
Not the one here on earth. It says for when Moses had spoken every precept of all the people according to the law
He took the blood of calves and of goats and with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book and all the
people
Saying this is the blood of the Testament which God hath enjoined unto you moreover
He sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry and almost all things
Are by the law purged with blood and without shedding of blood is no
Remission it was therefore necessary that the patterns of the things in heaven should be purified with these
But the heavenly things themselves with better
Sacrifices than these so we had a tabernacle here on earth. There was a
Tabernacle that Moses, you know, they had to do all those things with the blood of the goats and all that stuff
But there that was a pattern of what was already up in heaven. And so Christ was the better
Had the better Testament he had the better
Covenant to give and he took his blood up to heaven into that heavenly tabernacle and to that
Mercy seat and sprinkled his blood on there one time
Okay, it says for Christ has not entered into the holy place is made with hands which are the figures of the true
But into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us
Nor yet that he should offer himself often as the high priest entered into the holy place every year with blood of others for he must
For then he must often have suffered since the foundation of the world
But now once see that word once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin
By the sacrifice of himself and as it is appointed under men wants to die
But after this the judgment so Christ was once offered
To bear the sins of many and unto them that look unto him
Or for them to look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation
So is the blood of Christ important or not?
So was it important for him to take that blood up and sprinkle that on the mercy seat for us?
Yes, it is because we can't be saved without the blood of Christ
It wasn't just the fact that he died on the cross that blood that he shed. He had to live a perfect life
He had to live a perfect life we can't live the perfect life therefore we can never save ourselves
We can never do enough to save ourselves
So and he did this once and for all
Okay, so John MacArthur. You're wrong, and you're a false prophet, and you're going straight to hell all right number four
John MacArthur teaches that you have to repent of your sins for salvation
He teaches you have to repent of your sins for salvation now
This is another popular teaching that you have to repent of your sins, so after all the things. I just got done saying
How would someone still believe that it's something that they could reform their life?
Enough to get into heaven or that you have to reform your life somehow before
Christ will save you or you have to keep reforming your life in order to stay saved
That doesn't make sense
Because he paid for your sins once and for all the time
He shed that blood and put that on the mercy seat for you. That was enough
That was enough. You don't have to do anything. He did it for you
But he says scripture teaches that the gospel calls sinners of faith to faith joined in oneness with repentance
Repentance is a turning from sin. That's what he says is that what the Bible teaches though
Okay, where's the where's the Bible say that repentance is a turning from sin?
Anybody have the verse for me that says that that repentance is turning from sin?
He says it's acts 319 in Luke 24 47
But I don't think that those verses maybe in his ESV. It says that I don't know
Maybe someone should cross-reference that for me real quick. So I got a smartphone want to check and see what his ESV says
Says that consists not of human work, but of the divinely bestowed grace
It's a change of heart but genuine repentance will affect a change of behavior as well in
Contrast easy believe ism. So he likes to attack easy believe ism
Teaches that repentance is simply a synonym for faith and that no turning from sin is required from salvation. Yeah, because it's not
I'll wake you up a little bit
It's not a requirement for salvation
Jonah 310 says
Let's turn over there because I want your eyeballs to look at this
If you're in doubt of what I'm saying right now at all
Jonah 310
So let's let's let the Bible define for you what turning from sin is okay
Because this is the clearest verse you're gonna see in the whole Bible for it. Okay
Jonah 310 says and God saw their what's that say men?
God saw their
God saw their all right that they turned from their evil way
So what was their works that they turned from their evil way, right is that repenting of your sins
Okay, and God repented of the evil that he said he would do unto them and he did it not
Okay, so
Let me actually get there in my Bible real quick Jonah 310
So does God what does God define?
Works as then turning from your evil way
so
The Bible says salvation is not of works lest any man should boast in Ephesians 2 8
Okay, if it's not of works and someone is telling you that you have to repent of your sins to be saved
What are they telling you you have to do?
Works, they're telling you have to do works to be saved as the Bible then the Bible does not teach that
Now when Joe when this happened with with the Ninevites so there was they had two types of salvation's here
They were saved from the destruction that was going to happen to their city for the evil works that they were doing
and they also had a spiritual salvation because Jesus said that the
That the the men of Nineveh will rise up and judge this generation because they repented at the preaching of Jonas
okay, so
But so they were saved spiritually because the Bible says in Jonah, I'm not gonna turn there but it says
It says it says that and they and the and the people of Nineveh believed God
So that came before this verse right here. What verse is it? Someone tell me real quick five verse five Jonah
Three five says and the people of Nineveh believed God, right?
So did they believe God before they did these good works and turn from turn from their wicked ways?
Yes, because see you have to believe in the body
You have to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ before you get saved and then you can start repenting of your sins
Okay, and then you can start putting sackcloth on your cows and your chickens and your animals and stuff. Okay?
So
God had a twofold salvation for me
That's very clear that and so cuz Jonah went out away from the city and he thought God was gonna fireball him
Right, and so he's like and then he gets mad
Because he wanted them to be destroyed
But God had other plans for him because they did repent of their sins after they believed the preaching of Jonas
So then it's funny that Jesus used the words they repented at the preaching of Jonah
But they repented because they believed on Christ
They believed the Lord and then they turned from their evil ways. Okay, so
Turn to Romans chapter 4
Does anybody confused about what I said about Jonah because I thought I think it's pretty crystal clear that God saw their works
They turned from their evil way. That's
Defining it for you. Okay, Romans 4 verse 3 says
For what sayeth the scripture Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness
so
How was Abraham saved because he believed God that was counted to him for righteousness
Now to him that worketh as the reward not reckoned of grace
but of debt
So if you're trying to work your way to heaven if you're trying to repent of all your sins
If if you think that every time you stand that you have to ask God for forgiveness or you're not gonna go to heaven
Then you're working your way to heaven. You're you're
You owe God a debt
Every day that you're never gonna be able to pay ever
So it says but to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his
Faith is counted for righteousness
Even as David also described the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness
with our works
You see that without works
It's very plain. It's very clear. It's very plain as the nose on your face
Same blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered
Blesses the man to whom the Lord will not
Impute
Sin, and how does God not impute sin on someone because they believe by faith
They're eat an easy believe ism person
Because if you believe it's easy then
It is you're right. It is easy
So here's what else he said. He said the gospel is not a call to repentance or oh, no
This is this is a quote. I like this quote. This is from Henry Ironside
I don't know what he believes besides what this quote says, so
Hopefully he's not some weirdo, but I like what he said here
It says the gospel is not a call to repentance or to amend 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 of 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 never believe the gospel and consequently never be saved at all
Alcoholics anonymous people do they trust in Christ and that's why Jesus just takes the the
He just takes that want to drink away from people
No, they get their little coins and they're you know, and I'm not saying it's bad to to quit drinking or anything like that
I'm just saying that some people can quit drinking and some people can quit smoking without doing it through God and
So does that make them say because they turned over a new leaf? No, it doesn't
So I spent a lot of time on that. I'm gonna move to John MacArthur number five
John MacArthur teaches out of false Bible versions
So here's what hit on the grace to you website
Here's what he said we teach that the Word of God is an objective
propositional revelation verbally inspired in every word
absolutely inerrant and the original
documents
We don't even have the original documents
So he's an omo
an old
An original manuscript only is that's what he is
So
The original manuscripts are infallible and God breathe even though he's never seen him before
So he has faith in something. He's never seen before
So what's that mean that he believes about the ones we have now they could have mistakes in them
They probably do have mistakes in them. That's why he reads out of the ones that he thinks says it the best
Well, I think this one says it better than this one. So I'm gonna read this one to you right now
So that's weak. That is that is whack
Doctrine if you believe that that that the Bible is only preserved in the original documents
You have something wrong with your thinker because it doesn't make sense to believe in a book that has mistakes in it
This Bible doesn't have mistakes in it. Show me one
So
He says about different Bible versions
I looked up what he said about different Bible versions that says the most popular dynamic equivalency
Translations which dominate the evangelical world are the new international version
Today's new international version. That's the TN IV. Is that the one that takes the gender rolls out? I think it is
the message
the Living Bible
The good news Bible and the new living translation of those the NIV is the most reliable
That's what he says
Okay, the NIV was completed in 1978 translators did not attempt to translate strictly word-for-word
But aimed more for equivalent ideas as a result
the NIV doesn't follow the exact wording of the original Greek and
Hebrew text as closely as the King James Version and the New American Standard Bible versions do
Nevertheless, it can be considered a faithful translation of the original text and a lucid and it's lucid
Readability makes it quite popular especially for devotional reading so
basically just said it's not a word-for-word translation, but the but every word in this Bible is
Inspired so if they don't translate it for word for word that it's a piece of junk
The four most popular formal equivalency
Translations in English are the King James Version
The New King James Version
The New American Standard Bible and the English Standard Version
So these are the ones he thinks are the best out of the word-for-word translations
The KJV is the oldest of the four and continues to be a favorite of many
Yeah, and the most read of all Bible versions
It is known as the authorized version of 1611 because King James the first
Approved the project to create an authoritative
English Bible although it contains many obsolete words
This is what he says I mean
some of which have changed in meaning
many people appreciate its dignity and
Majesty the New King James Version is similar translation taken from the same group of ancient manuscripts. That's not true
That simply updates the archaic language of the KJV
Yeah, what's one of the ones they use some really
hard way harder words in the in the New King James than the King James is
stupid, but anyway the NASB
Completed in 1971 the updated in 1995 is the revision of the American Standard Version of 1901
His literal translation from the Hebrew and Greek languages that incorporates the scholarship of several centuries of textual criticism
Conducted since the original KJV it quickly became a favorite translation for serious
Bible study, it's serious
The ESV is the most recent translation which stands firmly in the formal equivalency tradition
It is very solid translation and updated language
That aims to reproduce
the beauty of the KJV
The result is one of the most poetic and beautifully structured versions that maintains a high degree of
Accuracy and faithfulness to the original languages sounds like he's sweet on the ESV doesn't it?
So I think isn't that the one that he puts his main study Bible in the ESV
So his so it says translation choice what version is the best
Ultimately the choice is up to you each of the formal equivalency versions has strengths and weaknesses
But there are reliable translations of the Bible if you want to read a dynamic translation read the NIV
Ideally a serious student of the bio of the scripture
You should come become familiar enough with concordances word study aids and conservative
Commentaries so that
Even without a thorough knowledge of the original languages you can explore the nuances of meaning that arise out of the original text
So what's he saying? You got to go back to the geek?
You got to go back to the original manuscripts. You got to you got to have the cup go study pour through the commentaries
You know
But what's the Bible say the Bible says in Psalm 12 6 the words of the Lord are pure words
As silver tried in the furnace of earth purified seven times
Thou shalt keep them o Lord thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever
This book hasn't lost anything
God knows all languages and each and we have the great translation right here
We have the best translation right here. There's nothing wrong with it. And maybe if you're too dumb to read this version
Maybe you just need to get smarter
There's nothing that's obsolete in here every single wordness is in a dictionary a modern dictionary, okay
In Revelation 22 verse 18 it says for I testify unto every man that here at the words of the prophecy of this book
If any man shall add unto these things
God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy
God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy city and from the things which are written in
This book so if you mess with this book right here, you're gonna go to hell
You're near your it's not as if not you don't lose your salvation
Because anybody that tampers with this book never had it in the first place
So that just ensures that you become a reprobate and what is the reprobate?
It's someone that God's given up on because they gave up on him first
So and speaking of going back to the Greek I call it going back to the geek
Because you got to be a geek if you think you know that you have to go back
To some old language that you don't even understand you couldn't even order a euro
You know and in a cafe in Greece if you to save your life
You couldn't find us you couldn't read a street name sign to find out where you're even at
In Greece if you want to you know Hebrew, can you anybody read Hebrew in here? It looks like a bunch of
Chicken scratches to me. I I can't understand it at all
so
But you know Greek is the same way to me. It's all Greek right so
But I mean some people in here should probably speak more than one language
But you know do you have to go back to the Greek to understand the words in this book no
God translates has translated the Bible into all
different types of languages
but John MacArthur loves to go back to the Greek and try to make himself seem smarter than he really is and
he uses terms like
exegesis and
Agape and you know that you got to go back and find the deeper meanings
And so he'll take a word and and and go into the Greek and make that look if you think if you if you
Try to do this go back to the Greek game
You can make the Bible say whatever you want go grab a concordance and look up any term in the Bible
There'll be like 50 definitions for each word
Repentance is one of those things. It'll just say I have all these definitions
And so basically you can just take those Greek words and make it say whatever you want
And that's why they do it so that they can be your little guru to tell you exactly what the Bible says
And you just don't understand because you don't understand the language well
You don't understand the language either buddy because you don't speak Greek
so
Most of the people that say they speak it. They can't speak it fluently
It's it's it's a lexicon that they that some other guy wrote and they put their own
Definitions into the book so you can look at the real Greek word
But all you're doing is reading their definition of what they say it says
Okay, that's what it that's what I'm talking about
So here's an example of John MacArthur going back to the Greek
To prove that the homos can be saved and they should we should let them into their churches into our churches
so
He says just to take the glamour off it. That's what it really is. It's a sexual lust gone mad
It's he's talking about homosexuality
It is suicidal and can give an almost endless parade of statistics and litany of
Information on the problems which doesn't after a certain point help what is more important to understand is from God's viewpoint
What it really is
Let's go back to our text in 1st Corinthians
chapter 6
So I'm just gonna have you guys turn there to 1st Corinthians chapter 6
There's a mention there in verse 9. This is him talking of the word effeminate
effeminate
Marginal notes and the NAS says effeminate by
perversion
Malakos is the Greek word. It seems to have been a technical term for passive partner in homosexual relationships
one of the best of
Greek lexicons says the word
Probably the word probably also included men and boys who allow themselves to become male
Prostitutes and we're the passive partners
It's more than a feminine in the sense that we think of a feminine as a kind of superficial style
It is a kind of homosexual prostitution then the word homosexual
Arsenic coitus, I don't know if I'm even saying that right
two Greek words one meaning sexual relations the other meaning man men is
A man having sexual relationships with men
It means just that so here he is going back to the geek trying to tell us what these words mean in the Greek
But but first of all, he's he's saying
He's reading this out of his own Bible version see in the ESV it says
You're you're in 1st Corinthians 6, right?
Let's see
and 1st Corinthians 6 it says
In the ESV it says or do you not know the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?
Do not be deceived neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor homosexuals
Nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers. So his version says homosexuals. What's it say in
the King James Version
It says no
You're not the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God be not deceived neither fornicators not nor idolaters nor
adulterers nor effeminate
nor abusers of themselves with mankind
Does it is abusers of themselves of mankind? Is that is that does that say homosexuals? Does that say sodomites?
So the word sodomite is in the Bible. It was translated by the King James translators
so
Who's right?
John MacArthur who says that he knows the Greek look that that Greek word. That's two Greek words
That's the only time it's ever used in the history of
There's no evidence that's been used besides when Paul used it to put it in the Bible
So there's no manuscript evidence that you can go so he's just look they're just guessing that that's what it says
That's why the translators did not translate it as homosexuals
So
Abusers themselves of mankind
Maybe you don't know what that means, but I'll tell you what in Romans 1. It's it's very clear
You know in Romans 1 comes before
1st Corinthians 6 9 in the Bible. Did you know that so turn over to Romans 1 see what it says?
I'm just going to show you a few verses because I'm running out of time here
Romans 1 verse 24
Says wherefore God gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies
between themselves
Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator who is blessed forever
Amen, and for this cause God gave them up to vile
Affections for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. What's he talking about?
He's talking about lesbians. He's talking about bull dykes
okay, and
Verse 27 it says and likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust one toward another
Is that pretty clear what that's talking about?
men with men
Working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error, which was meet
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge
God gave them over to a
reprobate
mind
to do those things which are not convenient and then it has the list of all the wicked and
Filthy things that these people do okay
So are you saying that the Apostle Paul says that they're worthy of debt look it says
It says in verse 31. It says without or no in verse 32 it says
And knowing the judgment of God they which commit such things are worthy of death
Not only do the same but have pleasure in them that do them
So you're saying the Apostle Paul just contradicts himself from one book to the next. Is that what he's doing?
He's saying they're worthy of death that there are reprobates that God gave him up
God gave him over God gave him up to a reprobate mind and then and then in the next book
He's saying but such for some of you you've been but you've been washed brother
No, he's not gonna contradict himself like that. The Bible doesn't contradict itself
So somebody's wrong here
It's the guy that's going back to the Greek language that he doesn't even understand trying to make it out to where homos can be saved
But in Romans one is very clear that they can't be and let's just be real clear right now while I'm being clear
Leviticus 2013 says if a man lie with them with mankind as he lies with a woman
Both of them have committed abomination. They shall surely be put to death
Their blood shall be upon them. That's what the Bible says. Is that clear enough for you?
the Bible also says
Let's see. I
Have it my notes here. I'm not gonna get through all my notes
So I just want to give you a couple highlights here
I
Gotta be done. I'm I'm out of time. But you know the thing is so so John MacArthur
and I didn't even get to get to the parts that
He says he also John MacArthur also says that you can take the mark of the beast and still be saved
But what's the Bible say in Revelation chapter 14 that they'll have no rest day or night
That they anyway it takes the mark of the beast is finished they're done
They have no they're they're not gonna make it and he says flat out that yes, they can be saved. So
He said and I'll just read it really quickly. I have a couple of minutes here
He said he says yes
He says the question is if you're living in tribulation period can you take the mark in other words you identify with the Beast Empire
You'll still be able to be redeemed and I think the answer to that is yes. Yes
So he emphatically says yes
Look and he has a teaching. I was watching his teaching about the homos being able to be saved
He's the one that had that thing where he's holding hands with the queer in the hospital room or whatever
look
He he's flat-out says in his in his sermon that he says there's tons of homeless at former homosexuals in his congregation
Well, you know what you have fun with that John MacArthur
But we're not gonna let him in here
But see that's the twisted part of Christianity that is that is destroying it and it's no wonder that all these different
All these different churches are letting all these queers in their churches because people like this guy right here
That is sitting there saying that they can be saved that the Greek word means, you know, Minatoia whatever
You know
He's he's going back to the Greek to try to tell you that we should let queers in our church around our children
You know, they're the ones that destroy children's lives
Don't don't forget that
They like to pervert children and that's because they can't reproduce so they got to recruit people
right and that's how they recruit people is by molesting children and
What and and and doing things like that and then they make more queers like themselves. That's how they do it
So John MacArthur
He's been weighed in the balance and found wanting okay
He's not going to heaven and and look if you've listened to him or you think he's a great Bible teacher
You need to turn that radio off
Quit listen to that guy
You know anybody that believes that you have to repent of all your sins
You have to make Jesus the Lord of your life or you can't be saved and you have to show fruits for
Repentance and that you should let the homos in your church. He's a big proponent for the pre-trip rapture
You know
The reason why he believes the mark of the beast you can be saved because he's all messed up on his doctorate on the on the
Pre-trip rapture he thinks it's a seven year tribulation period and how could they be saved?
You know, how can someone you know, how could anybody be saved in the end of the second half of the tribulation?
Well the second half of tribulation the tribulation is over, you know, the great tribulation is over after the midpoint. Okay
So anyway, let's pray Lord. We thank you for this day Lord. I pray that
That you'd help us to rightly divide the word of truth Lord and help us to not get caught up and wrapped up into false
prophets that that want to privily
bring in damnable heresies Lord and
Lord I pray that
That you would just bless this congregation Lord bless the meal afterwards and our soul winning today in Jesus name