Hey, what's up guys, so I'm here with pastor Jason Robinson from Mountain Baptist Church. How's it going, man?
How's it going? Good to see you. Hey, man. It's going great. Glad to have you on here. So
We're gonna be reacting first to Alan Parr's video
You said you haven't heard of Alan Parr? No, I haven't heard of him.
So yeah, man, this video is called many Christians will go to hell because of this
I've got news for you many
Professing Christians who go to church every Sunday who give money to their church and probably were raised in a Christian home
Unfortunately on Judgment Day are gonna sadly find out that they are going to hell and my friend
It is very possible that you watching this video right now very well may be in that number
Now that opening was not meant in any way to spark any sort of fear or shock value in you
But the reality is that Jesus said that one day at judgment. He's gonna say depart from me. I never knew you now
That's not the passage of Scripture that we're gonna look at in this particular video
But what I believe is happening in our society today is that we are placing such a huge
Emphasis on just believe believe believe and let me be very very clear
Believing in Jesus Christ is the only prerequisite for being a Christian
the question is what does it actually mean to believe and what does it actually look like to believe and
Is your belief consistent with your behaviors?
Because James says that if you have faith without works, that is a dead faith
so I believe that there is another passage of Scripture that we're gonna dig into today in this particular video that if it was
Explained to more people who say they want to be a disciple who say they want to be a Christian
before they actually walk down this road if they were to truly think about it and try to
Understand whether it is they want to take this step
I think we'd have a whole lot less false conversions and a whole lot less people who are
Deconstructing their faith. Let's jump in beginning in Luke chapter 14 verse 25
It says this now great crowds were traveling with him now. Let's just stop right here
We're gonna break this passage of Scripture down. I want you to visualize this for just a moment. You may have to close your eyes
So the first thing that he says at the very beginning of this video
Is true meaning that most there's a lot of people that profess that think they're Christians think they're saved and aren't actually saved
Right, so that's true
But the funny part is is that he brings up he brings up Matthew chapter 7 where it says
He's gonna say depart from me. I never knew you but in that passage it actually
explains that
Not not everyone that said to me Lord Lord to honor in the kingdom of heaven
but he that doeth the will of my father which is in heaven and
Then it said
Then that they will say many will profess unto me in that day
You know Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out devils and then thy name done many
Wonderful works and then while I profess unto them. I never knew you depart from me eat the work iniquity
But when you look up what the will of the Father is and John's John 6
It says this is the will of him that sent me that
Everyone would see at the son and believe it on him may have everlasting life and I'll raise him up at the last day
and
He's gonna go in to I'm sure in this video and basically try to say well you have to have works in there with that faith
whereas Matthew 7 the first verse he's using is
actually proving what we believe which is that it's by faith alone and not by works and
The people that are gonna actually be departed
You know that Jesus is gonna say depart from me are those that are trying to put works in with their salvation
so but I just wanted to preface it with that is that this guy is like
Obviously going James chapter 2 taking that out of context and we could talk about that too if you want
But you know one and see what he's gonna what he has to say about Luke 14 here
Yeah, and I was just gonna say that
You know
Obviously works justify us but before who before man because man can't see our faith
So works aren't gonna justify us before God
Well in James chapter 2 and and that's a definitely a true statement what you just said there
but what I believe James chapter 2 is talking about is the fact that can faith save him is talking about
Judgment without mercy because in that passage it talks about
That you shall have judgment without mercy if you show no mercy and mercy rejoices against judgment, then it goes on to say
You know
What that the prophet my brethren though a man say he has faith and have not works conveyed save him
from what from judgment without mercy which is getting into the fact of
You know if your brother or sister be destitute of daily food, and you basically tell him go be warmed and filled
Unless you give them those things which are equal to the body and he's basically saying it's not profitable
So what we're talking about in James chapter 2 is profitable faith and unprofitable faith
But in
Specifically what it talks about is Abraham which says that Abraham believed God and it was imputed on them for righteousness
And he was called the friend of God
And I don't know if you remember the verse
But you know a big verse in John about being God's friend is you're my friends if you do whatsoever
I command you so the prerequisite to being God's friend is being saved
So believe on my eyes not shall be saved but to be the friend of God is
another step on top of that where now I need to have the works that are yeah in that and
They're obviously looking into the passages and say it says saved
Therefore it must be talking about eternal salvation
Yeah, exactly when it's not even talking about your spiritual salvation at all. Same thing with
Ephesians or
Philippians chapter 2 when Paul says work out your salvation with fear and trembling, right?
It's not talking about your spiritual salvation. It's talking about that physical, correct, right? That's right
Yeah work out your own salvation with fear and trembling
You got to get top context on that passage as far as are we talking about physical salvation or eternal salvation?
And and so those are like two big passes
I think Philippians 2 and James 2 are the two ones that everybody is trying to take and try to take
physical salvation
And pull it into eternal salvation. Yeah, let me ask you this, you know when it comes to James chapter 2
It likens faith without works is dead
To the body without the spirit is dead
But just because the spirit doesn't have the body does that mean that that person that body isn't real
No, it's not only that person. No, right and that's what they try to say is they try to say
Well, if you don't have works and it's not true faith, it's not real faith
It's like well, he's not real then yeah
Right. They'll do the same thing with
Matthew
When Jesus is talking about the tribulation and he says he that endures till the end will be saved
They think it's talking about a spiritual salvation, but it's talking about making it through the tribulation physically
yeah, because in context right after it says he that endureth unto the end the same shall be saved later on it says
Except those days should be shortened. No flesh should be saved and that is a perfect example of salvation being
Defined as physical salvation. I mean, I don't know how much more clear it could be in that passage that
Physical salvation when it says flesh shall be saved. So but yeah, that's a great example
Yeah, I mean at the end of day
We have to be able to rightly divide the word of truth and and be able to discern what is what?
Yeah, is that cool if I get back into it, yeah, yeah go for it sweet
And I want you to imagine this huge crowd of people who are traveling with Jesus and basically they've heard about what he can do
they've heard about him raising the dead and
healing the blind and and healing the sick and doing all these different things and
And maybe they're following him because they want to see a magic show maybe they're following him because they need something from him
They want to be healed
They want their their their family members to be healed or whatever it is
But what Jesus is getting ready to say in this passage?
He is going to separate the committed from the crowd and I want you to ask yourself
While you're going through this passage with me, are you just part of the crowd of people that are following Jesus?
Or are you part of the committed that Jesus is going to explain and describe here now
Let's keep going now great crowds were traveling with him. So he turned and said to them if anyone comes to me now
Let's just stop right there
Because what we see here is that whatever Jesus is gonna say next he is applying it to anyone and everyone
who says they want to be a
follower of Jesus a
Disciple anyone who names the name
Christian he says what I'm getting ready to say is what I am requiring of somebody who says they want to be
Disciples because oftentimes we think oh, you know what I can do this because I'm not a pastor. I'm not a minister
I'm not a missionary. I'm not this I'm not in ministry
Oh, no, no, no what Jesus get ready to say is it whatever it is. I'm applying it from the pulpit to the puke
Okay, let's just see what he says the first quality of a disciple
Somebody who says they want to be a Christian is that they elevate their faith over their family notice
It says here if anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother wife and children
Brothers and sisters and later on it says he cannot be my disciple. So Jesus is basically laying it down here now
I want you to understand that the way Jesus is using the word hate here. He's not talking about
Seeing somebody in a negative light he's basically using hyperbole to set the bar so high that he's basically saying
How you see me and everybody else there should be such a huge gap between your faith and every other
relationship so much so that
comparison
so he on
One he's not using the King James Bible, but yeah
He's all he's already showing you that he doesn't actually believe what mark words mean
So when it says hate
It means hate. Okay, right now when you look at this passage here
And we can get into what he's been big misunderstanding is his disciple doesn't equal saved
Okay, the first thing to mention here is the fact that Judas is called a disciple and yeah
In John chapter 6 that that Judas was never a believer that
That have I not chosen you 12 when one of you is a devil and I said that he knew from the beginning
Who would not believe on him? So Judas was called a disciple yet. He never believed
So the idea of equating disciple with believer is a false equivalence. Yeah
But then Luke chapter 26 here what it says if if any come unto me
Who come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters
Yea in his own life also
He cannot be my disciple, but then it goes on whosoever doth not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple
If you go to Matthew where this is quoted, it'll say
Whosoever loveth father mother going down the line more than me
Cannot be my disciple. There's two different categories here. There's two different circumstances. Okay?
Matthew is dealing with the typical case where
You have an unsaved family member or you have a saved family member and you were to love God more than them. Okay?
Luke chapter 14 is dealing with what if what if one of your family members was a hater of God and
There's actually cases in the Bible where you have like Abigail whose husband was a child of the devil, you know
It calls him a son of Belial
The Bible says do not hate them
Oh Lord that hate thee and am I not grieved with them that rise up against thee and it says I hate them with perfect
hatred
so if a family member was a hater of God and
You're not willing to hate that person
then you're not you can't be a disciple and
So there's two different circumstances that you're dealing with and the Matthew
Circumstances the typical like every day like probably most of the case you're gonna be dealing with that one, right?
You're not dealing with reprobates all the time
but
In this case, I believe hate means hate
But I don't need to hate why would I need let me ask you this?
why would I need to hate my wife if she loves the Lord and
She's following the Lord and she's doing what you know, she's doing you should be doing and she's following me
That doesn't make any sense, but if you're dealing with like a navel like Abigail situation
then that does make sense that you would have to do that because
It the Bible says in 2nd Chronicles 19 2 it says shouldest thou
Help the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord
Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord
But this is a common thing that most people that claim to read Christians don't understand it
There's a time to hate and there's a time to love and we need to rightly divide the word of truth to understand that
So the thing that's interesting about this guy is that he's he's coming at he's basically saying, you know
most people don't they don't actually look at what the Bible teaches on this and he's
Automatically taking the Word of God and then just saying well that word hate there doesn't actually mean hate
Why is it there? Yeah, it actually means like loveless
And listen I've heard say people do that too
So I'm not saying like just that means he's unsaved if he's doing that, right?
The thing is is that if you're gonna say like hey, you need to hold to what the Bible says
Then you know what words have meanings and if you're gonna say listen
it says that in English and guess what it says in the original language to there's no difference and
It's just interesting that he's doing that but obviously it's a false equivalence on the cycle anyway
So this passage is not talking about salvation. It's talking about
being his disciple so
You can't do that. If you're not willing to follow him holistically
And be able to either love your family less than him
Or in some cases, which probably everybody has a family member somewhere out there, you know
Some distant cousin or something like that that hates the Lord that you would have to even go that far
So yeah, that makes perfect sense
so
Well, let's actually go to the Greek
To me
It seems as though you hate these people because you're so prioritizing your relationship with me. And so listen
You might be in a situation where it's difficult to share your faith with your family or your friends or you might
Risk embarrassment or shame or whatever and Jesus is saying if you want to be a disciple
you have to be willing to elevate your relationship with me with Jesus Christ and
That has to take preeminence over every single other relationship the person that you're dating even the person that you're married to
every other
Relationship quality number two if anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother wife and children brothers and sisters
Yes, even his own life he cannot be my disciple so now he's talking about sacrifice over self-centeredness
You see there's this tendency in our lives to want to do what we want to do and to do our will
but Jesus is saying I am calling anyone who wants to be a disciple to a life of
Surrender a life of sacrifice where we constantly put down what we want in
Exchange for what God wants but see what we want to do is we want to compartmentalize our lives
We have certain things that we say. Okay God, I'm gonna give you control over this. Oh, but not over this, right?
I'll let you control over my money. I'll give money to the church
Oh, but I don't want you to control my my sexuality or my dating relationships or my marriage or what?
You know you may want me to do with my career or my money
So so it's like we're got one foot in but there's some areas of our lives where we're just not willing to surrender and he
Says if you want to be a disciple
What I'm calling you to is a life of total and complete
Surrender see this passage. It needs to be explained to new Christians
So that they know exactly what they are getting themselves into and what they are signing up for from the jump
Let's keep going quality number three pain
Now notice it says here
So he said he says, you know, it's a life of sacrifice, right?
That's what he's looking for. And if he's equating this to salvation
then that's blasphemous because the Bible says that Jesus is the sacrifice is his body was offered at sacrifice once for all and
To try to say that that our sacrifice is a part of our salvation is complete
Blasphemy when when you look at Jesus and what he did
Saying like it. Well, it's Jesus sacrifices enough
we got to sacrifice our life and this is that typical lordship salvation where it says what we need to give our life we need to
Surrender our life to Christ for salvation. It's like well, no, it says for God so loved the world that he gave
His only begotten son that whosoever believed in him should not perish but everlasting life
And I don't remember ever reading where it says I I have to give my life to him for salvation
Actually, see it's the complete opposite, but this turns into a boasting
I mean ultimately if you are sacrificing your life and you are the one that's that's a part of your salvation
then you have room to boast and this obviously is what he's getting into but
Anyway, I just wanted to mention that because it I mean Hebrews
I mean if you read Hebrews and then came out thinking that I need to sacrifice
Myself or my life for salvation. I mean it nails that in Hebrew chapter 10 that he is the sacrifice once for all
Yeah, yeah
What what's that verse that says he who sacrifices his life shall have everlasting life
Yeah, I I can't remember that one. It must be it must be in second hallucinations
Hey
Here
Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple
You see in these days there were a lot of people who were losing their lives because of their faith and here's the reality Saints
Jesus for most of us is not even calling us to a life where we might be in jeopardy of
Losing our lives or being a martyr
He is just simply saying you know what in this life there's gonna be pain there's gonna be difficulty there's gonna be humiliation
There's gonna be shame. There's gonna be suffering. There's going to be all of these there's gonna be loss
There's gonna be financial struggles. There's gonna be marital stress strain and struggles
But see the issue for many of us because we're not taught this because we've been fed this cotton candy gospel this watered-down
Version of the gospel the secret sensitive type of gospel this gospel from the church and from the pulpit
Oftentimes where they're afraid to mention sin, they're afraid to call out certain things
They're afraid to challenge people to go deeper in their faith. What happens is when these things come into their lives
They're disillusioned and they don't know what to think because they've been fed this lie that
Everything in their life is going to go well and as a result whenever pain comes whenever it's time for them to carry their own cross
Over the past six months we have been investigating as well as exposing the truth behind all these food processing plan
They want to shake their angry fists in the face of God and
Ultimately leave the church and ultimately leave the faith and Jesus is saying hey look
I'm actually calling you to a life that is going to include pain
difficulty and hardship number four
Relationship over religion notice he says here whoever does not bear his own cross and come
After me or another version says follow me cannot be my disciple now
Do you see the strong language that Jesus is using here?
Cannot be my disciple
So he's inviting us to a to a relationship with him
Not just religion. He says you have to follow me
What does that look like that means spending time with him?
That means praying that means fasting that means trusting that means learning that means obeying that means worshiping
all that means putting our
trust in him
See what religion is okay. Let me go to church. Let me give some money
Maybe let me
You know hang out with some Christian friends or whatever know that those are all
Religious activities what Jesus is calling us to is a life of intimate fellowship with him
I'm not the one that writes. He says look if you don't come after me and follow me in relationship
He says you cannot be my cycle number five commitment over convenience
Let's see what it says, but don't begin. I'm reading this from the New Living this time until you count the cost
I love this. He says hey
He's reading from different translations like several different translations throughout the thing so he's not just reading one
This is a typical move by by these these new evangelical type of
Crowd it's just like well, I like the way the NLT says it, you know
Yeah, like the way the NASB says it over here. It's just like whatever whatever verse fits
Whatever they're trying to say more make whatever narrative
I was gonna say too. I remember one of his videos
He said he's not a five-point Calvinist, but I think he might have said a three-point Calvinist
So always at now, but here all I just wanted to say that let me get back to it. Okay
This is what I've been getting to this entire video
He says don't even start down the road of saying you want to be a Christian
You want to be a disciple of Christ he says don't begin until you think about it until you consider
until you count the cost of what might be required of you as
A fully devoted follower of Jesus. That's why I said this passage needs to be taught to every single new believers
matter of fact, if you have a friend who just got saved within the last year send them this video and
Make sure they watch this so that they are not
Disillusioned about what it means to truly be a Christian
Let's keep going for who would begin
Construction of a building without first calculating the cost to see if there is enough money to finish it
He says who does that who starts building an entire building only to realize they don't have enough money to be able to finish it
Nobody does that instead what we do is we look at the bank and we say, okay, you know
In fact, we've got banks that approve us for loans to make sure that we don't do this
Make sure we have the money we have to count the cost
We have to consider it and what Jesus is saying is hey
I'm calling you to do the same thing with regards to your relationship with me
He says otherwise you might complete only the foundation before running out of money and then everyone would laugh at you
They would say there's that person who started that building and couldn't afford to finish it Wow
Isn't that what we see today?
So many people starting down the road of building their faith
Only to leave it partially built. I believe the word that we call that is deconstruction. I
Believe that we would have less stories of deconstruction today if on the front end of someone's conversion
We clearly taught them what it means to be a disciple
I'm gonna get in trouble for this
I'm gonna go ahead and say it anyway
If you're a church leader watching this I want you to ask yourself the question as new people come into your church and they get
Baptized are you explaining to them?
What it means to be a Christian or are we just simply trying to get them into a small group or getting to serve a church?
Which is nothing wrong with that
But they need to know
What is required of them as a Christian before they move on and finally number six
usefulness over
uselessness
Notice he says here salt is good for seasoning
But if it loses its flavor, how do you make it salty again?
Listen salt in those days was used as a flavor enhancement
Now I'm just gonna be honest with some of y'all need to use some more salt and yes in your food. Okay, man
Okay, but we're gonna move off of that. Okay, listen
Salt changes the flavor
Salt was also used as a preservative in either case
What is he saying salt change is a change agent when you put salt on stuff stuff starts changing taste starts changing
Right, and he's saying in the same way
That's why he says we are to be salt because we are to be change agents
But instead and far too often we are not changing the culture around us instead
We are being changed by the culture that is around us and jesus is saying here if the salt
So talk about stretching it, you know as far as what that's talking about, yeah, so let me
He uses these terms like relationship
Yeah, and and uh, basically religion, but he doesn't define it with the bible
See if you're going to talk about relationship, why don't you talk about the fact of a father-son relationship?
Or you know god the father and and the children of god
Which is the fact that except you be born again
You cannot see the kingdom of god and the bible says as many as received him
They them gave you power to become the sons of god even to them that are his disciples. Is that what it says?
No, actually it says to them that believe
on his name
And then it says you're all the children of god by faith in christ jesus nowhere in there does it say anything about uh, you know
Any of these things that he's trying to state as far as being a disciple
Actually when we're talking about being a disciple that goes back to john 15 where it talks about being fruitful
And then you know you're my friends if you do whatsoever I command you that is being a disciple that is not
Being born again being born again is by faith alone in jesus christ
And then he talks about religion
But you know what the bible actually defines pure religion in james chapter one
Which is to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction
So if you're going to talk about religion and say well, let's put let's pit religion against uh against relationship one
You want to talk about relationships show me that chapter verse in the bible
Doesn't exist now, obviously, you know
Relationship we can say that there's a father-son relationship, but that word isn't there
So if you're gonna if this guy is going to try to say well, we need are you showing are you showing your your congregants?
You know what? Uh what the bible says about this? It's like well show me chapter and verse on relationship
Now maybe it's in the nlt somewhere, but you know what they also add
Repent of your sins and turn to god
Yeah all over the place and they're just adding to the word of god
But you know in the king james bible, I don't see have a relationship with jesus
Yeah, actually the bible teaches that it talks about fellowship with god
but fellowship with god
Is being a disciple that is something that has nothing to do with whether we're saved or not
That has to do with whether you're walking in the light or not
and
You know what? I have five children
And my children are going to be my children and there's nothing they they can do about it
There's nothing I can do about it, right? There are my children biologically
But the fellowship of father and child father son father daughter can change depending on whether they're
Keeping my commandments whether they're doing what they should be doing and that fellowship can change but guess what that that?
That relationship of a father son father daughter will never change and you know what when we get saved we're born again by faith
So so when your kids misbehave you don't just put them in the oven
Just put them in the oven
Right exactly
Yeah, no, but the lord loveth gave me chasteness and scourges every son whom we receive it and you know
The bible says he that spares his rod hated the son and so um that same relationship of you know
My children and me as their fathers is the same type of relationship we have
With our heavenly father, but it's just funny how they they try this guy's trying to say well
You know, I wish someone would teach that you know, what's funny about that though
yeah, is that our type of churches that believe that salvation is by faith alone in jesus christ and the
Preaching that harder than anybody else
That you need to like like we were talking about with luke chapter 14
I believe that there's actually people that are maybe family members that you should hate
And you can't be a disciple of jesus unless you hate them. That doesn't mean that you're not saved
It doesn't mean that you're not a child of god
But you can't claim to be his disciple if you're not going to hate those that hate the lord
and
this guy would
Would probably balk at that and say well, no, we should never hate anybody
You know, even though in psalm 139 it says that we should well, that's old testament. See that doesn't apply anymore except for luke 14
Yeah, apparently that's the testament, isn't it?
And I noticed too that you know the new independent fundamental baptist churches like yours, you know people in there
You know, obviously they believe that they're saved by
the grace grace only right by faith or through faith and you know
They do a lot of works. They probably do more works than
These people that are preaching to workspace salvation
Yes, that's what's funny about it. Is that you know, we go out soul winning every single week and
We're getting close to having a soul winning time every single day of the week
And I know other churches that have that I know faithful word has that they have probably more than one every single day of the week
And you know as far as fulfilling the great commission getting people, you know saved getting them baptized
But then also discipling them and we have we have multiple people in our church that uh, we want to christ out
Soul winning in our in our area that come to church got baptized and are actually out soloing as well
and
You know what? That's
That's the work of the lord
But it's interesting that I didn't need to preach that they needed to surrender to life to go to heaven
That they didn't need to start adding works to their salvation, you know
To go to heaven, you know, it's it's interesting how that works because actually you know why they go
Because they love the lord
Yeah, because it's not about them
Uh receiving salvation. It's about them actually actually caring about people and loving the lord
So yeah, that's actually the the way that god has designed it to be so
Yeah, if it was if it was like oh i'm gonna lose my salvation
Like you would just dread doing that you're like, oh I have to do it because if I don't i'm gonna lose my salvation
You want to do it because you love god
Like when I go out soul winning I do it because I want to do it, you know, like not because
I'm gonna just lose my salvation
I mean in the end, you know
Of some having uh
of some having compassion making a difference and
the idea there is that
There's many multiple reasons why you'd go out soul winning why you'd want to go win people to christ
One of one of the reasons is that you care about people and you don't want to see them go to hell
Another reason would be that jesus deserves
For people to get saved and you know, you want to you want to see him be glorified in any way that you can
um, but
Yeah, it's it's very interesting that uh the same people that preach this type of surrendering your life and you have to be a disciple
to be saved
They end up watering down
What the bible actually teaches about being a disciple they end up
And they almost have to right because if that's a requirement if that's like really a requirement as far as for salvation
They have to water it down because listen
none of us
Are ever going to to actually uh walk in the spirit and be a disciple
24 7 right and never mess, you know, I mean like and just follow all the fatigue, right?
We're constantly falling. We're constantly messing up. We're constantly having to get back on track. Yeah, and
you know
When you realize that that's not talking about salvation
Then it's something that you can strive for and say hey, you know, i'm going to mess up
But you know what? I'm going to keep getting better
I'm going to keep trying to go for it
I'm going to press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling on god christ. Jesus
But as paul says in philippians chapter 3
I have not attained
you know
the idea is that they it's almost like
If you think that's a part if you think that's how you get saved and you're you think you're saved and that's that's how you're saved
Right there then you straight up attained
You know, I mean like you're picking up your cross daily. You're you're you know, you know
I mean like you're doing everything you're the soul of the earth like you're all the time
Like you never stop being the soul of the earth. You never you're never not picking up your cross
Like yeah, it's it's uh, it's foolishness to think that um anybody
Is actually living that
Right my basis like I had somebody tell me real quick before we get back to it. I had somebody tell me
Uh, was it yesterday
that
They have fully surrendered and I was like really so you haven't told a lie
You haven't uh, you haven't sinned you haven't missed church. Uh, you haven't missed prayer. You haven't ever missed reading your bible
No, I haven't. Well, you know, well, I haven't sinned willfully
Oh, you know what? You're delusional. You're just puffed up full of pride and you're a liar
Yeah, I mean
And I know you probably heard this verse a million times talking about this issue
But you know the bible says if we say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves
But you know what another thing to go with that is the bible says wherefore let him that thinketh
He stand to take heed lest he fall
And all these people that think that they're standing there
Like take heed lest you fall those it's funny the people that claim that are the worst offenders
They're the worst offenders. They're always the ones that are in the worst of
When they're claiming to be like
Somehow attaining until earlier than now
All right back to this here. All right, we got like
Three minutes. Oh is not performing its job of changing the atmosphere and changing the situation
He says what good is it?
How do you make it salty again?
as a matter of fact
There's a secondary use of salt
In those days they would throw salt on a pile of manure
To keep the weeds from growing up and jesus is basically saying I can't even use you for that
Notice it says here. He says here flavorless salt is good neither for the soil
Nor for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He says look
Not only can I use you not for to change and and for the seasoning and all that stuff
I can't even use you for the most basic thing
Which is to throw salt on a manure pile and keep the weeds from growing up
He says anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand now my friend listen
I know at this point in the video you might be scared you might be thinking
Listen, this video was not intended to spark
Crazy fear in you to make you question your salvation. No, no, no, but it was intended as a heart check
as a warning
And for some of you watching this video, it should create some fear because if you've gone most of your life
And if you're being honest with yourself just honest
You have no relationship with jesus
You may call out to him whenever you need something or you pray whenever something's in trouble
But but let's be honest. You you don't really read your bible. You don't really pray
And you're really not going to church and it hasn't just been that way for a short season
This has been a consistent theme of yours for most of your life
This video was intended for you this passage of scripture was intended for you
Because it's intended for you to take a close look at your life and ask yourself the question. Am I really a christian?
Because the answer to that question could determine your entire eternal destiny
And if you want to be a christian
The only prerequisite is that you believe on the lord jesus christ and thou shalt not be
And thou shalt be saved but that belief my friend
should be
a byproduct a natural byproduct of your belief should be
Followed up with changed behavior and a desire to be
A disciple a fully devoted follower of christ
so I pray that
as you
Take a look at your life
You'll use these six principles
To guide and assess where you're at on your journey of being a disciple of jesus
And if you're a church leader, I pray that you would use this passage as scary as it may be and it might scare some people
away
But I pray that you use this passage to truly communicate what it means to be a disciple of christ
I'll see you in the next video. Bye for now
So so in the end he's saying it's just believe but
Now the thing is is that he says this should
This should happen
Well, I agree you should
But does that mean it will
See, there's a big difference between should and will right or not, right and so
You know the bible says that god has created us under the good works which he had before ordained that we should walk in them
Right, and so when it comes to this
When it comes to this is that we get saved by faith or by grace or you saved through faith and that
Not of yourselves get the god not of works of sending men to bows
but we should
Walk, we shouldn't do good works. We should walk in him
and
You know, he talked about the soul of the earth
And he kind of went rogue on that when he was talking about like that means that you need to be making change, you know
well
uh, it's funny because I was just reading through proverbs and it's talking about like
Not meddling with people that are given the change
So I just made me think of that guy but but the and in matthew chapter five when it talks about the year of the soul
of the earth
But if the salt had lost its savor wherewith shall be salted
The bible talks about it says let your speech be always with grace
seasoned with salt
That you may know how you ought to answer every man
And so when you're talking about salt, I believe it has to do with what you're saying what you're preaching, right?
Um, you could also look at that if you're coupling it with being the light of the world
Right because if you're light of the world you are the light of the world
And it says let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven
so obviously being the soul of the earth being the light of the world I do believe is
You know, it is linked with being a disciple right but again the false equivalence of
saved
and being a disciple
That that that whole video could just be summed up in that that he's making a false equivalence
And judas would be
The nail in the coffin that you can't do that. You can't say because he didn't believe he was saved. He didn't believe
I'll give you another example of
Where a disciple doesn't mean you're saved act chapter 19
act chapter 19
it's it's it
Literally the narrative the narrator saying that that paul that apollo's and paul
I don't want to misquote it so I want to look it up real real quick here
um
You know that ray conference favorite disciple is judas i'm not even kidding he made a video
That's weird how how fitting
That that that would be his favorite disciple well
Well, I mean, that's just uh, that's that's uh, that's too much man. That's that's too on the nose. My good night
But in verse one of chapter 19 of ax it says and it came to pass that while paul's was at quorrent
Paul having passed through the upper coast came to ephesus and finding certain disciples
Okay
They find certain disciples
Find certain disciples
And it says and he said unto them have you received the holy ghost since you believed and they said unto him
We have not so much as heard whether there be any holy ghost
So let me ask you a question just off that that phrase right there
Do you think these people under do you think these people are saved?
No
And it goes on to say and and he said unto them unto what then where you baptized and they said unto john's baptism
Now what's interesting about that? Is that every passage that you look at where john is preaching he's talking about the holy ghost
He's basically saying I baptized with water
But he that cometh after me is going to baptize with the holy ghost
And they're basically saying we don't even know there is a holy ghost
Not even not like have you received the holy ghost? We don't know we received it
They're like, we don't even know if there is one right right and then it says that you know, he preached
paul said
uh said
then said paul john barely baptized with the baptist of repentance saying
Unto the people that they should believe on him that you come after him that is on christ. Jesus
And then they ended up getting baptized
Because they weren't believers
But they were called disciples weren't they?
so
That's interesting because judas was called a disciple. He was actually one of the 12 disciples
So anyways, like was he really a disciple was he really called a disciple?
I mean, he was one of the 12 literally listed. He was called an apostle. He's called a disciple. You know, I mean like
Uh, so you can't get around that and so when someone I would say this when people are trying to use those passages
Where it talks about being a disciple
You have to understand that just because someone's a disciple doesn't mean that they're saved
And just because someone's saved doesn't mean that they're a disciple
yeah, so
um, you know
I would say the majority of people that are saved aren't actually disciples
And that's the sad truth, but it's like the it's like the 10 lepers that got cleansed
How many came back?
one
And I think that's a good representation of percentages of people that get saved
And people that actually come back and glorify god with their life, right?
And yeah
And and I just feel like everybody's you know, obviously different not everybody's gonna glorify god in the same manner
Like somebody else is gonna glorify god more than the other person, you know, not everybody's the same
Well, yeah, and well and here's the thing
The bible teaches that there's going to be better resurrections and that the resurrection is likened unto
the glory of stars and it says one star difference in glory because some people
Are going to be like the thief on the cross that maybe gets saved at the end of their life
And they don't really have any time to do anything for the lord
And then you're going to have people that live their whole life living for the lord
Or you're going to have people like paul that persecuted those that were believers and then he was on fire for the lord
After that, yeah, and
So you're going to have all kinds of different circumstances
Obviously, I believe every believer should try to do as much as they can for the lord
but um
But we can't force anybody to do that and i'm not going to try to force anybody to do that
As much as I can't force anybody to get saved
I definitely am not I can't force them to live for the lord and actually, you know, do what they should be doing but
Yeah, man for sure and uh guys also be sure to subscribe to pastor jason robinson's youtube channel
I'm going to leave the link to that in the pinned comment down below show him some love support him and his church
And I appreciate you doing this video man. Yeah, it's fun, man