How's it going everyone? So Mike Winger put out this video and
it seems like the intent behind it is to make people doubt their own salvation if they fall under a
particular category of sin and you can see for yourself what I'm talking about
I'll play a segment of it here in a moment
But to me this video demonstrates that Winger doesn't understand the gospel at all
Ephesians 5 5 says that the sexually immoral will have no place in the kingdom of God yet later Ephesians says we're saved through grace
through faith. Is this contradicting? So, I mean obviously, no, I'm gonna tell you I don't think it's contradicting
Let's read Ephesians 5 5. For you may be sure of this that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure
or who is covetous, that is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God
Yeah, but weren't a lot of the Ephesians in the church, weren't they?
Didn't they do that stuff?
How do you reconcile this with how you're saved? By grace.
You reconcile by saying, look, even if you're a sexually immoral person
you are not saved by stopping your sexual immorality
But if you are saved you are indwelt with the Spirit and God does a work in your heart
You have genuine belief in Jesus, a real attitude for his lordship, and a work of the Holy Spirit in your heart
You're not going to just continue in the same sin to the same degrees. He talks about also this term
He uses this term fuzzy zone
Which that is not found in Scripture anywhere. I don't know what the hell that means
But let's talk about Ephesians 5 5 for a moment here. I'll read it for you in an actual Bible. The Bible says
For this you know that no whoremonger nor unclean person nor covetous man
Who is an idolater hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. So what the Bible is saying here is that
Those who are a whoremonger or a covetous man who was an idolater, unclean
Basically people who fall in these categories are not going to go to heaven. To that I say amen
That's true. A passage like this is no different than
Revelation 21 8 which says all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone
Which is the second death. All of us have lied at least once in our lifetime
And so that would make us all sinners
And so we deserve to go to hell. If you fall into that category or one of the categories brought up in Ephesians 5 5
There's other passages like this with a list of sins, and it says those people aren't going to go to heaven
They'll end up in hell. If you fall into one of those categories all that does is
Underscore the importance of believing on the Lord Jesus Christ to get saved. When I go out soloing I read Revelation 21 8 every time
Just to demonstrate that hey, we're all sinners deserving of hell and we need a Savior. Those who fall into the Ephesians 5 5
Category, they need to believe on Christ to be saved. There's also another
dimension to this that
Winger completely omits from his video which is the distinction between the flesh and the spirit. The part of me that is
Going to heaven is sinless. It's not a liar
Has never committed sin ever it is a sinless
Regenerated spirit the new man that will end up in heaven
My flesh will just go into the ground and my flesh will be regenerated at the future resurrection
Which comes you know when the Lord Jesus Christ returns for the second coming of Christ
You know the Apostle Paul said in Romans chapter 7 in verse 18
For I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing for to will is present with me
But how to perform that which is good I find not so in my flesh there is no good thing
That's where sin emanates from and my flesh is not going to heaven. It's my
Regenerated spirit that actually, you know will end up going to heaven
That's the part of me that is sinless and doesn't fall under any of the Ephesians 5 5 or Revelation 21 8 or any of those
Other categories that scripture brings up. I think that my my own understanding of this theologically is this
for you to consider
Consider two clear categories and then two fuzzy categories of people a Christian
Who's clearly a Christian as far as you can tell you've real strong reason to believe they're Christians an unsafe person who's clearly unsaved
Okay, you've got them then you have these other categories where you've got like a person who?
Claims to be a Christian, but they're really not saved and
Then there's a person who claims to be a Christian
They're they're safe, but you but you can barely tell right like they're in that fuzzy zone now
Am I saying that your your sin made you unsaved?
No, I'm saying your sin reveals that your claim to believe in Jesus is not genuine. You don't have real faith
So there's this fuzzy zone where Paul just warns people he goes
Hey, look if you're in this zone, like you're in the scary zone get over here where your life is clearly in Christ
Because you're scaring me
a lot of pastors feel compelled to
Tell everybody who's even remotely in this group that they're all saved and this is very heartwarming and I feel the compulsion
I want to tell you that but I don't think it's biblically true
I think it's okay to be a little scared sometimes because your life style is contradicting your claims of faith and go
Yeah, I need to get serious about Jesus Mike winger
Evidently doesn't understand the old man versus the new man
and if he does he's deliberately misleading his audience and I think it's a wicked video that he put out because
The intent behind it clearly is to make people believe they may not really be saved or that they're in a fuzzy zone
Well, you know what the Bible never uses that term ever
First Corinthians 1 18 it says for the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness
But unto us which are saved it is the power of God. So you're either
Saved or you're not right there isn't like this weird
Fuzzy zone John 3 18 says he that believeth on him is not condemned
But he don't believe it not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God
336 it says he that believeth on the son hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the son shall not see life
But the wrath of God abideth on him you've either believed or you have not believed if you believed you have eternal life
present tense if you have not believed then
You're on your way to hell
You will go to hell when you die unless you repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
And of course, I mean turn from unbelief to belief when I use that word
But this video that winger brings up there that he put out rather it just goes to show you that
He doesn't understand the Bible. He doesn't understand the gospel
He struggles to reconcile Ephesians 5 5 with salvation by grace through faith because of the fact that
He just clearly doesn't believe evidently that salvation even is by faith
You know Ephesians chapter 4 brings up the old man and the new man
And it says that you put off concerning the former conversation the old man
Which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts and be renewed in the spirit of your mind that you put on the new man
Which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness
So it's a commandment of God to put on the new man
The Bible says walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh
We're commanded to put on the new man. We're commanded to walk in the spirit and
If you do that well, obviously
You'll be doing things that are good, you know
You'll be exhibiting the fruit of the spirit and against such there is no law the Bible says but no one does that all the time
Right. It's a constant struggle. Now. The Bible says abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul
So we're fighting in a sense against ourselves every day
It's a constant struggle in the Christian life the flesh versus the spirit and just because an individual
Happens to be walking in the flesh
Perhaps all the time or most of the time that doesn't mean they're not really saved
It just means they're not utilizing the spirit inside them and they're not walking in that spirit at all
Mike wingers video in my mind is wicked as hell
Its intention is to make people doubt their salvation or feel like they're in an in-between
Zone or something like that where they may not be saved and I'm here to tell you there is no such thing as a fuzzy
Zone, you're either saved or you're not you've either believed on the Lord Jesus Christ or you haven't and if you believed on Christ
The Bible says but to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly
His faith is counted for righteousness. If you believed you are righteous. You have the imputed righteousness of Christ
You're sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. You have everlasting life
You will end up going to heaven no matter what Mike winger is wrong
First John 3 says beloved now are we the sons of God? You're a son of God right now
There's no in-between. There's no maybe about it. You can have certainty
You can know first John chapter 5 that you have eternal life
So that's all I have for this video
Obviously Mike winger is teaching heresy in that clip and just be aware of these YouTube teachers out there
Who you know, they want to present themselves as experts or something like that when they don't even understand basic doctrine like
salvation and it's really it's just too bad because a lot of people are gonna get deceived by that video and
Many will walk away
Doubting their own salvation or even believing that salvation requires works requires a turning from sin
Requires you you know not to commit
Specific sins that maybe Jesus won't save you if you're a fornicator or something like that, even though first Corinthians 5
Literally refers to a fornicator who committed that sin with his dead father's wife
And yet the Bible says he saved his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus direct quotes. So, you know
just make sure you actually appeal to scripture when it comes to these issues and
Don't be led astray by these wicked
YouTube personalities who have no idea what they're talking about. There is no fuzzy zone. You're either saved or you're not