Mark 7:7-9, “Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.”
Acts 15:1, “And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.”
In his YouTube presentation titled, “WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?,” Church of Christ Pastor Don Blackwell errantly teaches that repentance unto salvation includes three things:
- a change of mind
- godly sorrow
- a change of life (fruit of repentance)
SOURCE: 'What Must I Do To Be Saved?,' by Pastor Don BlackwellKindly, Mr. Blackwell makes the same theological error that so many other Bible students make, which is to expand on the simple biblical meaning of “repent” (Greek noun: metanoia) concerning salvation, which means “a change of mind. Pastor Blackwell is guilty of embellishing the true meaning of repentance in the Bible. The Greek verb form of “repent” is metanoeo, which means “to think differently.”
The Bible does not require sorrow over sins to be saved. Sorrow is not repentance, it is penitence. I love this helpful quote from Pastor Brad Strand...
True repentance has nothing to do with “turning from sin” and everything to do with “acknowledging one's sinfulness” (Jonah 3:5). Like the thief on the cross who simply acknowledged his sinfulness (Lk 23:39-43), the only part a person has in salvation is the beggar's part.SOURCE: Pastor Brad Strand, “The Strand Study Bible,” p 1939
Yes, bravo Brother Strand!
Repentance doesn't require “a change of life” as Don Blackwell and Pensacola Christian College (PCC) errantly teach. ...
Screenshot From Campus Church at PCC on July 21, 2021
Again, Church of Christ pastor, Don Blackwell, defines repentance exactly the same as PCC, saying: “a change of mind produced by godly sorrow resulting in a change of life.” As I have just shown you dear friend, that is the same damnable heresy taught at Pensacola Christian College (PCC) today. May I say truthfully, genuine repentance results in believing the Gospel, it doesn't result in a change of behavior. Behavior modification is NOT part of the new birth, not can it be at any time in order for eternal life to remain a free gift from God. Romans 5:18. “Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.” I love that, the Bible even calls eternal life “the free gift”!!!
Pastor Jack Hyles, in his classic sermon titled, "A Burden Versus A Call," rightly explains in the following excerpt that the proper order of getting saved is: FACTS, then FAITH, then FEELINGS. First you have to know the facts. Then you have to put your faith (reliance) in those facts. And then after you are saved God gives you the feelings.
The Bible plainly teaches in Romans 3:19, “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.” All that God requires of someone to be saved concerning repentance is that you become guilty before God. You've got to know what you're being saved from. You are a guilty sinner and there is a penalty for those sins (Romans 6:23), which is death. This includes the second death where you will burn in Hell forever (Revelation 20:11-15, 21:8). When you repent, you change your mind from what you want to do to get to Heaven, to what God says you must do to get to Heaven. Hebrews 6:1 calls this “repentance from DEAD WORKS.”
The Bible plainly teaches in Romans 3:19, “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.” All that God requires of someone to be saved concerning repentance is that you become guilty before God. You've got to know what you're being saved from. You are a guilty sinner and there is a penalty for those sins (Romans 6:23), which is death. This includes the second death where you will burn in Hell forever (Revelation 20:11-15, 21:8). When you repent, you change your mind from what you want to do to get to Heaven, to what God says you must do to get to Heaven. Hebrews 6:1 calls this “repentance from DEAD WORKS.”
A changed life is the fruit of the indwelling Holy Spirit, if we walk in the Spirit. Galatians 5:16, “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.” If a lost sinner comes to Christ and gets saved, but then doesn't choose to Walk in the Spirit, they will languish in carnality and sin, but that has nothing to do with their eternal security. One saved, always saved!!! To have eternal life is to have eternal security. They are the same doctrine!
I am very disappointed and disgusted with the Sword Of The Lord in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, because they are wickedly bidding Godspeed to PCC in their publication each month. When Dr. John R. Rice started the Sword, it was with the intent to fight the good fight of faith. Dr. Rice wasn't correct in all his doctrinal positions. For example: He taught that Brooke Westcott and Fenton Hort (who are considered the fathers of every modern Bible revision) were saved and sincere men. We know for a fact today that they were unsaved reprobates. Pastor Max D. Younce (1935-2023) exposes Westcott and Hort for the infidels they really were (this shocking information should send chills down your spine). This Bible study lecture is part 4B of a 16-part series titled, "King James Bible—Still The Best."
I fully agree with this helpful definition of Lordship Salvation by Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold...
“Lordship Salvation is the unsupportable and unbiblical belief that the performance of good works, the promise of good works, or the evidence of good works, must accompany faith in Christ to establish or provide evidence that such faith has resulted in eternal life.” —Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold, “Jesus Versus John MacArthur”If a changed life is necessary for the new birth, then eternal life absolutely cannot be called a “free gift” (Romans 5:18). Tragically, what Don Blackwell and PCC are errantly teaching is exactly what Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Roman Catholics and Seventh-Day Adventists falsely teach about repentance, all requiring that YOU turn from your sinful behavior to get to Heaven. The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.
My friend, salvation is a new birth—a supernatural miracle of God in response to a man's faith in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ (John 1:12-13). Salvation is instant, just as the physical birth is instant. You get saved immediately by faith in Christ (which is justification - Galatians 3:26), but becoming Christlike takes a lifetime (which is sanctification and service - Romans 12:1). One thing has nothing to do with the other. God wants every human being to make two decisions:
- SALVATION - The first decision is whether you will receive the only begotten Son (John 3:16), Jesus, the Christ (John 20:31), as your personal Savior (John 1:12-13).
- SERVICE - And then for those who do receive Him as Savior, God wants you to decide to become Jesus' disciple, to follow Him as Lord no matter what the cost, to pick up your cross and serve Him all your life (Romans 12:1-3). This second decision is NOT necessary, required or allowed to be saved. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do.
My favorite preacher quote is from Pilgrim's Progress book author, John Bunyan...
“If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the man Christ without and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the Word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the Word of God, and cast stumbling blocks before the people.” —John Bunyan (1628-1688)
Bravo John Bunyan! In other words, we absolutely must maintain theological separation between SERVICE and SALVATION, because they are two different matters. I love the following helpful quote from Pastor M.R. DeHaan (1891-1965)...
"There is a vast difference between coming to Jesus for salvation and coming after Jesus for service. Coming to Christ makes one a believer, while coming after Christ makes one a disciple. All believers are not disciples. To become a believer one accepts the invitation of the Gospel, to be a disciple one obeys the challenge to a life of dedicated service and separation. Salvation comes through the sacrifice of Christ; discipleship comes only by sacrifice of self and surrender to His call for devoted service. Salvation is free, but discipleship involves paying the price of a separated walk. Salvation can't be lost because it depends upon God's faithfulness, but discipleship can be lost because it depends upon our faithfulness." —Pastor M.R. DeHaan, “Hebrews”; Zondervan Publishing House; 1959 (p. 117)
Oh how I wish and pray that today's incompetent pastors would begin to study, so that they could rightly divide the Word of Truth (2nd Timothy 2:15).
Tragically, most preachers succumb to ecclesiastical peer pressure. That is, most preachers are reluctant to stray away from what most other preachers are preaching, lest they be rejected, ridiculed and shunned as being ignorant. Sadly, the common consensus today is that repentance means to turn away from your sinful past ways, to commit to stop living a lifestyle of sinning anymore, and to submit to follow and obey God's will instead of your self-serving sins (that last statement is an exact quote from PCC's Campus Church). That may sound good to the carnally-minded man, but it is totally unbiblical.
I live in the city of Pensacola. In my mailbox today I found an envelope from Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College (PCC) with my address and the words “To Our Neighbor” on it. I opened the envelope and inside I found a booklet of John & Romans. The booklet has 64 pages in it. The Campus Church logo is printed on the front cover. I was shocked on page 60 when I read PCC's counterfeit plan of salvation. What I am about to show you is straight from Satan dear reader:
“REPENTANCE — Now is the time to turn from your sin and embrace God. The act of turning away from sin is called 'repentance.' This word implies an inward decision to follow and obey God's will instead of your self-serving sins. It means changing your mind about sin and seeing it as something that grieves God. The Bible says that God patiently waits for all people to make this decision.”Do you still think I bumped my head? What you just read is a counterfeit plan of salvation. Nowhere in the inspired Holy Bible are we taught to “turn from your sin” to be saved. Wicked false prophets ADDED those words. What saith the Scripture? Proverbs 3:5-6, “Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.” Pastors' Jeff Redlin and Timothy Zacharias at PCC's Campus Church are LIARS! Church of Christ Pastor Don Blackwell is a LIAR! Evangelist Ray Comfort is a LIAR!
SOURCE: “John & Romans,” Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, p. 60
I've been exposing the cult at Bob Jones University (BJU) since 2014, and now I have been exposing the cult at Pensacola Christian College (PCC) since 2021. By God's grace, I will continue to expose these wicked organizations. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!
Many preachers are teaching a false plan of salvation today, turning salvation into a reward, an exchange or a process. Dr. Steve Pettit at BJU has sinfully turned going to Heaven into a process. This is commonly known as the heresy of “The Perseverance of the Saints,” popularized by Dr. John MacArthur and originally taught by heretic John Calvin (1509-1564). Salvation is received, not achieved. Eternal life is a free gift, paid for by Jesus' precious literal blood, which has been sprinkled on the Mercy Seat in Heaven (Hebrews 9:12, 22-24; 10:1, 12:24).
I am saddened that the pseudo-Christian cults have infiltrated the Bibles colleges who train tomorrow's church pastors. PCC sends out thousands of incompetent graduates to corrupt and destroy churches with a counterfeit gospel. Turning from your sinful bad habits is not a part of the simplicity that is in Christ. True repentance has nothing to do with “turning from sin” and everything to do with “acknowledging one's sinfulness” (Jonah 3:5). PCC gets repentance wrong, agreeing with the hellbound Church of Christ cult. Woe unto the PCC cult.
God knows that I love everybody at PCC and Campus Church, but they don't love God or truth. They are worshipping God in vain in their manmade doctrine and false hope of eternal life. Mark 7:7 and 9, “Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. ...Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.” PCC are merely playing church, leading people into Hell with a false gospel.
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