The Gospel: The Essentials of Faith--Part 3. (Part 5)

The Essentials of faith (Part 3)

Man’s Additions:

• We must believe to be saved and in addition repent to be saved (repent means to change your mind)

• To believe means to commit

• Believe means to make Christ Lord

Synonyms for faith

• Drinking, John 4:13-14

• Eating, John 6:54

• Believe suggests appropriation (not commitment), Numbers 21:6-9; John 3:14-15

Errors in ‘Lordship’ teaching

• It confuses justification with sanctification.

• It confuses in terms of glorification.

• It denies the reality of carnality.

• Many exhortations in Scripture are meaningless if Christ must be Lord.

• Discipline is rendered meaningless.

• Fails to maintain the distinction between the kingdom and heaven.

• Becoming a disciple is not the same thing as becoming a Christian.

*Making Christ Lord is not a condition of salvation. It is a result.