Beware!
"Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness." 2Pe 3:17
The following are quotes not supported by Scriptures - yet taught as if it were true! Here is a just a sample:
Bob George: "And as Paul said, 'All things are permissible, but not all things are profitable.' SO IS COMMITTING FORNICATION PERMISSIBLE? YES. Is it profitable? No, it isn't"
Charles Swindoll: "Regardless of how you choose to live, you can't live so bad that God says to you, "you're no longer mine." -Charles R. (Chuck) Swindoll, Shedding light On Our Dark Side
"You may deny Him, but He will never deny you." -Charles R. (Chuck) Swindoll, The Problem of Defection
"Christ's blood has cleansed us from our sin, we are gloriously free - free to please Him. But we don't have to. Charles R. (Chuck) Swindoll, The Grace Awakening
"But a salvation that includes human achievement, hard work, personal effort, even religious deeds distorts the good news because man gets the glory, not God." -Charles R. (Chuck) Swindoll, The Grace Awakening
"Somehow they are hoping God will smile on them if they work real hard and earn His acceptance; but that's an acceptance based on works. That's not the way of grace." -Charles R. (Chuck) Swindoll, The Grace Awakening (Compare: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. -Peter, Acts 10:35)
"There is no external proof of salvation or spirituality...the reality of our faith is internal. It can be seen - and judged - only by God." -Charles R. (Chuck) Swindoll, The Grace Awakening Bible Study Guide
"In other words, salvation is not by faith alone...[ellipsis in original] it requires works. Human achievement must accompany sincere faith before you can be certain of your salvation. We continue to hear that "different gospel" to this day and it is a lie". It is heresy." -Charles R. (Chuck) Swindoll, The Grace Awakening
"It [grace] means I'm free to choose righteousness or disobedience. If I choose the latter I will have to take the consequences: mental anguish, a guilty conscience, hurting and offending others in the Christian community, and bringing reproach to the name of Christ." -Charles R. (Chuck) Swindoll, The Grace Awakening
"Preaching grace is not only risky, but the fact that some take it to an unwise extreme is proof that a minister is indeed preaching the true grace of God...if you think you are really preaching grace yet no one is taking advantage of it, maybe you haven't preached it hard enough or strong enough." -Charles R. (Chuck) Swindoll, The Grace Awakening
Charles Stanley: "The debate is over whether or not a man can be on his way to heaven one minute and on his way to hell the next. To answer that question, we must understand exactly what sends a person to hell. As we have seen, sin alone is not enough. . . . It takes more than simply sinning to get to hell. . . . It is not lying, cheating, stealing, raping, murdering, or being unfaithful that sends people to hell. It is rejecting Christ, refusing to put their trust in Him for the forgiveness of sin"
Stanley Quote: "... there are Christians who show no evidence of their Christianity."
Stanley Quote: "When He died on the Cross, He took care of all of our sin. You say, 'You mean to tell me that if a person takes their own life, after all these things that you just talked about, all these sins, that that person is forgiven?' Yes! A believer who commits suicide is 'already forgiven'. Now I didn't say it was going to be good for him, but he is forgiven in advance. Pardoned of that sin. No matter what you do as a Child of God, you are forgiven. Murder, stealing, adultery, worshiping idols....all forgiven in advance!"
Stanley Quote: "Even if a believer for all practical purposes becomes an unbeliever, his salvation is not in jeopardy. Believers who lose or abandon their faith will retain their salvation. A Christian who at no point in his entire life bore any eternal fruit would remain secure in Christ!"
Mark Driscoll:"Let me tell you this...You're a sinner, I'm as sinner, I'm no better than you are, we're all sinners. We sin with our words, our deeds and our motives. We have sins of omission, where we don't do good -- we have sins of commission, where we do do bad, we're all sinners."
Mark Driscoll: "If you confess your sins to Jesus and place your Faith in Him, and His death, burial and resurrection is credited to you, there is this great exchange. He takes your sin and God's angry wrath, and He gives you His righteousness and God's unending love -- that's the exchange...then through Jesus, God is not angry with you."
Ray Comfort: "I'm not exaggerating but my heart is deceitfully wicked. When a friend says to me I'm have such a battle with sin, will you pray for me. I tell him, why not swap brains with me for an hour and you'll be pleased to get your back! I know my heart is desperately wicked, nothing in me dwells no good thing!"
"You are Born Dead in your Sins under the Curse of the Law
Christ Came, Paid your Fee, Took Penalty, Removed Curse. (He went to Jail for you!)
You Trust in His Provision, admit you're a sinner and Soundly Saved. (Released from Jail)
Now law makes no Demands or no further Condemnation. (Moral Requirements not a necessity)"
David Wilkerson: "When Jesus reconciled us to the Father at the cross, it was for all time. That means if I sin, I don't have to be reconciled to God all over again; I'm not cut off from the Lord, suddenly unreconciled." March 20, 2000 Times Square Pulpit Series, entitled "Shall We Continue to Sin" See also: Wilkerson
Richard Warmack: "You and I enter into this promise, what - there is therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, were not even condemnable ... you say, well, we sin grievously, yes we do, but listen, Christ bore our sins in His body on the tree, which ones? ...all of them! And for that cause since God condemned sin in the person of Christ what can it not be for those whom He represented?....there's no possibility of condemnation....we can never be brought back under the guilt, defilement or penalty of sin because the penalty was paid in full when our blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ cried, "it's finished," it was done!"
Lutzer Quote: "But I'm convinced that those who have trusted Christ are in heaven today even if they die with the sin of murder on their conscience."
"We may disobey and He will discipline us, but He will never cast aside." -Erwin Lutzer, You're Richer Than You Think
"Recently I spoke to a homosexual who believes he accepted Christ at the age of twenty, only to plunge into a life of wanton immorality... Whether or not he was a child of God during those days of heedless carnality (who of us knows for sure?), he lost fellowship with his Father." -Erwin Lutzer, How You Can Be Sure That You Will Spend Eternity With God
"Christians differ, some are carnal and some are godly. But there is no difference so far as acceptance is concerned." -Erwin Lutzer, Failure The Backdoor To Success
"There are certain temporal penalties that we need to pay for our sins or crimes that we commit. If you hate a person, you will also have to pay the penalty that hatred brings with it. ...But Christ has redeemed us from the eternal penalty of our sin. Our place in Heaven is assured; our rights before the throne uncontested." -Erwin Lutzer, How You Can Be Sure That You Will Spend Eternity With God
"I am convinced that those who have trusted Christ are in Heaven today even if they died with the sin of murder on their conscience." -Erwin Lutzer, How You Can Be Sure That You Will Spend Eternity With God
"Christians can be deceived and live like the 'sons of disobedience'...struggle with sexual addictions, or Christians who are greedy and idolatrous. We've all known Christians who live with these sins...Christians can do evil deeds and be caught in terrible sins. Some die in such a spiritual condition...If Paul meant that those who practice such vices will not enter the kingdom, our own assurance of final salvation would be in constant jeopardy." -Erwin W. Lutzer, Your Eternal Reward
"Of course there might be backsliding and struggles with sin, for believers are, as Luther said,
'simultaneously saint and sinner.' But there is a change in our affections. We now love God." -Erwin Lutzer, How You Can Be Sure That You Will Spend Eternity With God
"Neither their past- good or bad, or their present determines whether they will be welcomed into heaven." -Erwin Lutzer, You're Richer Than You Think
"...though we personally are not righteous, we nevertheless are accounted as such...It is also that God looks at us as if we have lived lives of perfect obedience. He sees us as being loving, submissive, pure." -Erwin Lutzer, How You Can Be Sure That You Will Spend Eternity With God
Tony Evans: "A fleshly or carnal Christian is caught between two worlds. He believes Christ is real and genuinely believes in His sacrifice on the cross. Even so, he clings intentionally to his worldly ways... though he is saved." -Anthony T. (Tony) Evans, The Carnal Christian
"But believers who turn away from God can become so hard other people can't win them back, and their lives may end in spiritual ruin as far as their earthly service is concerned- even though they are saved." Tony Evans, Totally Saved, Moody Press, 2002
"We sin everyday in thought, word, and deed." -Anthony T. (Tony) Evans, Totally Saved
"When you're saved you may do the same sin you did before you were saved." -Anthony T. (Tony) Evans, Totally Saved
"...saints who act more sinful than sinners even though they are on their way to heaven." -Anthony T. (Tony) Evans, Free At Last
"Believers are called saints sixty-six times in the new testament. We may be carnal saints, defeated saints, and even sinning saints. But we're still God's 'set-apart ones.'" -Anthony T. (Tony) Evans, Free At Last
"For the Christian, fruit is not a salvation issue, but a fellowship issue." -Anthony T. (Tony) Evans, Totally Saved
"We can choose either 'works of the law' righteousness or 'by grace through faith' righteousness to be acceptable to God." -Anthony T. (Tony) Evans, Totally Saved
"It is possible to be on your way to heaven but be of no earthly good because you compromise your faith." -Anthony T. (Tony) Evans, The Carnal Christian
"Nobody is born a drug addict or a homosexual. Christians may be performing in these unacceptable ways, but that's not who they are. It's an identity issue." -Anthony T. (Tony) Evans, Free At Last
"A fleshly or carnal Christian is: ...clings intentionally to his worldly ways...has the mindset, motivation and methodology of sin...the kind of person who, while stealing a car, would kill the woman sitting in it...a born-again Christian who knowingly, willingly, intentionally and persistently lives to please and serve self rather than Jesus Christ." -Anthony T. (Tony) Evans, The Carnal Christian
"Jesus said in Matthew 8:12 that the sons of the kingdom are cast in outer darkness at the start of the kingdom banquet. That is, they were not admitted to the banquet to enjoy this thousand-year party called the kingdom. They're still saved people, but they are the ones whose works burned up at the judgment seat of Christ and so they have nothing to present to Him from their time on earth. Their judgment is to be put outside, not of heaven, but of the kingdom banquet. Jesus said this judgment would cause "weeping and gnashing of teeth." This isn't the suffering of hell, but the anguish of those who miss the greatest party of all time and eternity.: Tony Evans, Totally Saved, Moody Press, 2002
Mike Fabarez: "If you are a child of God, God will get you. If you're on a particular path of Sin -- the Sin that so easily entangles you -- He will get you to stop. Okay.... He will. He will get you to stop. Because the last step of discipline, as I said there in 1 Corinthians 11, Verse 30 is death. Does that sound weird and harsh? I know it is from our perspective, but God will even take your life, that if you continue in a particular Sin, God is going to get you to stop it one way or another and He will use discipline to get it done and the ultimate tool in his arson el is to take your life from this planet."
Paul Washer: "And you need to know this, if it weren't for the common Grace of God, restraining you in your unconverted state, you would make Hitler look like a choir boy. What we do not understand is what Scripture teaches about men -- men are evil!--The first thing you must embrace is this...all men are born in sin and given over to sin and all men are born hating God."
John MacArthur: "Yes, someone says, but can't Christians put themselves outside God's grace? What about those who commit ABOMINABLE SINS? Don't they nullify the work of redemption in themselves? Don't they forfeit the love of God? CERTAINLY NOT .... it's preposterous to think that we can forfeit it [salvation] BY ANYTHING WE DO"
John MacArthur's Ministry: "Secondly, you asked about occasional SEXUAL SIN or getting drunk. Again, THESE SINS CANNOT CAUSE A TRUE BELIEVER TO LOSE HIS SALVATION"
John Ankerberg: "But CHRISTIANS may still lose rewards in heaven. Indeed, we can only wonder what some Christians will feel like and experience on that day when they lose those heavenly rewards because of the spiritually numbing and other consequences of FORNICATION or ADULTERY while on earth? It will certainly be an infinitely poor exchange -- losing eternal rewards in heaven for a few fleeting moments of sexual pleasure on earth"
Dave Hunt: "Salvation is the full pardon by grace from the penalty of all sin, past, present or future ...."
Charles Ryrie: "... sin does not cause us to lose our salvation."
Robert Morey: "The eternal security of the believer arises out of the necessity and nature of the atonement .... That the saints do not ultimately fall away from grace or into sin does not mean that Christians don't fall into sin many times in their lifetime. Abraham lied, David committed ADULTERY and MURDER, and Peter denied the Lord!"
Richard Warmack: "Listen, because they are one with Christ in the view of God's law and justice, this morning, if your in Christ, you have perfectly satisfied every single solitary demand of God's justice in the person of your surety and substitute the Lord Jesus Christ, you have kept the law. Most people told you all your life, 'the only way you going to go to heaven is by keeping the law' and they were right, you've kept it. You say, 'oh no I haden't', ohhhh yea you have, in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ."
Richard Warmack: "It's impossible, you hear me? It's absolutely impossible for anybody whom God loved before time to finally and ultimately be lost --- thats how secure our Salvation is."
Adrian Rogers: "If you have been born again, you are part of God's family regardless of your behavior." Taken from Adrian Rogers' weekly newspaper column.
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"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; -1Ti 4:1
