The gospel is Jesus death, burial, bodily resurrection

[Cockcrow]

Jesus paid it all, we believe on him and receive the free gift of eternal life, Jesus is the only way, we are saved by grace through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no “repenting from sins” to be saved. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, which means to trust in his death burial and resurrection, and that he alone did the work for our salvation, and now by grace offers eternal life, you must not believe in any of your own works for salvation, all the glory is to Jesus and none is to us.

We are Not saved by works of righteousness (repenting of sins, praying a prayer, asking Jesus into your heart), NO! the Bible is clear that you must believe Christ alone for your salvation, and if you add your own works then it is no longer grace, and you’re not believing Christ.

Jesus paid it all, we just believe on him and receive the free gift of salvation. Nothing we do saves us, you cannot add one work to salvation otherwise it is no more grace. You must trust Jesus alone for salvation.

Some of you may be thinking well duh, but many people today insist on adding their own filthy rag works or their own lifestyle to the gospel, teaching a works based conditional security false gospel, and believe that you must live a certain way to stay saved or do certain works to stay saved, this is calling God a liar because his word says we are saved by believing on the Son, not by works. The gospel is Jesus plus nothing. All glory to our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

[HTacianas]

Jesus paid it all, we believe on him and receive the free gift of eternal life, Jesus is the only way, we are saved by grace through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no “repenting from sins” to be saved. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, which means to trust in his death burial and resurrection, and that he alone did the work for our salvation, and now by grace offers eternal life, you must not believe in any of your own works for salvation, all the glory is to Jesus and none is to us.

We are Not saved by works of righteousness (repenting of sins, praying a prayer, asking Jesus into your heart), NO! the Bible is clear that you must believe Christ alone for your salvation, and if you add your own works then it is no longer grace, and you’re not believing Christ.

Jesus paid it all, we just believe on him and receive the free gift of salvation. Nothing we do saves us, you cannot add one work to salvation otherwise it is no more grace. You must trust Jesus alone for salvation.

Some of you may be thinking well duh, but many people today insist on adding their own filthy rag works or their own lifestyle to the gospel, teaching a works based conditional security false gospel, and believe that you must live a certain way to stay saved or do certain works to stay saved, this is calling God a liar because his word says we are saved by believing on the Son, not by works. The gospel is Jesus plus nothing. All glory to our Lord Jesus Christ.

Decree 2 of the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672

We believe the Divine and Sacred Scriptures to be God-taught; and, therefore, we ought to believe the same without doubting; yet not otherwise than as the Catholic Church has interpreted and delivered the same. For every foul heresy accepts the Divine Scriptures, but perversely interprets the same, using metaphors, and homonymies, and sophistries of man’s wisdom, confounding what ought to be distinguished, and trifling with what ought not to be trifled with.

 

[Soyeong]

Jesus paid it all, we believe on him and receive the free gift of eternal life, Jesus is the only way, we are saved by grace through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no “repenting from sins” to be saved. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, which means to trust in his death burial and resurrection, and that he alone did the work for our salvation, and now by grace offers eternal life, you must not believe in any of your own works for salvation, all the glory is to Jesus and none is to us.

We are Not saved by works of righteousness (repenting of sins, praying a prayer, asking Jesus into your heart), NO! the Bible is clear that you must believe Christ alone for your salvation, and if you add your own works then it is no longer grace, and you’re not believing Christ.

Jesus paid it all, we just believe on him and receive the free gift of salvation. Nothing we do saves us, you cannot add one work to salvation otherwise it is no more grace. You must trust Jesus alone for salvation.

Some of you may be thinking well duh, but many people today insist on adding their own filthy rag works or their own lifestyle to the gospel, teaching a works based conditional security false gospel, and believe that you must live a certain way to stay saved or do certain works to stay saved, this is calling God a liar because his word says we are saved by believing on the Son, not by works. The gospel is Jesus plus nothing. All glory to our Lord Jesus Christ.

In Matthew 19:17, Jesus said that the way to enter eternal life is by obeying God's commandments, so do you believe him or not? In Matthew 4:17-23, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, so do you need that we should heed his Gospel message or reject it?

In Titus 2:11-14, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, so God graciously teaching us to obey His law is itself the content of His gift of salvation. Furthermore, in Titus 2:14, Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so repenting and becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to God's law is the way to trust in what Jesus accomplished through the cross (Acts 21:20).

It is God who commanded His law, so they are His works, not ours. God is trustworthy, therefore His law is also trustworthy (Psalms 19:7), so to rely on God's law is to rely on God, while to speak against relying on God's law is to speak against relying on God. It is contradictory to think that obediently relying on what God has instructed is adding our own works.

The content of a gift can itself be the experience of doing something, such as giving someone the opportunity to drive a Ferrari for an hour, where doing the work of driving it does not detract from the fact that the opportunity to drive it was given as a gift. In the same way, the content of God's gift of eternal life is the experience of knowing Him and Jesus (John 17:3), and the gift of God's law is His instructions for how to have that experience. In Exodus 33:13, Moses wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him His way, and in Matthew 7:23, Jesus said that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him because he never knew them, so knowing God and Jesus is the goal of the law.

 

[d taylor]

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Sadly this message of God's free gift of Eternal Life is not believed by many who probably are at a church every time the door is opened, they probably read and study their Bible daily, they pray and ask forgiveness for sins, etc.., they give money to the church, help out the poor, many are obeying the commandments faithfully, are baptized, etc.... But what they are lacking is, as this verse states plainly You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.

 

[Strong in Him]

Jesus paid it all, we believe on him and receive the free gift of eternal life, Jesus is the only way, we are saved by grace through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no “repenting from sins” to be saved.

Ok - so we are sinners; preferring our own way to God's and disobeying his commands.
How can we believe in, accept and receive Jesus as the Lord of our lives, unless we turn away from our own attitudes and determine to put him first?
How can a Holy God live in a sin stained heart?

you must not believe in any of your own works for salvation, all the glory is to Jesus and none is to us.

Yes, exactly.
But confessing that we have sinned against God is not a work for salvation.
It means that the Spirit has convicted us of sin and led us to the One who can forgive us. It means that we recognise that we have fallen short of God's glory, Romans 3:23.
God has given his free gift - forgiveness and eternal life through Jesus. It is not a work to accept it.

his word says we are saved by believing on the Son, not by works.

Repenting is not a work.
Believing in Jesus means believing in what he said - and he told people to repent.

 

[Cockcrow]

Ok - so we are sinners; preferring our own way to God's and disobeying his commands.
How can we believe in, accept and receive Jesus as the Lord of our lives, unless we turn away from our own attitudes and determine to put him first?
How can a Holy God live in a sin stained heart?



Yes, exactly.
But confessing that we have sinned against God is not a work for salvation.
It means that the Spirit has convicted us of sin and led us to the One who can forgive us. It means that we recognise that we have fallen short of God's glory, Romans 3:23.
God has given his free gift - forgiveness and eternal life through Jesus. It is not a work to accept it.



Repenting is not a work.
Believing in Jesus means believing in what he said - and he told people to repent.

Repentance is not a work, it is a change of mind, but we know that repenting from sins is a work, Jonah 3:10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

There are over 30 times where God repented in the Bible, repent simply means change of mind. the mistake most people make is that whenever they see the word "repent" in the Bible they think it means turning from sins, that is not what repentance is, repentance is a change of mind, or change of direction.

So when people say that repentance means turn from sins, they are adding to the gospel, calling God a sinner, and teaching a works based salvation.

 

[Cockcrow]

Ok - so we are sinners; preferring our own way to God's and disobeying his commands.
How can we believe in, accept and receive Jesus as the Lord of our lives, unless we turn away from our own attitudes and determine to put him first?
How can a Holy God live in a sin stained heart?

We are sinners, Jesus knew this that is why he died for our sins. when people believe on Christ and receive the free gift of eternal life, they are born again meaning given a completely new man who never sins and is sinlessly perfect. however the old man is still there, the flesh still sins, and we have to fight it everyday, Paul made this clear in Romans 7. As long as we are still in the flesh, we will not be sinlessly perfect.

 

[Strong in Him]

Repentance is not a work, it is a change of mind, but we know that repenting from sins is a work, Jonah 3:10

No, it isn't.
The Ninevites repented, they were sorry. And wanted to show just how sorry they were.

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

So it's wrong for us sinners to repent, but ok for God to do it??

There are over 30 times where God repented in the Bible, repent simply means change of mind. the mistake most people make is that whenever they see the word "repent" in the Bible they think it means turning from sins, that is not what repentance is, repentance is a change of mind, or change of direction.

If you change direction, you turn away from something.
We can't change our minds on our own; we can't go from a self centred lifestyle to a God centred one.
Unless we have received God's forgiveness and salvation.

So when people say that repentance means turn from sins, they are adding to the gospel, calling God a sinner, and teaching a works based salvation.

No, they're not.
Jesus told us to repent.
You have just said, yourself, that repentance means a change of direction. We turn away from sin, and turn towards God - THAT'S what it means. Not head knowledge; not "oh, I think sin is a bad idea now."
John the Baptist told people to produce fruit in keeping with repentance. Are you telling me that that, itself, was a sin?

 

[ViaCrucis]

When the Law is preached, it causes grief over our sins, and bears repentance. Though without faith, through the Gospel, repentance is impossible (the Law, without Gospel, only brings grief, guilt, judgment, and condemnation; or worse arrogance, pride, hypocrisy, and increases sin exponentially).

Is anyone saved by their repentance? No.
Does salvation bring repentance? Yes.

Without repentance we choke out faith. Without faith we are dead in our sins.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[effrem]

look this is easy

faith without works is dead

that means

works is the SIDE EFFECT of having "faith"

works has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with "salvation"

it is instead a Big Christian Dog Whistle; it's how you find your tribe of believers