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Admin	The Danger of Adding Additional Requirements to Saving Faith Posted : 8 Nov, 2011 08:16 AM The Danger of Adding Additional Requirements to Saving Faith In recent years many Reformed men have been strongly promoting what has been called "Lordship Salvation." Essentially Lordship salvation teaches that simple faith in Jesus Christ is not enough for salvation. Something else is needed. A solid commitment to Christ is needed. A person needs to surrender to the Lordship of Christ. A willingness to obey Christ�s commands is a necessary condition. Also the sinner must fulfill the demands of discipleship or at least be willing to fulfill them in order to have eternal life. We must never forget that a person is saved because he throws himself upon the mercy of a loving Savior who died for him. It is not our COMMITMENT that saves us; it is our CHRIST who saves us! It is not our SURRENDER that saves us; it is our Savior who does! It is not what I do for God; it is what God has done for me. We need to avoid the dangerous error of taking what should be the RESULT of salvation and making it the REQUIREMENT for salvation: It is because I am saved that I surrender to His Lordship. It is because I am saved that I follow Him in willing obedience. It is because I am saved that I agree to the terms of discipleship. It is because I am saved that I submit to His authority over every area of my life. Behavior and fruit are the evidences of saving faith but they are not the essence of saving faith. Don�t confuse the fruit with the root. Because we are justified freely by His grace we measure up to the full demands of God�s righteousness in Christ (2 Cor. 5:21); because we are frail we often fail to measure up to the full demands of discipleship (Luke 14:25�33, etc.). The requirements of discipleship are many; the requirement for salvation is simple faith and trust in the Savior. My commitment to Jesus Christ does not save me. CHRIST SAVES ME BY HIS GRACE. My surrender to His Lordship does not save me. CHRIST SAVES ME BY HIS GRACE. My obedience to His Word does not save me. CHRIST SAVES ME BY HIS GRACE. My love for the Savior does not save me. CHRIST SAVES ME BY HIS GRACE. My ability or lack of ability to fulfill all the demands of discipleship does not save me. CHRIST SAVES ME BY HIS GRACE. My behavior (conduct) does not save me. CHRIST SAVES ME BY HIS GRACE. God�s saving grace is to be found in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. He alone can satisfy God�s holiness and righteousness! Eternal life is not something that we earn or achieve by our faithful living throughout our Christian life. Instead, it is a free gift that we receive at the moment we first believe in Christ. This LIFE is the present possession of every believer: "He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life" (1 John 5:12; all verbs are in the present tense). Have you been justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus? Is your hope built upon what you have done or is your hope based upon Jesus� blood and righteousness? "I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but WHOLLY LEAN ON JESUS� NAME!" May we be standing fully on Christ the solid Rock, not upon the sinking sand of our own fragile commitment. xo Post Reply
dljrn04 View Profile History	The Danger of Adding Additional Requirements to Saving Faith Posted : 8 Nov, 2011 08:25 AM where did you get such a slanderous article, it must be from your own imagination because it has no name on it. I have been in many reformed churches and have never heard of such heresy. The reformed churches preach Christ crucified for sinners, on his blood alone i have been redeemed. I can do nothing. My salvation is all of God and nothing else. Post Reply
View Profile History	The Danger of Adding Additional Requirements to Saving Faith Posted : 8 Nov, 2011 08:35 AM Donna you mean to tell a article has to have a name to be true. Donna we of faith can not agree with any Calvinist opinion's and depart from the living God, in so doing, No man can walk with God in reformation theology. Post Reply

dljrn04 View Profile History	The Danger of Adding Additional Requirements to Saving Faith Posted : 8 Nov, 2011 09:22 AM I do not care what sec you come from as long as you write truth and this article has no scripture or anything giving it authority of truth. I want to know if it is Jude being a slanderer or someone else. Post Reply
View Profile History	The Danger of Adding Additional Requirements to Saving Faith Posted : 8 Nov, 2011 09:44 AM No one exposing Calvinism is a slander. Post Reply
mcubed View Profile History	The Danger of Adding Additional Requirements to Saving Faith Posted : 8 Nov, 2011 05:06 PM I do not know about all about �Reformed�, but what I do know is this type of theology exists among the Church of Christ. I dated someone around 10 years ago who was from this denomination. He and his fellow church members let me know that I must be baptized to be saved and I can not be baptized unless I quite smoking. I was not allowed to be saved unless I was in there eyes worthy of salvation because it was a marriage. I find it so funny when �Christians� will try to �Judaize� and create their own law for salvation!! Yet if one mentions Torah even in the light of salvation is by grace ALONE we are �. (Fill in the blank)�.. it is ever so sad no matter what that people, no matter what nationality, denomination do not get that Y-shua is enough in and of Himself. Really if the blood of the Messiah, the spotless lamb of G-d can not save me nor keep me saved, and then is it not worthless????? One to say such things must to disagree with Him, and say if we get saved right before death we not accepted into His kingdom� how do we have time to do works??.... The answer to that is �. We should all die right after salvation so we can make sure we get into heaven. That is outrageous!!!! Post Reply