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Thank you Pastor Yankee for this message straight from God's word. Too many even in Independent Fundmental Baptist churches have allowed teachings in part of Calvinism, Armenianism concerning salvation. Thank God it's all because of what Jesus Christ did in our place that saves us forever never, never anything we much do obtain it, keep it or anything else. It's all because of God's wondrous grace. God bless you brother and continue to proclaim the message of wonderful gift of salvation God, he has freely given to all man.
Thank you Mr. Arnold for this clear message on Salvation. Listening from Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Wonderful pastor with the Gospel.🏆✨ Greetings from Eastern Washington.
Also from Washington
@amyunick5674 Blessings neighbor 🏡🌿
Great message! Thanks Arnold 👍🏽
Jesus Christ is Lord! Thank you, Holy Jesus!
Best Bible Teacher and Gospel Preacher on earth! Much love and God Bless Yankee Arnold Ministries ❤ all the way from Tucson Az USA 🇺🇸
-Eddie&Raquel
Thank you Pastor Yankee from the southern part of little ol' New Jersey!! Through you, my family has received God’s true gospel!! So many pastors complicate the message and lead people into dreadful darkness. You explain so concisely, in your own special way, the good news to ALL, who put ALL of their FAITH in the ONLY ONE who can SAVE US! Praise be to our King, Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!!! I look forward to the day I can rejoice with you in Heaven!!! Why? BECAUSE I KNOW I'M GO'N!!! Have a blessed day! Love you!
If anyone found this video helpful, please also search out Pastor Thomas Cucuzza, from Northland Bible Baptist Church and Pastor Jesse Martinez from Bibleline Ministries (Where Pastor Yankee was the head pastor!!). Both have helped us immensely with the understanding of scripture that unfortunately has been interpreted in a way that promotes the heresies of Calvinism, Arminianism and Reformed Theology. I wish all of you a Blessed Christmas and a wonderful New Year!!
God Bless You In Jesus Name Pastor Yankee Arnold, thank you for sharing the best message, clearly, biblically, I am grateful for the Lords Work in You Brother! ❤ 1:37
Preach it Brother for another decade!
This is the most beautiful thing in the Bible ❤. Thank you for sharing.
The Gospel that saves us today given to us by the Apostle Paul by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)😊❤❤❤❤
Greetings from South Africa, Dr Arnold! I have been so blessed by your ministry as well as that of Dr Cacuzza and Jesse Martinez. My youngest son will be visiting his father in Antigua in the new year. Can you perhaps direct him to a gospel preaching church there?
Hello, from the USA. God bless!
Jesus Christ is Lord!
They say "turning from sin" saves a person, but we've already done it. We've already sinned. That means we need a Saviour. As you accurately preach, it's impossible for us to be saved by "turning from sin" because that is what we are--sinners. It's like commanding a dog to meow and expecting it to take on the characteristics of a cat, but he's a dog and a dog barks and acts like a dog because, well, he's a dog. Shocker.
Thanks for your messages. I have to listen to the truth repeatedly to renew my mind with the truth of the Word due to having been a child who was made to stumble by ravening wolves preaching false gospels, having been tormented by them, in some way, for many years.
I accepted the true gospel of Jesus Christ (faith alone in Christ alone) in 2015; however, I often am seized by fear and OCD which developed from the damage done from the lordship heresy. I'm having to repeatedly fill my mind with the truth. Some chains have already been broken such as, I no longer fear hearing "turn from sins" to be saved because I'm now solid in believing that it's a lie. I'll have periods where I have such a fervor to speak the truth and then I'm spiritually attacked (oppressed) with depression, OCD, and other things which cause great hindrance. If you see this, prayers would be deeply appreciated.
Thank you for your service in the Lord's army. ♥
Greatest man of God
GRACE! GRACE! OSAS!
THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL
OF SALVATION!
1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-4,
ZECHARIAH 4:6-7,
MATTHEW 6:14-15,
KJV
BELIEVE & FORGIVE!
RECEIVE & LIVE!
FOR EVER!
SAVED! REDEEMED!
SEALED! FORGIVEN!
ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED!
JESUS MESSIAH IS LORD.
Amen amen and amen I sure wish I'd had found you earlier in life GOD BLESS YOU 🙌 yeah unfortunately most of Christiandom todays teaches a false ditlffernt gospel and false teaching on Salvation period. 😊❤❤❤❤
"If only the Lord can save you, how does He tell you when He quits saving you?"
This is the "million-dollar question". This is what brings crippling fear and anxiety. If you're in a false doctrine of works, you _don't_ know. That's the terrifying thing, you don't know. So you exhaust yourself by working and striving, and when you see the times that you blatantly fall short, you freak out because the times you fall short keep adding up and up and up, and you never know when God draws the line.
But the truth is, He doesn't draw the line with our works or lack thereof. The truth is He offered His only begotten Son as payment for our sins and that by simple faith in Him alone, we are forever His, period.
amen and ditto. i have heard so many self identified christians share the Gospel, BUT THEN ADD "repent of your sins" "commit ones life to Jesus" for SALVATION (neither of which are supported by any verses). SMH
Hello Yankee! I got one of your pamphlets in the mail called "Am I going to heaven." Is it okay for me to copy it and hand it out? Otherwise, I would be happy to buy some from you.
@@graftme3168 go to the store on yankeearnold.com. I would prefer that in order to protect its clarity and quality. Thank you, Yankee.
1 Timothy
2 : 3 to 6
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
4 Who will have ALL MEN TO BE SAVED, and TO COME UNTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH.
5 For there is one God, and ONE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MEN, the MAN CHRIST JESUS;
6 Who gave himself a RANSOM FOR ALL, to be testified in due time.
Luke
10 : 21, 22.
21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast HID these things from the WISE and PRUDENT, and HAST REVEALED THEM UNTO BABES: even so, Father; for so it seemed GOOD in thy sight.
22 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
To answer the question about on "why are there sooo many people that believe in calvinism?", the answer is found in Luke 10 : 21, it clearly demonstrates that to the "wise and prudent" the mysteries of God have BEEN HID, it has been hid to those "wise" people that teach calvinism, predestination, DISPENSIONALISM and original sin, you must be a "wise and learned" man to know of these "rudiments and doctrines interpretations by learned men of god", these men, being "prudent" by NOT antagonizing "the safe & popular interpretations of the so called doctrines of god" (doing it for their own bellies sake), but, what does the Bible say in the same verse? That these mysteries have been revealed to the BABES, revealed to infants, babies, newly saved people, those, that like babes or small children BELIEVE in the SIMPLICITY OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST FOR THE SALVATION OF THEIR ETERNAL SOULS, WITHOUT COMPLICATED DOCTRINE COMING FROM "learned wise men, doctors of the faith, even, the "church fathers"(roman catholic augustine, athenesious of the athenesian creed among other roman catholic canonized saints), calvinism IS one of those wicked complicated doctrines.
Be a BABE, when it comes to salvation, "I am saved because The Holy Bible told me so, by Faith ALONE in JESUS, HE who died in the cross for ME period, NOTHING ELSE WILL DO, I AM SAVED BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN JESUS FOR MY SALVATION, THE NAME OF JESUS GIVEN TO MEN, NOT GIVEN TO ANGELS NOR DEMONS TO BELIEVE IN , ONLY GIVEN TO MEN FOR THE SALVATION OF THEIR SOULS ".
AND THIS IS THE SIMPLICITY OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST JESUS, SO SIMPLE, THAT EVEN A CHILD CAN UNDERSTAND IT......
DO NOT BE PART OF THE FALLING AWAY FROM THE FAITH & THE SIMPLICITY OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.....
What's wrong with dispensationalism? It's merely how God related to man through the different ages. It's how God progressively revealed Himself and His plan through the ages. The apostle Paul mentions the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as the dispensation of the current age of the Church. Many people misinterpret prophecy because they don't understand this.
@graftme3168
Dispensionalism lies:
Dispensionalism lie number 1:
The Postponement of The Kingdom!.
-Dispensionalism lie
number 2:
The Church and Israel ARE DISTINCT.
-Dispensionalism lie
number 3:
Paul preached a different gospel than JESUS CHRIST.
-Dispensionalism lie
number 4:
There is MORE than ONE GOSPEL.
-Dispensionalism lie
number 5:
Nations JUDGED BY HOW THEY TREAT THE jewish PEOPLE.
-Dispensionalism lie
number 6:
A future "jewish" temple with animal sacrifices will be required by god.
I hope this has been of help, so, the brethren, can open their spiritual eyes wide open and reject wholeheartedly the lie of dispensionalism and teach the young upcoming generations in the churches, the Right and unaltered Gospel of Jesus Christ and the coming events and it's CORRECT interpretation found in the book of Revelation.
To God be ALL The Glory!!!!
Revelation 2 : 9
“I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I KNOW THE BLASPHEMY OF THEM WHICH SAY THEY ARE JEWS, AND ARE NOT, BUT ARE THE SYNAGOGUE OF satan.”
QUESTIONS TO ASK CATHOLICS
-Who came into the world to save sinners, Jesus or Mary?
-Who is the sinner's best friend?
-When Mary and Jesus were on earth, did Jesus invite sinners to come unto himself or to Mary for their salvation?
-Does the Bible show anywhere a sinner afraid to go to Jesus, and in turn asks Mary to approach Jesus to help him out?
-The thief on the cross next to Jesus, did he do well to talk to Jesus or to Mary standing at his feet?
-If Jesus loved sinners more than Mary did when He was on the earth and since Jesus is up in Heaven now, has He lost any of that superior, divine love and mercy that he had for lost sinners?
-Then, if Jesus is my best friend, why shouldn't I go directly to Him instead of Mary?
-Why should anyone go to someone who is inferior in power, love and mercy for my salvation?
-And if the RCC teaches you that mary is the mother of God and all wise, then, why don't you obey her and " do everything that He (Jesus) tells you to do" like she instructed people to do while she was alive?
-Jesus NEVER revered mary nor called her "mother", but instead chose to call her woman.
1 Timothy
2 : 5, 6
5 For there is ONE God, and ONE mediator between God and men, THE MAN CHRIST JESUS;
6 Who gave HIMSELF a ransom FOR ALL, to be testified in due time.
Acts
4 : 10, 11, 12.
10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the NAME OF JESUS CHRIST of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
12 Neither is there salvation IN ANY OTHER: for there is NONE OTHER NAME under heaven GIVEN among men, whereby WE MUST BE SAVED.
Romans 3 : 4
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when THOU ART JUDGED.
@condorcondorito2303 There may be hyper dispensationalists that believe there were two different gospels, but the conservative ones don't.
The Church and Israel ARE distinct in some ways. If you ever saw two plants grafted together, they both remain what they were, but they share a root. The Church did NOT replace Israel. It is clear that God still has a future plan for Israel. God turned toward the Gentiles because Israel rejected Christ, but clearly He still intends to keep His promises to Israel.
Los doctrine amounts to fatalist nonsense.
Both preach Christ regardless
Of doctrinal differences
And God added to the church
Daily such as should be saved
Acts2v47
There can absolutely be NO difference in doctrine when it comes to the Gospel! Without having the Gospel right, you have absolutely nothing and you're wasting your time trying to live a "Christian" life. The Gospel is the foundation that EVERYTHING else is built on, and there is no other. You MUST have the Gospel right. Calvinists and Arminians do not believe the Gospel message of eternal life by grace through faith in Jesus. If it doesn't start there, you haven't laid the SURE foundation and you are building in vain. NOBODY would even BEGIN building their house before laying the solid and sure foundation. That's like building on sand. There is NO other foundation that can be laid. If you don't believe you HAVE eternal life, you don't believe the Gospel. And, as the Bible says, the GOSPEL is the power unto salvation. If you don't believe that eternal life is a gift from God, you can't receive eternal life. You either HAVE eternal life (that is forever) or you don't. You MUST believe the promise. If you think you can lose it, or that you have to continue in good works to keep it, you didn't believe the Gospel message. Believing Jesus died for your sins isn't enough. You must believe the promise of eternal life. You can't get saved on half of the Gospel because that's not the true Gospel. The Gospel is that whoever believes on Jesus Christ HAS eternal life. If there seems to be scripture that is contradictory to the Gospel, you are misinterpreting scripture because scripture CANNOT contradict itself. OSAS is absolutely the Gospel message.
Salvation comes first then
Knowledge it's called sanctification!
@@angloaust1575 You cannot be saved without proper knowledge of the Gospel! If you believe ANOTHER gospel, you are not saved! That is the solid foundation that everything else is built on. Of course there is more knowledge after salvation, (which is NOT sanctification), but without knowing and believing the true Gospel message, there is NO sanctification to be had! The Bible is clear that the Gospel is a promise of eternal life if you believe. Anyone who has not believed that message is not saved.
Pastor Arnold, here is the proof to the question "How do you know you are de elect? Prove it "
Whom he hath chosen:
Psalm 33:12 KJV - Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Mark 13:20 KJV - And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the ELECT'S sake, WHOM HE HATH CHOSEN, he hath shortened the days.
You want the Royal seal of Lord God Almighty? Here it is:
John 6:27 KJV - Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man SHALL GIVE UNTO YOU: for HIM hath God the Father SEALED.
Dear preacher Arnold, you want it?
Here is the price according to the scriptures:
Luke 14:33 KJV - So likewise, whosoever he be of you THAT FORSAKETH not ALL THAT HE HATH, he cannot be my disciple.
Forsake ALL that you have and become flesh of his flesh and bone of his bones according to Ephesians 5:30-32
Ephesians 5:30-32 KJV -
30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
The condition for the marriage with Christ are given is scriptures very very CLEAR:
Proverbs 22:1 KJV - A GOOD NAME IS RATHER TO BE CHOSEN than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
Ecclesiastes 7:1 KJV - A GOOD NAME IS BETTER than precious ointment; AND THE DAY OF DEATH than the day of one's birth.
Much love and blessings, if you have more questions I'll help you navigate the scriptures until you understand it clearly.
Jude 1:25 KJV - To THE ONLY WISE GOD OUR SAVIOUR, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
LUKE 14:33 Is discipleship not salvation are you failing to reconcile these important distinctions? We do not earn eternal life! It is a free eternal Gift! Ephesians 2:8-9 Kjv.
@GRACETWOWITNESSESGRACE
The question Arnold asked was in regarding to ELECTION, and NOT about salvation.
Mark 13:20 is in regarding the ELECTION and being CHOSEN.
My message has nothing to do with salvation.
My message is only about the PROOF and the answer to a simple question " How does someone KNOW that you are chosen and part of the ELECT?"
Read my first message again and pay attention to the EVIDENCE of how someone knows and has PROOF of being part of the ELECT (the CHOSEN ONES).
@@springflowerblosomnorris9721 thanks for all those verses. I have no problem with any of them do me a favor and prove to me that you are one of the elect you still never did that Yankee.
@YankeeArnoldMinistries
Revelation
13 : 7
*Scofield Study reference bible.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the *saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
*The "saints" are the jews, the "church" was already raptured before the great tribulation, we have NOT been called to go through wrath, therefore, the "saints" in Revelation
13 : 7
MUST be the jews.
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What is WRONG with this teaching?
One more chapter later in Revelation 14 identifies whom are the "saints"....
Revelation
14 : 12
12 Here is the patience of the SAINTS: here are THEY that keep the commandments of God, AND THE FAITH OF JESUS.
Do modern jews keep the FAITH OF JESUS?
ANSWER: NO !!!!
The "saints" in Revelation 13 ARE BELIEVERS IN CHRIST JESUS ALSO KNOWN AS CHRISTIANS!!!!!
AND, WE WILL GO THROUGH THE GREAT TRIBULATION, scofield by using the KJV, BUT adding his very own "commentary" made entire generations of Bible Believing Christians subservient to judaism and it's traditions of men, because of the influence of the U.S. with their missionaries and providing "study bibles with commentaries" to the nations that they have been sent to "evangelize", they ARE promoting the pre-tribulation rapture AND 2ioni5m....
Is THAT SIMPLE !!!!
AGAIN.
Based on clear Bible (KJV) teaching, that Christians (followers of Jesus Christ) WILL go through The Great Tribulation (which IS satan's wrath, NOT God's), therefore, "the elect" of God in Matthew 24, which Biblically refers to ALL BELIEVERS IN THE LORD JESUS:
Matthew
24 : 21, 22.
21For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for THE ELECT'S sake those days shall be shortened.
THE "ELECT" will be persecuted and some of them/us will be executed by the antichrist (in the place of christ), therefore, since True Christians will be HERE (NOT raptured before) for the persecution & execution (the great tribulation OR wrath OF satan, NOT OF GOD'S) that signifies that "the elect" do NOT refer to the unbelieving physical modern jews in Revelation times (as taught by dispensionalism, bible colleges AND study bibles ex. schofield bible), and because, of the rapture BEFORE THE GREAT TRIBULATION FABLE IS NOT BIBLICAL, then, "the elect of God" (BELIEVERS IN JESUS) WILL BE ON EARTH until Jesus RETURNS and pours HIS WRATH on this earth ON THAT SAME DAY, NOT BEFORE (remember, the great tribulation IS the wrath of the antichrist/ satan, NOT OF GOD'S), BUT, as The Bible clearly teaches "we have NOT been called to go through the Wrath of God", BUT, Yes!!!, we ARE to go through the wrath of satan/the great tribulation, therefore, on the same day that Jesus returns "ON THE LAST DAY", ALL BELIEVERS IN THE LORD JESUS (DEAD AND ALIVE) WILL BE "RAPTURED" OUT OF THIS WORLD, AGAIN, TRUE BELIEVERS IN The Lord Jesus!!!!!!!, and because of this, It IS HIGHLY PROVABLE, that the LIE that The Bible describes as a "delusion" that God will allow for "them" to believe in IS : that the physical modern jews and it's newly formed nation IS "the true israel of god" and that they do NOT need Messiah Jesus Christ to be saved.
Romans
8 : 35 to 37
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall TRIBULATION, or distress, or PERSECUTION, or famine, or nakedness, or PERIL, or SWORD?
36 As it is written, For thy sake WE ARE KILLED all the day long; we are accounted AS SHEEP FOR THE SLAUGHTER.
37 Nay, in all these things we are MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH HIM THAT LOVED US.
....Let ONLY GOD BE TRUE, and everyman A LIAR (including scoefield)....
Although, We are ALL saved through grace & faith in Jesus ALONE, some, are disciples of Jesus, through reading, studying, meditating on His Holy Word daily (The KJV Bible in English) & applying it to their daily lives for their/our own lives for benefit here on earth AND IN HEAVEN (as rewards), PLUS, taking the Gospel to others, so, the Body of Christ can grow, just like The Great Commission Teaches, BUT.... I fear, that most saved Christians are NOT disciples of Jesus,
Yes! They are saved, BUT, they remain for ever in this world BABES in The Faith & Gospel of Christ, they will never grow in Biblical Knowledge (due to their VERY OWN personal choice), resulting that The Holy Spirit inside of them, WILL always be battling their fleshly desires, these people, WILL NEVER BE able to find the peace they search for in this world with their daily human lives, Yes! They are heaven bound, but, because, their human life is "perishing due to lack of knowledge" of The Word of God, which IS, along with The Holy Spirit inside of every redeemed Christian the source of wisdom and Faith in The Lord, The Lord our God will use less of them, therefore, they will NOT receive as many rewards in Heaven as a disciple of Christ Jesus does, which The Lord has used more, in this world, to take to the unsaved The Good News of The Gospel of Salvation in Christ ALONE !!!,
The Lord will use more a disciple, rather, than just a "babe in christ" (NOT being able to digest THE NUTRITIOUS MEAT OF THE WORD OF GOD) , thus, the disciple, WILL BE racking up more rewards in Heaven.
Because of The Biblical Knowledge about The Gospel and how we daily, avoid pitfalls, swamps & mountains in their/our daily lives in this material world,
those, that seek The Lord, ARE given Spiritual Gifts from God, we, on a daily basis, have to battle the flesh, as a reminder, that we are SAVED BY GRACE AND NOT OF OUR SELVES NOR THE WORKS OF THE FLESH FOR THE SALVATION OF OUR ETERNAL SOULS, Paul said it best in:
Romans
7 : 14 to 25.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I AM CARNAL, SOLD UNDER SIN.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, THAT DO I NOT; but WHAT I HATE, THAT DO I.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, BUT SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME.
18 For I KNOW THAT IN ME (that is, in MY FLESH,) DWELLETH NO GOOD THING: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is GOOD I FIND NOT.
19 For the GOOD that I WOULD I DO NOT: but the EVIL WHICH I WOULD NOT, that I DO.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, BUT SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then WITH THE MIND I MYSELF SERVE THE LAW OF GOD; BUT WITH THE FLESH THE LAW OF SIN.
All The Glory to God for ALL the Spiritual Gifts we receive, He IS the ONE that gives The Increase, and us, The Body of Christ, HIS disciple servants in the flesh, who use the Gifts of God to save, teach, exhort, prophetize, and heal IN The name of The Lord, BUT THE GLORY AND POWER IS OF THE LORD.
May God find us FAITHFUL (as persons, already saved by Grace through Faith Alone in Jesus Christ's work at the cross, NOT by OUR "works" NOR "good deeds" so "NO one should boast") UNTIL THE END OF OUR RACE IN THIS WORLD, Yes! We ARE heaven bound, BUT, let us NOT be a stumbling block to those that are still babes in Jesus Christ....
Phillipians
1 : 15 to 18
15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
16 The one preach christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
17 But the other of love, knowing that
I am SET FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE GOSPEL.
18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, WHETHER IN PRETENCE, OR IN TRUTH, CHRIST IS PREACHED; and I therein DO REJOICE, yea, and WILL REJOICE.
Quote: "If you must look at your life to tell if you're saved or not, then you must look for a perfect life." Are you serious? Please tell me you are not serious. This is supposed to be wisdom? This is supposed to pass for being a Scriptural statement?? So sinless perfection is the only fruit which would give sufficient warrant for assurance if assurance was grounded in reflecting on the fruit of the Spirit in our lives? Therefore, for lack of sinless perfection, we are to throw off any reflection on our fruit and assure ourselves purely on the grounds on our profession??? Any Bible reading Christian knows that this is both foolish and dangerous. The Bible says, “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith” (2 Corinthians 13:5); “hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.” (1 John 2:3). That's just for starters. You basically have to throw out the New Testament if you want to subscribe to this view of assurance. Look, trusting that you are in a good state does not mean that you are. It did not mean that for the confident Pharisee in Luke 18, neither will it ever mean that for anyone, regardless of how happy they are to avoid the mirror and continue confidently in a groundless view of assurance.
Nope. We assure ourselves on the promises of the savior. That we hath everlasting life, that we have passed from death unto life, that we SHALL NOT come into condemnation, that no man (including us) can pluck us from his hand, that if we go to him he will in NOWISE cast us out, that we are sealed by the Holy Spirit until the day of redemption. If your assurance is based on yourself you aren't saved, end of story. I hope you place your faith in the savior and stop putting confidence in your flesh. If you don't, I wouldn't want to be you on judgement day after calling God's promises 'groundless' assurance. Abraham staggered not at the promises of God, why do you?
On a side note, what are Jesus' commandments? Which ones must I keep in order to be saved? Must I do so perfect? Remember, the more you list and the more perfectly they must be obeyed, the more boastful you are being since you're implying YOU manage it.
@ArcLightShock37 So go ahead and interpret 1 Jhn. 2:3-6.
@@asureguidetolove8903 1 John 3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
He said his yoke is easy and his commandments are not burdensome. The law? That's burdensome. This is literally it. Believe and love fellow believers. The fact you think those verses contradict Jesus' promises is sad, you are clearly unsaved because you do not believe. You only believe in your own good behavior, your ability to keep 'commandments'. Oh well. The way is narrow after all, and every religion, including those calling themselves 'christian' believe as you do, a man centered salvation. Good luck. I knock the dust from my sandals as a testimony against you.
@@asureguidetolove8903 1 John 3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
He said his yoke is easy and his commandments are not burdensome. The law? That's burdensome. This is literally it. Believe and love fellow believers. The fact you think those verses contradict Jesus' promises is sad, you are clearly unsaved because you do not believe. You only believe in your own good behavior, your ability to keep 'commandments'. Oh well. The way is narrow after all, and every religion, including those calling themselves 'christian' believe as you do, a man centered salvation. Good luck.
@@ArcLightShock37 Ok then, go ahead and enlighten me. Since you present yourself as knowledgeable. Please interpret 1 John 2:3-6...