Lordship
Salvation, Biblical Or Not?
The
term Lordship salvation has
a variety of faces that are subtle to
the untrained e
ye
of the Bible. Simply... it is presented
as a doctrine that says the true
believer will make Christ Lord of every
area of their life as a prerequisite to
and for salvation and therefore,
will not have to battle with sin
thereafter. According to this view,
those who battle with sin have not
properly yielded to Christ's Lordship
and are not yet saved. Those who teach
this often reject the notion that there
is such a thing as a carnal Christian.
However, the trained eye to the Bible
knows that this teaching is contrary to
the message of every epistle in the New
Testament. If the true believer is one
who has no struggle with sin, why did
the Apostles spend so much effort and
time in warning believers not to sin?
The Apostle Paul refutes this false
doctrine when he wrote his epistles in
which he corrects his readers about
their various sins and errors. He did
not tell them that they were lost and
needed to be saved. He said plainly in
all his epistles that they were in
Christ.
Lordship Salvation is man's efforts
and/or imagination to make Christ Lord.
This is impossible. Jesus is already
Lord...always was and always will be
(Philippians
2:11). Salvation can never be
realized by our effort to improve
ourselves. Salvation is only by the shed
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and
realized only when a sinner repents of
their sin of unbelief and believes on
the Lord Jesus Christ (John
3:18)
The Christian experience is not about
putting Christ first place in life
(Lordship Salvation)...It is Christ
putting us in our place... a state of
righteousness,,, and understanding the
sufficiency of God's amazing grace (2
Corinthians. 12:9). Amen!
Sincerely, Dr. Arthur Belanger
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