What Happens If You Deny Justification by Faith Alone?
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- Watch as R.C. Sproul warns of the serious consequences of denying the doctrine of justification by faith alone.
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You can see how he adores Jesus. I love seeing his excitement talking about his Lord of glory.
W his dead faith, lol
Miss R.C. big time, for sure!
I do too. 😊
Yes
He was a false teacher
Holy Spirit Guide you
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what do you mean?
I miss RC too! But I rejoice that this wonderful man that was enamored with the Holiness of God is now in His presence. 🙏♥️🙏
He was a false teacher
Holy Spirit Guide you
@@MrKev1664 Hardly. Not sure what denomination you belong to but I did see your other comments. Proverbs 6:16 with the 7th especially for you. 🙏😊🙏
Ephesians 2:8-9
English Standard Version
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Galatians 2:16
English Standard Version
16 yet we know that a person is not justified[a] by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Galatians 3:10-11
English Standard Version
The Righteous Shall Live by Faith
10 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” 11 Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”[a]
Proverbs 6:16-19
New King James Version
16 These six things the Lord hates,
Yes, seven are an abomination to [a]Him:
17 A[b] proud look,
A lying tongue,
Hands that shed innocent blood,
18 A heart that devises wicked plans,
Feet that are swift in running to evil,
19 A false witness who speaks lies,
And one who sows discord among brethren.
No truly regenerated person doesn't know or keep the commandments. That being said we are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
@@MrKev1664 he wasn't a false teacher. He most certainly had the Holy Spirit as well.
Props Ligonier!
Everybody needs to hear R.C. Thank you for your continued efforts in getting the Word out to people!
Scripture shows that Abraham, for example, was NOT justified "by faith only."
Abraham acted on his faith and obeyed God. That was his "works," and for *_that_* whe was justified and deemed a believer . . . "and not by faith only":
■ "Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only." (James 2:24)
Faith without works is DEAD.
Today Jesus saves *_believers:_* those who (like Abraham) act on their faith and obey God. Jesus is:
■ "the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him" (Hebrews 5:9)
Sadly, Luther and his followers take Paul's "not by works" out of context (works of the law, good works) and then go on to dismiss all works as unnecessary. Grave error! We must obey God, who "now commands all men every where to repent" (Acts 17:30).
Otherwise we'll perish, as Jesus warned:
■ "except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." (Jesus, in Luke 13:5)
Peter makes it clear: come to repentance, or else perish:
■ "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9)
Therefore it is entirely *_obvious_* that "faith alone" is not enough.
You're right. But seems like no one really reads the Bible and simply just forget about 'works' matters too. God Bless you😇
@@ELROD.1_0_1 Thanks. Another part of the problem is that people usually don't want to hear about repentance. But that IS what Jesus told His disciples to preach . . . not "faith alone":
■ "Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
And that *repentance and remission of sins* should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." (Luke 24:45-47)
Watch 10 reasons I'm not Protestant by Jay Dyer. Solo fide, solo gratia are not biblical. Eastern Orthodoxy makes the most sense to me as being the true church.
The Bible says Abraham was justified by faith apart from works. God imputed righteousness to Abraham. Abraham justified by faith but NOT BEFORE GOD.
Why are you lying!?!?!?
@@Talk-jn7xo Why don't you believe your Bible? As James wrote, Abraham was justified by works, "and not by faith only":
■ "Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only." (James 2:24)
You have already admitted God imputed righteousness to Abraham, so why do you say he was justified "but not before God"?
"By" or *_through_* (re: Eph 2:8) faith Abraham saw he had a choice to make: to obey God, or to walk away. He chose to obey (Heb 11:8), and for *_that_* he was justified and deemed a believer . . . "and not by faith only" . . . not by just _having_ faith. Faith without works -action, obedience- is dead (James 2:26).
Jesus is
■ "the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him" (Hebrews 5:9)
There are different "works" in the Bible . . . works of the law, good works or deeds, and works like Abraham's -his obedience, acting on his faith. It's a mistake to mix them up, but people often ignore the context and lump them all together, and then dismiss them all as unnecessary.
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"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast"
Ephesians 2:8-9
The faith in view is Christ's faith (Galatians 2:16, 20).
@@terminat1 sure. Salvation is all of God
@@terminat1 That sounds vague. Christ didn’t have faith. We are justified by faith in the imputed righteousness given to us by Christ and even our faith was a gift given from God so that no one may boast.
@@Savedbygrace22 Christ is called Faithful and True in Revelation 19:11. He was faithful in that He did all the work required to save someone.
Faith is work. An individual's faith cannot save them.
@@terminat1 It is not a work. What happens if you don't acknowledge a gift? Then it is the same as not having been given to you because you failed to accept it through the lack of acknowledgement. Faith is the acknowledgement that He did enough, it's all about just believing and trusting Him for salvation.
That’s salvation, that PROMISE, is literally the only thing I have
Then you are goat and will be told ' I do not know you '
Thanks for sharing this biblical message. 😊
A great man of God of our time, he was a true blessing for Christianity as.a whole! This is such a great clarification! Glory to Christ who loved us so much!
It’s short but so true and a powerful profound truth
One of my favorite teachers even though he’s gone off the earth each time I hear him just doesn’t seem like he’s actually gone 💕
Our God is merciful and gracious to save a wretch like me. 🙏🙏🙏
This soldier is home now
He was a false teacher
Holy Spirit Guide you
@@MrKev1664 what he said was doctrinally sound
@@donny922
Christ be with you
Not even close
What do you think it means to have faith in Jesus Christ?
Can you define its meaning?
Holy Spirit Guide you
@@donny922Not at all, the Bible explicitly teaches that one is NOT justified by faith alone. James 2:24.
@@MrKev1664amen! ✝️🙏
Oh! R.C. - how awesome you are home, you have well deserved the win, you ran an amazing race, and you are very missed here, by many - you will always be cherished and loved for your love of God and His Holy Word.
For those who mentioned about James, you might want to check how James used the word justification in a demonstrative way, as in referring to how we perceive whether a person is truly saved. Both Paul and James appealed to Abraham and Rahab for grounding their understandings of justification. Paul pointed to the events when Abraham and Rahab first believed YHVH, and their faith was accounted for as righteousness. Meanwhile, James pointed to the event when they demonstrated the good works long after they first believed. For Abraham, it was when he was about to sacrifice his son, whereas for Rahab, it was when she helped the Israeli spies long after she had first heard about YHVH's work of dividing the sea. See that nowhere did James in these stories point to anytime near their times of death. You can't say that works also become the co-basis alongside faith for God to justify men, at least not from the way James described it. We have not even touched 1st Clement, where he literally explained the doctrine of Sola Fide very clearly.
That is totally un biblical!!! Thatvis your interpretation
Exactly. Scripture shows that Abraham, for example, was NOT justified "by faith only."
Abraham acted on his faith and obeyed God. That was his "works," and for *_that_* whe was justified and deemed a believer . . . "and not by faith only":
■ "Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only." (James 2:24)
Faith without works is DEAD.
Today Jesus saves *_believers:_* those who (like Abraham) act on their faith and obey God. Jesus is:
■ "the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him" (Hebrews 5:9)
Sadly, Luther and his followers take Paul's "not by works" out of context (works of the law, good works) and then go on to dismiss all works as unnecessary. Grave error! We must obey God, who "now commands all men every where to repent" (Acts 17:30).
Otherwise we'll perish, as Jesus warned:
■ "except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." (Jesus, in Luke 13:5)
Peter makes it clear: come to repentance, or else perish:
■ "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9)
Therefore it is entirely *_obvious_* that "faith alone" is not enough.
Yeah
"I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself." ~ Elizabeth Ann Seton
I LOVE THIS MAN!
I love this guy ❤
So does God 🤗
AMEN AND I'M SO SORRY THAT I IGNORE YOU EVERY TIME AND FORGIVE MY SINS LORD JESUS CHRIST
Iam Catholic , and I KNOW I am saved by Christs Blood and Christs Blood alone . I chose Jesus as my only Saviour . No name under but Jesus for Salvation . In Jesus Name
Also justified by the blood of Jesus. Romans 5:9.
RC a great teacher!!!!
"Unless you eat My flesh, you shall not have eternal life" - God the Son.
The same "this or that" proposition can be asked to the Protestant. Are you saved by Christ? Or by your faith alone in Christ? By agreeing that your faith is what saves you, you deny that Christ himself is what saves you.
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I will meet RC one of these fine days when I get to heaven! He taught me so much early on in my walk with Jesus! I was drawn to his fire for Jesus!
Beautiful
I completely agree that we are saved by Christ and Christ alone, our disagreement is not on the source of our salvation but the way it comes to us.
Amen! This man helps me so much thanks to you tube!!
Miss RC 😢
Why add the silly music to such an important topic?
Put your faith in Christ🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
What happens is you get anathematized by the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church.
Nothing. They aren’t the true church.
My concern is with how God views me, not how the Papists or Easterners view me. My faith is in Christ alone.
Why are you worried about that? Do you belong to one of them?
That's the beauty, Jesus Christ said whoever does the will of the Father is my Sister and my Brother. Protestants are under multiple Catholic and Eastern anathemas. The only anathemas that have any authority is in the pages of Scripture alone!
@@florida8953 Exactly! TBT
We deny justification by faith alone we will die in our sins.
The wrath of God will abide on us and we will be eternally separated from our Creator.
And why should this be a bad thing?
@@chrisrea6841
Stop reading people's mail
@@jessyjonas4988 what do you mean?
@@chrisrea6841 what do you want it to mean
@@jessyjonas4988 what i want is for you to tell me why it is a bad thing to be eternally separated from the creator
🙏 Amen!. 🙏.
proud to be protestant christian!!!
Which kind?😂😂😂
Show me one scripture that says we are justified by faith alone. Exactly how they word it. I can show the opposite in James 2…
Do you believe in the doctrine of 'Trinity' ?
No one is saved by approving the doctrine of 'by faith alone'
If we deny this doctrine we deny that we are saved by Christ alone☝️
Acts 4:12 NKJV
Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
Ephesians 2:8-9
For by GRACE you have been saved through FAITH, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of GOD, not of works, LEST anyone should boast.
We are expected to do the good works after we believe in Jesus Christ alone. This not our doing but the Christ working in us. Not of ourselves so that no one of us can boast.
History tells us that any ounce of mens work to our faith(In Christ) leads to taking the glory for ourselves.
It all belongs to Him☝️
Peace ✨🤍
The faith that makes the difference in salvation is the faith of Christ, not the individual's (Galatians 2:16, 20). Faith is work (I Thessalonians 1:3, II Thessalonians 1:11), salvation is by grace, and grace by definition is altogether undeserved.
Nobody becomes saved by putting their faith in Christ. That is an action the individual takes. God saves a person, and then and only then do they believe in a pleasing way (they give God 100% of the credit for their salvation and trust in the Bible implicitly).
It's a work of God, not of us. It's like ephesians 2:8-9 just doesn't exist to some folks.
@@goosieschmoo8239 It exists, but they cannot see it.
@@terminat1 the point i'm making is that anyone who says that good works produce the saving faith to believe and also make us justified before the Lord have not read Ephesians 2:8-9.
Saved by grace through faith that has works because faith without works is dead
Good boy points don't get us to heaven. And good works don't produce the saving faith to believe. That "faith without works is dead" is in context being said to people who are already saved. Good works are a by-product of being saved, not a means to it.
Yup!
See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone." - James 2:24;
Indeed someone may say, “You have faith and I have works.” Demonstrate your faith to me without works, and I will demonstrate my faith to you from my works." - James 2:18.
"For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works that God has prepared in advance, that we should live in them." - Eph 2:10.
You might want to check how James used the word justification in a demonstrative way, as in referring to how we perceive whether a person is truly saved. Both Paul and James appealed to Abraham and Rahab for grounding their understandings of justification. Paul pointed to the events when Abraham and Rahab first believed YHVH, and their faith was accounted for as righteousness. Meanwhile, James pointed to the event when they demonstrated the good works long after they first believed. For Abraham, it was when he was about to sacrifice his son, whereas for Rahab, it was when she helped the Israeli spies long after she had first heard about YHVH's work of dividing the sea. See that nowhere did James in these stories point to anytime near their times of death. You can't say that works also become the co-basis alongside faith for God to justify men, at least not from the way James described it. We have not even touched 1st Clement, where he literally explained the doctrine of Sola Fide very clearly.
@@JoeThePresbapterian Thank you for your concern. I'm not of the position that believing in Jesus as the Son of God and doing nothing is any different from the demons who professed the same (Luke 4:41 “demons also came out from many, shouting, “You are the Son of God.”). If you are, then I pray that the fruits of the Holy Spirit (Gal 5:22) grow within you, as the seed of God's word is planted in the soil of your heart to bear good fruit (rather than be received on rocky soil but only lasts for a time, among thorns and bear no fruit from anxiety and lure of riches of this world, or on a path that the evil one steals it) (Mat. 13:18-23). "You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you. 4 Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. 6 Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned." - John 15:3-6.
If our focus is on the point of receiving the Word of God, Jesus our Lord and Savior, then Paul addresses it best in Ephesians 2:8, 9 and 10 together. "Saved by grace through faith . . . for good works". Our faith is our response to God's grace (Heb. 11: 6 "without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him"; Rom 8:9 "if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved”). This is like the thief on the cross, who believed and professed. He humbly responded to the grace of God in faith and was in paradise with Our Lord that day (Luke 23:43).
If however, we are looking over one's Christian life as a whole, we are now talking about walking by faith (2 Cor 5:7), not accepting and dying thereafter (a deathbed conversion), in which we are all called to the ongoing obedience of faith in Christ (Rom 1:5; 16:19-27). Not unlike receiving the word (the good seed), we are called to grow in it (1 Cor 3:6 "I planted, Apollos watered, and God gave growth), and bear good fruit, or be thrown into the fire (Mt. 7:18 "every true that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire"). Now our discussion becomes intertwined with another protestant doctrine of ongoing discussion that of: “once saved always saved.” This to me is like saying all the soils that have received the Word and rejoice with joy in it and growing will bear good fruit, and so all are good, be at peace, nothing to be concerned about further resume your life - “You are good!” The word was received, it had growth, and thus, will inevitably bear the good fruit. This is Satan cutting us off like the thorns that choke out the vine before it bears any fruit. You’ve received it once, yeah you’ve done good things in response for Jesus, but now you can go back to the world. Back to the dust for you! 1 John 2:19 says “They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us.” So we continue, we endure or we fall away. “the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.” - Matthew 24:13. “may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” - 1 Thes 5:23. “He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.” - 1 Thes 5:24. So we see here that a person does receive the word and responds (saved by grace through faith) and is justified. This is by God for grace is the Word (“full of grace and truth” John 1:14) that draws us to approach him, to respond to him with our hearts, our love. And this is “for good works” that we are to bring about the obedience of faith in our hearts longing, bearing good fruit. But, this does not mean free will is removed and obedience becomes automation. Abraham was not forced to obey after having faith, nor was Rahab forced to risk herself for the Israelites. Rather, they walked in faith. Does it mean I can say they would not have been saved otherwise, only God knows our hearts and our motivations and our state of grace in Him. But, I can say, had they not endured in faith, they did not continue. Those of 1 John 2:19 had that choice to do so and leave grace behind for the anxieties / lure of worldly riches. We each have the culpability to not continue, to deny our Lord. “23 No one who denies the Son has the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.” (1 John 2:23). “This saying is trustworthy: If we have died with him we shall also live with him; 12 if we persevere we shall also reign with him.
But if we deny him he will deny us. 13 If we are unfaithful he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.” - 2 Tim 2:11-13. “Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.” Rev 2:10b.
So it is a double edge sword (Heb 4:12). Do we risk the side of not having roots and what I do matters more than sitting at the feet of Jesus as Mary did (as Martha getting caught up in the worldly anxieties (a works based salvation)). Or, are we walking by faith every day; and if we are not, but still striving for that heavenly prize, are we confessing our sins and making every effort to surrender daily, not just today, but also tomorrow (faith with the works of good fruit)? Who controls our life each day? Because it matters each day for tonight our life will be demanded and what treasures have we stored up? Are we saying take life easy, eat drink and be merry? Jesus I trust in you! Come Lord Jesus, may your kingdom come, your will be done! Amen. So be it.
@herbsnake7 No classical or mainstream Protestants would say that we can be saved without faith. The Lutherans say that Christian can apostatize while Reformed believes that the true Christians/elect will persevere in their faith until the end. Both affirm that faith is the only/sole instrument for salvation, the causative agent for receiving the grace of God.
Christians are saved by perfect works alone. Yes, perfect work of Christ! No amount of good works that Christians produce in their lives would ever become the instrument of salvation. Only through Christ alone, we are saved.
And yet, the Reformed position is that believers have this assurance of justification, assurance of sanctification, and assurance of glorification. We will persevere until the end. It does not mean that we will never stumble into sin here and there, but God provides both "to will and to do". Indeed, it is a mystery, how God can see us who are in Christ as holy and blameless as He is in heaven now.
Christ, our Mediator is in heaven and He is the only reason we are accepted by God. Yes, Christians will persevere until the end, and yet it is not us but Christ who lives in us.
Amen and amen
OK him saying that that denial may be enough to damn you is a contradiction to what they believe about predestination. I am so surprised he actually said that.
According to them, if you are one of the elect, you’re not gonna ever believe something that’s going to damn you, because you have been chosen as one of God’s elect.
So him saying that is something that we provisionists, like myself, who believes that man has the capability of choice, would say. There’s no, MAY damn you about it. God says, Jesus says if you deny me, I will deny you. But he’s saying denial of THE DOCTRINE of justification by faith may damn You. In other words that if you believe you are justified by your works. NO, that’s not gonna change your heart as far as who you believe Jesus is nor WHO you ARE IN CHRIST.
If you have placed your faith in/on Jesus as your personal savior, you are just busy misunderstanding that you don’t have to work to keep your salvation, but instead that you work BECAUSE you have salvation. God looks on the heart. HE KNOWS.
We are not saved because we put our faith in any doctrine. We will NOT lose our faith because we don’t believe in a certain doctrine!! 🫤
We are saved because we place our trust in/on Jesus Christ, sincerely with repentance, humbly, and God has made us born again.
Amen! Amen!
A lovely man, who more than anyone else I know, models his Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ and faithfully teaches his truth.
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“Enough to damn you.” *ding* lol
James 2:24 tells you exactly what justifies us. Love the God breathed scripture.
Exactly. Jesus is
■ "the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him" (Hebrews 5:9)
Nothing there about "faith alone."
@@TheBibleSays my point exactly :)
“Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, since God is one-who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.”
Romans 3:27-31 ESV
I think the scriptures are trying to make a distinction between salvation and justification. Justification seems to more so be forgiveness and being declared righteous by God and salvation seems to be actually being saved from our sins which obviously comes from repentance in addition to our faith.
The same chapter you quoted from brings up the example of Abraham offering up Isaac as a sacrifice James 2:19-23. It says that Abraham’s works were active with his faith. So I think the message is that we are forgiven through our faith but we are saved through God’s grace which we accept through faith in addition to repentance which leads to works. To put in simply to be saved we must repent and believe.
Faith without works is dead. PERIOD.
Amen and the Bible *literally says we are NOT justified by faith alone* James 2:24
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@@traceya9039 Amen. However, they think that because the apostle Paul is a Pharisee what he says (or what they misenterpret about what he says) in some way OVERIDES James's (or little Jimmy's as they would have it for that matter) words.
@@traceya9039Many passages of the Bible teach that salvation is through faith alone, not faith plus works. Ephesians 2:8-9, for example, is clearly worded and unequivocal: “It is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-not by works, so that no one can boast.” Of great importance is the word grace, which refers to God’s blessings on the undeserving. The very idea of grace negates all attempts to earn salvation. Paul makes that argument when teaching on God’s choosing of the remnant of Israel: “Since it is through God’s kindness, then it is not by their good works. For in that case, God’s grace would not be what it really is-free and undeserved” (Romans 11:6, NLT).
Other passages that clearly teach salvation through faith alone include Acts 16:31; Romans 3:28; 4:5; 5:1; Galatians 2:16; 3:24; Ephesians 1:13; and Philippians 3:9.
There are a few Bible passages that, at first glance, seem to teach salvation through faith plus works. One such is James 2:24, which appears to say that justification is by faith plus works: “You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.” This apparent problem is solved by examining the whole of James’ argument in his epistle. James is refuting the idea that a person can have saving faith without producing any good works (see James 2:17-18). Genuine faith in Christ, James says, will produce a changed life and result in good works (James 2:20-26). James is not saying that justification is by faith plus works, but that a person who is truly justified by faith will have good works in his or her life. The works are an outward show of genuine faith in Christ (James 2:14, 17, 20, 26)-and it’s that outward show that “justifies” the believer in the sight of other people.
Paul says those who have true faith in Jesus Christ will be “eager to do what is good” (Titus 2:14). To return to Ephesians 2, immediately after teaching that we are saved through faith, not through works (Ephesians 2:8-9), Paul says that we were created “to do good works” (Ephesians 2:10). Salvation comes by God’s grace through faith, and that faith is made manifest in good works. The works follow the faith and are a proof of it.
If we’re going to say that we are saved by works, we must qualify whose works. We are not saved by our own works, however meritorious they are in our own eyes. We are saved solely by the work of Christ on our behalf. His death and His resurrection are the works that save us. We receive our Savior by faith (John 1:12).
You are misinformed and misinterpreting what is said by RC and Ligonier ministries.
So you’re saying Christ alone cannot save you? The perfect grace of God isn’t enough? You would rely on your own righteousness and works?
I’m with RC on this one. What you’re saying isn’t the Gospel. PERIOD
@@samcory6847 No he needs your cooperation. And sometimes on rejects his grace especially by sin, it offends God. And no Catholic relies on his very own righteousness but we try to please God and NOT displease him since his mercy is meant to lead us to repentance otherwise we would be condemned. It has NOTHING to do with God's part he does EVERYTHING perfect but it has to do with OUR part.
And what you're saying isn't the gospel but INVINCIBLE grace
Martin Luther by the way DENIED free will
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Justification is by Grace alone. You can't have faith unless you are regenerated, so we are chosen by God and then regenerated and then comes faith. Which all condenses to Grace.
Well said. It’s amazing how many Christians strongly despise the idea that regeneration precedes faith. ‘But look at this verse about men having faith and following God!” It’s also interesting how it goes back to the 5 points starting with total depravity If you reject that one then man can have faith on his own, which is a work, sounds borderline close to saying we aren’t saved by Christ alone.
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Christ be with you
We are not justified by faith alone at all.
We are justified by God's Grace and he will Justify those who uphold the Law.
For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. (Rom 2:13)
it is only when we have a faith is not alone but upholds the Law can we say that we have a faith by which we will be justified.
Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law. (Rom 3:31)
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@@MrKev1664 The law does not give us life: it condemns us. People who hear God's commands and disobey them (that is, everyone) can't be justified. It is those who obey them (that is, no one) that are justified. Thus, none of us can be justified of ourselves. On our own we are without hope. But in Christ we are justified through faith; though we can never live up to the standard of the law, we are declared righteous by the blood of Christ and through the Spirit are given power to be conformed to the law more and more each day. We are declared righteous and made righteous not because of our own obedience but because of the Cross.
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sorry I suggest you read the Bible rather than make up your own doctrine.
You are correct that we are not justified By the Law it is Gods Grace his forgiveness of our sin that Justifies us and yes we receive that though faith.
But what is faith in Jesus Christ?
St Paul tells us it is not alone
*Do we then overthrow the law by this faith?* By no means! On the contrary, *we uphold the law.* (rom 3:31)
Is goods law impossible to keep?
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. *And his commandments are not burdensome.* (1 John 5:3)
Who will receive eternal life?
Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; *and being made perfect he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,* being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchiz′edek. (Heb 5:8-10)
Is it enough to simply believe in what Jesus did on the cross?
saying, “The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, *and be killed, and on the third day be raised.”*
And he said to all, *“If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.* For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it. (Luke 9:22-24)
We will receive eternal life because we have repented and obeyed God,
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He is talking about his doctrine, but not believe in doctrines? After 1500 years protestants made up their own doctrine.
If I understand you correctly, (catholic?) Actually we simply read the truth of the Bible for ourselves and found our freedom in Christ Jesus Alone! We Pray He opens your eyes too.
@@MickiB_Is4916 if you want to go to the original teachings, you have to go back to the first century, try to figure out what Jesus and his brother James the Just teached in their days.
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Christ is our representative. He pleads our case to the Father. So you'd better have faith in him.
For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Romans 5
If you had faith in Christ you would follow his One Holy Apostolic Orthodox Church
He was a born again Christian part of the reformed Presbyterian denomination. The man was totally legit despite the naysayers online.
Dr Sproul should have gone further here
It's not "May be enough to damn you"
But rather "Is enough to damn you"
Galatians 1:6-9
So if I have depression and OCD and I’m constantly plagued by doubt because of these mental illnesses, I have no hope of salvation? God forbid it. Read Romans. Reaching out in faith even if that faith is only as small as a mustard seed, toward Christ with repentance of sins, is what saves us by God’s grace. Us doubting will not send us to hell.
Thomas, I thought exactly the same as you. Faith in Jesus has got to be a 100% faith. 99% means "maybe".
@@ashlavanadis Sorry lad, I think you misunderstood me. I never meant that doubt will damn you. I meant that denying that doctrine of justification by faith alone will damn you because denying that is denying the Gospel
Agreed!
@@mikehamilton7668 what do you mean by 100% faith?
Man made theology, doesn’t provide any scripture to prove his points
Actually, Sproul's contention was no man can affirm Christ but by God's effectual, eternal, decree for that individual man. Consequentially, no man can turn back from that affirmation except God has predetermined his denial. So, his 'temporary' faith was just a mirage, a ruse, played upon him by God. Once you accept worshiping a God who does that to some.... you can never be sure he has not planned to do that to you. It no longer matters what you 'think' about God or Christ today... because it may not last until tomorrow.🤔
The reformed view of the gospel is incorrect. See Matt 6:14-15
What does that have to do with anything being said here?
@@DarkMatterBurrito This is one among many examples of conditional forgiveness not merely evidence of regeneration. Obedience is required not imputation alone.
I don’t think that reformed folks believe that Christian’s don’t have to be obedient. They simply say that’s not what saves you. Yes someone truly saved will bear good fruit but that is not the cause of their salvation. It is instead the effect of the free gift given to them by a merciful/graceful God.
@@tylerkuykendall2742 Only speaking of obedience in terms of evidence of conversion does not account for passages that require obedience as a condition. Reform teachers will always twist passages like this in order to fit their paradigm because requiring obedience as a prerequisite in order to receive forgiveness would be considered a works salvation in their scheme. But here Jesus requires forgiveness before one receive forgiveness and not the other way around.
I don't see how you arrived at that conclusion. What's the 'right' view in your opinion?
Wow… I never put that last part together!! Scary land to place your feet if you do!
Protestants: salvation is by faith alone. Stop trusting in your works.
Also Protestants: Its not enough to have faith alone, the devils believe in jesus! Repent of your sins, obey the commandments etc
The point you're missing is that even the demons believe in God but they aren't and cannot be saved. They don't have a saving faith. It's not enough to just say you believe in God. There's fakers out there who are lying on the inside. You must also believe in your heart and place your trust in the gospel. God will impart the saving faith to belive in those whom which will be saved.
It's repent and believe the gospel.
Meanwhile, Roman catholicism and eastern orthodoxy are:
1-faith + works
2-grace + merit
3-scripture + the traditions of man
4-salvation and mediation being from Christ + Mary
5- Glory to God + Mary and the saints
It's unbiblical.
@@goosieschmoo8239 you just said the demons believe. Implying that faith alone isn't enough. So then its not by faith alone, its by works. Repenting from sins is works. I think you'd be surprised but if you listen to how catholics describe salvation its almost exactly the same as what Protestants believe. Protestants are just a little more disingenuous about it.
@@keatongrout6275 again, you aren't understanding. Simply having an INTELLECTUAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT that God is God isn't enough to save you. The saving faith to belive is imparted in us from God and that comes along with the grace of repenting.
Repenting from your sins isn't a work. It's a grace given to us from God. Because without Him we'd not have the desire or ability to do it on our own. Also, Good works are not a means to salvation, they are a by-product of it.
Again, you have zero understanding on what legit christians believe.
@@goosieschmoo8239 I would agree with you that if repentance was the gift of God that caused me to turn from my sins then it wouldn't be a work. However Protestants very rarely describe repenting from sins in that matter. They always describe it as something WE have to do. And I'm sorry but repenting from sins itself is works. It takes effort to turn away from sin perpetually and is a daily thing. Oh and by the way, turning from sins is keeping the law if you didn't know. The NT says sin is the transgression of the Law. Thus to turn from sin is to turn from transgressing the law which means we are trying to do the opposite of transgressing the law, which is keeping the law. When you tell people to stop sinning you are literally telling them to keep the law.
@@keatongrout6275 from what I'm gathering here you're pretty intent on refusing to understand what actual protestants believe. The part of being a protestant is denying the heresy that the Roman catholic church (and even eastern orthodoxy) has been peddling out for ages (in this case, a works-based salvation).
By grace, through faith we are saved and this is not of our own doing but a gift from God, and not of works lest any man should boast.
Except no one could keep the law but Christ. The law isn't a means to salvation. It's a mean to diagnose the fact that we're all sinners in need of salvation. No amount of good boy/good girl points are gonna make you (justified) right before God are gonna produce the saving faith to believe.
If you deny justification through 'Faith Alone' you actually begin to live a Holy Life! You actually keep God's Holy Law. Not just the one spoken in the wilderness but the MORE PERFECT AND HOLY AND SPIRITUAL LAW perfected, ratified and given by Jesus Christ on Mount St. Tabor. Beyond that you WON'T HAVE A REASON TO KEEP GOD'S HOLY LAW.
Without works faith is dead 2:24
So by Works alone?
Wow.amazing.....
Also, Can we have these videos with a little Less volume off the music. It's a little too much I loose concentration a tad
James(literally in scripture): by faith but not faith alone
2 Millenia of church history(which gave protestants the cannon): by faith but not faith alone
Protestants(at ted talk disco mega church): BY FAITH ALONE
You are saved by faith in Christ. You believe Jesus is God, and that you need a Savior, and can do nothing for yourself. You believe He died and rose again. He was the perfect innocent sacrifice to God in our place AND had our sins placed upon Him as the scape goat. Atonement.
Justification by Faith Alone IS INVENTED by Martin Luther.
"....uhhh....NO!! Luther did NOT 'Invent' Justification by Faith Alone! The Doctrine Justification by Faith Alone is taught in Scripture. It's Biblical. It's a BIBLE Doctrine. PERIOD, Miss Vader...!!"
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@@restedjazz Where is Faith Alone in the Bible? James 2:24 You see that a Man is *JUSTIFIED* by Works and NOT by Faith Alone.
Agreed. Martin Luther himself wanted to remove the book of James because it refuted his doctrine.
You speak lies.Jesus said if you love me you will obey my commands. Jesus said to the Apostles go and baptize all nations, he blew on the Apostles head and said the sins you forgive shall be forgiven the ones you retain shall be retained, at last supper he took the cup and said this is the cup of blood the blood of eternal covenant wich is being poured for you and for many for the remission of sin Do this in memory of me. All of this where commands that Jesus gave to the Apostles. The new priests for the new covenant. To be saved we must enter his covenant, only by faith, and if we believe we can enter,and its free, it doesn't mean if we trust in Jesus we can ignore everything he established, and we are already saved. St Paul said workout your salvation with fear and tremble, he also said if you drink from the cup in an anwordly manner you will condemne your soul, Jesus said if you don't eat the body and drink the blood of the son of man you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. You are basically saying all this is no need. Putting our trust in Christ requires obedience. God established first covenant with 12 priests and 72 high priests..second covenant 12 Apostles and 72disciples. All of this is in the bible.
Salvation by Christ alone is NOT equivalent to justification by faith alone
Good works don't produce the saving faith to belive nor does it put us in right standing before the Lord.
You can't be justified before the Lord unless He spiritually regenerates you and gives you the saving faith to believe.
It is only by christ. However the bible is clear, you need to change your life if you have faith. John 6:54, 3:5 and James 2:24 and Hebrews 12:14
I trust in Jesus because He founded is church on a rock and not on sand
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Friends salvation is your hands. You choose the road you will take. Obey the commandments and have eternal life Matt 19:17. Simple as that. You only have one teacher and that's Jesus. 8 “But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. 9 And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. 10 Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. 11 The greatest among you will be your servant. 12 For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted. Jesus never says were saved by faith alone. This is the great deception. You're initially justified by faith but must continue to obey for salavation.
I would like to give the Orthodox view. We would say we are saved by Christ alone. But *when* we sin so bad as to separate ourselves from God (sin which leads to death) we have denied Christ and thus lost faith. Christ’s victory over death and sin frees us from the fear of death. We satiate the passions of the flesh because we are afraid of death and wish to enjoy fleeting passions in this life as a way to cope with that. It is only with a good confession and profession of true faith after our sin that we can then enjoy the hope for salvation and union with God. I would say that we are saved by faith in Christ in that our obedience to Christ is also part of that faith. I’m not saying sinless perfection, i’m saying we must strive our hardest to refrain from sin and if we wilfully sin after experiencing the loving mercy of Christ Jesus then we are committing an even worse sin as we are truly denying him.
*"Justification can only follow true repentance. . ."*
But the only way to put our trust in Christ is to repent, be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, he filled with the gift of the Holy Ghost, living a holy life before the Lord everyday according to the book of Acts 2:38, because there is no other plan of salvation that we can have justification. For this promise is unto you, your children, all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Why are they always adding in music for dramatic effect??
Calvinist. Enough said.
Evil.
Without the shedding of Blood there is NO remission of sin-Thats the Holy Scriptures❤
So super based and legit. Calvin didn't invent anything. He merely read the Bible. Nice to know that Sproul was based and legit.
I have a question for my Reformed brothers; (I’m non-reformed evangelical)
Would it not be accurate to say that in Reformed theology justification is by pre-faith regeneration alone? (Since that is necessary for faith, and faith is just an out working of that)
Just thinking and would like some input, thanks
Are you asking If regeneration comes before faith? I might be dumb and need more clarification on the question.
Yes. Without Gods grace we ourselves would not put our faith in Jesus.
Non-reformed meaning you follow what view?
The faith that makes the difference in salvation is the faith of Christ, not the individual's (Galatians 2:16, 20). Faith is work (I Thessalonians 1:3, II Thessalonians 1:11), salvation is by grace, and grace by definition is altogether undeserved.
Nobody becomes saved by putting their faith in Christ. That is an action the individual takes. God saves a person, and then and only then do they believe in a pleasing way (they give God 100% of the credit for their salvation and trust in the Bible implicitly).
@@paytonbell3767 do not use bad words against yourself or anyone else for that matter, it'll turn to a curse
I am asking myself, did RC sugar coat his last statement in this clip? Was he really thinking about saying - that WILL damn you? Either way its a sobering thought.
The issue with reformation is the separate 2 main doctrines in "forensic justification" simply defined 'changes within man' by God and no outward change. And regeneration defined as 'outward changes' in man. Forensic justification comes first.... this is a man made doctrine (Westminster confession) during the 1600s this teaching is unbiblical and leads many astray... What the bible teaches is "justification and regeneration" happens at the same time. This is a major error with the reformation and RC Sproul teachings.
Well it's a false dichotomy. Denying sola fide is not denying that we are saved by Christ and Christ alone. It's simply denying a 500 year old doctrine found nowhere in the early church, cherry-picking and reinterpreting the Scriptures.
The first half of this video was spot on. The second half is a non-sequitur.
In what way?
@@HearGodsWord rejecting faith alone doesn't necessarily mean rejecting salvation by Christ alone. It could, but it isn't the only logical option. In other words, the conclusion doesn't necessarily follow or nonsequitor.
I hope that clarifies and does so positively. Responding in the comments section is always dangerous, so I hope you receive this in the manner in which it's typed. God bless.
@@colman_s I'm not sure how you arrived at that conclusion but praying that you believe in justification by faith alone.
@@HearGodsWordRepentance must be practiced
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Could you move up the subtitles please I can't see them very well because the title of the video is in the way.
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Yeah but then if I deny faith alone doctrine and go to hell, but still had faith in Christ, then justification by faith alone is wrong because it is justification by faith PLUS affirming justification by faith as a doctrine .
Do you remember who said, "If you love me, obey my commandments.
Intellectual assent to the biographical facts about Jesus is not "belief" in Jesus. A profound change of life from the heart based on the truth of His redemption of my lost soul is proof of an actual belief in Christ.
He's saying you can only be saved by prescribing to his exact doctrine of faith in Christ. And if you were to follow Christ by worshipping any other way than what his theology, yiu are magically unsaved. Except that doctrine isnt taught in the scriptures.
I think only if you deny by grace you think that christ doesnt save you
Scripture states that we are justified by works and not faith alone. Oops, I guess if we believe scripture, we are in danger of not being saved.
Read ephesians 2:8-9.
@@goosieschmoo8239 I don't need to read Eph 2:8-9. I have it memorized.
@@noEVforme your previous comments say otherwise.
@@goosieschmoo8239 Would you care to elucidate?
Is it possible to truly be trusting only in the atoning work of Christ for salvation while denying the doctrine of justification by faith alone?
I can see being saved by faith alone while being ignorant of the doctrine; I think that is fairly common. Trusting in Christ is the main thing, and usually the first thing that leads to studying the Bible and learning the doctrines of Grace that unfold from that central Truth. But once you truly know what is meant by the doctrine and have searched the Scriptures to test the doctrine, if you have truly trusted Christ for your salvation, how could you deny Sola Fide?
James 2:24 says, “We see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.” The only place in the Bible where “faith alone” occurs.
Who was it written too?
James 1:1 - To the tribes of Israel
Yeah but you didn't mention that God has to give people faith. That's your false doctrine.
Read romans 8 and also the story of Lazarus
Look up voddie bacham Gospel in 4 minutes on youtube. its an amazing presentation of the Gospel. repent and trust alone in Jesus Christ to be saved!!!
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We are not justified by faith alone at all.
We are justified by God's Grace and he will Justify those who uphold the Law.
For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. (Rom 2:13)
it is only when we have a faith is not alone but upholds the Law can we say that we have a faith by which we will be justified.
Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law. (Rom 3:31)
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Unfortunately so
So...all those Christians prior to Protestantism...
Lost because they could read. Only after the Reformers (of which not one could agree w another) do we have the true, One Church.
Wide is the path that leads to destruction and many travel on it.
@@goosieschmoo8239 So narrow that no one was saved until Martin Luther came along, eh? Seems like Christianity started with him, not Jesus.
@@lyterman not exactly. It's just that there are MANY who thought they're good boy or good girl points got them into heaven.
@@goosieschmoo8239 Oh yeah? Can you name a few? I've read a lot of the fathers of the Church, and I've never heard of a theology akin to good boy points. That sounds like a Protestant caricature.
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Adhering to the "Saved by grace alone" or "Just believe" doctrine while throwing all the other verses out the window is a pretty gutsy move.
That would tell me that the apostle Paul was going around, preaching a gospel that goes beyond "faith alone". Paul said in Galatians 1:9 that everyone is accursed that preaches another gospel than the one he preached.
Taking only Acts 16:30-31 as the entirety of the bible would tell us that no repentance of any kind is needed for salvation.
Acts 16:30 Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” 31 And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
In addition, only the person asking what he needed to do to be saved would need to "believe". This infers that the rest of his household could be complete atheists, yet would be saved.
Are we having a contest to water down the Word of God until it has absolutely no effect?
If so, the entire population of earth should read ONLY Titus 3:5 and see that Jesus already saved us by His mercy and we don't have to do a single thing.
Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost
If we take this one verse literally, without reading any other in the bible, one could come to the conclusion that:
1) They don't even need to "Believe in Jesus" to be saved, because this verse doesn't say anything about belief.
2) They don't need to hear the Word
3) They don't need to read the Word
3) No relationship with God/Jesus/Holy Spirit is needed.
4) Hell is completely empty because everyone already got saved by His "mercy".
5) Sin as much as you want to, because repentance (to turn away from sin) wasn't specifically mentioned in this verse, either.
If this is the case, then ask yourself: Why is there even a judgment of man (Revelation 20:12-15)? Why is there a Gospel? And why is there even a Bible?
If one is going to take the "minimalist" doctrine to the nth degree, then you should end up with something similar to the above.
Take this approach and you will eventually find out that God is NOT playing around. He will not be mocked and ignored. In flaming fire, God will take vengeance on those that do not know Him and do not obey the Gospel of Jesus Christ (2 Thessalonians 1:8-9).
The Word of God commands us to make our calling and election "sure", not "minimal" (2 Peter 1:10). It also instructs us to study the word to show ourselves approved (2 Timothy 2:15).
The best policy is to read the ENTIRE Word of God for yourself to find out what the TRUE DOCTRINE and TRUE GOSPEL really is and then OBEY that gospel. If you are genuinely seeking God on this topic, He will most definitely fill in the blanks on any questions you have. All you have to do is ask Him in sincerity.
When the disciples preached the Gospel, what did the hearers of that Gospel actually do? They repented. They got baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of their sins. They received the Promise of the Father - The baptism of the Holy Ghost.
If a person truly BELIEVES the gospel, they will OBEY the gospel. In addition, once that individual experiences the sin unravelling and being removed from their life and the POWER of the Holy Ghost living inside, they will NOT be ashamed of that gospel, even as Paul declared in Romans 1:16.
God provided the plan of salvation for all men, women and children when He was under no obligation to do so. This is the very demonstration of His grace and mercy.
The problem with arguing against Lordship salvation is that one can argue so hard against works that they take it over the edge and completely IGNORE and therefore REJECT the instructions given from the Gospel, stating that those are works as well. THIS IS DECEPTION OF THE HIGHEST ORDER.
Do yourself a HUGE favor. Don't take reckless chances with your salvation. OBEY the TRUE GOSPEL.
"saved by faith alone" only appears once in the entire Bible and in a verse telling us we are in fact not lol