Thank you, Costi. About 4 1/2 years ago, Jesus woke me up from my delusion. I was raised in church but always sort of wavered between easy-believism and trying to earn my salvation. I thought I was a Christian, but I had allowed sexual sin to dominate my life. I sank lower and lower, all the while attending church and believing God would forgive me because each time I sinned, I would mutter a quick "forgive me, lord" and be about my merry way until the next time that I felt like gratifying my flesh. There was never a desire to change. One day, I was discovered and for the first time in my life, I could see myself for who I truly was. A terrible man who only lived for himself. I was selfish, prideful, manipulative and many other things. I fell on my face. I had nowhere to go but to Him. I knew I couldn't save myself. I couldn't make myself change. I asked him to begin to change me. I asked for true repentance. He kicked down the doors of my heart. He made me hate my sin. He flooded me with grace. He put men in my life to help me with accountability. I started to see real change. There's still a lot of darkness in my heart and I am so aware of my sinfulness, but my heart is at rest when I remind myself of the Gospel because I know in Him I am set free. I have seen so much victory and I owe it all to Him.
I can't tell you how incredibly grateful I am for the true gospel. 3 years ago, the Lord saved me from the prosperity, health and wealth movement... And its people like Costi, Voddie, MacArthur, Paul Washer that The Lord used to teach me sound doctrine... And to get the right theology. And now I worship the true Creator of the universe and I'm so incredibly grateful... Thank you Jesus for your sacrifice... The Lord is so good.
We are saved when we believe the gospel of the grace of God - I Corinthians 15:1-4. I attended church services for 57 years and never heard those four (4) verses preached.
Costi, respectfully the gospel is not repentance @ 7:10. The gospel is Good News. It is peace with God. The gospel is not that we respond appropriately to Christ, it is that Christ Jesus obeyed the Father, accomplished our salvation, was raised from the dead and His perfect obedience is imputed to us through faith. Repentance flows out of the gospel. Yes, we see in the NT, "repent-and-believe" as well as just "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ" as they are used as a synecdoche, however, we must not confuse the order-of-teaching with the order-of-salvation (ordo salutis). The law says, DO. The gospel declares, DONE. The gospel demands nothing, it gives everything. The first use of the law is used to condemn sinners, then the Good News is declared that Christ has accomplished salvation, Jn. 17:4 & 19:30. It's imperative that we keep the law-gospel distinction intact, lest we stray into antinomianism and its counterpart neonomianism, both of which result from law-gospel confusion. "When a man preaches the gospel he should appear as an antinomian" Spurgeon. "...if your presentation of the gospel does not expose it to the charge of antinomianism you are probably not putting it correctly." Martin Lloyd Jones. "When you are engaged in discussing the question of justification, beware of allowing any mention to be made of love or of works, but resolutely adhere to the exclusive particle." Calvin "True faith is an obedient faith, but faith is not true because it is obedient." R.Scott Clark. Justification is monergistic. Repentance is synergistic and therefore involves an element of works on our part. Your definition muddies the waters and dilutes what Luther called, "The joyous exchange." Submitted respectfully. Greg Anderson
Here’s one of the most important things the gospel is NOT - that God so loved the ELECT that he sent his only Son. Its’ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16, NKJV). I agree if you change it you are in grave error.
Question for Keith: Is that "the world" without distinction, or "the world" without exception? 1 Jn. 2: 1-2 says that He is the propitiation for the whole world. The definition of propitiation is "the efficacious satisfaction of Divine wrath". If Christ the the propitiation of the whole world without exception as you state, then the whole world is saved and universalism is the order of the day or there are people in hell right now, who Christ made satisfaction for and yet the Father has rejected His work and still damns them to eternal punishment.
“If you want to follow Jesus, great. But there’s a cross with your name on it.” 🔥🔥🔥
Literally used the same tag line when I posted on FB
Thank you, Costi. About 4 1/2 years ago, Jesus woke me up from my delusion. I was raised in church but always sort of wavered between easy-believism and trying to earn my salvation. I thought I was a Christian, but I had allowed sexual sin to dominate my life. I sank lower and lower, all the while attending church and believing God would forgive me because each time I sinned, I would mutter a quick "forgive me, lord" and be about my merry way until the next time that I felt like gratifying my flesh. There was never a desire to change.
One day, I was discovered and for the first time in my life, I could see myself for who I truly was. A terrible man who only lived for himself. I was selfish, prideful, manipulative and many other things. I fell on my face. I had nowhere to go but to Him. I knew I couldn't save myself. I couldn't make myself change. I asked him to begin to change me. I asked for true repentance. He kicked down the doors of my heart. He made me hate my sin. He flooded me with grace. He put men in my life to help me with accountability. I started to see real change. There's still a lot of darkness in my heart and I am so aware of my sinfulness, but my heart is at rest when I remind myself of the Gospel because I know in Him I am set free. I have seen so much victory and I owe it all to Him.
I can't tell you how incredibly grateful I am for the true gospel. 3 years ago, the Lord saved me from the prosperity, health and wealth movement... And its people like Costi, Voddie, MacArthur, Paul Washer that The Lord used to teach me sound doctrine... And to get the right theology. And now I worship the true Creator of the universe and I'm so incredibly grateful... Thank you Jesus for your sacrifice... The Lord is so good.
Yes, these teachers are wonderful and biblical. 🙏❤️🙏❤️
Same! So thankful!
Thank you Costi.
No matter how long we've been following the Lord Jesus, we never graduate from the gospel.
Amen 🤣🤣🤣
We are saved when we believe the gospel of the grace of God - I Corinthians 15:1-4. I attended church services for 57 years and never heard those four (4) verses preached.
Thanks Costi! These are hard hitting truths, but ones I needed to be reminded of!
May God bless Pastor Costi for the great work your doing in the kingdom of God.
Excellent.
All we want to say is thank-you for bringing the truth to us...❤
Thank you, costi. This is so true. ✝️
Thank you Costi❤🙏🏽
Thank you!
Thankyou Pastor
Brother can you make a video explaining Baptism.
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Thank you. I'll enjoy watching this! Right AC?
sure will!
Costi, respectfully the gospel is not repentance @ 7:10. The gospel is Good News. It is peace with God. The gospel is not that we respond appropriately to Christ, it is that Christ Jesus obeyed the Father, accomplished our salvation, was raised from the dead and His perfect obedience is imputed to us through faith. Repentance flows out of the gospel. Yes, we see in the NT, "repent-and-believe" as well as just "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ" as they are used as a synecdoche, however, we must not confuse the order-of-teaching with the order-of-salvation (ordo salutis). The law says, DO. The gospel declares, DONE. The gospel demands nothing, it gives everything. The first use of the law is used to condemn sinners, then the Good News is declared that Christ has accomplished salvation, Jn. 17:4 & 19:30. It's imperative that we keep the law-gospel distinction intact, lest we stray into antinomianism and its counterpart neonomianism, both of which result from law-gospel confusion. "When a man preaches the gospel he should appear as an antinomian" Spurgeon. "...if your presentation of the gospel does not expose it to the charge of antinomianism you are probably not putting it correctly." Martin Lloyd Jones. "When you are engaged in discussing the question of justification, beware of allowing any mention to be made of love or of works, but resolutely adhere to the exclusive particle." Calvin "True faith is an obedient faith, but faith is not true because it is obedient." R.Scott Clark. Justification is monergistic. Repentance is synergistic and therefore involves an element of works on our part. Your definition muddies the waters and dilutes what Luther called, "The joyous exchange." Submitted respectfully. Greg Anderson
Couldn’t Judas’ remorse have led to repentance? Did he assume that since Jesus was killed there was no possibility of forgiveness?
Judas was inhabited by Satan the word says so he could not repent.
Here’s one of the most important things the gospel is NOT - that God so loved the ELECT that he sent his only Son. Its’ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16, NKJV). I agree if you change it you are in grave error.
The world where the elect live. The word says that all who believe (the elect) will be saved!
Question for Keith: Is that "the world" without distinction, or "the world" without exception? 1 Jn. 2: 1-2 says that He is the propitiation for the whole world. The definition of propitiation is "the efficacious satisfaction of Divine wrath". If Christ the the propitiation of the whole world without exception as you state, then the whole world is saved and universalism is the order of the day or there are people in hell right now, who Christ made satisfaction for and yet the Father has rejected His work and still damns them to eternal punishment.