EO Responds To
Emails 08-23-09
(EMAIL) I have lead an adulterous life, while professing to be a Christian. If I repent, will God through Christ forgive me?
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name. YES, YES, YES, YES! It is true that no adulterer will inherit the kingdom of God (1 Cor 6:9,10; Eph 5:5-7; Gal. 5:19-21; Rev 21:8, etc.) whether they claim to be a Christian or not, but there is good news for the repentant. Please ponder James 5:19,20; Lk. 15:24,32; Rom. 11:19-23.
The repentant will get forgiven and set free from their sins, which are dragging them to hell (John 8:36; Mk. 9:42-48; etc.). Stay away from people, places and things (as much as possible) that will tempt you to sin against God. Produce fruit in keeping with repentance as you seek and serve God with all your heart. Study the New Testament diligently, as a lawyer would an important document, and put into practice what you find there.
Please carefully read the following articles:
http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/salvationps.htm
http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/repentance.htm
http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/newconverts.htm
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God bless you.
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(EMAIL) I have read all that you have written and listened to all you have said. Now I am praying that I would know the truth. There is so much information out there I now understand why so many people stay away it so confusing. I studied for the last 3 weeks about 260 hours worth and you were the last source. To think that someone will hang their eternal lives on one of these teaching… I pray that all you have said with such boldness is true for there are many depending on me for the answer. Thank you for all your hard work.
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name. Thank you for the kind words and interest in our teachings. We are very mindful that a teacher’s judgment will be more strict (James 3:1). We also know the amazing impact teachings will have on those who receive such. Regardless how careful we are, you will never really know the truth unless you spend time DIRECTLY IN THE BIBLE apart from all other teachings. I was in your shoes at one time coming from a Catholic background, then having a Jehovah’s Witness in the family try to convert me. It was VERY frustrating, especially reading the KJV. What helped me incredibly was laying aside the KJV and reading the NIV. Other translations should also be read, like the NASB and ESV. As you seek God’s truth and change accordingly your understanding will increase. May God help you and us too. Our eyes are on Him.
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GOD BLESS YOU. Heb. 3:14.
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(EMAIL) Dear christian friend, a few years ago, i would have bought into all that you speak about. i think you will find it interesting if you search through your own sites for something that i found to be mostly missing; the cross. Paul had decided to know nothing but "Jesus Christ and Him crucified". Why do you think that is? I strongly encourage you to pray about why you are acting as more of an accuser of the brethren than edifying.
Even though I do believe my faith will endure until the end, I dont call myself a calvinist because i am a Christ follower not a Calvin follower. but i do believe you are misrepresenting other brothers in Christ.
I also used to believe, and still do in some ways, that "eternal security" was a dangerous doctrine becuase i believed that it gave people a feeling of freedom to sin. Please read Romans 6 . he is responding to the same question. after reading what Paul just said in chapter five about grace abounding, one might feel that Paul was teaching a "license to sin" gospel (which you claim calvinism teaches). He answers by teaching us about what happened at our conversion; the old man that was a slave to sin DIED and the NEW MAN lives to and for GOD. this is why he brings up baptism because it represents that our old man died with Christ when He was crucified and that we identify with Christ when He rose from the dead because we also are a new person with a new heart with new desires upon repentance (not as a result of baptism of course). Not a new man who never fails but a man with a heart to please God, who can not continue in unrepentant sin anymore. a man who is given a promise (new COVENANT) that the gift of faith (read eph 2:8) that he has recieved will never fail but endure to the end ( read 1 Cor 1:4-9, 1 Peter 1:4,5). Because it is God's work. He started it, He will finish it (read Phil 1:6)
i also dont believe that if you run into an apostate "christian" you should give him a false assurance that he is going to heaven because the bible makes it clear that "those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God". i also encourage them to "examine themselves" to see if they are in the faith just as Paul did (2 Cor 13:5). I again encourage you to take some time to talk to God about your heart in this matter towards those who believe in "eternal security" (who also believe on Christ apart of the same body that you are a part of). Becuase a true follower of Christ will say the same thing that Paul said in Romans 6. Granted there are some who do use grace as license to sin and granted some of them call themselves calvinists. But Calvin, Mcarthur or any other true believer do not teach "in sin security". this is why i am writing to you brother. because this accusation is just plain false.
question; were you raised by "calvinists" who lived hypocritical lives in sin and always defending themselves because they said a prayer? if so, i too grew up in & around many of those. i give none of them an assurance that they are saved even if they seemed to walk with Christ for years priar. this doesnt mean that Calvin or Mcarthur are false brethren. I personally attack the "sinners prayer". i believe this practice is the most destructive false evangelism in history because it causes people to believe they are right with God because of something they did and not repenting and trusting in the finished work of Christ on the cross which is what the bible teaches. people in america are not trusting in Jesus Christ's atoning work on the cross for salvation, they are trusting in a magical prayer. this they feel is the righteous thing to do but as ephesians 2 mentions, God doesnt desire that anyone of us boast that we are saved by anything we did. only on the grace of God which compels us to live 100 percent dependant upon Christ to live as a disciple of Christ.
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name. Please do not slander us by saying we do not teach the “cross.” The cross is all through our material! We repeatedly teach and magnify the fact that initial salvation comes by grace at the point of a trusting-obeying faith in JESUS. That refers to the cross, without mentioning the actual word. As you have condemned us, to be consistent you would have to also condemn Peter, James, Jude and John in all of their epistles. Why? Because the word cross is missing from those writings! (You are looking for something to criticize to prop up the damnable heresy leading MULTITUDES TO HELL. Stop it!)
Your personal views are not accurate. We document the people we quote, then refute these savage wolves in sheep’s clothing with Scripture. We know many hate what we do for the sake of truth, but it has brought many to repentance. SOULS have been helped by our holiness and endurance message.
For you to indirectly deny that a saving faith can die, cease to exist, be destroyed, become shipwrecked, etc., shows you have a perverted and dangerous view of grace, sin, salvation, God, etc. Also, you deny the truth you have read or heard from our ministry.
For you to turn from truth to the lie you are trying to defend doesn’t mean what you turned from is wrong, but that you have been deceived to your own harm. Paul said nothing in Romans 6 that allows for the permitted wickedness without losing salvation as taught through eternal security. Romans 6 is a devastating blow to your view of a Christian. Wake up and smell the “coffee”:
Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? (Rom 6:16)
You don’t believe “obedience leads to righteousness.” You don’t believe sin leads to spiritual death. You oppose Paul’s grace message, then claim your own theology is “grace,” while you impugn Christians who are spreading holy living, the fear of God and getting souls saved. Such is the “fruit” of your warped view of the Bible. The sooner you drop the satanic doctrines you are cleaving to, the better it will be for your soul and those you love the most in the natural. Though sin-loving people will almost always reject our message, we have a detailed examination of Romans 6 here http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/romans6.htm
Your theological jargon is a lie and distortion. You will only deceive the misinformed by your misrepresentation of grace and false presentation of eternal security, etc. Your version of a Christian is not Calvinism:
Not a new man who never fails but a man with a heart to please God, who can not continue in unrepentant sin anymore.
Read your contradictory statement above again. You want it both ways. You want the illusion of holiness while you teach that people must sin. You are ignorant of what the grace changers teach about the sin unto death. They tell us those Christians stray into wickedness, NEVER REPENT, God kills them physically and takes them to heaven! Please do not try to sugar coat the doctrinal poison you are drinking and trying to push on others.
NONE of the Scriptures you cited are correctly used. NONE teach what you want to believe to the point you are trying to convince others. (You are supposed to believe God made us as we are—one of the elect or not and man can’t change it. Hence, you shouldn’t try since you have been taught God will do it, if it happens and man can’t change it.) You are a false accuser of the brethren, not us.
You cite 2 Cor. 13:5 and miss that Paul wrote that to Christians—people who were previously saved. The danger was false teachers as he mentions in chapter 11. 2 Cor. 13:5 shows Paul believed those false teachings could take a real Christian out of the faith.
Please don’t spread false information about Calvin or John MacArthur. Both of them and ALL CALVINISTS WITHOUT EXCEPTION, believe King David remained saved while in adultery and murder; Solomon remained saved even when his heart turned to “idolatry” and Peter remained saved even after he disowned Jesus.
You are a deceived man trying to defend and spread a concoction of the devil to the hurt of others, including yourself. Though I don’t think you are interested, our book, “The Believer’s Conditional Security” can help you.
Remember you are not playing some kind of mental chess game with the Scriptures, you are either serving God or the devil by teaching and believing as you do.
How you or I or any person has been raised is not important, but what is important is this: what does the Bible say? People that want to excuse sin while they deny they do this will only deceive the misinformed. Many are wise to your unsound and unwholesome counterfeit “gospel.”
Remember: It is holiness or hell; endure or be damned; follow Jesus or the devil. That doesn’t allow for Christian adulterers, Christian drunks, Christian murderers, etc. like you want others to believe. Change for your good. Persist in your doctrines to your own GREAT harm. The choice is yours, not God’s.
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(EMAIL) Hi my name is ______, and I have a few questions. My church also teaches no eternal security but the concept that if you committed sins like lies and quarrels you go to hell when unrepented is new to me. Almost everyone has quarrels and almost everyone lies sometime in their life. Nobody could go to heaven then. Nobody could be sure of their salvation! I don't quite know if I can believe you.
In addition to this issue I need some help with my spiritual life. This is really important because I think I would go to hell. if I would die now. I don't quite know if I can actually find help here. If I can write you just tell me and I will write about my struggles. Thank you
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name. Please NOTE: All liars will go to the lake of fire (Rev. 21:8), unless they repent and get forgiven. Stop lying. Why should you lie? You don’t have to. What about some other sins which many overlook? Ponder this passage from Paul:
The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Gal 5:19-21)
All sins are not the same in their effect on our souls. Some sins are greater than others (Jn. 19:11). One type is eternal (Mk. 3:29), while others are not. Another type of sin is uniquely against our bodies, while other sins are outside our bodies (1 Cor. 6:18). 1 Jn. 5:16 declares there is a sin that does not lead to death while there is a sin that leads to death. Sins such as worry (Phil. 4:6), unthankfulness (Col. 2:7, 3:15; Lk. 17:11-18) and not being completely humble and gentle (Eph. 4:2) are not included in any of the lists of sins that will send people to the lake of fire, even if they were once saved. However, other sins certainly will send any person to hell if they die unrepentant, even a person who was once saved. (See 1 Cor. 6:9,10; Rev. 21:8; Gal. 5:19-21; Eph. 5:5,6; Jude 7; Rev. 22:15; etc.).
This article will also help you with the Christian life http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/newconverts.htm
Ponder Mk. 9:42-48. God bless you.
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(EMAIL) i was wondering if the blood of jesus can cleans me from foul words to the holy spirit or have i commited the unpardonable sin?
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name. YES, you can get forgiven. The unpardonable sin is when someone says/believes Jesus had a demon and by the power of the devil he performed his miracles. Read Mk. 3:22-30.
Read this http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/salvationps.htm
GOD BLESS YOU.
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(EMAIL) I have been listening to Woodrow Kroll the last three programs, and have heard him mention 2 Tim. 2:13 and that God is faithful if we are unfaithful. Do you mind lettinig me know what your argument is that refutes his Calvinistic slant on this verse. Thanks,
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name. That verse you have asked about, and the one before, is:
if we endure, we will also reign with him. If we disown him, he will also disown us; (2 Tim 2:12) if we are faithless, he will remain faithful, for he cannot disown himself. (2 Tim 2:13)
NOTE: (1) v. 12 says we will be DISOWNED by the Lord, if we disown him. That is clear. (2) God is faithful to not disown “himself.” It doesn’t say he won’t disown us! He just wrote God would disown us, if we disown him. That is a repeat of Mt. 10:33.
How Kroll (and others) mishandles God’s word leads to people being unfaithful. That teaching is the devil’s best. If you had our 801 p. book you could easily look this verse and others up.
WARNING: To listen to a man like Kroll who does not understand salvation, grace, the gospel or sin is to subject yourself to deception through doctrines of demons. You need to stop listening to all such people for your own sake.
GOD BLESS YOU. Heb. 3:14.
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(EMAIL) ...You had better pray that Universalism is TRUE or else Pharassees like yourselves are in for a VERY HOT future.
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name. If we are wrong, that doesn’t mean Universalism is true. There are other possibilities. Besides, you are not supposed to believe in Hell. How can you say we are going to hell indirectly, if we are wrong?
For your own SOUL’s sake, read through the New Testament and change accordingly. Eternity is a very looooooong time.
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death. (Rev 21:8)
God bless you.
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(EMAIL FROM IRELAND) ...just listened to your recorded radio talk with adrian kenneddy, about the evil of harry potter.all i can say to you is well done. ireland was once a GOD fearing country.alas now,it's far behind us.when i was young, back in the 1950s,there was many a pounding given by the priests in the catholic church, against witchcraft. today this is an agnostic nation,so totally changed over the past fifty years. ireland was once known as the "land of saints and scholars".not many of those here now. keep up the great work of the defense of GODS word, THE BIBLE. greetings to you from the lovely seaside town of bray, just outside dublin, ireland. blessings of OUR MIGHTY LORD JESUS to you.
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name. Thanks for the kind words. The wickedness of the Dublin area reeks through the profanity, etc. callers have spoken. We are in a DARK time in a DARK world. You mentioned Catholic priests—Are you a Catholic? GOD BLESS YOU.
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(EMAIL #2) thanks for your reply. i was a catholic til aged 49. the LORD JESUS got a hold of me and shook me up!! i started on the road towards salvation then, had very good training.... been in a few churches, a lot of them don't adhere to the LORD JESUS teaching that the truth shall set you free. i of course repudiate the prosperity ministry. straight from satan. my wife and self do our own sunday service. we are very wary of the present day churches. i like your web site. you seem to be well as we say here "on the ball". plenty of schism of GODS word abounds. i dont like it when other CHRISTIANS tell me that sonso sonso (a person"), was/is saved. too many times these people are not told that we have to adhere to, and follow LORD JESUS teachings. thats a little of my story. THE LORD JESUS has been abundantly wonderful to me. when i was becoming a born again CHRISTIAN. 15 years ago, my wife died from cancer.... and a half years later i met my second wife. she is english, but has lived in ireland most of her life. we got married 9 months later.(1999) we have been very happily married since then. praise THE LORD JESUS.... i have no doubt in my heart that our marriage was a wonderful gift from heaven.... may THE ALMIGHTY LORD JESUS continue to bless you, and yours. in HIS MIGHTY NAME.
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name from the USA. It is great to read you are out of the Catholic church and are aware of various problems, including the Prosperity Message. Thanks also for sharing about your marriage. I have no doubt a person who lost his spouse through death can remarry. The age difference means little. The important issue is always the spiritual.
Thanks for the kind words. We are sorry about your personal situation with doing church at home. MANY others are doing the same because the existing churches are so fouled up doctrinally. May God bless you and use you for His honor and glory. Hopefully, you are trying to win others to the Lord in your area. The fields are ripe for harvest, but the laborers are few.
GOD BLESS YOU.