EO Responds To
Emails 09-06-09
(EMAIL) I am confused with your website... Are you saying that you DO believe that if a believer of Christ is shot dead while committing adultery, that he will go to Hell?
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name. YES, ABSOLUTELY - NO QUESTION ABOUT IT, if a person dies like that, as an adulterer, he WILL be damned and in the very end will be thrown into the lake of fire with the devil. There are no Christian adulterers.
We believe that we are saved by grace (Eph. 2:8,9) but we can fall from grace (Gal. 5:2-4). We are justified by faith (Rom. 5:1) but our faith can become shipwrecked (1 Tim. 1:19,20) and cease to exist (Lk. 8:13; Rom. 11:19-23). We are not under the law (Rom. 6:14,15) but if you live according to the sinful nature you will die (Rom. 8:13). Paul taught against legalism (Gal. 5:3,4) but he also taught that no immoral, impure or greedy person has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God (Eph. 5:5-7). We are not saved by works (Eph. 2:8,9) but to reap eternal life and not destruction you must sow to please the Spirit and not the sinful nature (Gal. 6:8,9). God is faithful to us (1 Jn. 1:9; 1 Cor. 10:13) but we must be faithful to him to the very end of our lives to escape the lake of fire or second death (Rev. 2:10,11). God surely loves us (Jn. 3:16; Mk. 10:21; Rom. 8:35-39) but those who inherit the kingdom of God love God (Jam 2:5; 1 Cor. 2:9) and to love God means to obey his commands (Jn. 14:15; 1 Jn. 5:3). We have freedom in Christ (Gal. 5:1) but this freedom is not to indulge the sinful nature (Gal. 5:13; 1 Pet 2:16).
Please consider getting our 801 page book refuting eternal security entitled, "The Believer's Conditional Security." There is MUCH in it that can help you better understand this salvation related subject. http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/whatsnew.htm This book is the most exhaustive and comprehensive refutation to eternal security ever written. It has never been refuted and never will, even though thousands of Baptists ministers have it!
Please consider signing up for our weekly email teachings, updates, etc. If interested, you can do that here http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/contact.htm
Remember Gal. 6:8,9 is a SALVATION passage not a rewards passage. GOD BLESS YOU.
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(EMAIL) I am so excited to hear from you!!! ...I have been watching every video you have ...and soaking it all in so that I can too can preach the True Gospel and refute false teaching.
I have been going to a baptist church until the pastor visited my house and told me about eternal security. Ever since then I have been looking into and finding that he is a false teacher! I tried to go to church again but was disgusted by their perversion of God's Holy Word. My sunday school teacher flat out said that he could go kill someone tomorrow and still go to heaven.
Do you have any suggestions for churches? ...Any help would be much appreciated....God Bless You and thank you so much for helping me. You have no idea how much of a blessing you are to me.
(RESPONSE) ...We are very sorry about your present church condition, but please know that you are not alone. There are many who are receiving our weekly email teachings that can find no sound teachings anywhere else! We are in a deep, dark apostasy. The churches by and large, are overrun with eternal security, ecumenical compromise with the Catholic church and the prosperity message. It is truly a dark hour but such must come in order for the antichrist to come on the scene.
...We do know some churches that are officially supposed to reject eternal security.... Of the other half dozen denominations that are supposed to reject eternal security, many of them compromise with this heresy in various ways besides having other serious doctrinal problems in their midst such as the ones already cited. We are very sorry for any distress and problems the church situation might have caused you, but again, you are not alone.... GOD BLESS YOU.
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(EMAIL) ...I feel very alone knowing that the pastors I thought were helping me get closer to God were twisting His Holy Word and lying to me. I am so happy to be able to know that I am talking to someone I can truly believe to preach His Word in truth.
...I am 30 years old, had my first child at 16, believed a false gospel at 17 and never fully repented because of eternal security teaching by Charles Stanley and others. I was married at 18... I loved the things of God since my false conversion and always wanted to do right but never had the power because I never fully understood repentance and fully turning from my sin.
On March ___ 2009, I told God that I am done with my sin and no matter what happened I would follow Him. I know that day I was given His Holy Spirit to do His will because I have had the power over sin ever since that day. I pray with my family now, never did that before. I read the bible to my kids now, never did that before. I use scripture to fight my lusts and evil desires, never did that before. God has given me victory over sin and through this I have sought to find His truth. I always wondered about eternal security because so many verses went against it. It has always been right there but now that I have truly repented He has shown me truth and led me to those who really preach the truth.
...I feel God calling me to do far more than just obey Him in my daily walk. When I see so much false teaching in the world and I know I have the truth and your clear teaching to help me I feel I need to do so much more. Thank you for encouraging me with your life and your handling of God's truth.
...I can not thank you enough. Please pray for me to have boldness and to proclaim His word as I will surely be praying that God will grow and strengthen your ministry.
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name. We are only God fearing servants in an apostate day, who are very serious about the things of God. We are fully aware that this life is only a “test” (James 1:12, etc.), but the most important test we will ever have—determining our eternal destiny and the destinies of others. Hence we are about the Father’s work.
The heresy of eternal security is the major problem in Bible believing circles, though there are others too. Sin has been winked at as not so bad among Christians [that is, that it can’t bring spiritual death], the devil has gotten a major victory.
...We are also firm believers in [sound] salvation literature, handing them out almost every single place we go. What we are sending is what we hand to others as we go about here and there.
It is great that you are fighting against sin. It was wonderful to read. THANK YOU JESUS. This is part of the whole Christian life, according to Heb. 12:4:
In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
We stopped watching TV years ago. It is a chief tool of the devil, like the modern day church. Did you read this? http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/newconverts.htm It is an important read for you.... GOD BLESS YOU. 1 Tim. 4:16.
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(EMAIL) Greetings in the precious name ofour Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. My name is ______________. I'm a born again Christian a Camroonian Living in Germany. After going through the internet, I found your web page so interesting. I want to thank you a million times over for your sermons and most especially for making it possible that The Evangelical Outreach Internet Church available online. I am so blessed and encouraged by them personally. It's amazing! I live in an area where there are no sound congregations. I want to let you know that I'm one of your Christian. I'm leading a house prayer group that the Lord has used me to begin here in Germany....May the Almighty Father who has call us to fight a good fight of faith blessed and anoint you more for His glory.
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name. Thanks for the kind words. It is GREAT to meet you and know you are out there serving God—trying to win souls. We are in a VERY DEEP worldwide apostasy and most don’t know it! We needed to start the internet church because it is so hard to find sound teaching. Please know your area is about the norm! People have written from around the world and told us the same - they can’t find a sound church!
We have a number of different gospel tracts you can purchase or print off of your computer printer, if you have one. We are firm believers in gospel tracts. This does NOT mean all so-called gospel tracts are sound, because many lack repentance and some actually teach eternal security! There are also many articles on a variety of topics....
Please pray for us and our ministry, as we are on the front lines standing for holiness and endurance in the faith. We come under many different attacks from various vicious enemies of truth.
GOD BLESS YOU. We love you as our Christian family.... Please stay in touch. James 3:1 and 1 Tim. 4:16.
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(EMAIL) Hi, I would like to get involved in distributing gospel tracts to people. Any suggestions? Do you have good ones?
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name. That is GREAT. It is very easy and fruitful to do this. The main obstacles to overcome will be fear and discouragement. (The devil often uses these on God’s servants to try to slow them down or even stop them all together.)
YES, we have excellent gospel tracts.... Have you read this? http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/tracts.htm
GOD BLESS YOU. 1 Cor. 15:58.
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(EMAIL) My name is _____ and I stumbled upon your page. I was raised Baptist, and I am now attending a Methodist church and I have always heard "once saved always saved." A couple of years ago I fell into some pretty grievous sexual immorality. I was having sex before marriage, and for a brief period of time I thought I was agnostic. I told a few people I might be or was agnostic. I came to my senses, got married, and pretty much rid myself of all sin except swearing. Recently I felt convicted to read the Bible so I started to. I freaked out when I read it for myself and not just listening to preachers and thought that I couldn't go to heaven because of all the bad stuff I have done. I am the most sorry I have ever been in my life. I want nothing more than to be on good terms with God. I feel that once saved always saved kind of promotes backsliding in a way. In no way is it anyone's fault but my own what I did, but I want to be right with God. I feel when I read it that eternal security might not be correct. I told God to get out of my life that I wanted to sin and then I felt bad and asked Him to come back and that I was confused. I have 2 pretty big sins there. The semi-disowning of Christ, and sexual immorality. The way I feel now is that I could NEVER EVER do that again. I didn't think any of it was that bad at the time because I was also taught all sins are the same in the Eyes of God. I also feel that this is not correct after reading the Bible. My question is, I have sincerely repented and turned my entire being away from anything that could cause me to sin whether it be movies, music, television shows that aren't Christ centered, is it too late for me? I have prayed to receive the Holy Spirit, and I do feel promptings from God. (I also NEVER committed blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.) Thanks,
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name. You are not alone. Many who start to read the Bible, for themselves, realize at that time the real message of God is much different than how they were taught. No doubt, eternal security is false and a dangerous snare to one’s soul.
Your sincere repentance was wonderful to read! You are righteously wise to turn from all sin and to the Lord. To answer your question: NO, it is not too late for you. God wants you back. Rather than repeat what has already been written, please read these two teachings on that subject: http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/prodigal.htm and http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/backslider.htm
Here is another important teaching http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/newconverts.htm
Please consider getting our 801 page book refuting eternal security entitled, "The Believer's Conditional Security." There is MUCH in it that can help you better understand this salvation related subject. http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/whatsnew.htm This book is the most exhaustive and comprehensive refutation to eternal security ever written. It has never been refuted and never will, even though thousands of Baptist ministers have it!
Please consider signing up for our weekly email teachings, updates, etc. If interested, you can do that here http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/contact.htm
Remember Gal. 6:8,9 is a SALVATION passage not a rewards passage. GOD BLESS YOU.
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(EMAIL #2) Although I am living my life right now, I still get fleeting thoughts that are sinful. I know it is impossible to live without sin, but these are not my thoughts. It is almost as if a demon is whispering things in my ear. Like stuff about blasphemy of the Holy Spirit or a mean thought about someone that I would never say out loud and I don't really believe. I WOULD NEVER BLASPHEME THE HOLY SPIRIT but I don't know why those thoughts are entering my head. I know without a shadow of a doubt that Jesus performed all those glorious miracles with the power of the Holy Spirit. I am actively trying with scripture, prayer, and saying out loud of the demons to flee, and they do but sometimes they come back a little stronger. Could you offer an advice for me?
Thank you for your help and I am considering buying your book. I have read Saved Without a Doubt by John McArthur and I really am curious about the other side of things. I felt his book had a few holes which left me feeling confused. Thanks,
(RESPONSE #2) Greetings in Jesus’ name. Fleeting thoughts are not significant! Furthermore, did you know the devil gives people thoughts? This is how he tempts, that is, in the mind. Temptation in itself is not a sin. Jesus was tempted, yet never sinned. Hence, temptation is not a sin. It doesn’t become a sin until temptation is yielded to.
You need to wash out your mind from all of the eternal security rubble you have taken in over the years. They teach one has to sin, which is NOT true. We can “obey” God. We can “follow” Jesus. We do NOT have to yield to temptation (1 Cor. 10:13) .
The best overall spiritual blessing for you is to saturate your mind with Scripture. Read as much of the New Testament as you can daily, memorize Scripture, listen to it being read, meditate in the Scriptures, etc. Also, shut off the TV and radio. Don’t read the newspaper or magazines. Renew your mind with God’s truth.
John MacArthur is a Calvinist. Hence, he does NOT know what saving faith is. He glibly speaks and writes to sometimes make people think he is teaching holiness for salvation, but he is NOT. MacArthur believes King David remained saved while in adultery and murder, like all once saved always saved people. He denies a righteous person can die spiritually, even though this is taught from Genesis to Revelation. Please read this http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/spiritualdeath.htm
God bless you. Heb. 3:14.
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(EMAIL) Hello, I have been a believer and follower for almost 8 years now. Until very recently, I have been taught and believed in “Once saved always saved” As I have studied the Word more and more, my beliefs are rapidly changing.
...I know that I really need to go to my Pastor about this but I really want to have my scriptural ducks in a row first.
I would really appreciate any information you can assist me with. I am learning so much, so fast and this subject keeps coming up for me so I need to stay on it until I’m sure. Thank you for your ministry, Blessings,
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name. What has happened to you is common, that is, as people read the Bible for themselves it becomes apparent the Scriptures do NOT teach once saved always saved. We have many articles on our web site refuting this doctrine, but you really should get at least our 801 page book, “The Believer’s Conditional Security.” It addresses over 100 of their arguments, quotes scores of teachers and best of all shows what the Bible teaches on this subject http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/whatsnew.htm That book is the most exhaustive and comprehensive refutation to eternal security ever written. It has never been refuted and never will, even though thousands of Baptists ministers have it!
Over the years, many have thought their pastor will change and start to teach that there is no eternal security, but what usually happens is when they go to their so-called pastor he flatly rejects any notion to the contrary! You must understand that he built his ministry on a lie. For him to change will cost him his ministry and source of income. Hence, VERY VERY FEW will ever change, because the cost is too great. Remember that blunt truth. That is the way it is.
Please consider signing up for our weekly email teachings, updates, etc. If interested, you can do that here http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/contact.htm Remember Gal. 6:8,9 is a SALVATION passage not a rewards passage. GOD BLESS YOU.
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(EMAIL) Help! My college-age son is a Christian. He went to a Christian school for elementary and middle school-trusting Christ around age 12. His grandparents are missionaries. He loves the Lord. But he has been dating a Catholic girl for over 2 years now. She comes from a devout Catholic family. They are seniors in college and are getting very serious. I am very worried. What can you tell me about Catholic marriage? Are they allowed to marry someone outside the Catholic church? And what can you tell me about their children? I have heard he will have to sign something stating they will be raised Catholic but I can not find it anywhere. Any information you can give me will be greatly appreciated. Sincerely,
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name. I had a relative who was married in a Catholic church. I’m 99% sure the priest, who married them, did want a paper signed that they would raise the children Catholic. That was decades ago and is a big problem, but much worse is the adverse spiritual affects Catholicism can/will have on your son, etc. His girl friend is embracing a false plan of salvation and various forms of idolatry through Catholicism. If she doesn’t accept the truth, he better not marry her. We have various text and audio teachings on Catholicism. (I used to be a Catholic.) It would be good for him to read this http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/christiansingles.htm
The big issue with your son is NOT: If he was ever saved, but is he saved NOW. (There is no once saved always saved.) Hopefully, he is not sexually immoral with her. There are NO “Christian sexually immoral people,” (Rev. 21:8; 1 Cor. 6:9,10; Eph. 5:5-7; etc.). We also have two important books, etc. refuting eternal security. Remember:
We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first. (Heb 3:14)
Please consider getting our 801 page book refuting eternal security entitled, "The Believer's Conditional Security." There is MUCH in it that can help you better understand this salvation related subject. http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/whatsnew.htm This book is the most exhaustive and comprehensive refutation to eternal security ever written. It has never been refuted and never will, even though thousands of Baptists ministers have it!
Please consider signing up for our weekly email teachings, updates, etc. If interested, you can do that here http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/contact.htm
Remember Gal. 6:8,9 is a SALVATION passage not a rewards passage. GOD BLESS YOU.
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(EMAIL) You seem to forget that God is 100% love, that he judges on the content of the heart, and Jesus even said leave them alone because if they are not against us they are for us. (God does use even those who teach contrary to your doctrine and they will make it to heaven, perhaps some of their works will be burned but not their souls) I sense so much anger in your teaching not love, although I do believe 99% of your teaching and believe that I will one day meet you over yonder :).
I am so thankful that the Father allowed me to be a mother or I would have never understood his full concept of love. When my children were young I trained them in many ways. They did wrong things, but I never stopped loving them and training them. They are grown now and still come to me for advice and correction. I love them, forgive them, and instruct them to do right and I know their heart. Show more of that love in the answers of those that objectionable to you, they are seeking the truth, not condemnation.
Some argue that there is a pre-tribulation rapture, a mid-tribulation rapture and a post-tribulation rapture. Whenever is ok with me, you see God knows my heart and is ever helping me to mature and grow in him so that I may teach, help and love others.
(RESPONSE) Greetings in Jesus’ name. I’m not sure what you mean by God judging on “the content of the heart.” Motives behind the Christian’s good works will be judged like that, but that doesn’t mean that non-Christians will be okay if sincere, etc. We MUST have JESUS or we will be damned.
Who are you trying to say is really “not against us”? If you are trying to defend the grace changers, please stop trying to defend the devil’s servants.
We have a righteous and holy anger for the precious SOULS which have been misled through the doctrines of eternal security, Catholicism, Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, etc. As servants of God we are commanded to expose and refute doctrines of demons. It is needed, for such false teachers will speak out their spiritual poison. People need to hear the truth, which is a rare commodity in our day. Getting back to that righteous anger, it springs from the LOVE God has placed in our hearts for SOULS and HIS TRUTH. (You apparently think we are saved yet UNloving. This is not possible. Also, you don’t understand Christian love. Ponder this verse:
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. (1 Cor 13:6)
Please don’t confuse yourself or others with the mother-child argument. It is reasoning from the natural to the spiritual, which is OFTEN DEADLY. To understand God and His ways, glue yourself to the Bible and get ALL of your concepts from it. Remember 2 Tim. 3:16,17.
This life will affect our eternity. It is VERY IMPORTANT that we behave the right way and believe certain doctrines. Some teachings don’t affect one’s salvation, but others do!
For your own sake, please drop all pre-conceived ideas, read the Scriptures and change accordingly. GOD BLESS YOU.