The Root For Decision, The Sinners Prayer, and Other Myths

Romans 10:9, 13 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (13.) For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Most mythical ways of salvation has there roots right here in John Chapter 10. It is a fact that most take these passages of scripture out-of-context to make salvation the sinner’s choice, decision, or etc. In order to fulfill mythical ways of salvation that religionist teaches today, the word of God must be altered in two ways, (1.) the scriptures must be taken out-of-context and (2.) the scriptures must be contradicted. When I was a young preacher and believing most of what religionist believes today my mentor and Pastor Brother Harace Hammond told me in order to understand the scriptures two basic rules must be followed, (1.) all scriptures must be taken in context with the chapter or chapters in which the passage is located and (2.) no scripture or passage ever contradicts another because the entire bible is one single book and perfectly assembled together. With this being understood I began my studies with these two rules in mind and quickly discovered I had been sadly been taught myths instead of truth. I soon learned that that one central and root scripture of truth was Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:” and I quickly thought “if salvation is not of ourselves but is of God and the gift from God then how is it that it is mans choice?” Then I began to see words like “elect”, “chosen”, and “predestination” and quickly realized I had a gross misunderstanding of God’s word. If one uses these two rules of thought as they study the scriptures and allows the scriptures to speak to them as they truly are written, then believing the truth’s of the bible are greater than not. However those that simply swallow what their Pastors tells them without studying the scriptures and fact checking then they will always be a “mind-num-robot” rather than a bible student which every believer should be.

In these two scriptures and even in the entire tenth chapter of Romans is Paul is not speaking about “choosing Christ”, “making a decision for Christ”, or “praying a prayer to be saved”. This is also not the “Romans road to salvation”. However taken in context with the rest of the tenth chapter they are scriptures about “how to be saved”. We must first notice in verse 10 “For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness…” which means the heart of man must be changed before one can believe because his natural heart is at enmity with God, in fact Jesus said in Matthew 15:18 “But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.” So even in mans lost state his evil comes from his heart, meaning nothing good can come from it. Now we see Jesus referencing the difference between the natural heart and a heart changed by God Luke 6:45 “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.” Therefore we conclude that the confessing here in John 10 is not a “sinner’s prayer” but rather a confession of their salvation because in verse 11 we see “Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.”

As far as verse 13 “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” It also is not a prayer but rather is a quote from Joel 2:32 “And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.” So whosoever does call shall be saved but only those whom the Lord God shall called first. “…and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.” So without Gods Holy Spirit pricking mans heart first then man will never call upon the Lord. So we conclude with this fact; the lost cannot pray a prayer to be saved because God does not hear the prayers of the lost.

“Choose You This Day Whom Ye Will Serve”

Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

This is a wonderful scripture that serves such a great thought, but to see it butchered by the religionist is a great shame. The religionists have such a great desire to prove their heresy that they butcher Gods word to make a point. Please understand this one central point; we do not choose Christ for salvation, God chose us before the foundation of the world. “But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:” 2 Thessalonians 2:13 The religionist have lied over and over again. Do a bible search and find the phrase “Choose Christ” or “Choose God” it does not exist in the Holy Script at all, it is always “Christ Chose you” or “God Chose you” nor is there one single example in the entire scriptures that tells the lost person to “Make A Decision For Christ” nor does God one single time tell man to “Pray A Prayer To Be Saved” this is all a made up myth by religionist that are afraid to preach the truth, and its only finished work is to make a lost person believe a lie and for that person to spend eternity in hell. If you attend a church that preaches these lies you better check in the scriptures to assure yourself that you are truly saved. “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.” John 5:39 We have a great example of a salvation message and it is found in Acts 16:30 - 31 “And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? (31.) And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.” The question was directly asked and directly answered, simply “…Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved…” there was no sinner’s prayer, no choice made by the jailer nor did Paul or Silas offer one because we do not choose to be saved, God chose us before the foundation of the world. “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.” 1 Peter 1:2 However, if you still think I am wrong ask your beloved Religionist Pastor to show you directly in the scriptures where the lost is told to choose Christ, and without all of the mythical explanations but rather the one single example. This is THE salvation scripture John 3:18 “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” Simply believe in your heart that Jesus is the Saviour of mankind and you are saved. However simple it may be, you will not believe until the Holy Spirit convicts your heart to believe. John 6:29 “Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” Jesus just made it plain and clear that “…This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” Not the work of your Pastor or anyone else, it is God that chooses, calls, and saves the lost sinner, neither yourself by a choice nor your Pastor by mythical decisions.

Now I would like to explain the scripture that I used for our text scripture. While God never told man to choose Him for salvation, He did tell the Christian to serve Him, and this is exactly how this scripture is defined. We are not to allow little gods take away our service to our Holy God. So choose who you are going to serve God, or a football game, fishing, your money, your family, or etc. because anything you serve other than God, you make that your earthy god. So I will conclude as our text scripture concludes “…but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” and nothing else.

“For God So Loved The World”

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

We are now, since we have finished TULIP the five points of Sovereign Grace going to take some time to look closely at some of the verses of scripture that the Religionist use in order to lead their hearers down the path of eternal destruction. With this in mind I have selected the number one abused scripture in the bible. Before us we have a most beautiful scripture that so many have misinterpreted for so long, but truly has a most wonderful meaning to those who are saved or are going to be saved. It all comes down to the Greek word kosmos or the word world and what this word actually means. The word kosmos means - orderly arrangement, including its inhabitants – but the question is does it mean that God loves every sinner in the world and He wills for every sinner to be saved as some believe, well if it does then there is contradiction in the scriptures. We must look at this from one of two points; (1.) that God loves every sinner in the world from start to finish, or (2.) It means that God loves some of the population which limits His love. With this being said if God indeed does love every sinner in the world then this would have to include Esau whom God said He hated. “As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” Romans 9:13. If God hated Esau then the thought that God loves everyone ever in the world contradicts the scripture because either God loves everyone ever born in this world or that thought is dead. We must also include Psalms 5:5 “The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.” Here the scripture concludes that God hates “…all workers of iniquity.” not just their sins but He hates them. So let’s do a little thinking so we can put in context the entire scriptures so that we can reach an honest and true meaning of John 3:16 and the word world. First, God never changes because He is eternal, Secondly, God cannot love then hate because He cannot change His love because those that He loves He loves eternally.

We see the same English and Greek words used in John 6:33 “For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.” Since this is the exact same Greek word then if God loved every sinner then here would it not mean that “the bread of God… giveth life unto the world.” and therefore all sinner will be saved? People can make scripture mean anything they choose but that doesn’t make it mean what God meant when He inspired it. God never said He loves everyone in the world, nor can He because He has proven in Esau that it is imposable.

So here we reach the real conclusion to the word “world”. It means the different races, nationalities of people, or etc. What God said was “I do not just love the Israelites but rather the Gentiles also and thanks be to God that He did. We must understand that God has no respect of persons, Romans 2:11 “For there is no respect of persons with God.” This means God does not love people because of nationality or color but that He loves people from all sections and races of the world because He has chosen too. God does not have to love anyone, He is not obligated to love anyone, but He chose to love some out of the world and if you are saved then God loves you. Not only does He not love every soul in the world Jesus in His prayer to the Father refused to pray for everyone in the world. John 17:9 “I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.” So next time you hear someone say “God loves everyone” ask them to prove it and if they use John 3:16 you will know they are mislead.