Such two-faced rhetoric which maintains that eternal life is a gift, but yet it requires the human effort of forsaking sinful behavior, is satanic in origin. That's not the Gospel, not at all. We've got a bunch of idiots running around on the internet, and in our churches, and in our Bible colleges, that haven't a clue how the Holy Bible works. They fail to grasp God's plan of salvation, the purpose of God's law and the sole basis of the believer's salvation. It's not a matter of what we can do for God, but of what He has done for us. Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith.

In Matthew 7:21-23 we find a group of false prophets who even used the terms, “Lord, Lord,” that is, they were Lordship Salvationists. They are now standing before God in judgment in eternity. They are horrified to find out that all those nutty preachers like Curtis Hutson, Jack Hyles and David Stewart were 100% right concerning the simple plan of salvation. They just wouldn't listen to the truth. They said, “JESUS IS LORD, JESUS IS LORD... we did many wonderful works IN JESUS' NAME, and we cast out devils IN JESUS' NAME, and we preached IN JESUS' NAME! Please, you can't send us to Hell forever in our sins!” The Bible teaches that they failed to do the will of the Father, which according to John 6:40 is TO BELIEVE on the Son of God. Instead, these false prophets were trusting in their many wonderful works. They were trusting in their own WORKS!!! This is exactly what the adherents of the Lordship Salvation heresy teach. They say that you must stop doing BAD WORKS to be saved, but they are nevertheless works (dead works).

I can hear them now crying out for mercy on judgment day... the Billy Grahams, Chip Ingrams, Ray Comforts, John MacArthurs, Paul Washers and all their followers... “Please... JESUS IS LORD!, JESUS IS LORD!... We served IN JESUS' NAME, we preached IN JESUS' NAME, we sacrificially gave IN JESUS' NAME, we built a giant religious school IN JESUS' NAME. It was all about you, JESUS! We sang in church about YOU, JESUS. We tithed, loved, served, suffered and went the extra mile for YOU, JESUS! How can you say that we are not saved and haven't obeyed the Gospel?” And then the Lord with tears in His eyes will say firmly to them... DEPART FROM ME, YE THAT WORK INIQUITY, FOR I NEVER KNEW YOU!