I hope this can help people better understand the Gospel and God's saving Grace. This thread is primarily dealing with the Lordship of Christ because of it being under attack by many today who sell the Gospel of Christ and appeal to those who desire to live in sin and still be Christian. This is a false Gospel. One cannot have Christ as Savior but deny His Lordship. I hope this is a help to everyone.
Matt 7:22, "many will say to me in that day Lord Lord did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out many demons in your name, and in your name do many wonderful works?' the previous verse says, "not everyone that says lord lord but those who do the will of my Father. " But the answer to the rejection is given in the last verse Matt 7:23, 'Then i'll declare to them, depart from you who work lawlessness, i never knew you!" The word lawlessness simply means, 'without law'. This is not a reference to the Mosaic Law which no one could keep perfectly therefore all of mankind was cursed Romans 3:20. Lawlessness is simply not acknowledging Christ's Lordship over the believer's life and thereby denying Christ. Romans 10:9. People today (due to the false grace gospel) desire to have Christ as Savior but not as Lord. Which simply means they want to be saved but don't want to surrender their life to the Lord Jesus Christ; their sinful desires and follow after righteousness. The question is if Salvation is a gift of God and not by works, how can we reconcile verses like Luke 14:26-27, John 12:25, and many others that demand a surrendering of one's life for salvation. To explain this let's take a look at the Old Covenant. This covenant was never intended on saving anyone, because it can not. It revealed man's sin and desperate need for a Savior, It showed man that attempting to achieve salvation in their own power was futile and not even possible, due to the dominating control of sin. Ultimantly the Law (old covenant) left man realizing they could not change themselves and needed God's mercy for Justification. The only problem is God already revealed He would not justify the wicked Exodus 23:7. God cannot justify someone out of mercy and just overlook justice. That is not a Just God. Therefore God in His Wisdom came as a Man, Jesus Christ, to fulfill the Law that held us captive by it's demand for Holiness and went to the cross, and on that cross God the Father exhausted His wrath on His Son to satisfy His justice and impute Christ's Righteousness (righteous life) to those who believe in Jesus Christ! God judged His Son in our place. But Christ didn't come only to save the World from the penalty of sin (Savior), but also from the control of sin (Lord) 1 John 3:8. Those that are dominated by sin and live a lifestyle of sinful practices are still under the control of sin, and make it evident they don't truly believe in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, and therefore have never repented genuinely in godly sorrow and received the gift of Salvation and became a new Creation, with a desire to love righteousness and hate sin. 1 John 3:9. The old person, dominated and controlled by sin, loved sin and hated righteousness, the new creation, in submission and service to Christ John 14:21, loves righteousness and hates sin. Romans 3:15-16. So the answer is supernatural. God's grace transforms a person supernaturally by regeneration. 2 Corinth 5:17 People cannot and will not give their life to God by their own power, but by God's grace He will transform a person into a servant of righteousness! Titus 2:11-12
Matt 7:22, "many will say to me in that day Lord Lord did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out many demons in your name, and in your name do many wonderful works?' the previous verse says, "not everyone that says lord lord but those who do the will of my Father. " But the answer to the rejection is given in the last verse Matt 7:23, 'Then i'll declare to them, depart from you who work lawlessness, i never knew you!" The word lawlessness simply means, 'without law'. This is not a reference to the Mosaic Law which no one could keep perfectly therefore all of mankind was cursed Romans 3:20. Lawlessness is simply not acknowledging Christ's Lordship over the believer's life and thereby denying Christ. Romans 10:9. People today (due to the false grace gospel) desire to have Christ as Savior but not as Lord. Which simply means they want to be saved but don't want to surrender their life to the Lord Jesus Christ; their sinful desires and follow after righteousness. The question is if Salvation is a gift of God and not by works, how can we reconcile verses like Luke 14:26-27, John 12:25, and many others that demand a surrendering of one's life for salvation. To explain this let's take a look at the Old Covenant. This covenant was never intended on saving anyone, because it can not. It revealed man's sin and desperate need for a Savior, It showed man that attempting to achieve salvation in their own power was futile and not even possible, due to the dominating control of sin. Ultimantly the Law (old covenant) left man realizing they could not change themselves and needed God's mercy for Justification. The only problem is God already revealed He would not justify the wicked Exodus 23:7. God cannot justify someone out of mercy and just overlook justice. That is not a Just God. Therefore God in His Wisdom came as a Man, Jesus Christ, to fulfill the Law that held us captive by it's demand for Holiness and went to the cross, and on that cross God the Father exhausted His wrath on His Son to satisfy His justice and impute Christ's Righteousness (righteous life) to those who believe in Jesus Christ! God judged His Son in our place. But Christ didn't come only to save the World from the penalty of sin (Savior), but also from the control of sin (Lord) 1 John 3:8. Those that are dominated by sin and live a lifestyle of sinful practices are still under the control of sin, and make it evident they don't truly believe in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, and therefore have never repented genuinely in godly sorrow and received the gift of Salvation and became a new Creation, with a desire to love righteousness and hate sin. 1 John 3:9. The old person, dominated and controlled by sin, loved sin and hated righteousness, the new creation, in submission and service to Christ John 14:21, loves righteousness and hates sin. Romans 3:15-16. So the answer is supernatural. God's grace transforms a person supernaturally by regeneration. 2 Corinth 5:17 People cannot and will not give their life to God by their own power, but by God's grace He will transform a person into a servant of righteousness! Titus 2:11-12
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