Fundamentalism Is Split - Pastor Jack Hyles
Channel: Right Doctrine Matters
Date: 2023-12-05

➔➔“I never thought, I'd see a day when Baptist preachers would not preach the true Gospel. Tonight, all across this nation, Baptist preachers have succumbed to the heresy of John MacArthur. I said the heresy of John MacArthur! I said the heresy of John MacArthur! And somebody that's got several thousand people to hear 'em, who can go across this country, has got to alert Baptists that we have false teachers in our midst who ​are no longer teaching and preaching salvation by grace through faith plus nothing. Folks, we're fighting for our lives tonight!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “A Vote For Preaching”

Tragically, a counterfeit gospel is being preached from virtually every pulpit, religious television channel, radio station, Bible college and website today. Most Baptist preachers have succumbed to the Devil's lie that you must repent "of your sins" to be saved, but no such phrase is found in the inspired King James Bible. Ungodly men added that additional requirement to get to Heaven. In fact, there are many embellishments to the Gospel nowadays. Here are some of them:

Here is the Bible way to Heaven...

1st Corinthians 15:1-6, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.”

Anyone who comes to God as a guilty sinner, by faith receiving His sacrifice on the cross as full payment for your sins, believing that He was buried, but then three days later Jesus bodily resurrected from the dead, is saved. It is that simple.

Your Faith + Good News (Gospel) = New Birth

The “gospel” is comprised of three things:

➔Jesus DIED on a cross for our sins.
➔He was BURIED.
➔Three days later Jesus RESURRECTED from the dead.

1st Thessalonians 4:14, “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.” Please don't delay friend if you've never been born again. A true “Christian” is a sinner who has put trust in the person and work of Jesus Christ, including His death on the cross as payment for sins, burial and His physical resurrection on the third day.

Having said that, I am appalled at the embellishments I hear from corrupt preachers today, additions to God's simple plan of salvation which have absolutely nothing to do with getting saved. Such unbiblical embellishments include, but are not limited to:

➔walking an aisle
➔praying a prayer
➔join a church, denomination or convention
➔turn from your sins
➔repent of your sins
➔be willing to turn away from sin
➔feel sorrow for your sins
➔forsake a lifestyle of sinning
➔be baptized in water
➔speak in “tongues”
➔turn over a new leaf
➔ask Christ into your heart
➔invite Jesus into your life
➔surrender your entire personality to Christ
➔surrender all
➔live a holy life
➔live a changed life
➔give control of your life over to Christ
➔faithfully run the race
➔count the cost and pay the price
➔live a lifestyle of repentance from sins
➔turn away from the old life
➔follow Jesus no matter what the cost
➔make Jesus the “Lord” (Master) of your life
➔be sorrow for your sin
➔confess Christ publicly
➔keep the Sabbath Day
➔keep God's Ten Commandments
➔get rid of bad habits and vices
➔ask Jesus into your heart
➔have a religious experience
➔feel hatred for sin
➔commit your life to Christ
➔become a Christ follower
➔live to obey God's commandments

NONE of these things are required to get to Heaven. Yet, I can hardly listen to a sermon, or visit a church website, or watch a YouTube video, or hear a Bible college chapel service, or read a religious tract, or listen to religious radio, without seeing and hearing these unbiblical additions to God's simple plan of salvation, which are damnable heresy! True Bible salvation is by faith alone in the Gospel (Good News) of Jesus Christ crucified, buried and risen the third day (1st Corinthians 15:1-6). That's it, that's all, no more!

Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do.

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty!

Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith.

Turning away from sinful ways would be a work. Faith puts all of the merit where it belongs, on the object of our faith, Jesus and His work.

The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.