As Jesus said," We will know a false teacher by their fruits (Matthew 7)". This scripture is key in knowing whether or not a teaching is of God or not. I have to say that the 'saved by grace' doctrine has caused many bad fruits in the people that obey that doctrine.
I am certain that this doctrine was made to give people an excuse to sin. That is what happened back in the early church, and why Paul said that we, "shouldn't sin so grace can abound". People today are doing the same thing as those of old: Making following Jesus not important for salvation. This is a lie. No where in Jesus' formula for being saved does it say that we don't have to do any good work to be saved. On the contrary, the teachings of Jesus is full of teachings that say we must
do something in order to enter heaven.
Matthew 7:21 Not everyone saying Lord, Lord, will enter Heaven (or be saved), but only those that do the Will of His Father." Here we must do God's will to be saved. This is an action.
John 3:16 Whosoever believe Jesus will be saved. Again, we must
believe Jesus in order to be saved. An action.
NOTE: I think this is the most twisted scripture in all of the Bible . They turn the word believe into a meaningless theological belief (i.e., all we must do is believe that Jesus was alive and did some nice things, in order to consider that we believe Him). This type of faith even the devils have! (James 2) We wouldn't say that the devils are saved because they believe in Jesus in this way now would we?
Luke 14:33 Whosoever doesn't forsake all that He has cannot be my disciple. Here is another work we must do that is a pre-requisite to being saved. Notice that it says, "Whosoever" does not do..., this is the same 'whosoever' that John 3:16 uses. People will say this teaching in Luke 14 was only for the Jews of Jesus' time, and not for everybody else. If this is true, then so is John 3:16! Of course, that is not true. Both commands in John 3 and Luke 14 are for people that want to follow Jesus, you know, the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE.
The reason I don't agree with the false grace teaching that most churches teach is because it gives people an excuse to toss every other teaching of Jesus out the window, and stick to the teachings that 'tickle their ears'. Since these people say obeying Jesus has nothing to do with salvation they feel justified in not obeying these seemingly difficult teachings, and still want to consider themselves saved, because they just don't want to conform their lives to Christ. Sure they do profess Him as Lord Lord on Sundays. By the way they live their lives, however, shows that they aren't really interested in believing in the Jesus of the Bible, rather a comfortable Jesus that revolves around what they want to do or don't do.
Not based on the
rock that Jesus' teachings represents... (Matthew 7:23-25)
In peace
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