Can a person receive Jesus as his Savior without receiving Him as his Lord? Do people make Jesus their Savior or does Jesus make a person saved? Pastor Jim McClarty of GCA reflects back on the lordship salvation controversy. HT:RV Jim McClarty talked in this video about a book John MacArthur wrote, He was referring to The Gospel According to Jesus… Here is a few quotes from that book with pages in parentheses. Could…
In Sunday school we had a Hugh rabbit trial, was Satan and sin in God’s very plan from before the foundation of the world so Jesus would have a people of God’s own choosing to saved and God and Christ would get all the glory. John Piper has rightly said “The evil Satan causes is only by the permission of God… It would be unbiblical and irrelevant to attribute to Satan (or sinful man)…
Working as the agent of God in our lives, the Holy Spirit beckons us to be reconciled to our lord. But, it is not the desperate cry of a beggar. It is the efficacious call of authority, based on an eternal plan, made sure by everlasting love. And when God calls, His people most certainly and willingly respond, drawn by His infinite power and unalterable decree. God is a personal God. He “calls out” His…
Pastor Jim McClarty talks a bit about our increasingly short attention spans, reads Ephesians 1, and explains how to pay attention to the topic of monergistic soteriology — or, how people get saved. Monergistic (the work of God alone), Not Synergistic (a cooperation between man and God) Soteriology (the study of salvation) (Hebrew) – Yasha (Joshua, Jesus) (Greek) – Sodzo; Soteria; Suter (Savior) Ephesians 1 The Blessings of Redemption “There can be no grace…
Pastor Jim McClarty talks about the necessity of letting the words of the Bible speak for themselves — especially when God interprets His own actions. Here he talks about Ezekiel 37:1-10 and the valley of dry bones and lets God interpret it for Himself starting in Ezekiel 37:11 where the vision is explained. The Vision Explained 11 Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say,…
I believe, that the work of regeneration, conversion, sanctification and faith, is not an act of man’s free will and power, but of the mighty, efficacious and irresistible grace of God. We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit,…
Pastor Jim McClarty discusses what the Bible actually says about how people are saved. Along the way he contrasts synergism and monergism, points out the power of facts, and reviews some of the pertinent texts concerning salvation. “So which of these two, synergism or monergism is biblical? We really need to settle that because if you think God works synergistically, you’re going to view God differently than the people who say God works monergically.…
I have thought lately how difficult it is to be thankful for anything when we are prideful about everything… Then Paul says this to the church at Corinth Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall. 1 Corinthians 10:12 Back in Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. (King James Version) Peter says in 1 Peter 5:5 clothe yourselves with humility toward…
”God is in the enterprise of glorifying Himself” Jim McClarty This is a really great video explaining in detail where faith comes from. What is a neuter demonstrative pronoun you ask? 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. Ephesians 2:8, 9 “Is faith an ability that all people…
If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly. Martin Luther Jim McClarty thinks through a few implications of the notion of free will. Freewillism is that doctrine that says, “God loves you, Christ died for you, and the Holy Spirit is calling you; but it will all be vain unless you…
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