John MacArthur's 6 Signs of Salvation - Bob Wilkin 

John MacArthur's 6 signs of salvation: 1) Works 2) Works 3) Works 4) Works 5) Works 6) Works

Thank God for GES. Faith alone in Jesus alone for everlasting life.

My husband wears a shirt that says, "I am a WHOSOEVER."

This was a powerful message! Thanks so much for reviewing this.

Thanks for teaching the objective truth: belief in Jesus.

Calvanism is utterly exhausting. Its all hoops that you jump through and after you do it, they've created 10 more hoops.

Love you brother

Beautiful explanation

McArthur version of being led by the spirit sounds like "success"? I've said this many times in the past: JMac's Lordship Salvation is just the other side of an Arminian coin. There are days when I feel like everything he said. Others when I don't. All subjective and based in feelings.

MacArthur really embodies a view of Faith that is substantially similar to Roman Catholicism, on one hand (Fides Formata) . Paul Holloway clarifies MacArthur's view of Faith RE: Roman Catholicism: John MacArthur’s The Gospel According to Jesus has rekindled the debate long smoldering in Evangelical circles over Lordship Salvation.1 At the center of this debate is the question of the nature of saving faith: whether it entails a response of the human will to the lordship of Christ. Dr. MacArthur has become the leading proponent of the Lordship position. At the same time, however, he has taken the Lordship account of faith a significant step further. Traditionally, Lordship advocates have extended faith to include commitment, but not obedience, which for them is faith’s sure fruit. But MacArthur, in a chapter entitled “The Nature of True Faith,” repeatedly speaks of obedience itself as constitutive of faith.2 For MacArthur good works are no longer merely the product of saving faith. They are an integral part of it. This is a significant development. But it is also a serious departure from Evangelical Protestant doctrine. In fact, MacArthur’s proposal is virtually an invitation to return to the Medieval Roman Catholic understanding of “formed faith” (fides formata), the very notion that Luther repeatedly attacked in his famous 1535 commentary on Galatians. II. MacArthur’s Account of Faith There is an initial ambiguity, if not contradiction, in MacArthur’s account of faith.3 At times he describes the relationship between faith and works in the traditional terminology of cause and effect (works being the effect of saving faith). At other times he treats the relationship as one of a whole to its parts (works being a part of saving faith). But it is clearly the latter model that takes precedence for him. MacArthur writes that faith “encompasses obedience,”4 and that obedience is “an integral part of saving faith.”5 Indeed, obedience is bound up in the very “definition of faith, “6 being a constitutive element in what it means to believe.”7 Thus any “concept of faith that excludes obedience”8 must be rejected because obedience is “indivisibly wrapped up in the idea of believing.”9 In fact, “the character of true faith” is nothing less than the “higher righteousness” of the Beatitudes of Matthew 5:3-11.10 MacArthur even suggests that obedience is “synonymous with” faith.11 And he quotes with approval Rudolf Bultmann’s dictum, “‘To believe’ is ‘to obey.'”12 It is reasonable to conclude, therefore, that when MacArthur invokes the traditional cause-and-effect model and says, for example, that faith “produces” obedience, this is the case only in a secondary sense, that is, only in the sense that faith already is obedience. Likewise, when he says that obedience is the “product” of faith, this too should be taken in a qualified sense. For as he plainly states, saving faith “embodies” righteous works.13 According to MacArthur, then, the works that follow faith are not, strictly speaking, its effects. They are rather the temporal manifestations or expressions of the obedience inherent in faith itself. Of course, something like this has always been a central tenet of Lordship Salvation. Faith is defined in light of the lordship of Christ, a lordship that calls for obedience. It is just that MacArthur goes beyond the traditional account. For traditionally, obedience is said to be present in faith mediately, that is, by way of an act of personal submission or commitment, an inclining of the will in the direction of obedience.14 With MacArthur, however, it is present in the act of faith immediately: To believe is to obey.15"

Introspection is great if you want to feel hopeless

Amen 🙏🏼.

amen! 😃👍

Excellent assessment, Dr. Wilkin. Interesting that he never points us to believing Jesus’ promise to give eternal life to whosoever believes found in God’s inerrant, infallible Word.

I recently witnessed a guy calling out to Jesus to rescue him from the midst of a tornado. He added, "if you are real." So, crying out when you're in trouble means nothing.

The Holy Spirit convicts of sin. (I am a sinner.) He convicts of righteousness. (I need Christ's righteousness imputed to me.) He convicts of judgement. (The verdict: eternal life if you believe, condemnation if you don't.) Period!

Of course he didn't sight any vs' of simple saving faith/belief in Jesus' finished work. He follows & teaches another gospel (Calvinism mixed with Lordship Salvation). Not only will I say it, but it saddens me that so many can't see it & won't say it (per Romans 16:17-18).

John Piper is a classic example who made this statement in his sermon entitled, "Why God is not a megalomaniac in demanding to be worshiped" - Nov 20, 2008 in Providence, Rhode Island. Piper says, "I deal with this as much as anything, probably, in the people that I'm preaching to. "Fears and doubts, doubts not about objective "Did He rise from the dead?" - very few people are wrestling with that - but "Am I in? Am I saved?" That's very common for people to wrestle with." "But why I sin against my wife the same at age 62 that I did at age 42 causes me sometimes to doubt my salvation or the power of the Holy Spirit. - This question is not theoretical." ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ My comment - In other words, when Piper gets into a heated argument with his wife where he loses it momentarily, his "assurance of salvation" goes way down, and then later he makes up with his wife by apologizing and then with flowers and candy, his "assurance" goes back up to 98%, but never a full 100%. Lol!!

How about REDEEMED WITH THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB for starters?

So what do you do with Rom. 8:16: "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God" (NKJV)? In fact, Romans 8:14-17 specifically address the subject of assurance, and MacArthur mentioned verses 14 and 15 in his presentation. And then what do you do with all the atheists here on RU-vid who once made professions of faith, but have since "deconverted"? Some of them at one time were even pastors.

McArthur = Lordship Salvation i.e Works!

McArthurs 6 points don't seem to point to the saving power of Christ. What He accomplished by His death, burial and ressurection. And His grace and promises to those who put their trust in Him.

It is blind leading the blind. I am astonished at how he twists the Scripture and how many people fall for this heresy. The scariest thing is preachers like him reached a point of no return and are destined for hell

@IronSharpensIron127 Anyway, check out the striking similarities of Calvinism's doctrine of "double predestination"/"unconditional election" versus the Islamic doctrine of fatalism: 1) The Islamic Surah Ibrahim 14:4 - "And We did not send any messenger except [speaking] in the language of his people to state clearly for them, and ALLAH SENDS ASTRAY(THEREBY) WHOM HE WILLS AND GUIDES WHOM HE WILLS. And He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise." 2) The Islamic Surah 2:6-7 states, "It is the same to them whether you warn them or do not warn them, they will not believe. ALLAH HAS SET A SEAL ON THEIR HEARTS AND ON THEIR HEARING. AND ON THEIR EYES IS A VEIL; GREAT IS THE CHASTISEMENT THEY INCUR." 3) In Islam, in the 2nd stage of "Taqdeer" (fate), it states that "Allah made a divine decree after the creation of Adam. Allah took out all of the progeny of Adam (i.e. all of the humans from the beginning of time until the end of time), and asked them "Am I not your Lord?" and all of the humans responded "We testify that You are our Lord!" THEN ALLAH DECREED TO THEM WHO SHALL GO TO PARADISE AND WHO SHALL GO TO HELL." 4) In Islam, Allah is exalted and pleased as he sends people to hell: this is the fatalistic claim of Islam. Fatalism is a belief that events are fixed in advance for all time in such a manner that human beings are powerless to change them. In this case, Allah will send to heaven whomever he pleases, and send to hell whomever he pleases. ("Unveiling Islam: An Insider’s Look at Muslim Life and Beliefs" pages 31-32, by authors Ergun Mehmet Caner and Emir Fethi Caner Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2002.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calvinism: 1) John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 21, section 5 - "SOME ARE PREORDAINED TO ETERNAL LIFE, OTHERS TO ETERNAL DAMNATION, and accordingly, as each has been created for one or other of those ends, we say that he has been predestined to life or death." 2) "That owing to one man all pass into condemnation who are born of Adam unless they are born again in Christ, even as He has appointed them to be regenerated, before they die in the body, whom He PREDESTINATED TO EVERLASTING LIFE, as the most merciful bestower of grace; while to those whom He HAS PREDESTINATED TO ETERNAL DEATH, He is also the most righteous awarder of punishment not only on account of the sins which they add in the indulgence of their own will, but also because of their original sin, even if, as in the case of infants, they add nothing thereto." "Now this is my definite view on that question, so that the hidden things of God may keep their secret, without impairing my own faith." - Augustine, City of God, On the Soul and its Origin, Book 4, Chapter 16.

MacArthur teaches that works are "a constituent element of saving faith" ...that "saving faith is never alone" . MacArthur ultimately thinks that "faith" is synonymous with one having been arbitrarily "Elected" by a completely Unknowable Secret Decree (Calvinism) , only "sniffed at" by means of Fruit Inspection (works Calculations) . Thus , His view obliterates any resort to doubtless certitude of one's Everlasting destination because Perseverance in Performance (works) till death is truly what he's denoting in his concept of "faith" . Entirely subjective . Therefore , his message can only duplicate the heart of the Judaizers/unregenerate Scribes and Pharisees (Matthew 23) who uniformly think that what they're DOING is ultimately Decisive in where they spend eternity .

I think He is talking to saved people.

Too bad you are only showing clips and not the whole thing. Your video is very misleading

i disagree...theres only one sign and thats the sealing of the holy spirit.........after that man always wants to see visible signs he can see......macarthur even says that how one lives their life determines if they are saved and go to heaven...which is unbiblical as can be......

Objective = doubtless certitude = faith in Him FOR His never in Doubt Guarantee of Endless Life (John 1:12-13,3:1-18,4:1-39,5:24,6:28-47,10,11:23-27,20:31 ; 1 John 5:1,10-13 All works righteousness reduces to Subjectivity . MacArthur Tops Out at the Subjective . Ironically , he's exactly identical in substance to that which he decries : the signs and wonders Charismatic Movement that looks to purely experiential phenomena for validation . The "Broad Path" is paved by MacArthur's Never Knowable criteria ... Wow , really ? ...Singing with "Gusto" is an "infallible" barometer of having been born again ?? I've seen lotsa Mormons (Mormon Tabernacle Choir) , Catholics (Vatican Choir) , New Agers & Atheists Belting Out all manner of glorious music (Bach, Beethoven, Mozart et al) . Clearly that tells us nothing about what it is they've believed . The Only Object that regenerates (John 3:16 & Ephesians 2:8-9) remains His Person & Promise : the Giver of the Endless Gift (John 4:10-14) , totally apart from all Subjective criteria (works) .

6 signs of salvation according to John MacArthuter? How about 6 signs of salvation according to the BIBLE?

What’s the gospel of Christ? What are we to believe for our salvation? I think he missed the main point?

Puritanism led to King Philps War which led the the death of up to a third of the settlers in New England and man more Natives. There is some fruit to know them by.

Salvation in Christ starts when one hears the gospel of Christ. A brief summary of this gospel is that it consists of things we must believe, commands that we must obey to be saved, and promises of God that we will receive after salvation. This gospel of Christ tells us about what Jesus did for all humans on the cross as our Lord, God, and Savior. Once a person hears and believes in what Jesus has offered by way of salvation, they must realize their sin, repent of their sins, confess Him as Lord, get water baptized for the forgiveness of their sins, and live obediently to His commands. Here are a few verses that summarize the gospel of Christ. • The gospel must be preached for it is the power of God unto salvation (Mark 16 15; Romans 1 16). • Saving Faith is the direct result of instruction in God's word (John 6 44 and 45; Romans 10 17). • Saving Faith leads to repentance (Acts 2:36-38). • Repentance leads to salvation (2 Corinthians 7:9-10). • When one has repented, turned and confessed his faith in Jesus (Acts 8:37, Romans 10 10), he is then water baptized into Christ (Romans 6:1-6). • This makes one a child of God (Galatians 3:26-27). • 1 John 2:3-4 obey is commandments if you actually KNOW Him.

Believing in Jesus Christ is the only sign and requirement of salvation??? If that were true, the devil himself and all of his minions would be heaven bound - You may want to consider editing your video.

So sad that false teacher John MacArthur is so influential.

Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slandered nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were 1st Corinthians 9:11 those are serious warnings Paul is giving christians in Corinth

We are save Forever by faith Alone in Crist Alone impossíble to lose salvation sealed and batized into the body of Crist in the moment we believe in Jesus and trust in his perfect blood shed on the cross to forgive our sins past presente and future.jonh MacArthur is a calvinist he denies the blood of Jesus.he is a servant of satan ..he is not a Cristian

Signs of salvation Can people see since the moment of your conversion that God is working in your life to make you Holy? Philippians 2:13 For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Can you see that? When you look at the world and maybe it decieves you,and draws you to it,that God comes and disciplines you? When you participate in sin you can't stand it because the Holy Spirit is so convicting you. Jude 1:15 To execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him. Or can you call yourself Christian and still look like the world, act like the world,talk like the world, dress like the world,do everything that the world does? 1 John 2:15-17 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For all that is in the world the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life is not from the Father but is from the world. 17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but WHOEVER DOES THE WILL OF GOD ABIDES FOREVER. He's going to work to make you holy. He's going to little by little remove from you,your desire and fellowship with the world, and the lust thereof and He's going to replace that with a desire and a fellowship with Christ. Philippians 2:12-15 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. 14Do all things without grumbling or disputing, 15 That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world. Since your supposed conversion are you growing in your devotion to God,and your love for Christ? Are you growing in Holiness, striving for Holiness or are you the same person that you were when you began? 1 Peter1:14- 17 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, 15but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” 17And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile Do you still love the world? James 4:4 You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. John 14:15 IF you love me, you will keep my commandments. Realize we are in the process of being saved: Hebrews 10:39 We are not like those people who turn back and get destroyed. We will keep on having faith until we are saved.

JM is a heretic and doesn't know the salvation message.

MacArthur isn't a Christian he is a Calvinist. He doesn't know the gospel