Full text of Piper’s points: Are You Going To Heaven? John Piper’s 15-Point Test
– – These 15 points from John Piper are good. The problem with John Piper’s Calvinistic teaching is that he believes all born-again Christians will walk this way or they weren’t truly born-again. See:
The truth: God has sovereignly chosen to give us free will. Those who are born-again don’t have to obey. God will always enable us to, but we must decide to walk according to the Spirit or according to the flesh. Romans 8:
13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
The main thing is to maintain a clean conscience before God and men so we’ll have faith to enter when we see Jesus face to Face, like Paul did:
“..I also practice ALWAYS having a conscience void of offense toward God and men” (Acts 24:16).
These 15 points are good. The problem with John Piper’s Calvinistic teaching is that he believes all born-again Christians will walk this way or they weren’t truly born-again. See:
The truth: God has sovereignly chosen to give us free will. Those who are born-again don’t have to obey. God will always enable us to, but we must decide to walk according to the Spirit or according to the flesh. Romans 8:
13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
The main thing is to maintain a clean conscience before God and men so we’ll have faith to enter when we see Jesus face to Face, like Paul did:
“..I also practice ALWAYS having a conscience void of offense toward God and men” (Acts 24:16).
Host: “Can a born-again Christian lose his or her salvation?
John Piper:
“The answer to that question biblically is a resounding, clear, emphatic, joyful, glorious no. … The life that is imparted in the new birth is precisely eternal life.”
“Perseverance in faith is the evidence that we’ve been made part of Christ. And when that perseverance doesn’t hold, then we were never in.”
“It’s assurance rooted in our confidence in an absolutely sovereign, covenant keeping God….”
This is erroneous because God sovereignly states His covenants are conditional. The new covenant is conditional upon us abiding in Christ, which dozens of New Testament scriptures say. See:
Author unknown “ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED” IS A LIE FROM HELL!
For anyone who believes in “Once Saved Always Saved”, you believe a clever lie from Satan. I used to believe this as well until I started passionately seeking the face of the Living God Almighty. The Holy Spirit is faithful to lead us into all truth. You can’t take a few Scriptures out of context and totally ignore all the other Scriptures that completely blow that misinterpretation out of the water. “If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” (Hebrews 10:26- 31)
“If you are not like Jesus then you are not following Him and you are only fooling yourself, you will not enter Heaven. Believing in Jesus cannot save you if you do not follow and obey Him.”
Why don’t ‘Christian’ bookstores carry doctrinally biblical greeting cards, to help wake people up? I was discussing ‘Christian’ greeting cards with a friend, who thought of this truthful, reality-check one [I changed in a lake of fire to at a lake of fire, because not all who go to hell end up in the actual lake of fire]:
“Your loved one is most likely at a lake of fire, because ‘strait is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.’
Take this time of grief. Be thankful you still have time to be one of the few.”
– Author Known
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Related: Howard Pittman, after dying in the ambulance 30 years ago, saw how many people entered heaven, while he was told how many entered hell. And then he was told that if everyone died then, only 2.5% of the people would go to heaven. This figure is clearly lower today. Very few ‘Christians’ are actually abiding in Christ to the Biblically required degree. Most don’t have clear consciences, so when they die and see Jesus face to Face they’ll have confidence to enter.
Most Christians that I have ever met and talked to openly confess that they are sinners. They sin every day, so they say, and they have no problem with it because they THINK that Jesus’ salvation means just saving them from the consequence of their sins.
Jesus came to set sinners FREE FROM THEIR SINS. And if you don’t believe it you have believed the old devil’s lie. You CAN stop sinning if you want to stop sinning. Jesus came to set sinners free, and if you put your trust in Him, and if you start walking with Him, if you start following Him and obeying Him He will set you free from your sins.
The problem is most Christians LOVE their sinful life MORE than they love the light of Jesus Christ.
Are you ready to follow and obey Jesus and leave your sinful shameful life behind? Or have you bought the easy false gospel that says, if you just believe upon Jesus He will save you from the consequence of your wicked sinful life.
If you continue to sin you are NOT saved from your sins. If you continue to live wickedly, you will perish in your sins.
Repent of your sins today, follow Jesus, turn from sins or perish.
“But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and ALL LIARS, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Jordan doesn’t even believe in the resurrection. However, Christianity isn’t just belief in Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection. It’s abiding in Christ, walking according to the Spirit and not according to the flesh.
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t WALK according to the flesh, but ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT” (Romans 8:1).
It’s clear by Jordan’s frequent use of profane language alone that he willfully walks according to the flesh, not submitting to the Holy Spirit.
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The false Grace gospel that is being preached in churches has led to a situation where Christians believe that it is acceptable to sin. Many of them say that they are all sinners. They think that it is acceptable to keep on stumbling, to keep on going back to the same sin. Jesus made it very clear that it is not acceptable for any of His followers to stumble.
We read in Matthew 5:27 Jesus said: “You have heard that it was said, you shall not commit adultery, but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you, for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off, and throw it from you, for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell.” If you keep on stumbling, you will end up in hell.
Jesus does not call us to stumble He calls us to repent and stop sinning, and live in holiness or else we will end up in hell. The writer of Hebrews writes in Hebrews 10:26 “For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment, and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses, dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much severer punishment do you think He will deserve who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the Covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of Grace. For we know Him who said:”Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” and again, the Lord will judge His people. It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the Living God.” He is talking here about believers. It is not acceptable to go back to sin. If you go back to sin there is no more grace. It is not acceptable to go back to sin. The wrath of God will come on you and if you do not repent, you will perish.
Many believe that God will only punish them, but they will still be saved. That is a lie. If you bear bad fruit you will get cut off and burned. If you bear no fruit for the kingdom of God you will get cut off and burned. If you sin, you will burn. The Apostle John wrote in 1st John chapter 5 verse 18:”We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning.” If a person keeps on sinning he is not a child of God. He was not born again or if he was born again, like the hog he has gone back to roll in the mire, like the dog he has gone back to his own vomit.
We read in 1st John chapter 3 verse 4 “Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. You know that He (Jesus), appeared in order to take away sins and in Him there is no sin. No one who abides in Him sins. No one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. Little children, make sure that no one deceives you. The one who practices righteousness is righteous just as He is righteous. The one who practices sin is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. No one who is born of God practices sin, because his seed abides in him and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious, anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother”
There are so many Christian believers that study the Bible and that quote you Bible verses about the grace of God, but they don’t know Jesus. They are not born again, they do not abide in Jesus. As the Apostle said:”no one who abides in Him sins. No one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.” If you sin you are of the devil, you’re not a child of God, you’re only deceiving yourself. It is not acceptable even to stumble. Do not tolerate any sin in your life if you are serious about following Jesus. We have to be holy and sin no more. “Without holiness no man shall see God.” Believers that keep on stumbling are on their way to hell. They must repent and stop stumbling, and they must start following Jesus every step of the way, and then they will sin no more, and they will not stumble, because He will guide them He will keep them.
We must overcome by His grace so our consciences will be clear when we meet Jesus face to Face. See my article, which no one can disprove, to see what the Bible really says about who goes to heaven:
Jesus will help you to overcome sin and temptation, He will deliver you from bondage and addiction but you have to do your part. Jesus will help you to overcome and get into heaven but the you must follow and obey Him. You have to repent, stop sinning, be baptized in water for the washing off of your sin and you must live holy.
You must avoid temptation, avoid sin. You must remove the stumbling blocks. Change your ways. You have to fight temptation, resist the devil and he will flee from you. We read in Hebrews 12:4 “You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;”
We have to change our ways to stay out of temptation to be able to overcome. We read in Hebrews 12:12,13 “Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.”
You will be tempted and you will be tried, but you have to overcome to be able to enter the kingdom of heaven.
The apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 10:13 “No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.”
You have to stop sinning and be holy. You have to work and earn a living. You have to take care of your responsibilities. Jesus will help you in everything, but you have to do your part.
You have to break with sin, bad friends and bad habits. You have to stop sinning, stop cursing, lying, cheating lusting, fornicating, adulterating, cheating, getting yourself into debt, stop being worldly and running after the pleasures of sin. Jesus will help you to overcome but if you do not put in every effort, Jesus will not help you, because you are not serious about following Him. You will end up in hell because of your own laziness and unwillingness. You have to work hard on your salvation.
We read in Luke 13:23“Lord,” someone asked Jesus, “will only a few people be saved?” Jesus answered, 24“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.”
Jesus will help you, but you must do your part.
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Most people are Christians in Name only. They are not following nor living for Jesus. They are not born again, they are just religious and fooling themselves, comparing themselves with themselves and with other fake Christians.
I was also like that but many years ago the Holy Spirit convicted me and opened my eyes to my foolishness. I decided to live for Jesus and to obey Him and immediately I changed. I was in corporate business, in a senior management position, doing very well for myself and the business, but I changed. Very soon I was called in by my boss and he asked me what was wrong with me, I was not the fun guy any more. I was working harder than ever but I did not participate in the parties, bribesand customer entertainment any more.I was told that I had changed too much and my boss demanded that I immediately resign and leave the company premises.
We were faithful, active church members, butI did not fit in with the church any more. I recognized all the falseness and worldliness in the church and when I started talking about it the pastor asked me to leave the church.
If you really follow Jesus and live to please Him, you do not fit in with the world any more. Friends leave you and closest family reject you. You become parsona non grata, unwanted and unacceptable. If you fit into the kingdom of heaven, you fit out of this world.
Not many people followed Jesus. He chose twelve disciples and one of them betrayed Him, with a kiss. To follow Jesus is a lonely road. You will be rejected, persecuted and hated by the sinners, epecially by the false Christians and the religious hypocrites. What they did to Jesus, they will do to you also, if you truly follow Jesus.
If you obey Jesus, repent and be baptized in water, live holy and righteously, He will give His Holy Spirit in you to teach and guide you every step of the way, but you have to stay with Him.
You will be tested and you will be tried. Only those who overcome, stayfaithful to Jesus andendure with Him until the end,will be saved.
Are you a true follower of Jesus or are youa Christian in name only?
Many Christian believers are living in sin and unholiness. They are religious, they go to church, they know the Bible, and they think they are saved, but they have no communion with Jesus Christ, because they are living in sin. We have to keep ourselves pure and holy in order to be in communion with Jesus. Jesus has no communion with sinning believers. Our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit for Him to dwell in and if we defile our bodies, if we allow ourselves to be soiled and dirty, filled with sin immorality, then the Holy Spirit will leave us, we will not have any relationship with Jesus.
We have to live pure and holy and then Jesus will come and dwell in us, but if we do not obey Jesus, and we do not live according to His Commandments, in holiness and righteousness, in obedience to him then He will not dwell in us we will not have any communion with Him we will not have the hope of salvation.
We read the words of Jesus in John chapter 14 verse 21, He said:“He who has my Commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me, and he who loves me will be loved by My Father, and I will love Him, and I will disclose myself to Him.”Jesus is saying that if we obey His commandments then He will love, us and He will come and dwell with us and He will disclose Himself to us. He will speak to us. His Spirit will dwell in us. In verse 23 we read Jesus said:“If anyone loves Me he will keep my word, and My Father will love him and We will come to him and make our abode with him.”
Jesus will come and live with you and me, if we love him and we obey Him, and we keep His words, but we must keep ourselves pure and holy, because our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit for Him to dwell in and He does not dwell with impurity and with sin. If we allow ourselves to be soiled the Holy Spirit will leave us.
The Apostle Paul wrote in 1st Corinthians 6 verse 9:” Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God. Do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you, but you were washed, you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.” We were all sinners, but if we have a come to Jesus we are not sinners anymore, then we have turned away from sin and we keep ourselves holy for Jesus Christ, for His Holy Spirit to dwell in.
In verse 15 Paul says:”Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute?May it never be! Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her, for He says the two shall become one flesh, but the one who joins himself to the Lord is one Spirit with Him. Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside of the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, Whom you have from God and you are not your own, for you have been bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.”
Many Christian believers live in adultery and fornication. Many are homosexual. They live in morality. Their minds are defiled through the media, video games, TV, movies, pornography and bad company, worldly friends. They have become conditioned to evil, watching soap opera, and participating and worldly entertainment. They are of the world. They are not pure, they are not holy and they cannot be in communion with Jesus, they have no hope of salvation. Merely believing in Jesus cannot save us. We must repent, stop sinning, be holy, turn to Jesus, be baptized in water for the washing off of sin, and then keep yourself clean, be a temple of the Holy Spirit, in which He can dwell. If you allow yourself to be defiled again, then the Holy Spirit will leave you.
If you once knew Jesus, if you once followed Jesus and you backslid, you went away from Jesus, then repent and cleanse yourself, get rid of your sin get, rid of your bad friends. Purify yourself of yourcleanliness, your immorality. Make yourself a pure vessel, clean and acceptable unto Jesus, or else you will never be in communion with Him.
Jesus gives His Holy Spirit in those who seek Him, who obey Him and who live holy. Most professing Christians have no relationship with Jesus. They have no communion with Jesus. Jesus said:”My sheep hear My voice, they listen to Me and they follow Me.” Very few Christians know the voice of Jesus. Very few follow Him. It is because they’re living in sin. It is because they are not holy and receptive vessels, they are not pure. They do not reserve themselves unto Jesus Christ and therefor they are not fit for the kingdom of heaven.
We have to purify ourselves of all uncleanliness, all immorality, all sin, all worldliness, and put our focus on Jesus; be a suitable vessel for the Holy Spirit to dwell in, and then He will speak to us. He will guide us. He will teach us. We will be in communion with Him, but if we allow sin to come in, if we give the devil a foothold [a ‘place,’ the Greek word really says – editor], then the Holy Spirit of Christ will leave us. He will go silent on us, because we choose evil, and through our choice of wrong and of evil we reject Jesus Christ and we stray from Him, we stop following Him and go on the wrong path.
Many have never followed Jesus. They have never been in that close relationship with Him. They believe they are saved but they are on the broad road to destruction. There’s only one way to have eternal life and that is to follow and obey Jesus Christ, reserve yourself unto Him, seek Him always in prayer and He will reveal Himself to you. Stay with Jesus until the very end and you will be saved, but if you are not holy you will not see Him. Without holiness no man shall see God. Without holiness no man will enter the kingdom of God. Without holiness nobody will have any relationship with Jesus Christ.
“We must not walk around with bitterness and unforgiveness in our heart. We must forgive others to be forgiven by Jesus also. We must not repay evil with evil but with good. We must love and not hate, bless and not curse. Bitterness and unforgiveness will cause many to end up at the wrong end destination. The wages of sin is death.”
“It is a lonely road, but it is the only road. If you want to have eternal life, if you want to be pleasing to Jesus, you are not allowed to compromise. You must listen to Jesus, get your wisdom from Him. Pray, ask Him. He will guide you.”
Not everyone’s works of righteousness are as filthy rags to God. Take for example the words of Jesus found in Revelation chapter 3 to the Church of Sardis. Jesus tells them that there are few there that have not defiled their robes. He says that they are worthy because He has found them to be in their clean robes. They have been washed clean. He says that He will not blot their name out of the Lamb’s Book of Life.
If we go with Jesus, if we actually repent of our sins, Jesus cleanses us, He washes our old lifestyle away, and the sins of our past we will leave behind. In John chapter 8 Jesus makes it very clear that those who sin, even if they are Christians, are slaves of sin, and that a slave will not abide in the house forever, but Jesus says a SON will abide forever, therefore if the Son sets you free you are free indeed.
What do you think will happen to those Christians that think that everyone’s acts of righteousness are filthy rags? One day they will stand before God, they will make it into the kingdom and they will think they have made it, they will sit down at the table and exactly as the parable goes in Matthew chapter 22, the angels will be sent out, those Messengers, and they will say “How did you get in here?” And when the Master of the House realizes that there is a man in there called a Christian who made it all the way into the kingdom without the wedding garments, He will say to the servants, “Bind him hand and foot and cast him into outer darkness.” And that man will be left speechless because he thought that everyone in the Kingdom had filthy clothes on just as himself. But those who make it into the kingdom of heaven that are welcome, they make it in with their white garments, they are washed clean and they will be welcome because they are right with the Lord.
Are you right with the Lord today? Or are you like the Christians who quote Isaiah chapter 64 telling everyone that they can’t repent, that everyone will be wicked and any righteousness is filthy before God. These Christians twist the truth, they make the righteousness of God unholy and they call on unholiness righteousness. Make sure that you know Jesus, prepared because He is coming. May the grace of Jesus be with you.
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Published on Apr 17, 2018
Jesus said:”My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.” If you have accepted Jesus and you listen to Him, He will teach and guide you.
Jesus called me. One night many years ago, I woke up and I clearly heard these words:”Go into all the world an make disciples of all nations. Go where I send you. Take their hand and put it in My hand and I will guide them.”
Jesus guides my footsteps and He warns me of danger. Years ago I used to preach at a church in the townships on Sundays. It was a very dangerous area. One Sunday morning I woke up at 4 in the morning. I had just dreamed that I was in the township on my way to the church and had been shot. Jesus was telling me not to go. The very next day Christian missionarieswere shot and killed in the same area.
In the corporate work situation, Jesus guided me, gave me wisdom in business decisions. In the home, Jesus guided me in the discipline and bringing up of my children. In my marriage, my relationship with my wife, Jesus guides me. In all things, I seek His guidance and approval.
Jesus speaks to all His children but many do not listen. They follow their own mind and they follow the advice of other people.
We cannot please Jesus and bear fruit for His kingdom if we do not listen to Him and obey Him.
That is why many Christians will end up in hell. They are stubborn and disobedient. they follow after their own ways and the ways of the world, and they ignore Jesus when He speaks to them.
Without Jesus, we can do nothing. If we want to enter His kingdom, we have to listen to Him and obey Him. If we stray from Jesus we will perish.
Seek Jesus with all your heart. Live your life to please Him. Pray, wait on Him. Listen and obey when He speaks to you and He will guide you all the way, until the end.
May Jesus bless you.
