Christian Values Cannot Save Anyone!

"Human beings are natural-born moralists, and moralism is the most potent of all the false gospels. The language of “values” is the language of moralism and cultural Protestantism — what the Germans called Kulturprotestantismus. This is the religion that produces cultural Christians, and cultural Christianity soon dissipates into atheism, agnosticism, and other forms of non-belief. Cultural Christianity is the great denomination of moralism, and far too many church folk fail to recognize that their own religion is only cultural Christianity — not the genuine Christian faith."

(Al Mohler, "Christian Values Cannot Save Anyone", AlbertMohler.com)

The Great Scandal of Christendom Today

“The Christian landscape is strewn with the wreckage of derelict half-built towers. The ruins of those who began to build and were unable to finish. For thousands of people still ignore Christ's warning and undertake to follow Him without first pausing to reflect on the cost of doing so. The result is the great scandal of Christendom today, so called nominal Christianity. In countries to which Christian civilization has spread, large numbers of people have covered themselves with a decent but thin veneer of Christianity. They have allowed themselves to become somewhat involved, enough to be respectable. Their religion is a great soft cushion. It protects them from the hard unpleasantness of life while changing its place and shape to suit their convenience. No wonder the cynics speak of hypocrites in the church and dismiss religion as escapism.” -John Stott

God Defines How He Will Be Worshiped

". . .Man has no right to think for himself apart from God, or independent of the Revelation of God. God’s declarations are to be received in unquestioning simplicity. What we are to believe, what we are to do, how we are to worship, are not matters of opinion or speculation: they are truths —truths not reasoned out or demonstrated by man, but dictated by God, and coming to us, therefore, with a certainty which man cannot add to or improve, and which no strength of mathematical demonstration can surpass. "This thinking for one’s-self independently of God and His Revelation, is…a sin. Nay, it is a sin of more than common darkness—it is so audacious, and contemptuous towards God. It places man on a level with God, or at least sets Divine truth and human opinion on the same footing. It strips the former of all innate authority, while it gives to the latter an authority to which it has no claim. "It makes man the teacher, not the listener or the learner. If it does not call good evil, and evil good; if it does not put light for darkness, and darkness for light, it at least claims the right of saying what is evil and what is good—what is light and what is darkness. It is another development of the old temptation, “Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” Nor is it of any consequence who it is that claims the right of settling religious truth or worship. It may be one man, or it may be many men. It may be a church, or a priest, or a council. It matters not. In such things there can be no authority save that which is infallible and Divine, that is, God speaking to us directly in His Word.” (Horatius Bonar, "God Defines How He Will Be Worshiped", Reformed Bibliophile)

100 Truths About Jesus

1) Jesus claimed to be God - John 8:24; 8:56-59 (see Exodus 3:14); John 10:30-33
2) Jesus is called God - John 1:1,14; 20:28; Col. 2:9; Titus 2:13; Heb. 1:8
3) Jesus is the image of the invisible God - Heb. 1:3
4) Jesus abides forever - Heb. 7:24
5) Jesus created all things - John 1:1-3; Col. 1:15-17
6) Jesus is before all things - John 1:1-3; Col. 1:17;
7) Jesus is eternal - John 1:1,14; 8:58; Micah 5:1-2
8) Jesus is honored the same as the Father - John 5:23
9) Jesus is prayed to - Acts 7:55-60; 1 Cor. 1:2 with Psalm 116:4; (John 14:14)
10) Jesus is worshipped - Matt. 2:2,11; 14:33; John 9:35-38; Heb. 1:6
11) Jesus is omnipresent - Matt. 18:20; 28:20
12) Jesus is with us always - Matt. 28:20
13) Jesus is our only mediator between God and ourselves - 1 Tim. 2:5
14) Jesus is the guarantee of a better covenant - Heb. 7:22; 8:6
15) Jesus came to proclaim freedom for believers - Luke 4:18
16) Jesus said, "I AM the Bread of Life" - John 6:35,41,48,51
17) Jesus said, "I AM the Door" - John 10:7,9
18) Jesus said, "I AM the Good Shepherd" - John 10:11,14
19) Jesus said, "I AM the Way the Truth and The Life" - John 14:6
20) Jesus said, "I AM the Light of the world" - John 8:12; 9:5; 12:46; Luke 2:32
21) Jesus said, "I AM the True Vine" - John 15:1,5
22) Jesus said, "I AM the Resurrection and the Life" - John 11:25
23) Jesus said, "I AM the First and the Last" - Rev. 1:17; 2:8; 22:13
24) Jesus always lives to make intercession for us - Heb. 7:25
25) Jesus cleanses from sin - 1 John 1:9
26) Jesus cleanses us from our sins by His blood - Rev. 1:5; Rom. 5:9
27) Jesus forgives sins - Matt. 9:1-7; Luke 5:20; 7:48
28) Jesus saves forever - Matt. 18:11; John 10:28; Heb. 7:25
29) Jesus discloses Himself to us - John 14:21
30) Jesus draws all men to Himself - John 12:32
31) Jesus gives eternal life - John 10:28; 5:40
32) Jesus resurrects - John 5:39; 6:40,44,54; 11:25-26
33) Jesus gives joy - John 15:11
34) Jesus gives peace - John 14:27
35) Jesus has all authority - Matt. 28:18; John 5:26-27; 17:2; 3:35
36) Jesus judges - John 5:22,27
37) Jesus knows all men - John 16:30; John 21:17
38) Jesus opens the mind to understand scripture - Luke 24:45
39) Jesus received honor and glory from the Father - 2 Pet. 1:17
40) Jesus reveals grace and truth - John 1:17 see John 6:45
41) Jesus reveals the Father - Matt. 11:27; Luke 10:22
42) Jesus bears witness of Himself - John 8:18; 14:6
43) Jesus' works bear witness of Himself - John 5:36; 10:25
44) The Father bears witness of Jesus - John 5:37; 8:18; 1 John 5:9
45) The Holy Spirit bears witness of Jesus - John 15:26
46) The multitudes bear witness of Jesus - John 12:17
47) The Prophets bear witness of Jesus - Acts 10:43
48) The Scriptures bear witness of Jesus - John 5:39
49) The Father will honor us if we serve Jesus - John 12:26 see Col. 3:24
50) The Father wants us to fellowship with Jesus - 1 Cor. 1:9
51) The Father tells us to listen to Jesus - Luke 9:35; Matt. 17:5
52) Everyone who's heard & learned from the Father comes to Jesus - John 6:45
53) We come to Jesus - John 5:50; 6:35,37,45,65; 7:37;
54) The Father draws us to Jesus - John 6:44
55) The Law leads us to Christ - Gal. 3:24
56) Jesus is the Rock - 1 Cor. 10:4
57) Jesus is the Savior - John 4:42; 1 John 4:14
58) Jesus is the King - Matt. 2:1-6; Luke 23:3
59) In Jesus are the treasures of wisdom and knowledge - Col. 2:2-3
60) In Jesus we have been made complete Col. 2:10
61) Jesus indwells us - Col. 1:27
62) Jesus sanctifies - Heb. 2:11
63) Jesus loves - Eph. 5:25
64) We sin against Jesus - 1 Cor. 8:12
65) We receive Jesus - John 1:12; Col. 2:6
66) Jesus makes many righteous - Rom. 5:19
67) Jesus sends the Holy Spirit - John 15:26
68) Jesus offered up Himself - Heb. 7:27; 9:14
69) Jesus offered one sacrifice for sins for all time - Heb. 10:12
70) The Son of God has given us understanding - 1 John 5:20
71) Jesus is the author and perfector of our faith - Heb. 12:2
72) Jesus is the Apostle and High Priest of our confession - Heb. 3:1
73) Jesus is preparing a place for us in heaven - John 14:1-4
74) Jesus is the Light of the world - John 8:12
75) Jesus has explained the Father - John 1:18
76) Jesus was crucified because of weakness - 2 Cor. 13:4
77) Jesus has overcome the world - John 16:33
78) Truth is in Jesus - Eph. 4:21
79) The fruit of righteousness comes through Jesus Christ - Phil. 1:11
80) Jesus delivers us from the wrath to come - 1 Thess. 1:10
81) Disciples bear witness of Jesus Christ - John 15:27
82) Jesus died for us - 1 Thess. 5:10
83) Jesus died and rose again - 1 Thess. 4:14
84) Jesus was a ransom for many - Matt. 20:28
85) The Christian dead have fallen asleep in Jesus - 1 Thess. 4:15
86) Jesus rendered the devil powerless - Heb. 2:14
87) Jesus is able to save completely - Heb. 7:25
88) Jesus came to serve - Matt. 20:28
89) Jesus came to be a high priest - Heb. 2:17
90) Jesus came to save - John 3:17; Luke 19:10
91) Jesus came to preach the kingdom of God - Luke 4:43
92) Jesus came to bring division - Luke 12:51
93) Jesus came to do the will of the Father - John 6:38
94) Jesus came to give the Father's words - John 17:8
95) Jesus came to testify to the truth - John 18:37
96) Jesus came to set us free from the Law - Rom. 8:2
97) Jesus came to die and destroy Satan's power - Heb. 2:14
98) Jesus came to fulfill the Law and the Prophets - Matt. 5:17
99) Jesus came to give life - John 10:10,28
100) Jesus came to taste death for everyone - Heb. 2:9

C.A.R.M.

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