Featured Where did Lordship Salvation come from?

I never heard of it until MacArthur's The Gospel According to Jesus.

 

Much depends on how you define Lordship Salvation. The term describes the inseparable role of Christ as both Savior and Lord. Can a person accept Christ as Savior today but not acknowledge His Lordship until some indefinite time in the future? The answer is an unequivocal "no". Jesus is both Lord and Savior. As such each Christian is duty-bound to submit to Him in all areas of our life. As we mature in our faith our level of obedience should increase (Ephesians 4:13).

 

I do not believe in Lord ship salvation because in my opinion this makes Salvation dependent on works for Salvation. Many Pastors teach it is necessary to maintain our Salvation. This makes it part of the Salvation process. Paul wrote;
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Rom 4:4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
Rom 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Rom 4:6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

The apostle Paul didn't preach it but preached the opposite. We are created for Good works. Don't misunderstand me it's just that good works do not bring Salvation. They bring rewards and the rewards can be great
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They both would agree with the belief that Jesus should be the Lord over all areas of our lives, but they would severely disagree with notion happens at salvation, and also that the assurance should never be based upon how well we are behaving, but upon Lord Jesus!

 

Nicely put. One who receives Christ as personal Savior cannot lose salvation. However, obeying Him is, in a sense, recognizing His Lordship, and without doing so the believer is unlikely to be greatly used by God.

 

Yes, as none save Bible writers have infallible theology! And he seems to have more of the Puritam mindset on this issue then Reformed of the reformation era!

 

The problem though is that all Christians have Jesus as Lord, as when saved, God the father installed him as such over us, so its not really as Dr MacArthur views this!

 

They did not really teach it as Dr MacArthur and others have it being, as they do come close to almost basing salvation upon grace and our works!

 

When we got saved, Jesus was Lord over each one of us,so we did not need to make Him that!

 

Those into LDS do tend to mix Justification and sanctification too much!

 

Came from The Bible, but ole Johnny Mac coined the phrase.

 

The point is that if He is the Lord of our life, we will show evidence of submission to His Lordship.

 

Yes, but will not be all at same time, as none have that when first saved, and none mature at same pace!

 

If you look closely at how he presents it and particularly into when he first presented it, you will see what he did. He was and is Calvinist. He used this teaching to gain Calvinist inroads into non Calvinist Baptist circles.

 

I would say that it was a part of the gospel to explain that Jesus is God and King. His Lordship was understood.
What is not understood in the Bible is the entire invitation to say a sinners prayer and thus be saved by the magic power of an invoking prayer as though God were a personal genie.