Is Repentance and Taking the Cross Necessary for Salvation?

[Paul Vusik]

As a rebuttal to this nonsense spewed by the LC, as in the quote I posted here yesterday, I wanted to provide couple of verses to show why this concept is not so. It is presented in the LC this way, with a single purpose, that is to hold people hostage, sometimes for their whole life. They think that they can, or do have some kind of means, ways, or even authority to determine each believers personal relationship with God. They can measure, identify, and tell you whether the simplest of things as loving someone, is of your “self”, or of what God through your process of new birth and regeneration has put into your heart.
It is absolute spiritual atrocity that any man in this world can commit, by inserting himself or themselves into that position. They judge a persons spiritual life, and their growth in life, based on their own live, own experiences, or lack there of. For the most part, people who do this, have nothing to offer, nothing to build people up with, nothing to give to people in terms of spiritual food for their growth. But it’s just to knock them down, tell them they are “fleshly and soulish”, and have a long way to go to catch up to them. They have the template that everyone is inserted and measured with, no questions asked or objections to be made.
On the other hand, there is real, beautiful, and truly living life, that has been given to each and every born again believer! This life, cannot be faked, cannot be destroyed, questioned, knock down or subjected to men’s templates. That life, is there by the grace and mercy of God. It teaches you, it instills Godly ways and principles through the work of the Holy Spirit. No man can know this life in you, besides you. The only thing that they will be able to say, that there is something different about this person. They will see the fruits of the work of God in you!
What’s really unfortunate today, is that people that have none of those things happening in their life’s, are the ones that determining your growth. They installed themselves as the “caretakers” by every possible way that they could. They sure are the most humble of people, polite, and present themselves as the most genuine. But what gives them away, is that the things that they ask of others, they can’t exhibit themselves, so they always have to knock everyone down so they don’t get ahead of where they are at. God forbid you actually love your neighbor, or you care for someone when they don’t. How would that make them look?
Well, I will just say that next time one of those man, tells you that you are in your soul, you need to give up, you need to die, even though God has done otherwise in your life and you know it better that them, there is an unction in you that testifying otherwise: tell that person just like Jesus did to Peter, “get thee behind me satan”! Don’t let them trample what God has done for you! Don’t let them steal those precious things that God has put in you! Don’t let them question your heart and then question God! Be bold and courageous like that blind man in John 9, who didn’t let these filthy leaders destroy that what Jesus has done for Him, but stood tall, even at the cost of being cast out of the synagogue. Because even if they do, Jesus will be there for you more that before. He will take care of you, way more that any of those man ever wished or are capable of. Trust in Jesus, and not in any man!


2 Tim 2:11
11*It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:


Romans 8:11
11*But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Colossians 2:18-23
18*Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19*And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
20*Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
21*(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22*Which all are to perish with the using after the commandments and doctrines of men?
23*Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

God bless!