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QUESTIONS - What Is Your Position On Lordship Salvation? | John MacArthur

Theology Applied

Right Response Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9801 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Question from Gian The Baptist: It seems to me that “Lordship Salvation,” as presented by John MacArthur, contradicts the 1689. What are your thoughts?   

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Guyin, or Guyin, I'm going to say Guy in.

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From Guyin the Baptist, what is your position on Lordship

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salvation? It seems to me that Lordship salvation, as presented by

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John MacArthur, for example, contradicts the 1689.

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I know he's not confessional just as an example.

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It's a good question. Yeah, it just, a lot of it depends on how the person is presenting it. There are certain elements of John MacArthur's

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Lordship salvation that I probably would not have worded the way that he did.

0:59.8

But I mean, the general premise, right, if we're just talking about the basic idea that somebody who is genuinely born again is going to submit to Christ as Lord and that's going to be

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evidenced in their life.

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Yeah, that's absolutely vital. I think, you know,

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one thing we have to remember is that nobody's doing theology in a vacuum, right? All of us within

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God's providence have been placed into a specific place, specific time amongst a specific people.

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And a lot of what you see with theologians, both those

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who are living, like John MacArthur, or those who are long dead, is that they're all products

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of their time. In the sense that there are certain things going on in their day, and they were

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faithfully, by God's grace, to the best of their ability, opposing

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those things, those things that contradicted the truth of God. Everybody has that. So whether

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it's Luther against Roman Catholicism, you know, or all these different examples that we find

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