Someone may be saved without grasping the full reality of the Lordship of Christ.

Someone may be saved without fully understanding the call to obedience,

because no one told them about it, but listen, no one who is saved will fail to repent,

will fail to submit, or fail to obey.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

So why should you proclaim the gospel? Well, one obvious reason is you don't want people to go to hell,

and loving your neighbor means doing what you can to spare them that fate.

But the gospel message is a hard one to accept. It tells people their sinners and calls them to repent.

So should you soften the gospel, make it easier to accept?

Well, the truth is, the Bible says the path to salvation is narrow,

and you need to offer people precise directions. You need to proclaim the gospel Jesus taught, hard truths and all.

MacArthur is helping make sure you know those precise and demanding truths in this current study titled The Gospel According to Jesus.

Here's John with today's lesson.

I want you to have your Bible ready. We will be considering some selected scripture as we discuss in our series on the Lordship of Christ,

the matter of the nature of saving faith, the nature of saving faith.

The Bible conference several years ago, a well-known speaker brought a message on salvation.

He argued that to tell unsafe people they must surrender to Christ as the same as preaching salvation by works.

He defined salvation as the unconditional gift of everlasting life given to people who believe the facts about Christ,

whether or not they choose to obey Him.

And one of his main points was that salvation may or may not alter a person's behavior.

Transformed character, he said, is desirable, but even if no change in lifestyle occurs, the one who has believed the facts of the gospel and received Christ can rest in the certainty of forgiveness and heaven.

That's pervasive in our society.

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