John MacArthur's 6 Signs of Salvation - Bob Wilkin

John MacArthur gives the following 6 signs of salvation:

1. You’ve been taught the Word of God by the Holy Spirit.
2. You’ve been led by the Holy Spirit.
3. You’ve been comforted by the Holy Spirit.
4. You’ve been filled with the Holy Spirit.
5. You’ve been convicted by the Holy Spirit.
6. You cry out to God when you are in trouble.

Are these really signs or proofs of one's salvation? Bob Wilkin of the Grace Evangelical Society examines each of these 6 signs, and tells one how can be sure that they have everlasting life and will be with Jesus forever in His kingdom.

"The Christian’s Assurance of Salvation" - John MacArthur

"Six Signs You’re Saved, According to John MacArthur" by Bob Wilkin

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[jmbrown]

10:16
The points John is making, I agree could be seen as subjective if one doesn’t have a reference point for what John is saying, but if you have the Spirit in your heart, then what John said is profoundly objective, since you feel Him in your heart.

If you don’t experience the Holy Spirit in your life, then pray to God to forgive you of your sins, washing you clean, & grant you His Spirit to live within your heart. If your heart has not been renewed, transformed, or regenerated, then you should plead with God for mercy, forgiveness, & salvation, because the Holy Spirit comes within you upon salvation.

May God bless you! 🙏🏼

[wtom]

John MacArthur's 6 signs of salvation:

1) Works
2) Works
3) Works
4) Works
5) Works
6) Works

[jflangerii]

Thank God for GES. Faith alone in Jesus alone for everlasting life.

[skjones]

This was a powerful message! Thanks so much for reviewing this.

[sheilazimmerman]

Thanks for teaching the objective truth: belief in Jesus.

[jmbrown]

11:34
I think you’re missing it a bit. MacArthur didn’t quote from John or Acts because he wasn’t asked how to be saved, he was asked how do you KNOW you are saved. And the only way to know that is to have had your heart transformed & have the Spirit dwelling inside you. If you don’t have the Holy Spirit inside you, working in your life, then you’re not saved no matter how many times you tell God you believe. Maybe you need to put your faith in Him, repent, (which always needs to happen at some point, why not now?), and put Him First in your life.. if you are sincere & pray from your heart, God will respond. 🙏🏼

[graftme]

My husband wears a shirt that says, "I am a WHOSOEVER."

[graftme]

I recently witnessed a guy calling out to Jesus to rescue him from the midst of a tornado. He added, "if you are real." So, crying out when you're in trouble means nothing.

[docbrown]

Calvanism is utterly exhausting. Its all hoops that you jump through and after you do it, they've created 10 more hoops.

[jeffspencer]

Excellent assessment, Dr. Wilkin. Interesting that he never points us to believing Jesus’ promise to give eternal life to whosoever believes found in God’s inerrant, infallible Word.

[wtom]

John Piper is a classic example who made this statement in his sermon entitled, "Why God is not a megalomaniac in demanding to be worshiped" - Nov 20, 2008 in Providence, Rhode Island. Piper says, "I deal with this as much as anything, probably, in the people that I'm preaching to. "Fears and doubts, doubts not about objective "Did He rise from the dead?" - very few people are wrestling with that - but "Am I in? Am I saved?" That's very common for people to wrestle with." "But why I sin against my wife the same at age 62 that I did at age 42 causes me sometimes to doubt my salvation or the power of the Holy Spirit. - This question is not theoretical."



My comment - In other words, when Piper gets into a heated argument with his wife where he loses it momentarily, his "assurance of salvation" goes way down, and then later he makes up with his wife by apologizing and then with flowers and candy, his "assurance" goes back up to 98%, but never a full 100%. Lol!!

[geographicaloddity]

McArthur version of being led by the spirit sounds like "success"?

I've said this many times in the past: JMac's Lordship Salvation is just the other side of an Arminian coin.

There are days when I feel like everything he said. Others when I don't. All subjective and based in feelings.

[graftme]

The Holy Spirit convicts of sin. (I am a sinner.)
He convicts of righteousness. (I need Christ's righteousness imputed to me.)
He convicts of judgement. (The verdict: eternal life if you believe, condemnation if you don't.)

Period!

[fredpena]

Introspection is great if you want to feel hopeless

[soljos]

MacArthur really embodies a view of Faith that is substantially similar to Roman Catholicism, on one hand (Fides Formata) .

Paul Holloway clarifies MacArthur's view of Faith RE: Roman Catholicism:

John MacArthur’s The Gospel According to Jesus has rekindled the debate long smoldering in Evangelical circles over Lordship Salvation.1 At the center of this debate is the question of the nature of saving faith: whether it entails a response of the human will to the lordship of Christ. Dr. MacArthur has become the leading proponent of the Lordship position.

At the same time, however, he has taken the Lordship account of faith a significant step further. Traditionally, Lordship advocates have extended faith to include commitment, but not obedience, which for them is faith’s sure fruit. But MacArthur, in a chapter entitled “The Nature of True Faith, ” repeatedly speaks of obedience itself as constitutive of faith.2 For MacArthur good works are no longer merely the product of saving faith. They are an integral part of it.

This is a significant development. But it is also a serious departure from Evangelical Protestant doctrine. In fact, MacArthur’s proposal is virtually an invitation to return to the Medieval Roman Catholic understanding of “formed faith” (fides formata), the very notion that Luther repeatedly attacked in his famous 1535 commentary on Galatians.

II. MacArthur’s Account of Faith
There is an initial ambiguity, if not contradiction, in MacArthur’s account of faith.3 At times he describes the relationship between faith and works in the traditional terminology of cause and effect (works being the effect of saving faith). At other times he treats the relationship as one of a whole to its parts (works being a part of saving faith). But it is clearly the latter model that takes precedence for him.

MacArthur writes that faith “encompasses obedience, ”4 and that obedience is “an integral part of saving faith.”5 Indeed, obedience is bound up in the very “definition of faith, “6 being a constitutive element in what it means to believe.”7 Thus any “concept of faith that excludes obedience”8 must be rejected because obedience is “indivisibly wrapped up in the idea of believing.”9 In fact, “the character of true faith” is nothing less than the “higher righteousness” of the Beatitudes of Matthew 5:3-11.10 MacArthur even suggests that obedience is “synonymous with” faith.11 And he quotes with approval Rudolf Bultmann’s dictum, “‘To believe’ is ‘to obey.'”12

It is reasonable to conclude, therefore, that when MacArthur invokes the traditional cause-and-effect model and says, for example, that faith “produces” obedience, this is the case only in a secondary sense, that is, only in the sense that faith already is obedience. Likewise, when he says that obedience is the “product” of faith, this too should be taken in a qualified sense. For as he plainly states, saving faith “embodies” righteous works.13 According to MacArthur, then, the works that follow faith are not, strictly speaking, its effects. They are rather the temporal manifestations or expressions of the obedience inherent in faith itself.

Of course, something like this has always been a central tenet of Lordship Salvation. Faith is defined in light of the lordship of Christ, a lordship that calls for obedience. It is just that MacArthur goes beyond the traditional account. For traditionally, obedience is said to be present in faith mediately, that is, by way of an act of personal submission or commitment, an inclining of the will in the direction of obedience.14 With MacArthur, however, it is present in the act of faith immediately: To believe is to obey.15"

[ok-qtkr]

MacArthur teaches that works are "a constituent element of saving faith" ...that "saving faith is never alone" .

MacArthur ultimately thinks that "faith" is synonymous with one having been arbitrarily "Elected" by a completely Unknowable Secret Decree (Calvinism), only "sniffed at" by means of Fruit Inspection (works Calculations) .

Thus, His view obliterates any resort to doubtless certitude of one's Everlasting destination because Perseverance in Performance (works) till death is truly what he's denoting in his concept of "faith" .

Entirely subjective .

Therefore, his message can only duplicate the heart of the Judaizers/unregenerate Scribes and Pharisees (Matthew 23) who uniformly think that what they're DOING is ultimately Decisive in where they spend eternity .

[jamesfriihauf]

6 signs of salvation according to John MacArthuter? How about 6 signs of salvation according to the BIBLE?

[sjurdurkjv]

How about REDEEMED WITH THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB for starters?

[jmbrown]

The whole goal of believing in Christ is to be saved, & to receive the Holy Spirit Who is the proof of salvation.

In order for belief to get you saved, you must understand that the Bible is not referring to simple intellectual belief, but Full Belief, from the bottom of your soul & with your whole heart. This belief or love for God must be stronger than any other feeling or desire in your life!

With belief this strong, you will feel the full anguish of your sins, & you will repent.

With belief this strong, you will love the Lord Jesus with all your heart, soul, mind, & strength, and you will want to submit your whole life & everything you have into service for Christ. Obviously, if you love God as described in the first & greatest commandment, summarized above, you will give everything as in the parable of the pearl of great price, or the treasure in the field.

This is how to be saved.. your belief must be a full blown total belief, holding nothing back, & not a simple belief thinking that Jesus will be your companion & save you, while you still run & decide your own life. That’s not how salvation works,

Jesus gave up *everything* for you, so in return, He asks you to hand complete control over to him.

God bless you all! 🙏🏼

[michaelbledsoe]

McArthur = Lordship Salvation i.e Works!