What must I do to be saved?

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[SilasAndTimothy]

"No-one gets out of this world, alive" sounds like a quote from a movie.

[dsp]

Hank, how can I acquire the willingness to lead a life of continual repentance?
How can I acquire the will to receive?

[Erika-ge]

I didn't hear the one and only requirement which is to "believe" to place your faith alone in Christ finished work at the cross. " being willing to live a life of continual repentance" (whatever that means) doesn't save anyone!! It's just some vague meaningless platitudes ppl love to throw out there. Thats a huge red flag this is a false gospel message the truth is clear and simple not vague and confusing. This is what he really means
Work for your salvation

[dsp]

What must a man do to be saved?

A man who is dead in his sin can do absolutely nothing to be saved.

Rather, it is the Lord Jesus who, by His unconditional grace, sovereignly saved each of us when He changed our hearts and minds to willingly believe, repent, and continually live by faith through Him.

It was our Lord Jesus who alone sovereignly saved us...

Men have nothing to do with salvation.

Zero.

So then, it should be plain to understand that the Lord Jesus's Gospel is unconditional...

How then can any man preach that there is something a man must do to be saved?

Yet many men among us preach gospels that are conditional upon something a man must do to be saved...

These preachers all share in common a gospel predicated on a doctrine that states there is something a man must do to be saved or to be made anew in the coming new creation, as it were.

Some of those preachers will say that you need to live a life of continual repentance and have a willingness to receive.

Other preachers might say you must believe and live by faith.

Still, other preachers may have other variations of what a man must do to be saved.

Such preachings at first hearing may seem to have wisdom in their own ways.

But all such preachings are specious...

That is, how can any man who is dead in his sin believe, or repent, or confess that Jesus is Lord or live by faith in Him?!

So then, it is evident there is nothing inside a man who is dead in sin that he can conjure to get saved.

No man ever has.

Not even one...

That includes our friend Hank, who preaches that a man must do something to be saved.

Nevertheless, one can observe that such specious preaching may seem at first to be based on Scriptural wisdom to the many who have searching minds and itching ears yearning to understand Scripture.

But, under the scrutiny of the panoply of Scripture, any doctrine that mankind's salvation is conditional upon something he must do while dead in sin does not harmonize.

But, even more than that, how can a man's conscience claim to be saved by anything he did when he was dead in his sin?

Do we not all confess to having been dead in our sin?

Yes, we were all dead in our sins.

Do we not all claim to have the Holy Spirit of our Lord Jesus living in us?

Yes, we claim that the Spirit of our Lord Jesus dwells within us.

So, then, what does the Spirit of our Lord Jesus within us testify to?

As for my part in answering that, it is my testimony to those who are reading Hank's comments section, to Hank, and even before my Lord Jesus as my witness if He would grant me His witness to my testimony...

I emphatically and unequivocally testify unconditionally that it was my Lord Jesus who sovereignly saved me.

My Lord Jesus changed my heart and mind even while I was dead in the abyss of my sin to believe in Him, to repent, to confess Him as Lord, and to live by faith through Him.

I did all of those things willingly because my Lord Jesus gave me the will to do them all.

My Lord Jesus did all of that for me by His unconditional grace.

I had absolutely nothing to do with my Lord, God, and Savior Jesus saving me...

Zero.

I was lost and dead in my sin.

Therefore, emphatically and unequivocally, I testify that all honor and glory belong to my Lord Jesus, who is God over all to be forever praised...

That is my testimony.

I hope that Hank will join me in that testimony before all of his devoted listeners.

[Dsp-sv]

Surely, Hank, my friend, you realize that you misspoke in this video...

If indeed in order to be saved, we must repent of our own free will, then not one us can be saved...

Our free wills are corruptible and indeed are corrupted.

Most assuredly, then, it is wreckless to preach that we must live lives of continual repentance as if we can do so by our corrupted free wills.

So, then, in this video, you placed a chain around your listeners' necks that not one of them can live up to...

Not even one.

As to living this life of continual repentance, do you claim that you do...?

Surely you would not have the temerity to make that claim to the Lord Jesus as you are kneeling before Him.

[mikep]

You are preaching a false gospel and the Orthodox Church theology is failure