Man can decide to believe in Messiah Yahoshua and confess Him before everyone, but it is the Father alone who decides to give salvation\u2014and He does that in His time, not according to the direction of any human (John 1:13).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most all of the \u201ccrusades\u201d and \u201crevivals\u201d from the 19th century to the present have promised a salvation that is based on false pretenses\u2014and, boy, have people eaten it up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You could watch them, by the hundreds, or even thousands, walking down to where the preacher was speaking, to pray a prayer, make a decision, or \u201cask Christ into their hearts\u201d\u2014there are myriad christianese euphemisms for it\u2014but, none of it has ever been based on the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While endless verses of \u201cJust As I Am\u201d were sung, the unwitting would succumb to the emotional appeals, thinking they might be killed on their way home if they didn’t oblige. So, they did what the preacher told them to do\u2014to come forward and \u201cget saved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They would then leave that meeting, just as unsaved as when they arrived, and some would start living like an \u201cacceptable christian,\u201d while others would change things up for awhile, but then just go back to the way they really were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The false construct of this sort of evangelism is that a person is saved by his own decision\u2014that, at the moment he does what he is told to do (usually some form of a sinner’s prayer), the Holy Spirit enters him, and he is saved. It is usually proclaimed that the person has been saved, has been added to the rolls of the \u201cchurch,\u201d and the angels are rejoicing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sorry, but that’s just entirely false. It’s the equivalent of spiritual snake oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Man cannot make himself saved\u2014he cannot decide himself to be born again\u2014he cannot declare his own legal decree of adoption. Only a higher power can do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, anytime a preacher or a teacher or a pastor tells people that they need to come forward and \u201cget saved,\u201d he is lying, whether or not he is aware that it is a lie. Those folks cannot show you a single instance in all of scripture where an \u201caltar call\u201d ever occurred\u2014and that’s because it’s a man-made invention used to sell the snake oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The path to salvation is to believe in Messiah Yahoshua, confess Him before others (to take a stand for Him even where it hurts, through relational division or rejection\u2014all the way down to those in one’s own family), and then await the giving of the covenant. And, when one receives the covenant, he will be told by the Holy Spirit, directly and personally, that he is a child of Yah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is the only way to be saved. Anything else is just a counterfeit of that, which is what the unsaved christians in Matthew 7:21-23 were misled by. Those folks, like most of the christians on the planet, thought with all their hearts that they were saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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