{"id":3284,"date":"2020-03-17T15:55:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T23:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2020-03-17T15:55:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T23:55:18","slug":"the-gospel-according-to-jesus-by-john-macarthur-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/17\/the-gospel-according-to-jesus-by-john-macarthur-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gospel According to Jesus by John Macarthur, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to read this book for a long time. Finally borrowed it off of Pastor A&#8217;s shelf.<\/p>\n<p>JMac wrote the book in response to the issue of people who deny lordship salvation. I didn&#8217;t even know that was an issue until recently. I assume everyone knows that when you ask Jesus to be your Savior, you understand He becomes your Lord. However, there are Bible teachers who teach otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Those who deny lordship salvation thinks a person is saved if he believes in Jesus but doesn&#8217;t obey Jesus. His life looks nothing like Jesus or do what He taught. His &#8220;faith&#8221; in the facts about Jesus that he died and rose again for His sins will get him into heaven.<\/p>\n<p>From the clear explanation of the gospel according Jesus, I don&#8217;t see how anyone could deny lordship salvation. However, I do see my own error when I present the gospel to someone saying that &#8220;you just have to believe.&#8221; Even the devil believes. But it&#8217;s putting your trust in a person with your life, not just believing a set of facts about this person.<\/p>\n<p>I do think the initial faith is a simple believe. But discipleship must happen and the fruit of that would be a Christ-like life and love for Christ. If there is no fruit, there was no true faith.<\/p>\n<p>This book encouraged me to be a disciple of Jesus who surrenders to His Lordship in everything, including carrying the cross of suffering.<\/p>\n<p>Each chapter of the book is like a sermon or a mini-book from JMac. It&#8217;s not an easy read because of the concepts, but it&#8217;s definitely easy to understand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to read this book for a long time. Finally borrowed it off of Pastor A&#8217;s shelf. JMac wrote the book in response to the issue of people who deny lordship salvation. I didn&#8217;t even know that was an issue until recently. I assume everyone knows that when you ask Jesus to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-46","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}