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Jesus is Lord (1 Cor. 12:3).

That is the single, central, foundational, and distinguishing article of Christianity. It is also the first essential confession of faith every true Chris tian must make: “If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved” (Rom. 10:9). The belief that someone could be a true Christian while that person’s whole lifestyle, value system, speech, and attitude are marked by a stubborn refusal to surrender to Christ as Lord is a notion that shouldn’t even need to be refuted. It is an idea you will never find in any credible volume of Christian doctrine or devotion from the time of the earliest church fathers through the era of the Protestant Reformation and for at least three and a half centuries beyond that. The now-pervasive influence of the no-lordship doctrine among evangelicals reflects the shallowness and spiritual poverty of the contemporary evangelical movement. It is also doubtless one of the main causes for evangelicalism’s impoverishment. You cannot remove the lordship of Christ from the gospel message without undermining faith at its core. That is precisely what is happening in the church today. Jesus’ teaching and ministry always kept the issue of His lordship at the center. As we survey His earthly life and ministry in this book, you will see the pattern quite clearly. He never once shied away from declaring His authority as sovereign Master. He proclaimed it to disciples, to enemies, and to casual inquirers alike — refusing to tone down the implications of His demand for unconditional surrender. So the true gospel according to Jesus is a message that cannot be divorced from the reality of His lordship. When Jesus called people to follow Him, He was not seeking companions to be His sidekicks or admirers whom He could entertain with miracles. He was calling people to yield completely and unreservedly to His lordship.

Extract from the book "Gospel according to Jesus Christ " by John MacArthur

Q. Why do you use language like “forsake everything,” “death to self,” and “unconditional surrender”? The absoluteness of those demands is intimidating. Aren’t you afraid you’ll turn people away from Christ?

A. Actually, it was Jesus Himself who said, “Whosoever he be of you that for-saketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14:33 KJV). And He said, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me” (Luke 9:23).He also preached, “If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off . . . and if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off . . . and if your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes, to be cast into hell” (Mark 9:43 – 47). And “I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. . . . He who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me” (Matt. 10:35, 38). And “If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple” (Luke 14:26).It was Jesus, after all, who first stated, “No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God” (Luke 9:62).We could go on and on quoting from Jesus’ hard sayings, which He often preached to unbelieving multitudes but never offset with any qualification. Clearly He was insisting on wholehearted commitment. He did not soften His demands with words that would accommodate the halfhearted.Our Lord was certainly not fearful that people would be turned away by such hard demands. He said, “All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me” (John 6:37). Likewise, I am confident that those being drawn by the Father and convicted by the Holy Spirit will not be turned away by the straightforward truth of His Word.

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