Exhortations to forsake sin, and to obey God, upon Arminian Principles, never can be attended with any good success, seeing they neither shew man the depth of his disease, nor the freeness, fullness, and all-sufficiency of the Gospel salvation; so that he neither knows his own utter helplessness, nor where all his strength lies. Sir Richard Hill
The old and biblical doctrine of the Gospel was based around the glory of God in Christ and that by grace alone. The Arminian position, regardless of how much it is denied, is a system that demands something other than the pure grace of God alone. God saves by grace alone because that means it is His choice and His work alone. God saves sinners to the glory of His name and He will not share His glory with another. There is only one way to the Father and that is through the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone. We cannot obtain salvation by an act of our will and we cannot go to the Father by an act of our own will. We can only be saved on the basis of Christ alone by grace alone and we can only go to the Father by Christ alone.
Romans 11:6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.
The text of Scripture just above is a short passage, but it has a very powerful message. Grace is not consistent with works for justification. Even more, grace is not consistent with one work for salvation either. If we take any solution or substance (substance A) that is 100% pure and add the slightest bit of something else (substance B) to it, substance A is no longer pure substance A. We cannot say that one has substance A apart from any other substance. The same is true with grace. The Gospel proclaims the glory of God in salvation by grace alone. If we add one work to it, then it is no longer by grace alone.
Another way to think of it is that sinners are saved by God alone who saves out of love for Himself and His glory alone. If we add one work, for example, an act of the so-called free-will, we have a so-called Gospel of grace alone. That would mean that God saves out of love for Himself and His glory primarily, but not alone. That would mean that either the cross of Christ was not quite 100% efficient or that His righteousness was not 100% enough. There is a lot riding on the “Arminian Principles.”
While it seems so self-evident to some that the teaching of “free-will” is antithetical to the Gospel of grace alone, others defend it vociferously. They tell us with great cheerfulness that Arminians preach the same Jesus and the same Gospel, though Calvinists approach it some differently. I argue that a true Arminian not only does not preach the same Jesus, but that his system cannot allow him to do so. The true Arminian cannot preach the same Gospel as the Bible Gospel of grace alone, though granted he may preach it the same way as many professing Calvinists do. But again, the Bible does not allow for one work in the Gospel of grace alone regardless of whether it is called that or not. When someone drags a work into what they call the Gospel and yet calls it by another name, we must stand firm and tell people that they are preaching something other than the Gospel of grace alone.
The importance of preaching the biblical doctrines of depravity and inability is so that man can be delivered from thinking that his own will can do anything that contributes to his own salvation. The Arminian teaching on this will never bring a person to utterly renounce his or her own righteousness and ability and to prostrate at the foot of the cross looking for mercy and grace alone that is not based on anything he can do. Luther wrote that until a man denied his own free-will he was not ready to be saved. The doctrine of people is not preached to make people feel bad and to manipulate them into a decision, but it is in order to break them from all that they are trusting in other than Christ alone and grace alone. Until the soul is turned from its own free-will and the power of its own will it is not really broken from self and is not looking to Christ and His grace alone. Therefore, “Arminian Principles” are dangerous to the Gospel and in exhorting people to flee from sin and seek the Lord. If “Arminian Principles” are truly dangerous, then the state of Christianity in the modern day can be seen quickly and easily. We are inundated with “Arminian Principles” in our land and that even in the professing Reformed. May God grant us a true repentance from “Arminian Principles” that we may seek Him by grace alone.
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