The Deadly Heresy of Preaching a Christ Who is Savior But Not Lord

It's really find it crazy how a heresy that says you can receive Jesus Christ as your Savior but submitting to Him as Lord is completely optional. That idea left me blank-faced because of the fact that Romans 10:9 says this one truth:

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Did you read that? Confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus Christ. It's really similar to confessing that Jesus is Lord. If your Jesus is not Lord then you are not saved. I find the idea that Jesus should just be my personal Savior but not my personal Lord and Savior. That would make every Christian the personal servant of their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Jesus is Lord yet why do so many want to deny His Lordship? The word Kurious in Greek means "supreme in authority" so can you even think of accepting someone who is Kurious as Savior without being Lord? That kind of idea is incomprehensible to the Christian mind but why is it taught? 

Why did the teaching that you can accept Jesus as your Savior but not as your Lord come out? I guess it's all about Antinomianism. It seeks to pervert the reality that Jesus' salvation is from sin and not to sin. Jesus is the Savior from sin so men may no longer be empowered by yet. Yet, why is it that somebody even dares to preach the dangerous heresy that you can get saved and never change at all? What happened to Ephesians 2:10 and 1 Corinthians 6:11? What happened to Titus 2:11-14 that says God's grace teaches righteous living to Christians? Are these verses so conveniently ignored? Then again, it's so easy to take the Bible straight out of its context isn't it? 

The very idea of a divided Christ was so repugnant that old fashioned Christian preachers went against it. Charles H. Spurgeon preached against the idea of a divided Christ. One famous Protestant preacher named Aiden W. Tozer also preached against the idea of a divided Christ. Either you have all of Jesus or none of Him is the Gospel message. You can't just have a Savior who is not Lord otherwise you are teaching a very damnable heresy. You receive Christ for who He is - as Lord, Master and Savior and not just as Savior without submitting to His authority.

Why should we consider those Antinomians or those who teach salvation is a license to a sinful lifestyle to be false converts? A true salvation results in sanctification and not a continued lifestyle of sin. Christians may not be perfect (yet) but there is the proof of conversion when the enslavement to sin turns into a continual struggle against sin. It starts with God's grace and ends up producing good works (Ephesians 2:8-10). People getting saved forsake the life of sin or turn away from their former lifestyles. This turning from sin starts with the mind i.e. to repent of one's sin. Metanoneia means to have a change of mind which results to a change of one's purpose. How can anyone ever receive Jesus Christ as Savior but not as Lord? If that's the case then that Jesus is not the Jesus of the Bible. Such people should be considered false converts if they believe in a Jesus that is not Lord.

See also:

• A Warning Against Watered Down Evangelism!
• Arminianism and Antinomianism are Enemies of Biblical Preaching
• Antinomianism is Heresy
• Antinomianism is One Gospel Which is Not Another
• Are You Going to Church or Just to a Nice Building on a Finely Manicured Lawn?
• Beware of Being "Politically Correct" Over Being Scripturally Correct
• Beware: Nobody Can Love Jesus While Hating the Scriptures!
• By God's Grace: No Christian Can Ever Love Sin!
• Can A Truly Saved Christian Sin All They Please?  NOT A CHANCE According to Scriptures!
• Can You Hate Law and Order and Have the Credibility to Talk About God?
• Cheap Grace Theology is Deadly
• Declare a Spiritual War Against the Heresy of Teaching the Possibility of a Fruitless Christianity!
• Despite God's Warnings, People CONTINUE IN THEIR SIN
• Do We Forget the Church is Also an Army of Which Involves Repentant Sinners Whom God Has Declared as Righteous Saints? 
• God's Law is For Our Protection!
• How Does Authentic Faith Differ From Superficial Faith?
• If That Preaching Doesn't Hurt Anyone With Biblical Truth Then That Preaching is Bogus
• If Your Gospel Is Celebrating Sin, Then It Is Not the Real Gospel of Jesus Christ at All
• It's Go and Sin No More, Not Go and Sin Some More
• It's Sickening How People Can Sympathize with Criminals over the Victims of Crime
• Jesus' Resurrection is Proof That You Can't Be Saved and Still Remain the Same
• No, Grace is Not an Excuse to Keep Living in Sin!
• No Truly Saved Pastor Ever Teaches Grace Is a License to Sin
• Playing With Sin is Dangerous!
• Revelation 3:20 Doesn't Support Easy Prayerism
• Sin's Wages Aren't Always Paid Immediately
• The Church Is a Hospital for REPENTANT Sinners and NOT a Haven for Unrepentant Sinners!
• The Call of Salvation Is Salvation FROM Sin, NOT Salvation to Sin!
• The Church Is a Hospital for REPENTANT Sinners and NOT a Haven for Unrepentant Sinners!
• The Closet Antinomians Are Exposing Themselves
• The Dangerous Heresy That You Can Be Saved From Hell But Not From Sin
• The Dangers of A Watered Down Repentance
• The Foolishness of People Who Want Jesus as Their Savior but Not as Their Lord
• The Immature Christian Struggling in Sin vs. The False Convert Reveling in Sin
• The Jesus of "Easy Christianity" is ANOTHER JESUS!
• The Modern Gospel is One Gospel Which is Not Another
• The Widespread Growing Plague of Popularity Driven Churches
• The War Against Drunkards Who Claim to be Christians!
• Watered Down Preaching Against Sin Is An Insult to the Cross of Jesus Christ