Misconception About Salvation #15
"Make the Lord Jesus Christ King in your life and confess your sins and you will be saved."
The cause of this misconception is the failure to realize that the kingship of the Lord Jesus Christ in our lives can never atone for our sins. It never does and it never will.
If all that it takes for our sins to be forgiven in salvation is to make the Lord Jesus Christ king in our lives and confess our sins, then there was no need for the Lord Jesus Christ to die on the cross. Why, in the world, did He die on the cross? His suffering and His death on the cross are unnecessary if such were the case.
The penalty of sin must be paid, God's justice, holiness and wrath must be satisfied and making the Lord Jesus Christ king in our lives and confessing our sins can never satisfy these demands. Yes, there is a huge and essential place for the Lord Jesus' kingship in the life of a Christian but it is not in the how-can-a-sinner-be-saved level.
Salvation is not in the crown of the Lord Jesus Christ. No, rather, salvation is in His cross. Yep, not in the crown, but in the cross when He died for our sins and rose again from the dead.
The moment we put our trust in Him and what He did on the cross, then, that's the very point when salvation takes place. And salvation involves the transfer of the saveD sinner from the kingship of sin to the kingship of Christ.
