As the error of the sinnerβs prayer continues to compound, sinners are sometimes encouraged to pray, βJesus, I now make you the Lord of my lifeβ to be saved. The problem with telling Him youβll make Him the Lord of your life in salvation prayer is that, when you make Him your Lord, youβre promising to obey Him. The Lord once asked His apostles,
βWhy call ye Me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?β (Luke 6:46).
Now, if a sinner genuinely believes the gospel, but is coaxed into promising to do what the Lord says by promising to make Him his Lord, he IS saved. But what happens when later he doesnβt do the things the Lord says? If he promised to make Christ his Lord to be saved, and then disappoints Him, he is likely to wonder if he is truly saved.
Beloved, donβt confuse a sinner into promising to make Christ his Lord when all you want him to do is receive Christ as his Savior. If you do, you confuse letting Christ save him from his sins with what he is supposed to do in response to Christ saving him from his sins. After telling the Ephesians that they were saved by grace through faith (Eph. 2:8,9), Paul added,
βFor we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in themβ (Eph. 2:10).
When a sinner gets saved, God makes him βa new creatureβ in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17), and he is βcreated in Christ Jesus unto good works.β That is Godβs purpose in making him a new creature.
But notice Paul doesnβt say that a new creature must walk in good works, he says that he should. To say that he must is something we hear from those who believe in what is called Lordship Salvation, yet another error that is linked to the sinnerβs prayer when sinners promise to make Christ the Lord of their lives to get saved. source
