Dan Corner is a man on a mission. His mission is to persuade people that salvation is conditioned on the free-will of man. It is received by free-will and it is kept by free-will.

He has a thing for demonic and devilish graphics. His web-site and some of his publications are laced with them. Kind of makes you wonder, aye? A man centered gospel and demonic doodling to boot.

Mr. Corner attacks those, like Charles Stanley, who hold to a free-will/antinomian form of eternal security, but rather than defend that which is biblical - he puts forth his own falsehood. He does not defend the righteousness of Christ as the only hope of the believer.#1 No! He puts forth a gospel of “grace” and human righteousness.

According to Mr. Corner, good works are not the evidence of the believer's God given faith as scripture teaches.#2 They are the product of man's free-will. So basically what we have here is a salvation for those who are more righteous than those who do not endure and remain saved. This, of course, is opposed to salvation by the finished work of Christ alone.

If good works are done to keep salvation. Then Mr. Corner could boast in heaven - if he gets there - about how he was faithful and he made it to heaven while so many did not remain faithful to the end. He could also boast about writing so much in favor of free-will faithfulness unto salvation, etc.#3

This we must and do reject. This kind of gospel - like Mr. Corner's doodling - is demonic and is opposed to the gospel of grace.#4 Salvation is solely by grace. It is by the righteousness of Christ alone.#5 Those that are saved are trusting only in His righteousness. They are not looking to themselves for salvation. The only faithfulness that the saints can and do depend on is the faithfulness of Christ.#6 It is Christ Who the saints follow#7 and not a non-existent human righteousness. Amen.#8

We have now reached the end of another year. Look back with humility: look up with hope: look forward with joy: for consider what great things God hath done for us: "Now is our salvation nearer than when we (first) believed." Rom. 13:11.

Salvation, O the joyful sound!

But, before the Sun of Righteousness arose upon us and displayed the glory of his finished salvation to our hearts, alas! What dark, proud, ignorant notions of salvation did we entertain! Instead of seeing righteousness as a gift by Jesus Christ, and justification of life coming by free gift, and eternal life the gift of God through Jesus Christ, Rom. 5:17, 18; 6:28–we vainly thought that salvation was to be procured by some deeds or righteousness of our own. In our natural state of blindness, before we saw Jesus, we thought enduring to the end might give us a claim to he saved; now we see that we are "saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation.'' Isa. 45:17.

We began the year seeing Jesus. O, in this blessed sight let us endure to the end. In him we see a complete salvation. We hear and believe his cry from the cross, "It is finished." We hear him proclaim from his throne in glory, "It is done." "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end." Rev. 21:6. In him we are "chosen to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth." 2 Thess. 2:13. He "of God, is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption.'' 1. Cor. 1: 30. In the faith of this we persevere. By faith we "endure (every fight of affliction) seeing him who is invisible." Heb. 11:27. We "run with patience the race set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith." Heb. 12:2. Consider these precious words, ye who tremble lest your faith shall not endure to the end: the same Jesus who is the author is also the finisher of your faith. It is the glory of gospel faith to live upon Jesus, who is our life and salvation; and to enjoy life and salvation in Christ every step we take in the way to endless life and glory: where in spite of all the deceitfulness of sin, and the art and malice of Satan, we shall "receive the end of our faith, the salvation of our souls." 1 Pet. 1:9.

Now, Christian reader, I commend thee to God, and to the word of his grace, wishing thee sweet comfort in perusing these daily meditations. If our Lord give thee as much in reading as I have found in writing them, thou wilt have great cause for love and praise. Accept them, as the labor of one who is no prophet, neither a prophet's son," but who would glory in being a saved sinner, by the cross of Jesus.
Glory be to God in the highest. Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus in sincerity. Amen.

And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses." Acts 12:39

What can be more blessed to a poor conscious sinner, such, my soul, as thou art from day to day, than the ministry of his servant the apostle, in these gracious words. Sit down, this evening, and, under his divine teaching, ponder them duly over. A poor guilty sinner needs a rich and holy Savior. That he cannot justify himself in the sight of God, is most evident, for the least gust left upon the conscience would condemn him forever. He cannot be justified by the deeds of the law; for by the law is the knowledge of sin, and in the law we learn that we have all sinned, and come short of God's glory. He cannot be justified by the offerings and sacrifices made under the law of Moses; for how can the blood of bulls and of goats take away sin? By what then, or by whom, my soul canst thou be justified? Hear what this sweet scripture saith: "By him, that is, by the Lord Jesus Christ, all that believe are justified from all things." Oh! How blessed is the view! How complexly satisfying to the conscience, is the redemption by Christ Jesus, "whom God hath set forth as a propitiation, through faith in his blood?" And do not fail to observe the extensiveness of the blessing: it is all that believe, yea, every individual believer; for the blood of Christ cleanseth from all sin; and the righteousness of Christ, in a way of justification, is to all and upon all that believe, for there is no difference. And do not fail also to observe the equality of the mercy in justification; it is to all the same. So that though believers differ in the strength of their faith, and in the different degrees of that faith, yet respecting their interest in Christ, and their union with Christ, the weakest, as well as the strongest, is equally justified, and equally secure. And for this plain reason: because the object of faith, which is Jesus, is one and the same, and justification is in and by Christ, and doth not arise from the degree of apprehension the believer hath of it. Sweet thought to a poor timid believer! Hence the everlasting safety, both for acceptance in grace here, and the enjoyment of glory hereafter, is to all the same. And however the Lord, in his infinite wisdom, may think fit to appoint different paths for believers departures out of life; though some, like the apostles, shall be called to seal the testimony of their faith in Christ in blood, and wade through this red sea (if it may so be called) to join the multitude on the opposite shore, who are shouting the song of Moses and of the Lamb, whilst others sweetly fall asleep in Jesus on their beds, quiet and composed, amidst surrounding friends; yet, in the act of justification, all are alike. Jesus, taketh the lambs of his fold in his arms, and they shall lie in his bosom, while he leads the strong. In short, all that are in union with Christ, do live in Christ, and shall die in Christ, whether they be little children, young men, or fathers; for "by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which they could not be justified by the law of Moses." See, my soul, that thou hast this faith which is of the operation of the Spirit of God, and then lie down this night, and every night, with the composure of one that is in a state of justification with God, "having peace with God, through Jesus Christ our Lord."

The hope of Arminianism seems to me to differ much from the hope of the gospel, because it allows that Christ died for all men. But Christ declares that the gates which lead to destruction receive the greatest number, Matt. vii. 13. Therefore, if the former be true, some are in hell for whom Christ died; in which case there must have been a deficiency in the price the Surety paid, or else it reflects on his wisdom, and supposes him outwitted by the serpent, who, through his subtlety, has got legions in his possession, which were the Savior's own by purchase. It does not reflect on his wisdom only, but on his power also, who could not hold them that were committed unto him; because the gates of hell have prevailed, and many are plucked out of his hand, John, x. 28.

It seems likewise to reflect cruelly on the justice of God, who drew his sword, and sheathed it in the great Shepherd, Zech. xiii. 7; and spared him not in the least, nor abated one mite of the debt, Rom. viii. 32. And it is plain that Justice promised, by the blood of his covenant, to send "forth the prisoners out of the pit in which there was no water," Zech. ix. 11; and further, to be "faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness," 1 John, i. 9. But alas! this is all overthrown if Arminianism be true.

If Arminian hope be fixed on a surety that hath not paid, or cannot pay the debt; or, if it be fixed on a mutable Savior, having no laws to encourage it but such as demand a debt twice; first of the surety, and then of the debtor; first sending them out of the prison of sin on the surety's account, or, in their own words, making them sons of God by grace to-day, and after all this letting them fall away, and locking them up in hell to all eternity, until they can pay the utmost mite of what was paid long ago; what establishment is there for hope? I answer, a hope founded on such doctrines is just as stable as a feather in a whirlwind.

End Notes:
1 Titus 3:4-7.
2 Ephesians 2:10, Titus 2:14, etc,.
3 In his cartoon booklet, The Eternal Security Time Bomb, p. 7, he has a character who has made it to heaven - not by grace alone -exclaiming, "Thank God I Made It." Since she supposedly "made it" by holding on to salvation by her free-will - we find it strange that she is thanking God for having made it. Unless she is referring to herself and/or her free-will as "God."?
4 Galatians 1:3-5.
5 Romans 5:8-11, Galatians 3:13, etc,.
6 Isaiah 53:5.
7 John 10:27.
8 Romans 3:10-12. For more on Mr. Corner, see: Dan Corner’s False Doctrine Of Justification, E. D. Manard, GTM booklet.