Salvation is all about the work of God,
demonstrating the glory of God.
And that is why men such as ourselves
should guard it so severely, and preach it
so carefully.
Because it's all about God and His name.
That His name be great among the nations.
Hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done.
It's all about God.
When you no longer have regeneration in preaching,
have nothing.
Nothing.
He says, for I will gather you from
the nations.
Separation.
I will take you out of there.
And I will do it with a strong
hand.
If there is no work of separation in
your life recognizable at any point in time,
you're lost.
You say, oh, Brother Paul, if I say
that, they'll kill me.
Then die!
I'll lose my...
Then lose your home!
It'll cost me!
Then make the payment!
Don't tell me about that!
How many Calvinists do we have?
How many men who have good theology, but
they are too cowardly to preach it?
Because it'll get me in trouble.
What do you expect it to do?
All the ones who have gone before us,
their blood, they shed.
They preach into a largely unregenerate church body.
What do you expect them to do to
you?
But how is it going to change?
Except we suffer.
If we tarry not in the presence of
God, so to have His fear upon us.
You tell a man, you know, the Bible
says that you've sinned.
And if he says, well, yes, I know
I'm a sinner.
Then we go to the next evangelical hoop
for him to jump through.
Well, he knows he's a sinner.
Now let's go to the next question.
Well, let me just put this by you.
Go talk to the devil sometime and ask
him if he knows he's a sinner or
not.
He'll say, well, yes, I am.
Thank you very much.
You see, the question is not, listen to
me.
The question is not whether or not this
man recognizes he is a sinner.
The question is this.
While I have been sharing the gospel with
you, has the power of God so regenerated
your heart that you now hate the sin
you once loved?
And then if they say, well, yes, I
know I'm a sinner.
Then we say, well, would you like to
go to heaven?
You ever had anybody go?
Why, no, I'd just rather go to hell.
Everybody wants to go to heaven.
Don't you realize that?
Absolutely.
Everybody wants to go to heaven.
They just don't want God to be there
when they get there.
Men love heaven.
They don't have a problem with heaven.
It's God they hate.
And so the question is not, do you
want to go to heaven?
The question is this.
The God that you have hated, ignored, despised.
Showed no thankfulness toward.
Has he so worked in your heart as
that now you esteem him and desire him?
The Christ who shed his blood for the
souls of men.
Has God done such a work in your
heart that he's now precious to you?
If we get them to say that they're
a sinner and we get them to say
they want to go to heaven.
Then we ask them this question.
Well, would you like to pray and ask
Jesus Christ to come into your heart?
I just don't see anywhere.
You know, I use satire because the prophets
use satire.
It's a biblical thing to do.
But I just don't see anywhere where Jesus
walks up and says, you know, the time
is fulfilled.
The kingdom of God is at hand.
Now, does anyone want to ask me into
their heart?
I'm standing out here all day and there's
no door handle on the outside.
If it's going to get open, you're going
to be.
Jesus Christ owns the door.
If he wants to knock it down, he
will.
You see, it's just it's got to the
point of absurdity.
You could do a comedy on this.
Where's the supernatural God you talk about?
You got to give him a helping hand
because he can't seem to properly save people
anymore.
If we could fill this place up with
old preachers from 150 years ago, they'd be
yawning because they all heard this is all
they ever talked about.
We've got a formula.
We've got a methodology.
It's about conversion.
It's about preachers.
I am so tired.
It's not about little boys who can speak
the words of parents.
It's about men who dwell in the presence
of God.
His word has been burned into the reality
of their heart and they speak forth truth.
Come hell or high water.
That's what brings reformation.
And I'll tell you something, old guys like
myself.
God's raising up a bunch of them.
He is.
Be careful not to become their enemy when
they come in and split your church wide
open, because you wouldn't do it.
Wow.