1 00:00:01,710 --> 00:00:05,070 Welcome to From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons. 2 00:00:06,890 --> 00:00:09,210 Each week, we bring you a different message 3 00:00:09,210 --> 00:00:11,590 from some of history's greatest speakers of the 4 00:00:11,590 --> 00:00:14,790 Christian faith, and powerful sermons from modern preachers, 5 00:00:14,970 --> 00:00:15,110 too. 6 00:00:17,050 --> 00:00:20,070 This week, we have Ralph Bernard, with his 7 00:00:20,070 --> 00:00:23,270 message, Six Things We Face in Preaching the 8 00:00:23,270 --> 00:00:23,710 Gospel. 9 00:00:23,710 --> 00:00:31,070 In the month of July, in 19- 10 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,840 On a Sunday evening, I began a series 11 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:41,920 of meetings with Brother E.W. Johnson, down 12 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:44,080 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. 13 00:00:47,220 --> 00:00:50,180 I brought a message that night, and ten 14 00:00:50,180 --> 00:00:56,780 years later, I was through Pine Bluff, and 15 00:00:56,780 --> 00:01:01,620 Brother Johnson told me that that message split 16 00:01:01,620 --> 00:01:04,160 his church wide open. 17 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:07,620 Just one message, he said the people went 18 00:01:07,620 --> 00:01:11,840 out of the service that evening about evenly 19 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:12,480 divided. 20 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:14,300 They didn't have a vote. 21 00:01:15,020 --> 00:01:17,180 They didn't come to a vote for eight 22 00:01:17,180 --> 00:01:17,860 years. 23 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:23,160 But he said that his church was already 24 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:28,160 split, of course, but that one message was 25 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,660 the meat axe, and it took eight years 26 00:01:31,660 --> 00:01:37,780 under his quiet way for it to come 27 00:01:37,780 --> 00:01:40,340 to its climax, and then the people demanded 28 00:01:40,340 --> 00:01:41,880 the right to vote on it. 29 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:45,280 He said the first time they extended him 30 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:49,200 a call, they needed a new building, and 31 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,540 he'd led a congregation to build a nice 32 00:01:52,540 --> 00:01:55,060 place somewhere else, and so they called him 33 00:01:55,060 --> 00:01:58,420 because they wanted him to build a new 34 00:01:58,420 --> 00:01:58,940 building. 35 00:01:59,740 --> 00:02:04,460 Ten years later, they voted whether they wanted 36 00:02:04,460 --> 00:02:09,979 support, and say amen to, and help propagate 37 00:02:09,979 --> 00:02:11,540 what he had to preach. 38 00:02:12,980 --> 00:02:16,240 And he said that the thing came to 39 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,860 a climax in just one service. 40 00:02:19,820 --> 00:02:22,160 I remember asking him, I said, well, Brother 41 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:23,860 Johnson, was I in the flesh? 42 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:25,540 I get that way a lot of times. 43 00:02:26,180 --> 00:02:27,140 Was I wrong? 44 00:02:27,300 --> 00:02:29,340 He said, no, I believe one time you 45 00:02:29,340 --> 00:02:30,200 were in the spirit. 46 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:36,630 But he said the people went away believing 47 00:02:36,630 --> 00:02:40,190 in two different gods. 48 00:02:43,370 --> 00:02:46,610 Half of them believed in a god who's 49 00:02:46,610 --> 00:02:47,070 God. 50 00:02:48,730 --> 00:02:52,090 We preachers call it a sovereign god. 51 00:02:52,090 --> 00:02:55,570 That simply means very God. 52 00:02:57,250 --> 00:03:00,430 And the others went away with the God 53 00:03:00,430 --> 00:03:08,420 of 20th century and 19th century Christianity, a 54 00:03:08,420 --> 00:03:15,260 God who would like to do well, but 55 00:03:15,260 --> 00:03:16,820 is unable to do so. 56 00:03:20,870 --> 00:03:25,980 Well, that's pretty well the message tonight. 57 00:03:27,020 --> 00:03:30,800 In 1954, while I was listening to Brother 58 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:35,960 Farrell Griswold over in the Pollard Baptist building 59 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,420 at a Bible conference, I think it was 60 00:03:39,420 --> 00:03:44,440 the first one, I scribbled down on an 61 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:52,680 envelope six issues that seemed to be worth 62 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:58,420 facing and seemed to carry within them what 63 00:03:58,420 --> 00:04:00,640 all of this controversy is about. 64 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,180 Tonight, I don't guess I'm letting the cat 65 00:04:05,180 --> 00:04:05,980 out of the bag. 66 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:07,740 The only time I have got an invitation 67 00:04:07,740 --> 00:04:10,580 in my life to come hold a meeting, 68 00:04:10,820 --> 00:04:14,640 and the preacher dictated my sermons, is this 69 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:14,840 one. 70 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,040 And I'm glad to come. 71 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:22,660 How many folks were in the Park meeting 72 00:04:22,660 --> 00:04:27,300 in 1951? 73 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:30,800 How many of you were in the Park 74 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:31,120 meeting? 75 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:33,860 Well, thank you. 76 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:36,820 Well, he's asked me to bring some of 77 00:04:36,820 --> 00:04:38,720 the messages, but he wanted me to bring 78 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:39,220 this one. 79 00:04:41,060 --> 00:04:43,180 And those of you who remember it, I 80 00:04:43,180 --> 00:04:44,180 dead sure don't. 81 00:04:44,180 --> 00:04:46,820 I haven't touched this since 1954. 82 00:04:47,380 --> 00:04:49,260 But when he wrote me the letter and 83 00:04:49,260 --> 00:04:51,820 outlined my sermons, I began to dig. 84 00:04:51,980 --> 00:04:53,940 And I came up on that old envelope. 85 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:55,200 I still had it. 86 00:04:55,840 --> 00:04:56,720 And here goes. 87 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:01,320 Now, of course, no man ever repeated sermons. 88 00:05:03,290 --> 00:05:06,230 No man ever preached from the same text 89 00:05:06,230 --> 00:05:06,890 the same way. 90 00:05:07,030 --> 00:05:08,730 The scripture is too big for that. 91 00:05:08,730 --> 00:05:12,610 But I appreciate this privilege and the confidence 92 00:05:12,610 --> 00:05:14,910 and the honor the dear pastor has paid 93 00:05:14,910 --> 00:05:17,210 me as life coming home. 94 00:05:18,250 --> 00:05:20,490 And I want to just talk tonight, this 95 00:05:20,490 --> 00:05:24,770 prayer meeting night, on six issues that still 96 00:05:24,770 --> 00:05:28,150 face us and will have to take sides 97 00:05:28,150 --> 00:05:31,930 as individuals, as congregations, as public preachers. 98 00:05:32,750 --> 00:05:36,590 Anybody names the name of Jesus Christ living 99 00:05:36,590 --> 00:05:41,410 in this day, you've been living in a 100 00:05:41,410 --> 00:05:46,470 day when these six issues have about wrapped 101 00:05:46,470 --> 00:05:51,050 up the controversy in what Christianity is all 102 00:05:51,050 --> 00:05:53,530 about in your day and mine. 103 00:05:54,730 --> 00:05:56,930 And I remember I got these points. 104 00:05:57,050 --> 00:05:58,430 I don't know what is said about them. 105 00:05:58,490 --> 00:06:00,190 I know if I don't remember them, you 106 00:06:00,190 --> 00:06:01,110 dead sure don't. 107 00:06:01,110 --> 00:06:04,290 But this prayer meeting night, I want to 108 00:06:04,290 --> 00:06:05,270 leave them out. 109 00:06:05,330 --> 00:06:09,010 I appreciate the all-out effort your pastor 110 00:06:09,010 --> 00:06:11,990 and I trust you are going to make 111 00:06:11,990 --> 00:06:13,090 for these days. 112 00:06:15,380 --> 00:06:22,000 We are facing the most tremendous opportunity I've 113 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:22,600 ever seen. 114 00:06:22,940 --> 00:06:25,640 I bring you good tidings of great joy. 115 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:28,400 Hell is just popping everywhere. 116 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,580 The doors are opening. 117 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:36,300 Preachers are seeking the truth of God's grace 118 00:06:36,300 --> 00:06:37,660 as I've never seen it. 119 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:42,180 And I rejoice, and especially with you people 120 00:06:42,180 --> 00:06:46,020 who've been in the battle and have stood 121 00:06:46,020 --> 00:06:49,720 by me and made my little ministry possible. 122 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:55,560 There are six basic issues that I bring 123 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,060 you again tonight that we have to take 124 00:06:58,060 --> 00:06:59,200 sides upon. 125 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:03,260 And these issues will determine our gospel. 126 00:07:05,280 --> 00:07:07,700 And the other day, I heard a godly 127 00:07:07,700 --> 00:07:12,080 man, Brother James Stewart, down in Houston, Texas, 128 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:17,240 speaking to about 60 Baptist pastors. 129 00:07:20,010 --> 00:07:27,300 And he said that he longed in his 130 00:07:27,300 --> 00:07:36,370 heart that true evangelism would make its 131 00:07:36,370 --> 00:07:41,590 appearance once again in America. 132 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:51,080 He said, the evangelism that depends upon the 133 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:58,720 sovereign Holy Spirit to bring men to Christ. 134 00:08:02,170 --> 00:08:04,450 And there, such prayer meeting as you would 135 00:08:04,450 --> 00:08:07,910 think would be possible today, is that dear 136 00:08:07,910 --> 00:08:13,210 man who has long lifted up his voice 137 00:08:13,210 --> 00:08:16,710 against the shallowness of what we've called evangelism 138 00:08:16,710 --> 00:08:17,390 in America. 139 00:08:18,470 --> 00:08:21,310 And those preachers got on their faces and 140 00:08:21,310 --> 00:08:24,910 sobbed out their sins and their confessions to 141 00:08:24,910 --> 00:08:25,290 God. 142 00:08:26,510 --> 00:08:29,230 They were all Southern Baptist preachers. 143 00:08:31,690 --> 00:08:34,190 But they didn't fight the man's message. 144 00:08:34,750 --> 00:08:36,750 Fifteen years ago, they would have. 145 00:08:38,980 --> 00:08:41,100 But they are coming up to the lick 146 00:08:41,100 --> 00:08:42,000 log now. 147 00:08:43,560 --> 00:08:47,840 And the message and message that looked like 148 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:53,560 was getting such wonderful results, they're not getting 149 00:08:53,560 --> 00:08:54,780 the results now. 150 00:08:56,280 --> 00:09:00,520 And this generation of people in our churches 151 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:04,560 and in our pulpits is open now to 152 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:07,040 hear from God like I've never seen. 153 00:09:09,300 --> 00:09:10,140 And I rejoice. 154 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:14,120 For if I had a text tonight, I 155 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:16,420 would take that text in John chapter 3, 156 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:20,960 verse 8, which reads like this. 157 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:28,720 The wind bloweth where it will, and thou 158 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:32,540 hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell 159 00:09:32,540 --> 00:09:37,040 whence it cometh and whither it goeth. 160 00:09:39,050 --> 00:09:49,080 So is everyone, everyone 161 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:53,830 that is born of the Spirit. 162 00:09:56,890 --> 00:10:04,920 When the last word's been said, evangelism that 163 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:08,540 can get people saved without the blowing of 164 00:10:08,540 --> 00:10:11,520 the Spirit who blows when he wills and 165 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:16,800 nobody can explain it, or the evangelism that 166 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:22,440 is absolutely helpless unless the wind bloweth. 167 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:26,400 That pretty well sums up the whole shooting. 168 00:10:27,860 --> 00:10:29,780 I was reading of one of the old 169 00:10:29,780 --> 00:10:31,200 Puritans the other day. 170 00:10:32,260 --> 00:10:34,200 God shut him up in a little old 171 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:38,140 village, about 200 people for about 37 years. 172 00:10:39,060 --> 00:10:40,720 He wrote great books. 173 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:45,760 He preached for 33 years and never had 174 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:46,320 a convert. 175 00:10:47,260 --> 00:10:49,680 And then the wind began to blow. 176 00:10:51,540 --> 00:10:54,280 I felt sorry for the brother, wouldn't it 177 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:56,560 have been wonderful if he'd have lived in 178 00:10:56,560 --> 00:10:59,180 our day when we can get people converted 179 00:10:59,180 --> 00:11:01,040 without the Holy Ghost. 180 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:03,100 But he couldn't. 181 00:11:03,100 --> 00:11:06,580 The poor old man didn't know that there's 182 00:11:06,580 --> 00:11:10,700 any way on earth for men to be 183 00:11:10,700 --> 00:11:14,340 born into the kingdom of God except as 184 00:11:14,340 --> 00:11:18,540 the Holy Wind opened their hearts and applied 185 00:11:18,540 --> 00:11:19,260 the truth. 186 00:11:19,380 --> 00:11:20,920 And all he knew to do was just 187 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:25,600 keep on plowing and raising a prayer. 188 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:33,210 Oh, Thou Sovereign Spirit, we cannot commend you, 189 00:11:33,810 --> 00:11:38,790 but we pray for Thy presence and we 190 00:11:38,790 --> 00:11:40,250 long for Your blessing. 191 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:46,840 The six issues that I bring again tonight 192 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:47,520 are first. 193 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:52,520 We have to take sides, not in our 194 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:57,480 heads but in our hearts, over this proposition 195 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:02,680 that man was utterly ruined in the Garden 196 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:06,840 of Eden or that he was somewhat injured. 197 00:12:08,540 --> 00:12:10,740 Those of you who have heard me preach 198 00:12:10,740 --> 00:12:14,780 a great deal know that whether it's being 199 00:12:14,780 --> 00:12:18,260 backslidden or not, I try, and as I 200 00:12:18,260 --> 00:12:21,780 grow older, to shy away from man's terminology. 201 00:12:23,990 --> 00:12:26,270 I do not know whether this will strike 202 00:12:26,270 --> 00:12:28,290 you right or not, but I've quit using 203 00:12:28,290 --> 00:12:31,210 the adjectives on what they call the five 204 00:12:31,210 --> 00:12:31,810 points. 205 00:12:32,770 --> 00:12:36,290 I no longer use the term total depravity 206 00:12:36,290 --> 00:12:40,010 because it takes three hours and a half 207 00:12:40,010 --> 00:12:43,490 to explain what we do not mean by 208 00:12:43,490 --> 00:12:44,590 the word total. 209 00:12:45,610 --> 00:12:48,690 But that does not mean that I do 210 00:12:48,690 --> 00:12:50,070 not take sides. 211 00:12:51,050 --> 00:12:54,930 And this is the starting point, that we 212 00:12:54,930 --> 00:12:59,310 deal with men and women who hadn't been 213 00:12:59,310 --> 00:12:59,830 injured. 214 00:13:00,090 --> 00:13:05,110 They were ruined when in the loins of 215 00:13:05,110 --> 00:13:13,130 Adam they willfully reached up and sought to 216 00:13:13,130 --> 00:13:15,670 put God off the throne and sit there 217 00:13:15,670 --> 00:13:16,370 themselves. 218 00:13:17,650 --> 00:13:20,210 And the penalty was death! 219 00:13:20,950 --> 00:13:22,910 Not injury, but death! 220 00:13:24,230 --> 00:13:27,230 And that's where the whole thing starts. 221 00:13:28,010 --> 00:13:31,390 I remember 1950 in July. 222 00:13:32,630 --> 00:13:35,270 After I'd been here in April, I think 223 00:13:35,270 --> 00:13:38,110 it was, I came to the parting away 224 00:13:38,110 --> 00:13:40,370 with a brother, and I'd had much fellowship 225 00:13:40,370 --> 00:13:41,350 in the ministry. 226 00:13:42,290 --> 00:13:44,870 He took the position by way of rebuking 227 00:13:44,870 --> 00:13:50,690 me that man was somewhat injured in the 228 00:13:50,690 --> 00:13:51,030 fall. 229 00:13:51,890 --> 00:13:54,430 Of course, he has to take that position 230 00:13:54,430 --> 00:13:57,970 in order to preach what he believes is 231 00:13:57,970 --> 00:14:01,990 so, that God has done his part toward 232 00:14:01,990 --> 00:14:03,470 the salvation of men. 233 00:14:04,390 --> 00:14:05,690 Now it's up to men. 234 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:12,770 If man has some ability, all right. 235 00:14:13,370 --> 00:14:17,270 If he has no ability, all right. 236 00:14:18,270 --> 00:14:22,610 But I've learned long since that what we 237 00:14:22,610 --> 00:14:26,590 call the doctrines of election and predestination and 238 00:14:26,590 --> 00:14:28,990 those terms, that isn't what offends people. 239 00:14:29,650 --> 00:14:34,390 What offends people is to rob them of 240 00:14:34,390 --> 00:14:37,590 that thing they've been using to get multitudes 241 00:14:37,590 --> 00:14:41,830 of people thinking they are saved, that appealing 242 00:14:41,830 --> 00:14:44,690 to the big wills of men and women 243 00:14:44,690 --> 00:14:47,370 who have nothing but perverted wills. 244 00:14:47,910 --> 00:14:50,650 I heard a radio preacher who used to 245 00:14:50,650 --> 00:14:52,770 believe the gospel and try to preach it, 246 00:14:52,830 --> 00:14:54,830 but the pressure of the hours got him. 247 00:14:54,830 --> 00:14:57,010 I heard him in Winston-Salem the other 248 00:14:57,010 --> 00:15:00,130 day preach for 15 minutes to prove beyond 249 00:15:00,130 --> 00:15:02,190 a shadow of a doubt that God has 250 00:15:02,190 --> 00:15:03,550 done everything he can do. 251 00:15:04,110 --> 00:15:05,470 Now it's up to the sinner. 252 00:15:06,170 --> 00:15:07,510 Now it's up to the sinner. 253 00:15:08,250 --> 00:15:11,450 The so-called gospel upon which modern-day 254 00:15:11,450 --> 00:15:14,870 churches in America was built has been built 255 00:15:14,870 --> 00:15:19,650 on a gospel that teaches that men got 256 00:15:19,650 --> 00:15:23,570 a pretty bad blow, but they weren't ruined, 257 00:15:24,430 --> 00:15:28,430 and that therefore salvation is God taking the 258 00:15:28,430 --> 00:15:32,290 first step and men taking the rest. 259 00:15:32,470 --> 00:15:35,730 We have to make up our minds there. 260 00:15:36,670 --> 00:15:40,650 When I brought this message in 1954, we 261 00:15:40,650 --> 00:15:42,870 hadn't heard about the fact that the first 262 00:15:42,870 --> 00:15:46,010 11 chapters of Genesis ain't so. 263 00:15:46,010 --> 00:15:48,510 Of course, we had to find that out 264 00:15:48,510 --> 00:15:49,670 in your day and mine. 265 00:15:50,910 --> 00:15:54,050 But if it ain't so, then there's no 266 00:15:54,050 --> 00:15:54,770 salvation. 267 00:15:55,710 --> 00:15:58,470 For if we were not ruined in Adam, 268 00:15:58,630 --> 00:16:00,910 Christ can't do a thing on God's earth 269 00:16:00,910 --> 00:16:02,610 for us if it did die. 270 00:16:02,610 --> 00:16:07,770 And so further notice, we'll still take the 271 00:16:07,770 --> 00:16:11,830 position and stay with it and fight for 272 00:16:11,830 --> 00:16:15,030 it if we must, that we belong to 273 00:16:15,030 --> 00:16:17,210 a race that was utterly ruined. 274 00:16:18,210 --> 00:16:21,610 Not in need of a shove, but, O 275 00:16:21,610 --> 00:16:24,230 God, in need of a Savior. 276 00:16:25,470 --> 00:16:30,270 Utterly lost and utterly ruined and utterly unable 277 00:16:30,270 --> 00:16:33,550 to lift ourselves by our own bootstraps. 278 00:16:34,570 --> 00:16:36,010 We'll stay by that. 279 00:16:37,170 --> 00:16:42,030 I watched this same road, 1950, as far 280 00:16:42,030 --> 00:16:45,130 as this section east of the Mississippi River. 281 00:16:45,290 --> 00:16:45,730 What happened? 282 00:16:45,850 --> 00:16:49,030 Father Baptist Church had ramifications all over the 283 00:16:49,030 --> 00:16:49,430 South. 284 00:16:50,090 --> 00:16:52,610 Out of it came your blessed young preacher. 285 00:16:53,630 --> 00:16:56,130 I've watched them as they stumble. 286 00:16:57,550 --> 00:17:00,390 I've prayed for them when I thought there 287 00:17:00,390 --> 00:17:04,609 was going wrong, rejoiced when God was blessing. 288 00:17:05,290 --> 00:17:08,369 It's been a struggle, and we're not out 289 00:17:08,369 --> 00:17:09,130 of the woods yet. 290 00:17:10,270 --> 00:17:16,390 But anybody, anybody that's had a better time 291 00:17:16,390 --> 00:17:18,430 than I have, I couldn't imagine it. 292 00:17:19,390 --> 00:17:25,190 I've seen it as it's just started, and 293 00:17:25,190 --> 00:17:27,569 now it's breaking out all over the world. 294 00:17:28,550 --> 00:17:33,110 And I'm almost persuaded I may live to 295 00:17:33,110 --> 00:17:37,590 see the time when the gospel will be 296 00:17:37,590 --> 00:17:41,070 returned to the churches of America. 297 00:17:41,550 --> 00:17:42,470 Wouldn't that be wonderful? 298 00:17:43,450 --> 00:17:45,670 The second issue that we have to take 299 00:17:45,670 --> 00:17:52,110 sides on is simply this, that salvation is 300 00:17:52,110 --> 00:17:57,450 utterly of the Lord or only partially. 301 00:17:59,610 --> 00:18:04,930 Utterly of the Lord or only partially. 302 00:18:05,950 --> 00:18:09,790 I remember your young pastor many years ago 303 00:18:09,790 --> 00:18:12,250 went down to Panama City to hold a 304 00:18:12,250 --> 00:18:12,570 meeting. 305 00:18:12,990 --> 00:18:14,450 Had a little trouble with the pastor. 306 00:18:14,610 --> 00:18:15,830 I forget all the details. 307 00:18:16,530 --> 00:18:20,050 In the connection with prayer, Brother Mahan told 308 00:18:20,050 --> 00:18:21,650 me that he said to the young preacher, 309 00:18:21,810 --> 00:18:23,030 Let's pray to sinners. 310 00:18:23,510 --> 00:18:26,210 According to your theology, we ought not to 311 00:18:26,210 --> 00:18:27,290 bother God. 312 00:18:28,930 --> 00:18:31,810 If salvation's up to man, we needn't bother 313 00:18:31,810 --> 00:18:32,430 God. 314 00:18:32,430 --> 00:18:35,330 We just get out on our knees and 315 00:18:35,330 --> 00:18:37,230 say, Bill, save yourself. 316 00:18:37,470 --> 00:18:38,770 Susie, save yourself. 317 00:18:41,630 --> 00:18:43,450 This has been a battleground. 318 00:18:45,310 --> 00:18:47,990 Men have taken it and become what we 319 00:18:47,990 --> 00:18:49,270 call hardshells. 320 00:18:50,070 --> 00:18:51,870 There's always that danger. 321 00:18:52,430 --> 00:18:56,330 There is a sin line between truth and 322 00:18:56,330 --> 00:18:56,590 error. 323 00:18:57,430 --> 00:19:00,490 And there's nothing so dangerous as something that's 324 00:19:00,490 --> 00:19:02,510 got a lot of truth in it and 325 00:19:02,510 --> 00:19:03,290 a lot of error. 326 00:19:03,290 --> 00:19:07,630 But the battleground is still being fought. 327 00:19:08,430 --> 00:19:12,670 And with all of the conflict and all 328 00:19:12,670 --> 00:19:15,810 of the mistakes and all the boneheaded mean 329 00:19:15,810 --> 00:19:19,810 things we've done, it's still been a pleasure 330 00:19:19,810 --> 00:19:27,190 to insist, in spite of everything, that salvation 331 00:19:27,190 --> 00:19:32,210 is God's work, first, last, and all the 332 00:19:32,210 --> 00:19:32,810 time. 333 00:19:33,190 --> 00:19:36,490 And that no man, if he lived a 334 00:19:36,490 --> 00:19:39,770 billion years, would ever have whereof the glory, 335 00:19:40,470 --> 00:19:43,950 save in the cross of the Lord Jesus 336 00:19:43,950 --> 00:19:44,730 Christ. 337 00:19:45,710 --> 00:19:52,230 Salvation is either altogether of the Lord, or 338 00:19:52,230 --> 00:19:55,790 it's just part of the Lord and part 339 00:19:55,790 --> 00:19:56,270 of man. 340 00:19:57,190 --> 00:20:01,770 Now, the popular gospel is still that salvation, 341 00:20:01,990 --> 00:20:05,110 God had something to do with it, and 342 00:20:05,110 --> 00:20:07,250 man cast it aside in bold. 343 00:20:07,390 --> 00:20:08,210 But not so. 344 00:20:09,110 --> 00:20:10,050 Not so. 345 00:20:10,230 --> 00:20:11,270 Wouldn't it be wonderful? 346 00:20:12,710 --> 00:20:14,030 Wouldn't it be wonderful? 347 00:20:14,570 --> 00:20:16,490 This is worth praying for. 348 00:20:16,990 --> 00:20:19,190 This is what we're sweating for. 349 00:20:19,690 --> 00:20:22,190 This is what we're groaning for. 350 00:20:22,630 --> 00:20:24,510 This is what none of us know the 351 00:20:24,510 --> 00:20:27,110 meaning of the word, sacrificing if we knew 352 00:20:27,110 --> 00:20:28,310 how to do it for. 353 00:20:28,670 --> 00:20:32,230 Wouldn't it be wonderful if the gospel be 354 00:20:32,230 --> 00:20:34,810 returned to our churches and a sinner couldn't 355 00:20:34,810 --> 00:20:37,450 run from one church and have his wounds 356 00:20:37,450 --> 00:20:42,550 healed slightly somewhere else by preaching this damnable 357 00:20:42,550 --> 00:20:46,610 doctrine that God's done part of it, and 358 00:20:46,610 --> 00:20:50,790 now he's hoping that man will do the 359 00:20:50,790 --> 00:20:51,210 rest. 360 00:20:51,910 --> 00:20:53,930 No, you have to take sides. 361 00:20:54,430 --> 00:20:58,070 Salvation is either all of the Lord, or 362 00:20:58,070 --> 00:21:00,910 it's just part of him, and that's an 363 00:21:00,910 --> 00:21:01,290 issue. 364 00:21:05,290 --> 00:21:06,710 I don't want to stay here till midnight, 365 00:21:07,050 --> 00:21:08,790 so I'll just mention these tonight. 366 00:21:12,230 --> 00:21:18,170 167 times in the New Testament, the words 367 00:21:18,170 --> 00:21:21,550 K-A-L-E-O are its equivalent. 368 00:21:22,430 --> 00:21:23,930 It means call. 369 00:21:26,130 --> 00:21:28,250 167 times in the New Testament. 370 00:21:30,820 --> 00:21:32,140 I've been going up and down the land 371 00:21:32,140 --> 00:21:34,500 a while, subject to pastors. 372 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:35,980 You're looking at a miracle. 373 00:21:35,980 --> 00:21:39,540 And in the name of heaven, I've stayed 374 00:21:39,540 --> 00:21:40,300 in the ministry. 375 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:41,800 Beats me. 376 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:43,580 Beats me. 377 00:21:44,780 --> 00:21:48,740 And I've tried to preach that men are 378 00:21:48,740 --> 00:21:53,140 saved when God calls them and they're able 379 00:21:53,140 --> 00:21:53,740 to hear it. 380 00:21:54,820 --> 00:22:00,220 I've tried to preach that to a church 381 00:22:00,220 --> 00:22:07,200 world that is still absolutely ignoring the fact 382 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:11,980 that salvation 167 times in the New Testament 383 00:22:11,980 --> 00:22:15,340 is at the end of God's call. 384 00:22:15,460 --> 00:22:18,040 How on earth we could have built all 385 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,020 our mission program and our big churches and 386 00:22:21,020 --> 00:22:24,960 all our denomination and leave out the fact 387 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:29,220 that men are dead in their spiritual graves 388 00:22:29,220 --> 00:22:32,580 and there's only one voice that's got authority 389 00:22:32,580 --> 00:22:35,460 to speak and give dead men life. 390 00:22:35,460 --> 00:22:38,180 But the whole outfit is built on it. 391 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:43,380 God didn't put one word in the New 392 00:22:43,380 --> 00:22:46,740 Testament 167 times to be written off. 393 00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:53,040 Men are still saved virtually by hearing in 394 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,600 the gospel as the Holy Ghost makes it 395 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:56,160 effective. 396 00:22:56,660 --> 00:22:59,960 A voice that has any authority to give 397 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:01,040 life to dead men. 398 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:02,760 That's the only way anybody ever did get 399 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:03,060 saved. 400 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:06,940 The other day down in Houston a young 401 00:23:06,940 --> 00:23:09,860 lady broke up the service and she came 402 00:23:09,860 --> 00:23:11,680 running down the front and said, I heard 403 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:11,920 it. 404 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,240 Why sure she heard it. 405 00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:20,280 She heard through my voice. 406 00:23:21,260 --> 00:23:23,720 She heard his voice. 407 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,620 And life was made alive by the Holy 408 00:23:27,620 --> 00:23:29,460 Ghost and she heard him speak. 409 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,780 Not with easy ears, but with an ear 410 00:23:32,780 --> 00:23:35,400 of faith, just as plainly as he said 411 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:36,440 last was come forth. 412 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:37,400 That girl heard him. 413 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:38,680 That's the way people say. 414 00:23:39,780 --> 00:23:42,360 Salvation is God saving dead men. 415 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:47,340 And he saves men by the word as 416 00:23:47,340 --> 00:23:50,480 he does everything else and men hear and 417 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:50,880 are saved. 418 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,900 The third issue that we face is that 419 00:23:55,900 --> 00:23:57,960 salvation is a gift, not an offer. 420 00:23:58,930 --> 00:24:03,440 The old Puritans used to use the expression, 421 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,400 Christ is freely offered in the gospel, which 422 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:07,900 is so. 423 00:24:08,700 --> 00:24:09,860 But it's meaningless. 424 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:15,920 It's the same proposition as the scripture, whosoever 425 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:17,960 will may come. 426 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:19,780 The scripture does not say that. 427 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,520 But it is so. 428 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,320 That whosoever will may come. 429 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,580 But that's meaningless because nobody will. 430 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:30,720 Nobody will. 431 00:24:31,300 --> 00:24:33,740 Somebody says, I believe whosoever will may come. 432 00:24:34,300 --> 00:24:35,100 I do too. 433 00:24:35,300 --> 00:24:36,400 But nobody will. 434 00:24:36,540 --> 00:24:38,000 So why fuss about it? 435 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:39,620 Why fuss about it? 436 00:24:40,740 --> 00:24:44,220 They tell me, well, I believe Christ is 437 00:24:44,220 --> 00:24:46,460 freely offered in the gospel. 438 00:24:46,740 --> 00:24:47,540 I do too. 439 00:24:47,900 --> 00:24:49,200 But nobody's interested. 440 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:51,060 So why fuss about it? 441 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:55,320 But, oh, it's a little deeper than that. 442 00:24:56,420 --> 00:24:59,800 Salvation is not an offer for men to 443 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:01,160 decide what they will do about. 444 00:25:01,780 --> 00:25:03,020 Salvation is a gift. 445 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:05,420 And you better listen to me. 446 00:25:06,140 --> 00:25:09,820 You don't turn down a gift because nobody 447 00:25:09,820 --> 00:25:13,780 ever offers a gift to anybody until that 448 00:25:13,780 --> 00:25:15,240 debt is sure to be appreciated. 449 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:17,120 You better get that. 450 00:25:18,140 --> 00:25:18,940 That's right. 451 00:25:18,940 --> 00:25:21,160 This is back on this same issue. 452 00:25:22,180 --> 00:25:22,420 Sure. 453 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,080 My Lord Jesus was dealing with a woman, 454 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:25,900 a Samaritan. 455 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,160 And he said unto her, If thou knewest 456 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:29,720 the what? 457 00:25:30,340 --> 00:25:32,400 The gift of God. 458 00:25:32,820 --> 00:25:35,760 That brings us back to the same thing. 459 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,480 The heart has to be prepared or the 460 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,620 gift will not be offered. 461 00:25:44,860 --> 00:25:49,500 My Lord, he didn't put himself up for 462 00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:49,940 barter. 463 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,380 The most damnable thing that's perverted the gospel 464 00:25:54,380 --> 00:25:56,940 of Christ all the days of our years 465 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,860 has been this stuff about you dear people, 466 00:26:01,020 --> 00:26:04,060 you make up your mind what you'll do 467 00:26:04,060 --> 00:26:04,980 with Christ. 468 00:26:05,060 --> 00:26:08,920 It's not given you to make that disposition 469 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:09,680 of Christ. 470 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,960 You're commanded to repent toward God. 471 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,840 You're commanded to believe the gospel, but you're 472 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:16,080 never given a choice. 473 00:26:16,620 --> 00:26:18,180 You're just faced with a duty. 474 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:19,260 Isn't that right? 475 00:26:19,940 --> 00:26:20,760 Listen to me. 476 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:22,460 Listen to me. 477 00:26:23,380 --> 00:26:25,560 I've had a little burden in my heart 478 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:27,780 for my heart, for yours, and people that 479 00:26:27,780 --> 00:26:29,040 go to all over America. 480 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,500 If there's anybody on God's top side of 481 00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:36,160 God's earth that ought to have tender hearts, 482 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,100 ought to be able to weep in here. 483 00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:44,680 It's men and women who've received the gift. 484 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,100 You've received the gift. 485 00:26:51,180 --> 00:26:56,650 If God Almighty would give you Christ, surely 486 00:26:56,650 --> 00:26:59,510 no sinner on God's earth could be as 487 00:26:59,510 --> 00:27:00,250 bad as you. 488 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,220 I wish I could wrap up everybody in 489 00:27:05,220 --> 00:27:07,400 America that claims to believe in the grace 490 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,570 of God that's lost joy. 491 00:27:12,610 --> 00:27:19,660 That still isn't an amazement for the unspeakable 492 00:27:19,660 --> 00:27:20,140 gift. 493 00:27:22,130 --> 00:27:27,960 He gives it to prepared hearts, to prepared 494 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:42,040 hearts, to prepared hearts, shackled 495 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:55,200 with a load of guilt, burdened, clear 496 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:56,420 up to the hilt. 497 00:27:59,270 --> 00:28:01,270 But he touched me. 498 00:28:04,410 --> 00:28:06,470 Oh, he touched me. 499 00:28:09,780 --> 00:28:13,140 And oh, the joy that filled my soul. 500 00:28:14,380 --> 00:28:15,500 Something happened. 501 00:28:20,980 --> 00:28:25,720 He touched me and made me whole. 502 00:28:27,740 --> 00:28:30,100 Salvation is an offer to be considered. 503 00:28:32,670 --> 00:28:36,110 Salvation is God's gift to man. 504 00:28:39,260 --> 00:28:42,600 Thanks be unto God, would the apostle Paul 505 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:47,860 say, for the unspeakable gift. 506 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,900 A Bible scholar told me that that Greek 507 00:28:51,900 --> 00:28:59,240 word was never, if translated, thanks be unto 508 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,000 God for his untraceable gift. 509 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,020 You just can't figure it out. 510 00:29:06,020 --> 00:29:08,560 But it just goes back to the heart 511 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:09,980 of God. 512 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:12,800 Thanks be unto God. 513 00:29:15,580 --> 00:29:18,700 That he fixed it so we could consider 514 00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:21,480 the matter and use our little brains and 515 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:22,240 our will. 516 00:29:23,460 --> 00:29:27,140 But in it all, cocker and graze, he 517 00:29:27,140 --> 00:29:31,400 gives eternal life to men and women. 518 00:29:31,620 --> 00:29:32,900 Salvation is a gift. 519 00:29:34,900 --> 00:29:35,840 It's not an offer. 520 00:29:37,350 --> 00:29:40,150 And then, of course, the fourth issue is 521 00:29:40,150 --> 00:29:44,510 that salvation comes by revelation, not by decision. 522 00:29:45,770 --> 00:29:47,510 Oh, we've had some scripture. 523 00:29:50,390 --> 00:29:54,630 Mr. Spurgeon used to say, surely you must 524 00:29:54,630 --> 00:30:01,430 decide for Jesus Christ, but for a revealed 525 00:30:01,430 --> 00:30:02,190 Christ. 526 00:30:04,660 --> 00:30:06,260 A revealed Christ. 527 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,300 A young preacher in Winston-Salem came to 528 00:30:10,300 --> 00:30:12,940 see me last fall, the time I was 529 00:30:12,940 --> 00:30:13,340 home. 530 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:15,320 He and his wife liked to come over 531 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:16,180 and talk with me. 532 00:30:17,020 --> 00:30:18,540 He said, Brother Monash, I wish I could 533 00:30:18,540 --> 00:30:19,660 have you in my church. 534 00:30:19,860 --> 00:30:20,440 I said, okay. 535 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:25,540 He said, the first time you told my 536 00:30:25,540 --> 00:30:31,400 crowd that unless God went to miracle in 537 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,440 their lives, they were going to split hill 538 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:33,940 wide open. 539 00:30:34,020 --> 00:30:35,640 I said, that would scare my people to 540 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:35,880 death. 541 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:37,920 I said, isn't that so? 542 00:30:38,940 --> 00:30:40,000 He said, yeah. 543 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,040 Well, he said, my people never heard it. 544 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:44,460 I said, what do you preach? 545 00:30:45,420 --> 00:30:46,940 Of course, I knew what he preached. 546 00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:51,400 He preached that a man gets saved when 547 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,560 he decides to believe on Jesus, whom he 548 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,520 knows nothing about. 549 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,900 And a man's a fool to trust a 550 00:31:00,900 --> 00:31:01,820 hole in the wall. 551 00:31:03,180 --> 00:31:05,200 Oh, yes! 552 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:07,680 Salvation comes! 553 00:31:08,380 --> 00:31:11,320 Not for a father making up his mind. 554 00:31:11,900 --> 00:31:14,420 But by the work of the Spirit of 555 00:31:14,420 --> 00:31:17,900 God, making Jesus Christ, who is alive, real 556 00:31:17,900 --> 00:31:19,000 to a man. 557 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,720 So that if everybody in the world got 558 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,200 shot before sunrise, and you were the only 559 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,500 one left, and somebody asked you if Christ 560 00:31:28,500 --> 00:31:31,100 is alive, you'd say, yes, sir. 561 00:31:32,500 --> 00:31:33,220 Yes, sir. 562 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:35,200 Yes, sir. 563 00:31:35,820 --> 00:31:36,560 I met him. 564 00:31:37,420 --> 00:31:38,540 I walk with him. 565 00:31:39,300 --> 00:31:40,620 He's real to me. 566 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,680 Salvation comes by God working a miracle. 567 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,980 Wouldn't it be wonderful if in our day, 568 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,100 I didn't have to jump out of my 569 00:31:55,100 --> 00:31:59,000 skin, if the gospel that preaches that faith 570 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:05,500 is Christ made real inside would be returned 571 00:32:05,500 --> 00:32:06,360 to America. 572 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:08,420 I claim to be a Christian. 573 00:32:11,050 --> 00:32:14,330 I believe God saved me. 574 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,160 I've got five brothers and sisters still living. 575 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,080 They're all prominent church workers. 576 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,740 Only one of them would be comfortable if 577 00:32:26,740 --> 00:32:28,180 he talked about Christ. 578 00:32:30,260 --> 00:32:33,280 They're Sunday school teachers and deacons and this, 579 00:32:33,380 --> 00:32:33,860 that, and the other. 580 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,400 They don't know a thing on God's earth 581 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:38,820 about a living Lord. 582 00:32:39,980 --> 00:32:41,520 I never get to see them. 583 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,060 They are part of this generation. 584 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,580 They've made their decisions, and they're doing their 585 00:32:46,580 --> 00:32:49,100 best to keep out of jail and get 586 00:32:49,100 --> 00:32:50,360 to heaven when they die. 587 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,220 And I long for them to be shut 588 00:32:54,220 --> 00:32:59,600 up in their Sunday schools and in their 589 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,220 pulpits and over the radio. 590 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:07,240 They'll never be shut up to the fact 591 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:11,180 that you can't get saved without getting in 592 00:33:11,180 --> 00:33:14,560 touch by faith with a living Lord who 593 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:15,020 died. 594 00:33:16,980 --> 00:33:21,880 Salvation comes by revelation and not by decision. 595 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:29,360 The fifth issue that we still face, and 596 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,920 put in words like this, salvation is made 597 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,520 effective in a man's life by God bringing 598 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:39,580 a man to repentance and faith, or if 599 00:33:39,580 --> 00:33:44,260 men themselves will repent and believe. 600 00:33:44,260 --> 00:33:47,460 Somebody says, well, I believe that God saved 601 00:33:47,460 --> 00:33:48,080 anybody. 602 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:52,640 If a man repents toward God and believes 603 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,660 in Jesus Christ, so do I. 604 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,420 But ain't nobody going to do it, so 605 00:33:57,420 --> 00:33:58,480 why fuss about it? 606 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,120 If that's all there is to it, the 607 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:02,720 whole outfit will go to hell. 608 00:34:03,860 --> 00:34:06,720 But thank God the scriptures teach much more 609 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:07,199 than that. 610 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,900 They teach that God Almighty has sent a 611 00:34:11,900 --> 00:34:15,340 man, the man Christ Jesus, with the print 612 00:34:15,340 --> 00:34:18,280 of the nails in his hands and the 613 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,300 print of the crown of thorns on his 614 00:34:20,300 --> 00:34:20,780 head. 615 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,340 And he's sitting on a throne, and he's 616 00:34:23,340 --> 00:34:25,880 put him there and given him one task, 617 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:30,440 among others, to grant repentance and forgiveness of 618 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:30,739 sin. 619 00:34:32,580 --> 00:34:34,000 Oh, bless God. 620 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,199 That's a white horse of a different color. 621 00:34:37,219 --> 00:34:38,900 I shut men up the best I know 622 00:34:38,900 --> 00:34:40,040 how all over the country. 623 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,139 And I say, sinner, why don't you repent? 624 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:45,580 Best way for you to find out is 625 00:34:45,580 --> 00:34:46,920 you can't start trying. 626 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,719 Just start trying to abhor yourself. 627 00:34:50,900 --> 00:34:52,840 You can quit chewing tobacco or cussing out 628 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,300 the mule, but you can't do a great 629 00:34:55,300 --> 00:34:56,580 deal about what's inside. 630 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,200 Go on, sinner, believe these preachers and make 631 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,240 up your mind what you're going to do, 632 00:35:03,340 --> 00:35:05,640 and you'll find out it won't work. 633 00:35:06,580 --> 00:35:07,840 It won't work. 634 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:09,440 But thank God we've got good news. 635 00:35:10,300 --> 00:35:13,320 On the cross, the Lord Jesus Christ bought 636 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,980 the right to give repentance and faith, and 637 00:35:15,980 --> 00:35:17,960 he's in that business, praise God. 638 00:35:19,860 --> 00:35:21,400 We've got hope there. 639 00:35:22,540 --> 00:35:23,560 We've got hope there. 640 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,120 The sixth issue. 641 00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:36,050 Moffat translates Romans 11.29, God never 642 00:35:36,050 --> 00:35:39,990 goes back on his call. 643 00:35:42,370 --> 00:35:48,130 The King James says, The gifts and callings 644 00:35:48,130 --> 00:35:51,490 of God are without repentance. 645 00:35:51,790 --> 00:35:52,570 That's pretty good. 646 00:35:52,630 --> 00:35:54,230 I like Moffat's translation. 647 00:35:54,230 --> 00:36:00,980 God never goes back on his call. 648 00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:05,720 He never does say I want to swap 649 00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:06,180 back. 650 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,660 There are good and evil, several things wrapped 651 00:36:09,660 --> 00:36:10,520 up in this. 652 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,100 And I just mention them, and I'll quit. 653 00:36:15,580 --> 00:36:20,580 Believers are going to persevere in holiness, because 654 00:36:20,580 --> 00:36:22,580 that's what they were chosen for. 655 00:36:22,580 --> 00:36:26,060 They were chosen in him that they might 656 00:36:26,060 --> 00:36:26,600 be holy. 657 00:36:27,860 --> 00:36:28,980 It's settled. 658 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:34,120 But they must persevere in holiness. 659 00:36:42,190 --> 00:36:44,910 Believers are going to be conformed to the 660 00:36:44,910 --> 00:36:46,030 image of Christ. 661 00:36:46,590 --> 00:36:47,410 But listen to me. 662 00:36:48,670 --> 00:36:54,690 They must be conformed to the image of 663 00:36:54,690 --> 00:36:54,930 Christ. 664 00:37:00,300 --> 00:37:03,540 I've studied the Puritans, and I've studied John 665 00:37:03,540 --> 00:37:04,080 Calvin. 666 00:37:04,340 --> 00:37:07,700 I've studied everybody I could find a month 667 00:37:07,700 --> 00:37:09,480 to buy books or borrow from. 668 00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,580 I differ with the Puritans. 669 00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:14,900 I differ with Brother Calvin. 670 00:37:17,220 --> 00:37:19,440 I believe the warnings in the book of 671 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:24,060 Hebrews are not the people who almost got 672 00:37:24,060 --> 00:37:25,140 saved, but did. 673 00:37:26,710 --> 00:37:29,290 I wish I could believe that when he 674 00:37:29,290 --> 00:37:32,730 talks about people who have tasted and been 675 00:37:32,730 --> 00:37:38,950 illuminated, tasted the power, folks that almost got 676 00:37:38,950 --> 00:37:40,750 saved, but I believe they got saved. 677 00:37:41,530 --> 00:37:42,730 You want to throw me out? 678 00:37:43,550 --> 00:37:48,950 I believe that New Testament salvation calls for 679 00:37:48,950 --> 00:37:54,150 you to spit on your hands and roll 680 00:37:54,150 --> 00:37:58,530 up your sleeves and see to it that 681 00:37:58,530 --> 00:38:02,470 these terrible warnings never take place in your 682 00:38:02,470 --> 00:38:03,030 life. 683 00:38:03,250 --> 00:38:03,970 That's what I believe. 684 00:38:04,990 --> 00:38:07,110 You can ask me some questions about that 685 00:38:07,110 --> 00:38:07,970 I can't answer. 686 00:38:09,230 --> 00:38:11,430 You say, Brother Barnett, you're going to tear 687 00:38:11,430 --> 00:38:13,810 up our whole Baptist doctrine about the eternal 688 00:38:13,810 --> 00:38:14,810 security of the believer? 689 00:38:14,990 --> 00:38:16,730 I don't know what to do about it. 690 00:38:17,430 --> 00:38:18,830 But I'm going to look you in the 691 00:38:18,830 --> 00:38:22,130 face and tell you now that the scriptures 692 00:38:22,130 --> 00:38:26,130 talk about crucifying afresh the Son of God, 693 00:38:26,210 --> 00:38:27,910 and it's talking to God's people. 694 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,900 It talks about putting him to open shame, 695 00:38:33,140 --> 00:38:35,220 and it's talking to saved people. 696 00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:39,360 I used an expression one time, the light 697 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:40,000 shot me. 698 00:38:40,060 --> 00:38:43,080 I believe that hell is hot on your 699 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:44,040 trail tonight. 700 00:38:45,500 --> 00:38:48,520 I believe the devil will get you if 701 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:49,200 he can. 702 00:38:50,260 --> 00:38:55,040 I believe that God's people better quit getting 703 00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,560 the doctrine out of books, and they'd better 704 00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,620 face the fact that salvation is something you 705 00:39:00,620 --> 00:39:02,040 put in a tin can. 706 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,540 It's a daily relationship. 707 00:39:06,300 --> 00:39:08,900 And if there ever was a generation of 708 00:39:08,900 --> 00:39:12,260 church people this side of hell, it needs 709 00:39:12,260 --> 00:39:14,820 to be shocked out of this damnable, carnal 710 00:39:14,820 --> 00:39:18,440 idea that this conservative believer live like hell 711 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:20,000 and go to heaven when you die. 712 00:39:20,140 --> 00:39:20,580 No, no. 713 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:27,080 Our forefathers thought they needed what they called 714 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:28,480 the means of grace. 715 00:39:30,350 --> 00:39:33,490 There is a cocksureness today that's going to 716 00:39:33,490 --> 00:39:35,490 fill hell full of church members if we 717 00:39:35,490 --> 00:39:36,290 don't watch out. 718 00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,600 I don't know how to handle those passages. 719 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,800 They just scare the living daylights out of 720 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:43,040 me. 721 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,980 If we sin willfully. 722 00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:48,960 That's talking to Christian people, folks. 723 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:55,300 How shall we escape if we treat like 724 00:39:55,300 --> 00:39:57,200 this so great salvation? 725 00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:58,860 That's talking to Christian people. 726 00:40:01,130 --> 00:40:03,910 You say, Brother Barnard, you're trying to scare 727 00:40:03,910 --> 00:40:05,070 us into doing right. 728 00:40:05,210 --> 00:40:07,290 The book of Hebrews will if you read 729 00:40:07,290 --> 00:40:07,590 it. 730 00:40:08,410 --> 00:40:09,810 It dead sure will. 731 00:40:11,270 --> 00:40:16,530 Ah, it's impossible to renew them to repentance. 732 00:40:18,190 --> 00:40:20,090 That scares me. 733 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:23,420 That scares me. 734 00:40:25,580 --> 00:40:28,420 But the gifts and callings of God are 735 00:40:28,420 --> 00:40:29,520 without repentance. 736 00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:34,100 God never goes back on his call. 737 00:40:34,740 --> 00:40:39,560 Therefore, brethren, beloved, we've persuaded better things for 738 00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:43,460 you and things that accompany salvation. 739 00:40:45,020 --> 00:40:47,920 And I close with this description of the 740 00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,440 God-man-with-side of salvation. 741 00:40:51,820 --> 00:40:56,340 The Lord knoweth them who put their trust 742 00:40:56,340 --> 00:41:00,400 in him and let every one that nameth 743 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:06,380 the name of the Lord depart from iniquity. 744 00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,160 Run from it. 745 00:41:11,350 --> 00:41:12,590 Run from it. 746 00:41:15,230 --> 00:41:24,430 The child of God will be conformed to 747 00:41:24,430 --> 00:41:25,950 the image of Christ. 748 00:41:28,370 --> 00:41:32,800 But he must be put on the whole 749 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:33,780 arm of God. 750 00:41:34,060 --> 00:41:34,580 Dig in. 751 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:37,920 Dig in. 752 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,560 These choruses made me homesick. 753 00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:43,280 I love them. 754 00:41:43,980 --> 00:41:44,820 I love you people. 755 00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:48,020 Do your best. 756 00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:49,900 Let's practice auditorily enough. 757 00:41:49,900 --> 00:41:51,740 Let's have a good time in the Lord, 758 00:41:51,820 --> 00:41:52,040 will you?