1 00:00:00,330 --> 00:00:03,470 When I read my Bible and examine what 2 00:00:03,470 --> 00:00:06,870 the Apostle Paul preached and compare that to 3 00:00:06,870 --> 00:00:08,950 what is preached in the majority of our 4 00:00:08,950 --> 00:00:12,270 churches in America today, I see little similarity. 5 00:00:13,050 --> 00:00:15,309 And if old Paul was to show up 6 00:00:15,309 --> 00:00:18,450 today and enter a pulpit and preach the 7 00:00:18,450 --> 00:00:21,570 message that he preached in his day, he 8 00:00:21,570 --> 00:00:24,350 would be quickly escorted out of the church 9 00:00:24,350 --> 00:00:26,010 by the good deacons. 10 00:00:26,010 --> 00:00:29,310 I submit to you that the Apostle Paul 11 00:00:29,310 --> 00:00:31,810 would not be allowed to preach in the 12 00:00:31,810 --> 00:00:34,630 majority of the churches in America today, and 13 00:00:34,630 --> 00:00:37,550 not only that, he would be persecuted by 14 00:00:37,550 --> 00:00:40,590 the church for preaching the message that he 15 00:00:40,590 --> 00:00:42,090 preached in his day. 16 00:00:42,610 --> 00:00:44,690 Some of you may be saying to yourself, 17 00:00:44,890 --> 00:00:47,430 how can you come to that conclusion, preacher? 18 00:00:47,930 --> 00:00:49,510 That's a pretty bold statement. 19 00:00:50,030 --> 00:00:51,070 It's true, friends. 20 00:00:51,350 --> 00:00:54,150 If old Paul came back today to the 21 00:00:54,150 --> 00:00:57,650 church in America, they would persecute him and 22 00:00:57,650 --> 00:00:58,970 reject his message. 23 00:00:59,390 --> 00:01:01,730 Well, you might ask, what in the world 24 00:01:01,730 --> 00:01:04,209 did Paul preach that would make him an 25 00:01:04,209 --> 00:01:05,730 enemy of the church today? 26 00:01:06,150 --> 00:01:08,810 I will tell you, friend, he preached the 27 00:01:08,810 --> 00:01:12,190 unvarnished gospel of the Son of God, and 28 00:01:12,190 --> 00:01:15,330 you start preaching that gospel to this generation, 29 00:01:15,870 --> 00:01:18,410 to the churches in America today, and they 30 00:01:18,410 --> 00:01:20,270 will surely hate you for it. 31 00:01:20,270 --> 00:01:23,590 You will be considered a troublemaker, a church 32 00:01:23,590 --> 00:01:25,710 divider, and a heretic. 33 00:01:26,910 --> 00:01:28,770 Well, what did old Paul preach? 34 00:01:28,990 --> 00:01:31,650 The best place to look is in our 35 00:01:31,650 --> 00:01:32,170 Bible. 36 00:01:32,570 --> 00:01:35,550 Let us first turn to 2 Corinthians chapter 37 00:01:35,550 --> 00:01:40,330 4 and verse 5, for we preach not 38 00:01:40,330 --> 00:01:43,630 ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord. 39 00:01:44,330 --> 00:01:47,550 Let's start there, because that is where Paul 40 00:01:47,550 --> 00:01:48,110 began. 41 00:01:48,110 --> 00:01:52,310 The apostles preached a risen Lord, Christ Jesus 42 00:01:52,310 --> 00:01:55,310 the Lord, Christ on a throne, sitting at 43 00:01:55,310 --> 00:01:57,430 the right hand of the Father, and he 44 00:01:57,430 --> 00:02:00,030 earned that right by way of a bloody 45 00:02:00,030 --> 00:02:02,190 cross, Jesus is Lord. 46 00:02:02,530 --> 00:02:04,530 If you want to come to Him savingly, 47 00:02:04,650 --> 00:02:06,650 you have to come to Him there, friend, 48 00:02:07,009 --> 00:02:09,470 to where He is, on a throne. 49 00:02:09,810 --> 00:02:11,870 He reigns there, and if you want to 50 00:02:11,870 --> 00:02:14,410 be savingly converted, you had better listen to 51 00:02:14,410 --> 00:02:17,230 old Paul and receive Christ as Lord. 52 00:02:17,230 --> 00:02:21,230 You see, friends, the church in America parted 53 00:02:21,230 --> 00:02:24,170 with the gospel about 50 years ago when 54 00:02:24,170 --> 00:02:26,350 they separated Jesus from Lord. 55 00:02:26,670 --> 00:02:28,730 They made two things out of one. 56 00:02:29,150 --> 00:02:32,210 The church in your day and mine declares 57 00:02:32,210 --> 00:02:34,970 you can have Christ as a Savior and 58 00:02:34,970 --> 00:02:37,090 go to heaven, but you don't have to 59 00:02:37,090 --> 00:02:39,110 submit to His claims on your life as 60 00:02:39,110 --> 00:02:39,710 Lord. 61 00:02:39,910 --> 00:02:42,750 You can accept Jesus as your personal Savior 62 00:02:42,750 --> 00:02:45,390 and go on in your sins and reign 63 00:02:45,390 --> 00:02:47,350 on the throne of your heart and go 64 00:02:47,350 --> 00:02:48,650 to heaven just fine. 65 00:02:48,950 --> 00:02:52,110 That's the gospel of our day, but not 66 00:02:52,110 --> 00:02:53,150 in Paul's day. 67 00:02:53,590 --> 00:02:56,950 No, sir, Paul preached Jesus the Lord, and 68 00:02:56,950 --> 00:02:59,290 if you wanted Him, you had to approach 69 00:02:59,290 --> 00:03:01,950 Him there and bow to Him in utter 70 00:03:01,950 --> 00:03:04,490 surrender, because if you don't bow to Him 71 00:03:04,490 --> 00:03:06,850 now, friend, He will put His foot on 72 00:03:06,850 --> 00:03:09,730 your neck at a future day and make 73 00:03:09,730 --> 00:03:12,130 you bow then when He makes His enemies 74 00:03:12,130 --> 00:03:16,830 His footstool, because any person, any church member 75 00:03:16,830 --> 00:03:20,730 or non-church member who has not submitted 76 00:03:20,730 --> 00:03:23,310 to the Lordship of Christ, that salvation is 77 00:03:23,310 --> 00:03:23,950 lost. 78 00:03:24,350 --> 00:03:27,170 Now you start preaching that, friend, and the 79 00:03:27,170 --> 00:03:28,810 good deacons will wring your neck. 80 00:03:29,090 --> 00:03:31,190 They'll take the shoes off and throw them 81 00:03:31,190 --> 00:03:34,610 at you, because the church in America has 82 00:03:34,610 --> 00:03:37,410 told people you can have Jesus as a 83 00:03:37,410 --> 00:03:39,570 Savior, but you don't need Him as a 84 00:03:39,570 --> 00:03:43,670 Lord, and thousands upon thousands and millions upon 85 00:03:43,670 --> 00:03:46,810 millions have walked an aisle with a grin 86 00:03:46,810 --> 00:03:49,670 on their face and accepted Jesus as their 87 00:03:49,670 --> 00:03:52,770 personal Savior, and they never saw themselves as 88 00:03:52,770 --> 00:03:55,810 lost in a ruined estate and an enemy 89 00:03:55,810 --> 00:03:56,410 of God. 90 00:03:56,670 --> 00:03:59,270 They never threw down their shotgun of rebellion 91 00:03:59,270 --> 00:04:02,190 and surrendered to the King of Kings, who 92 00:04:02,190 --> 00:04:02,890 was Lord. 93 00:04:03,250 --> 00:04:06,030 They were never convicted of their sins, nor 94 00:04:06,030 --> 00:04:09,130 were they converted, because they never repented from 95 00:04:09,130 --> 00:04:09,790 their sins. 96 00:04:09,790 --> 00:04:12,110 They were never filled with the Holy Spirit, 97 00:04:12,610 --> 00:04:15,329 and they call themselves Christians, and they run 98 00:04:15,329 --> 00:04:19,029 our churches and seminaries and denominations. 99 00:04:20,230 --> 00:04:23,390 And if old Paul came back today and 100 00:04:23,390 --> 00:04:27,450 addressed the national convention for a major denomination, 101 00:04:27,990 --> 00:04:30,430 and if he dared preach the message that 102 00:04:30,430 --> 00:04:32,230 he preached while he was here in the 103 00:04:32,230 --> 00:04:34,750 flesh, he would not last long at the 104 00:04:34,750 --> 00:04:38,390 podium, because the heads of that denomination would 105 00:04:38,390 --> 00:04:39,990 be shouting for his head. 106 00:04:40,610 --> 00:04:43,290 The apostle Paul preached the Lordship of Jesus 107 00:04:43,290 --> 00:04:46,290 Christ, a risen Lord, who sits on a 108 00:04:46,290 --> 00:04:49,090 throne, and if you want Him savingly, you 109 00:04:49,090 --> 00:04:51,150 have to do business with Him there. 110 00:04:51,790 --> 00:04:53,390 Is that too hard for you? 111 00:04:53,850 --> 00:04:55,010 Can't swaddle that? 112 00:04:55,370 --> 00:04:57,550 Well, take it up with old Paul and 113 00:04:57,550 --> 00:04:58,470 the old book. 114 00:04:59,010 --> 00:05:01,710 The next thing Paul preached is found in 115 00:05:01,710 --> 00:05:05,150 Ephesians chapter 2 and verses 1 through 4, 116 00:05:05,310 --> 00:05:07,290 and this will really make you mad. 117 00:05:08,510 --> 00:05:12,350 And you hath he quickened who were dead 118 00:05:12,350 --> 00:05:16,470 in trespasses and sins, wherein in time past 119 00:05:16,470 --> 00:05:19,770 ye walked according to the course of this 120 00:05:19,770 --> 00:05:23,050 world, according to the prince of the power 121 00:05:23,050 --> 00:05:26,010 of the air, the spirit that now worketh 122 00:05:26,010 --> 00:05:30,250 in the children of disobedience, among whom also 123 00:05:30,250 --> 00:05:34,890 we all had our conversation in times past 124 00:05:34,890 --> 00:05:37,930 in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the 125 00:05:37,930 --> 00:05:40,670 desires of the flesh and of the mind, 126 00:05:41,070 --> 00:05:44,130 and were by nature the children of wrath, 127 00:05:44,490 --> 00:05:45,670 even as others. 128 00:05:46,570 --> 00:05:49,810 Now Paul mentions several things here that are 129 00:05:49,810 --> 00:05:52,690 foreign to many in our churches today. 130 00:05:53,110 --> 00:05:55,710 They've not heard this message because it's not 131 00:05:55,710 --> 00:05:56,690 preached much. 132 00:05:56,690 --> 00:06:01,970 Many sermons grab their texts from unoffensive passages 133 00:06:01,970 --> 00:06:04,970 of Scripture, and men preach those up because 134 00:06:04,970 --> 00:06:06,690 they won't offend anybody. 135 00:06:07,050 --> 00:06:09,690 After all, you can't upset your congregation. 136 00:06:10,310 --> 00:06:12,810 If you do, you won't have a congregation. 137 00:06:13,530 --> 00:06:15,850 We live in a day of the positive, 138 00:06:16,170 --> 00:06:19,590 encouraging Word and a positive, encouraging God. 139 00:06:19,910 --> 00:06:24,550 We have positive, encouraging Christian radio, positive, encouraging 140 00:06:24,550 --> 00:06:28,390 pastors, and so-called Christian bookstores that sell 141 00:06:28,390 --> 00:06:30,250 positive, encouraging books. 142 00:06:30,510 --> 00:06:32,910 That's the day we live in, friends, a 143 00:06:32,910 --> 00:06:37,410 positive, encouraging day when society's falling all apart 144 00:06:37,410 --> 00:06:40,070 all around us, and people drop into hell 145 00:06:40,070 --> 00:06:42,910 by the minute, and we preach nice little 146 00:06:42,910 --> 00:06:47,050 positive, encouraging sermons to soothe their little minds 147 00:06:47,050 --> 00:06:48,910 and calm their little hearts. 148 00:06:48,910 --> 00:06:52,190 And if old Paul came back today and 149 00:06:52,190 --> 00:06:55,850 preached that, that all mankind is dead in 150 00:06:55,850 --> 00:06:58,970 trespasses and sins, that they serve the devil 151 00:06:58,970 --> 00:07:01,570 because he is the prince of the power 152 00:07:01,570 --> 00:07:04,110 of the air, that because they are lost 153 00:07:04,110 --> 00:07:06,450 and ruined, they live in a kingdom of 154 00:07:06,450 --> 00:07:09,690 darkness, and they are the children of disobedience 155 00:07:09,690 --> 00:07:12,930 who live to fulfill the lusts and desires 156 00:07:12,930 --> 00:07:15,810 of their flesh, and they drink iniquity like 157 00:07:15,810 --> 00:07:19,170 it's water because they have a nature friend 158 00:07:19,170 --> 00:07:22,870 that is ruined, and they are the children 159 00:07:22,870 --> 00:07:23,710 of wrath. 160 00:07:24,170 --> 00:07:26,290 They are objects of God's wrath. 161 00:07:26,690 --> 00:07:28,590 Now, do you want to go preach that 162 00:07:28,590 --> 00:07:29,850 message, brother preacher? 163 00:07:30,290 --> 00:07:32,390 If you want to be like Paul, you 164 00:07:32,390 --> 00:07:34,890 can, but be willing to have his scars 165 00:07:34,890 --> 00:07:37,870 because he was mobbed and stoned and beaten 166 00:07:37,870 --> 00:07:40,430 and whipped and run out of town for 167 00:07:40,430 --> 00:07:43,210 the message he preached, which was Christ and 168 00:07:43,210 --> 00:07:44,030 him crucified. 169 00:07:45,010 --> 00:07:47,110 Well, let's look at the next thing old 170 00:07:47,110 --> 00:07:47,930 Paul preached. 171 00:07:48,450 --> 00:07:50,550 Turn over in your Bibles to the book 172 00:07:50,550 --> 00:07:54,590 of Acts, chapter 17, and verse 30. 173 00:07:55,830 --> 00:07:59,210 Paul was addressing the pagans in Athens, and 174 00:07:59,210 --> 00:08:01,870 if old Paul came back to pagan America 175 00:08:01,870 --> 00:08:05,070 today and addressed it, he would preach the 176 00:08:05,070 --> 00:08:07,750 same message to it that he preached to 177 00:08:07,750 --> 00:08:08,990 those pagan Greeks. 178 00:08:08,990 --> 00:08:12,530 This is what he preached to them, and 179 00:08:12,530 --> 00:08:15,430 in the times of this ignorance God winked 180 00:08:15,430 --> 00:08:20,210 at, but now commandeth all men everywhere to 181 00:08:20,210 --> 00:08:20,890 repent. 182 00:08:21,630 --> 00:08:25,030 Old Paul preached man's duty of repentance, that 183 00:08:25,030 --> 00:08:29,110 God commands all men, Greeks and Americans and 184 00:08:29,110 --> 00:08:33,450 Chinese and Russian and African and Indonesian and 185 00:08:33,450 --> 00:08:35,630 all men everywhere to repent. 186 00:08:35,630 --> 00:08:39,130 You start preaching man's duty of repentance today 187 00:08:39,130 --> 00:08:41,289 and you will have a mob at your 188 00:08:41,289 --> 00:08:41,789 door. 189 00:08:42,110 --> 00:08:45,390 They horse-whipped Mordecai Ham for preaching repentance. 190 00:08:45,810 --> 00:08:48,150 They pistol-whipped him in Texas for preaching 191 00:08:48,150 --> 00:08:51,750 repentance, but Mordecai Ham, although he had some 192 00:08:51,750 --> 00:08:54,830 scars on his body, he was like old 193 00:08:54,830 --> 00:08:55,310 Paul. 194 00:08:55,610 --> 00:08:58,630 Old Ham saw over 200,000 people come 195 00:08:58,630 --> 00:09:01,310 to Christ during his ministry, and one of 196 00:09:01,310 --> 00:09:04,550 them was Billy Graham, but we soft-soak 197 00:09:04,550 --> 00:09:07,570 the gospel today, and the problem is people 198 00:09:07,570 --> 00:09:10,870 join our churches and sit Sunday after Sunday 199 00:09:10,870 --> 00:09:13,710 and listen to our encouraging words for the 200 00:09:13,710 --> 00:09:16,330 day, and we are not honest with men 201 00:09:16,330 --> 00:09:19,710 and honest with women and honest with girls 202 00:09:19,710 --> 00:09:21,290 and honest with boys. 203 00:09:21,490 --> 00:09:23,910 We just don't warn them of the fact 204 00:09:23,910 --> 00:09:27,770 that Jesus declared, unless you repent, ye shall 205 00:09:27,770 --> 00:09:30,350 all likewise perish, and that means if you 206 00:09:30,350 --> 00:09:32,910 came into a church any other way than 207 00:09:32,910 --> 00:09:35,810 through repentance towards God and faith in Jesus 208 00:09:35,810 --> 00:09:38,650 Christ, you are a hell-bound sinner who 209 00:09:38,650 --> 00:09:40,970 needs to repent even if you are the 210 00:09:40,970 --> 00:09:42,210 chairman of the deacons. 211 00:09:42,930 --> 00:09:45,770 But if you preach on repentance, then you 212 00:09:45,770 --> 00:09:48,310 have to mention sin, and then you have 213 00:09:48,310 --> 00:09:50,710 to mention a place called hell, and then 214 00:09:50,710 --> 00:09:52,610 you have to talk about a holy God 215 00:09:52,610 --> 00:09:54,690 who hates sin and why that is just 216 00:09:54,690 --> 00:09:56,090 not politically correct. 217 00:09:56,410 --> 00:09:58,750 So the gospel of our day and the 218 00:09:58,750 --> 00:10:01,730 gospel of Paul's day are two different gospels, 219 00:10:01,910 --> 00:10:04,210 friend, and here is the difference. 220 00:10:04,550 --> 00:10:07,770 We don't see many true conversions today with 221 00:10:07,770 --> 00:10:12,590 our peanut, God-shrunk gospel, but Paul had 222 00:10:12,590 --> 00:10:16,030 his because the gospel he preached is found 223 00:10:16,030 --> 00:10:19,250 in Acts chapter 20 and verse 27, which 224 00:10:19,250 --> 00:10:23,610 states, For I have not shunned to declare 225 00:10:23,610 --> 00:10:27,070 unto you all the counsel of God. 226 00:10:27,610 --> 00:10:30,590 You see, friends, old Paul preached the gospel 227 00:10:30,590 --> 00:10:33,230 in its purity and proper order. 228 00:10:33,610 --> 00:10:35,950 He preached the full counsel of God. 229 00:10:36,290 --> 00:10:38,610 He didn't leave anything out to make it 230 00:10:38,610 --> 00:10:40,890 more palatable to sinful man. 231 00:10:41,190 --> 00:10:43,110 He was not ashamed of it like we 232 00:10:43,110 --> 00:10:43,790 are today. 233 00:10:44,090 --> 00:10:45,690 And we are so ashamed of it. 234 00:10:45,910 --> 00:10:47,670 We don't want to preach all of it. 235 00:10:47,670 --> 00:10:51,170 But the gospel Paul preached had something that 236 00:10:51,170 --> 00:10:53,610 today's modern gospel lacks. 237 00:10:54,130 --> 00:10:56,830 P-O-W-E-R. 238 00:10:57,170 --> 00:11:00,890 In Romans, Paul declares, For I am not 239 00:11:00,890 --> 00:11:04,530 ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it 240 00:11:04,530 --> 00:11:08,450 is the power of God unto salvation to 241 00:11:08,450 --> 00:11:12,090 everyone that believeth, to the Jew first and 242 00:11:12,090 --> 00:11:13,330 also to the Greek. 243 00:11:14,050 --> 00:11:17,490 But our gospel of today lacks power because 244 00:11:17,490 --> 00:11:20,450 we have diluted it of all its threatenings 245 00:11:20,450 --> 00:11:23,750 and terrors and warnings to sinful man. 246 00:11:24,090 --> 00:11:26,270 We don't want to warn sinners to flee 247 00:11:26,270 --> 00:11:28,150 from the wrath to come today. 248 00:11:28,350 --> 00:11:30,410 We just want to give them some encouraging 249 00:11:30,410 --> 00:11:34,210 word and smile and play church and sit 250 00:11:34,210 --> 00:11:37,350 back while society crumbles all around us and 251 00:11:37,350 --> 00:11:40,430 this nation turns its back on God and 252 00:11:40,430 --> 00:11:42,510 the churches are too afraid to preach the 253 00:11:42,510 --> 00:11:45,090 full counsel of God and be honest with 254 00:11:45,090 --> 00:11:48,470 man and tell them what they are, ruined, 255 00:11:48,950 --> 00:11:52,030 lost, rebels, enemies of God. 256 00:11:52,270 --> 00:11:54,970 We paint God all wrong, too, and say 257 00:11:54,970 --> 00:11:57,150 He's just a God of love, when in 258 00:11:57,150 --> 00:11:59,930 reality He is also a God of wrath 259 00:11:59,930 --> 00:12:03,230 and who declares God is angry with the 260 00:12:03,230 --> 00:12:04,730 wicked every day. 261 00:12:04,730 --> 00:12:07,630 If He turned not, He will wet His 262 00:12:07,630 --> 00:12:08,130 sword. 263 00:12:08,430 --> 00:12:11,050 He hath bent His bow and made it 264 00:12:11,050 --> 00:12:11,490 ready. 265 00:12:11,890 --> 00:12:14,670 We don't tell men that God is ready 266 00:12:14,670 --> 00:12:16,990 to cut them down any moment because of 267 00:12:16,990 --> 00:12:17,330 sin. 268 00:12:17,590 --> 00:12:20,070 That's the only prayer God ever hears of 269 00:12:20,070 --> 00:12:21,270 an unsaved person. 270 00:12:21,410 --> 00:12:24,450 And that's this, God be merciful to me, 271 00:12:24,510 --> 00:12:25,090 a sinner. 272 00:12:25,910 --> 00:12:28,650 No, the God of today is only a 273 00:12:28,650 --> 00:12:30,290 God of the encouraging word. 274 00:12:30,670 --> 00:12:32,590 Why, the God of today just wouldn't punish 275 00:12:32,590 --> 00:12:33,090 sin. 276 00:12:33,090 --> 00:12:35,090 He wouldn't send anybody to hell. 277 00:12:35,590 --> 00:12:36,950 But old Paul knew better. 278 00:12:37,290 --> 00:12:38,270 He warned men. 279 00:12:38,590 --> 00:12:40,190 He called a spade a spade. 280 00:12:40,510 --> 00:12:43,150 He didn't soft soak the gospel and shrink 281 00:12:43,150 --> 00:12:45,790 God down to man's level like many of 282 00:12:45,790 --> 00:12:47,010 us have done today. 283 00:12:48,550 --> 00:12:50,250 Well, what else did Paul preach? 284 00:12:50,530 --> 00:12:52,870 If you're not mad yet, you will be 285 00:12:52,870 --> 00:12:54,790 after you hear what he preached next. 286 00:12:55,070 --> 00:12:58,250 Turn to Ephesians chapter one and verses four 287 00:12:58,250 --> 00:12:58,990 and five. 288 00:13:00,570 --> 00:13:04,550 According as he hath chosen us in him 289 00:13:04,550 --> 00:13:08,350 before the foundation of the world, that we 290 00:13:08,350 --> 00:13:11,810 should be holy and without blame before him 291 00:13:11,810 --> 00:13:15,930 in love, having predestined us unto the adoption 292 00:13:15,930 --> 00:13:19,970 of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according 293 00:13:19,970 --> 00:13:22,590 to the good pleasure of his will. 294 00:13:23,210 --> 00:13:26,550 This speaks of election, that God is the 295 00:13:26,550 --> 00:13:29,210 God of salvation and not man. 296 00:13:29,530 --> 00:13:32,750 For by grace are you saved through faith 297 00:13:32,750 --> 00:13:34,590 and that not of yourselves. 298 00:13:34,970 --> 00:13:37,070 It is the gift of God, not of 299 00:13:37,070 --> 00:13:39,690 works, lest any man boast. 300 00:13:40,270 --> 00:13:42,790 Oh, Paul would surely be thrown out of 301 00:13:42,790 --> 00:13:45,470 many of our churches today for preaching that 302 00:13:45,470 --> 00:13:46,030 message. 303 00:13:46,030 --> 00:13:48,630 And if he kept it off by saying 304 00:13:48,630 --> 00:13:51,110 that we were saved to be holy, why 305 00:13:51,110 --> 00:13:52,930 that would drain the blood out of the 306 00:13:52,930 --> 00:13:54,070 good deacon's faces. 307 00:13:54,570 --> 00:13:58,170 You start saying that without holiness, no one 308 00:13:58,170 --> 00:14:00,930 shall see the Lord and they will scream. 309 00:14:01,190 --> 00:14:03,710 We will not have this man rule over 310 00:14:03,710 --> 00:14:04,170 us. 311 00:14:04,170 --> 00:14:06,110 And if you really want to make some 312 00:14:06,110 --> 00:14:09,490 church church folks mad, tell them that the 313 00:14:09,490 --> 00:14:12,930 Christian life is a crucified life where self 314 00:14:12,930 --> 00:14:15,870 is dethroned and another is enthroned there. 315 00:14:16,130 --> 00:14:19,030 Oh, Paul preached on the crucified life. 316 00:14:19,130 --> 00:14:22,230 I am crucified with Christ. 317 00:14:22,590 --> 00:14:26,590 Nevertheless, I live yet not I, but Christ 318 00:14:26,590 --> 00:14:29,210 liveth in me and the life which I 319 00:14:29,210 --> 00:14:30,630 now live in the flesh. 320 00:14:30,630 --> 00:14:32,670 I live by the faith of the son 321 00:14:32,670 --> 00:14:35,390 of God who loved me and gave himself 322 00:14:35,390 --> 00:14:36,250 for me. 323 00:14:36,810 --> 00:14:39,350 Oh, Paul preached that when we come to 324 00:14:39,350 --> 00:14:41,470 Christ, we have a new master. 325 00:14:41,830 --> 00:14:44,210 Our life is not our own for we 326 00:14:44,210 --> 00:14:45,490 are bought with a price. 327 00:14:45,770 --> 00:14:47,310 Our body is not our own. 328 00:14:47,570 --> 00:14:49,070 Our time is not our own. 329 00:14:49,370 --> 00:14:50,990 Our money is not our own. 330 00:14:51,310 --> 00:14:53,950 Jesus is Lord and his Christians. 331 00:14:54,210 --> 00:14:57,610 We live crucified lives as we follow a 332 00:14:57,610 --> 00:14:58,970 crucified savior. 333 00:14:58,970 --> 00:15:03,010 Paul said in Colossians 2, 6, As ye 334 00:15:03,010 --> 00:15:07,550 have therefore received Christ Jesus, the Lord, so 335 00:15:07,550 --> 00:15:08,990 walk ye in him. 336 00:15:10,110 --> 00:15:12,690 Oh, Paul would be in bad shape if 337 00:15:12,690 --> 00:15:15,990 he came back today and tried to evangelize 338 00:15:15,990 --> 00:15:17,270 the American church. 339 00:15:17,870 --> 00:15:21,270 Vance Havner used to say, I could have 340 00:15:21,270 --> 00:15:23,950 led a few more people to the Lord 341 00:15:23,950 --> 00:15:26,710 had they not already joined the church. 342 00:15:26,710 --> 00:15:27,850 Yes, sir. 343 00:15:28,130 --> 00:15:31,350 You start preaching up election and holiness and 344 00:15:31,350 --> 00:15:34,130 repentance and start calling man a rebel. 345 00:15:34,510 --> 00:15:36,430 Why, you just might as well wear a 346 00:15:36,430 --> 00:15:39,310 football helmet when you preach, for the rocks 347 00:15:39,310 --> 00:15:40,430 will surely come. 348 00:15:40,850 --> 00:15:43,910 But old Paul knew that because in his 349 00:15:43,910 --> 00:15:47,250 day, man was as wicked as he is 350 00:15:47,250 --> 00:15:48,130 in our day. 351 00:15:48,510 --> 00:15:50,990 And in Paul's day, he had his share 352 00:15:50,990 --> 00:15:52,530 of rocks thrown at him. 353 00:15:53,250 --> 00:15:56,390 When I sit in big congregations and listen 354 00:15:56,390 --> 00:15:59,330 to big dogs preach, I often hear a 355 00:15:59,330 --> 00:16:01,830 big round of applause when they are done 356 00:16:01,830 --> 00:16:02,870 with their message. 357 00:16:03,250 --> 00:16:05,070 Boy, the crowd just loves them. 358 00:16:05,850 --> 00:16:07,510 Do you want to hear the kind of 359 00:16:07,510 --> 00:16:09,230 applause old Paul received? 360 00:16:09,690 --> 00:16:13,630 I will close with Paul's laundry list for 361 00:16:13,630 --> 00:16:16,390 preaching the gospel of the Son of God, 362 00:16:16,690 --> 00:16:19,790 as it is found in 2 Corinthians chapter 363 00:16:19,790 --> 00:16:20,410 11. 364 00:16:21,290 --> 00:16:27,810 In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, 365 00:16:28,110 --> 00:16:34,650 in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft, of 366 00:16:34,650 --> 00:16:39,290 the Jews five times, received I forty stripes, 367 00:16:39,650 --> 00:16:40,730 saved one. 368 00:16:41,490 --> 00:16:45,790 Thrice I was beaten with rods, once was 369 00:16:45,790 --> 00:16:50,770 I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, night and 370 00:16:50,770 --> 00:16:54,810 day I have been in the deep, in 371 00:16:54,810 --> 00:17:00,750 journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils 372 00:17:00,750 --> 00:17:05,190 of robbers, in perils by my own countrymen, 373 00:17:05,670 --> 00:17:09,109 in perils by the heathen, in perils in 374 00:17:09,109 --> 00:17:12,470 the city, in perils in the wilderness, in 375 00:17:12,470 --> 00:17:15,890 perils in the sea, in perils among false 376 00:17:15,890 --> 00:17:22,730 brethren, in weariness, in painfulness, in watchings often, 377 00:17:23,130 --> 00:17:29,170 in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in 378 00:17:29,170 --> 00:17:31,390 cold and nakedness. 379 00:17:31,910 --> 00:17:35,770 Besides these things that are without, that which 380 00:17:35,770 --> 00:17:39,710 cometh upon me daily, the care of all 381 00:17:39,710 --> 00:17:42,670 the churches, and you know what care that 382 00:17:42,670 --> 00:17:46,630 is, brother pastor, it's a mighty care indeed. 383 00:17:47,950 --> 00:17:52,810 Well, old Paul didn't have a 401k and 384 00:17:52,810 --> 00:17:55,990 health insurance and a standing ovation when he 385 00:17:55,990 --> 00:17:59,470 left the pulpit and finished his ministry because 386 00:17:59,470 --> 00:18:02,670 he preached a different gospel that is preached 387 00:18:02,670 --> 00:18:05,050 in many of our churches today. 388 00:18:05,050 --> 00:18:10,670 I remember Leonard Ravenhill saying this, when we 389 00:18:10,670 --> 00:18:14,410 get to heaven, Jesus won't be looking for 390 00:18:14,410 --> 00:18:19,350 medals pinned on us, but scars, it is 391 00:18:19,350 --> 00:18:23,310 my prayer that a sovereign almighty will raise 392 00:18:23,310 --> 00:18:26,050 up a new generation of preachers who are 393 00:18:26,050 --> 00:18:29,490 willing to be scarred for preaching the gospel 394 00:18:29,490 --> 00:18:32,030 of the Son of God in its purity 395 00:18:32,030 --> 00:18:35,070 and proper order, and they won't be men 396 00:18:35,070 --> 00:18:37,970 who fear men, but that they will be 397 00:18:37,970 --> 00:18:41,970 men who walk humbly in the fear of 398 00:18:41,970 --> 00:18:42,650 the Lord.