A profitable exercise, friends, can be found in
reading the story of David Brainerd's conversion, that
over a prolonged period of time, as he
was in anguish over the destiny of his
soul, how he was angry at God for
imputing Adam's sin to him.
He was angry at God for the strictness
of his law, which he confessed he was
unable to uphold.
He wished at times there was no God,
and that there was an easier way to
salvation other than Jesus Christ, that he felt
it was unfair for God to have the
sovereignty to either give him faith or withhold
it and damn him forever and still be
a just God.
Brainerd felt his heart rising up against God
during this time of seeking salvation, which he
finally found through the aid of Solomon Stoddard's
book, Guide to Christ.
And I look at how Orthodox Christianity shined
in 18th century New England by eminent ministers
who preached the doctrines of grace in all
their fullness, clarity, and in their proper order,
and how careful men were with the souls
of men back then.
And I look around today at all the
apostasy in our churches, the ignorance and stupidity
that we call evangelism today, and I see
entire denominations damning the souls of men with
heretical doctrines that go against the Bible and
common reason and calling that salvation, to foolishly
believe that a soul can pass from death
to life in two minutes by raising their
hand or walking an aisle or repeating a
prayer and being saved by making a decision,
goes against the whole of scripture and the
whole attributes of a holy God.
God is the author of salvation, not man,
a sinner in his natural condition, is blind
and deaf and dead and utterly corrupt and
helpless to come to Christ on his own.
The badness of his heart hates God and
drinks iniquity like water.
To think that a hardened sinner can open
his own heart to accept Jesus is utter
nonsense and heresy at its highest.
To teach that man can be saved by
just accepting Jesus is a lie that goes
against the teachings of Christ who said, Except
ye repent, ye will all likewise perish.
To teach that sinners have the power within
them to make a decision and become converted,
take salvation out of the hands of God
and place it in the hands of man.
Jesus taught that no man can come to
me except the Father draw him.
No man is saved by merely making a
decision, but only by the regenerating power of
the Holy Spirit.
A great majority of our churches today are
mere factories intended on producing man-made converts
to support a denominational program and cover the
bills on an oversized church campus that was
built by the pride of men, and the
process they call evangelism is nothing more than
damning the souls of men.