Sermons and Biblical Studies

… any evangelism which by appeal to common interests and chatter about current events seeks to establish a common ground where the sinner can feel at home is as false as the altars of Baal ever were. Every effort to smooth out the road for men and to take away the guilt and the embarrassment … Continue reading “EVANGELISM:
HUMANISTIC APPROACH TO; CHURCH: CURRENT CONDITION”

The uncomprehending mind is unaffected by truth. The intellect of the hearer may grasp saving knowledge while yet the heart makes no moral response to it. A classic example of this is seen in the story of Benjamin Franklin and George Whitefield. In his autobiography Franklin recounts in some detail how he listened to the … Continue reading “EVANGELISM:
DIVINE POWER IN; TRUTH: NECESSITY OF RESPONSE; SALVATION: HOLY SPIRIT’S WORK”

If we evangelicals had one-third of the enthusiasm of some of the cults we could take a continent. We have the power and they do not—that is, we have power available to us and they do not. We have a lazy bunch of evangelicals on our hands. Rut, Rot or Revival: The Condition of the … Continue reading “EVANGELISM:
DIVINE POWER IN; EVANGELISM: LACK OF INVOLVEMENT IN; CULTS; CHURCH: APATHY”

A friend of mine went to see a man who was the head of a local communist cell in a local communist headquarters where they send out literature. The communist said, “Come in, Reverend, and sit down.” He went in and sat. “Now, we’re communists,” he said, “you know that, and you’re a minister. Of … Continue reading “EVANGELISM:
DIVINE POWER IN; COMMUNISM”

Every notable advance in the saving work of God among men will, if examined, be found to have two factors present: several converging lines of providential circumstances and a person. Exodus 3:7–10; Ezekiel 22:30; John 1:6–7 Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray, 50.

Then there’s the poor sick world out there. I, for my part, do not want to be happy while the world perishes. Nobody loves the world quite enough. The Man who loved the world enough to die for it died for it, and Paul, the man who loved Israel enough to want to perish for … Continue reading “EVANGELISM:
CONCERN FOR LOST”

I have to tell the truth, and the truth is not very well received, even by the saints. The simple truth is that unless we have a lighting down upon evangelicalism, upon fundamentalism, upon our gospel churches, unless the Dove of God can come down with His wings outspread and make Himself known and felt … Continue reading “EVANGELICALISM;
FUNDAMENTALISM; HOLY SPIRIT: NEED FOR”

… we have such a short time to prepare for such a long time. By that I mean we have now to prepare for then. We have an hour to prepare for eternity. To fail to prepare is an act of moral folly. For anyone to have a day given to prepare, it is an … Continue reading “ETERNITY;
SALVATION: PREPARATION FOR ETERNITY”

“O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.” The prophet here turns to a figure of speech, one which appears in the Scriptures so frequently that it is not easy to remember that it is but a figure. Man … Continue reading “ETERNITY;
PILGRIMS”

So the elder tells John: “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore, “they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne … Continue reading “ETERNITY;
HEAVEN: GLORY OF”