Can I ask you a question? How can a dead man pass through a narrow gate?
Your job is that when you have properly preached the gospel and when you have called men to repentance and faith, that even though you have surveyed their life for a few hours in counseling, deep counseling, you depart from them with both promises and warnings.
Promises, that if God truly continues this work it is evidence that He began it. And warnings, that if after this night, or after a short period of starting to walk with Christ they fall away or turn away, it’s evidence that nothing happened to them that night.
When was the last time you warned one of your converts regarding that?
If you say almost never then you’ve departed from Historical Christianity, more importantly, you’ve departed from Scripture.
It is absolutely pitiful that today in the evangelical community for me to stand up and be so bold is a scandal.
How can it be that in a few short years in our conservative supposed community that it can be a scandal for a believer to stand up and say, “Let me make it really clear, Jesus is the only way! Jesus is absolutely everything! At the Name of Jesus every knee will bow, every tongue will confess! Any prophet that does not point directly to Jesus as man’s only hope is false and damned! And let make it even more clear for you, everything outside of Jesus Christ is absolutely absurd!” He is before all things. All things were my by Him, through Him and for Him.
Also know this that a man who refuses to speak about sin, you can count on the fact that the Holy Spirit has absolutely nothing to do with his ministry. Nothing to do with his ministry! You take a man who claims that he is all about the love of God and he never speaks about sin, you can write it down, the Holy Spirit is a million miles, if we can use such a statement, from him.
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- Paul Washer, Faith Bible Church, Are You a True Disciple?i
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Footnotes
- Paul Washer – True Disciple 2008 – Download links [↩]
