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For our text today, would you
turn with me to the book of 2 Corinthians, chapter 4, verse 5. This will be the sixth message
in the series of the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Today we examine
the implications of the Lordship of Christ and the method of gospel
preaching. Does a belief in the Lordship
of Christ affect the way in which the message of preaching is communicated? That's what we want to look at.
2 Corinthians chapter 4 and verse 5. Paul states here, we preach
not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your
servants for Jesus' sake. The Apostle's concern here is
the proper presentation of the gospel message. He states back
in verse 1, just an introduction, that the ministry of the gospel
is something that has been entrusted to us as a mercy from God. It is a gift from God. And that
we do not propagate it, in verse 2, in the realm of cleverness
and skill and dishonesty, or handling the word of God deceitfully.
We don't try to slip up on people and get them to do things which
they are opposed to doing, but we deal with the truth directly
to the conscience of every man. We present the truth and leave
the truth for God to make the application of it. And then if
Paul seems to be anticipating, but Paul, that just won't work.
He says in verse 3, if our gospel is hid, if people do not receive
it, the problem is not in the message, it's not in the messenger,
it's in the receiver. They are lost, and they have
their minds blinded by the God of this world, and hence they
cannot see the glorious gospel of Christ. But we do not alter
the message, we don't preach ourselves, but we preach Christ
Jesus and ourselves as men's servants for Jesus' sake. And so I think this is a great
pattern for apostolic gospel preaching, that the minister
is not called upon to promote himself or to make a display
of his own natural or spiritual gifts, or to try to abuse and
misuse his he is called by God to give a simple declaration
of the truth, commending himself to the consciences of men and
leaving the application of that truth with God. And hence, this
is why we preach the lordship of Jesus and ourselves as servants
of others, not lords over others. Now, in this series of lordship,
we have established, I trust, what we mean by lordship from
the text in Mark chapter 10 and verse 42, where Pilate and Jesus
had their great conflict of interest. And in Mark chapter 10, Jesus
defined what he meant by lordship when he said that the Gentiles
which rule exercised lordship. over others. Pilate, who was
a Gentile lord, confronted Jesus with his right, and he understood
his lordship as meaning that he had the right to dispose of
Jesus as he determined best. And Jesus reminded Pilate, no,
Pilate, you do not dispose of me until God, first of all, disposes
of me and of you. And so the ultimate Lord is God
himself. Now, what we then mean by lordship
is that if anybody is the ultimate Lord, they are the one which
holds the options, so that they can dispose of events and people
as their wisdom sees best. To be a Lord is to be in the
place of preeminence where you can dispose of other events and
things outside of oneself. And so we ultimately come to
this question then, and that is, who is it that disposes? Is it God, or is it the creature? Is man Lord, or is God Lord? Does God have to get his permission
from man before he can be Lord? If we believe that, I believe
that's the heart of idolatry. God does not get his free will
from man, but man gets his will to act from God. All right, now
then, let's go through the method of apostolic preaching. Did their
belief about the Lordship of Jesus Christ affect the way that
they presented Christ? I want to try to answer a question
in our introduction in this light. Can a person receive the benefits
of Christ's work as a Savior and go to heaven while rejecting
him as Lord to rule over their life? That's the question that
we want to deal with, because that is a question which is prominently
being debated in current evangelical preaching. The modern evangelism
teaches that you can receive Jesus as a Savior, have your
sins forgiven, but it is an option for you as a Christian to determine
whether or not you want him to rule over your life as Lord. I do not believe that is the
teachings of God's word. I believe that when we enter
into this thing of conversion, that if the Lordship of Christ
is properly presented, the sinner will be brought to see that God
holds the options of the sinner, not the sinner holding the options
of Jesus Christ. And that is humiliating to the
proud heart of man. Now, how did the apostles preach?
When the apostles went forth preaching, they believed that
they were representing Christ as a reigning king, and they
proclaimed Jesus as Lord, to where their healers charged them
with preaching another king like Caesar, even Jesus. That is, when they went forth
and proclaimed Jesus, that they were preaching, here is a king
who has more power than Caesar does. And that's because they
believed he had been resurrected from the dead, and that he held
the disposal of all events in his hands at the right hand of
God. Turn with me to the Gospel of
Luke. Let's look at how, when Christ was born into this world,
who he was entitled. What title was given to him?
Who was he recognized as? Luke chapter 2 and verse 11. The angel states, For unto you
is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is who? Christ the Lord. Do you see the
Saviorhood of Jesus there? Yes, it is there. Jesus came
to be a Savior. Matthew says he came to save
his people, that's why his name was to be called Jesus. But who
is it that is the Savior? It is Christ the Lord. The apostles
preach Jesus as a person who was a Lord, who had under his
disposal all of the options to do with all things in the creation. as he saw best to do them. Now,
that's how they preached Jesus. They didn't preach a little weak
anemic Jesus who's trying to do, and who has to get his permission
to do, from the creation of man. But no, they preached Jesus was
an absolute Lord, similar to that of Caesar, that when Caesar
sat on the throne and decreed, the people under him knew that
they were at Caesar's disposal. Just like Pilate reminded Jesus,
you're at my disposal, the apostles went forth and preached Jesus,
that men were at his disposal as Lord. And they didn't just
present to men that he was a Savior, and then after they became a
Christian, then they brought out the fine print and they say,
oh, now you need to serve him as Lord. Do you ever have any
of the fine print of a contract brought out after you've already
consented to it? What's the automobile agency
here in the town? Is it where there's no fine print?
Isn't that the way it works? I can't remember the agency that's
involved. I ought to. But where there's
no fine print, go and buy your car there, there's no fine print.
Apostolic preaching didn't include any fine print. It just preached
the truth that Jesus was Lord, he could dispose of all things
as he saw best, and if you have any interest in seeing God in
glory, you better come and bow down before this one who is Lord.
But contemporary preaching does not present that. It presents
that Christ is at the option of men, that he is down on his
knees asking men permission to make him Lord and Savior. And so as a result, why, men
are told that if you will raise your hand and vote for Jesus,
and that he will forgive you of your sins, then you can go
to heaven. And after you've done all of that, then you can decide
at a later date whether you want to serve him and be a disciple. But the apostolic preaching of
the gospel knew nothing of that. They never separated the person
of Christ from his work. And if you expected to partake
of the benefits of his saving work at Calvary, then you were
to come and bow down and acknowledge him as the only hope of your
salvation. Now listen carefully as I make
this statement. My only hope of being saved lies in the free
will of the sovereignty of Jesus Christ. That's my only hope of
salvation. I say it again. My hope of salvation
lies in the free will of the Lord. And if he doesn't exercise
that will toward me, I have absolutely no hope in my own righteousness
of ever seeing God in glory. And yet that very concept is
what men, not outside of the churches today, but men and women
in the churches, gnash their teeth at. That their destiny
lies in the free will of Jesus Christ. They want to be told
their destiny lies in their own free will, to use their option
of either accepting or rejecting Christ, and either allowing him
or not allowing him to be Lord. And hence their mouths are never
shut up. unto the hope of Christ in the gospel. But I have good
news. Jesus rejoices in saving those
people who come to him in simple trust that if there is any mercy
to be found, to come with the publican, God be merciful to
me, the what? The sinner. God be merciful to
me, the sinner." That's the kind of people that Jesus elects to
show mercy upon. Come to him as a sinner. Don't
come as a Pharisee. Boasting of your own merits and
your own abilities and what you've done for God and what you will
do for God. You won't do anything for God
that's of lasting value unless God first works that in you,
in that boat, the will and the do of his own good pleasure.
Don't go up to God as the Pharisee did, boasting, I fast, and I
tithe, and I do all these things, and I'll give you my vows, I'll
turn over a new leaf, I'll do this, I'll join the church, I'll
be baptized, I'll teach, I'll do all these things. No, come
on that basis. As the publican did, he came,
Brother Jim, trusting that if he's going to get any mercy,
it had to be in the free will of the one who had mercy to give.
He had to trust in that. And thus he cast himself upon
the mercy of the court. So the apostolic preaching of
the gospel involved preaching Jesus as Lord. They preached
and exalted Christ who had died. They did not preach the death
of Christ apart from the person who he is and where he was. When they came to a man and a
woman like Doug and Judy here. They would not start preaching
that Christ had died, but they preached the Christ who had died
and was now exalted at the throne. And thus the confrontation with
men and women was not the death of Christ, it was the person
of the one who had died and now had them at his disposal. Now that makes a great difference
in the way the gospel is presented. an exalted throne, who had come
to his throne by way of a cross and an empty tomb." And so the
idea in Roman Catholicism of a Christ on a cross, that was
foreign to gospel preaching. They didn't preach a Christ on
a cross, Brother Howard. They preached a Christ who was
sitting on a throne far higher than Caesar's, and who had got
to that throne and established his kingdom by way of a cross.
and an empty tomb. And now you had to deal with
him not as a defeated foe on a cross. You had to deal with
him as a conquering, reigning king who set the right hand of
God. Look in Apostolic Preaching as
an example of this, the second chapter of the book of Acts.
Look how the apostles presented Christ. Acts chapter 2. This is Peter's
message on the day of Pentecost. I'm going to, for time's sake,
begin in verse 32. Peter, after quoting from David
in the Psalms in verses 25 through 31, he now gives his own insight
into the significance of the resurrection of Jesus. And incidentally,
the resurrection was the central theme of apostolic preaching,
because it was the resurrection that established him on the throne
as Lord. Verse 32, Acts 2, This Jesus
hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore,
being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received
with the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed
forth this which ye now see and hear. For David is not ascending
to the heavens, that is, David has not been resurrected. But
he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my
right hand, until I make thy foes thy footstool. Therefore,
conclusion of all of this, let all the house of Israel know
assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have
crucified, both what? Lord and Christ. Here is the summation of apostolic
preaching. Men, Brother Gerald, disposed
of Jesus as they thought best. They crucified him. The apostles
went right back to those people who exercised their will to dispose
of Jesus, and they said, now we have news for you. This one
whom you have disposed of now sits on the throne, and he has
the right to dispose of you. He is now the Lord, and he's
the one whom you have crucified. The one whom you sinned against
is now the judge. He's on the throne, and he's
going to bring every deed which you have committed into account."
That's between a rock and a hard spot, isn't it? That's getting
people hedged in, as the old Puritans used to say. To bring
them in to see to where that they are totally unrighteous
and unable to bring about their own salvation, and hence the
hope, if they have any, must be seen in the free will of the
one who exercises his options and who is the Lord. That is
sobering. That is sobering most of all,
because however Jesus now opts, that will be the outcome of the
one who put him to death. Now look what they cried out
in verse 37. Now when they heard this, they
were pricked in their hearts and said unto Peter and to the
rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? We're in a mess. We're in a mess. that Pilate was sitting on his
throne after the resurrection, and one of his advisers comes
to him, or his secretary, and says, Hey, there's somebody out
here in the waiting room to see you. Pilate says, Who is it? And they said, Well, you remember
that fellow you crucified and put to death three days ago? He's sitting out here. And he
says he wants to have a word with you. What kind of an effect do you
think that would have upon you if you were Pilate? The one whom
you had exercised your lordship over, and had done the best to
dispose of him, now then in spite of all the powers that man can
perform, this fellow has come back to life, and now then he's
in your waiting room. to speak to you. I tell you,
if I pilot, that sends a cold chill up and down my spine, because
I know that as I disposed of him, now the things have gotten
turned around, and he can either condemn me or he can save me. I'll guarantee you there's one
thing Pilate wouldn't be doing. He wouldn't go out there and
say again to that fellow named Jesus, don't you know that I
have the right to crucify you or to let you go? Don't you know
I'm still in control of this thing? No, it had been taken
out of his hands. Now listen, in apostolic preaching
the goal of the preacher was to take the hope away from man
of saving himself. of contributing and assisting
and cooperating. But it was the purpose of apostolic
preaching was to bring their hearers down before the throne
of Jesus Christ, and to realize that their hope of salvation
lay not in their will, but in the will of the one who was on
the throne. God had given him authority over
all flesh, to give what? Eternal life to as many as the
Father had given him. So if I want eternal life, if
I need help and I can't provide it myself, then I've got to cast
myself upon the one who holds the options and see what the
outcome is going to be. And that's what I'm doing this
morning, Brother Joe. It's my only hope. My hope is built on
what? Nothing less than Jesus' blood and his righteousness.
And he is the one who shed his blood, and he is the one who
applies his blood. And he does it as he sees best. Forgiveness of sins is in the
hands of the one who is on the throne. And there are nail-scarred
hands in there. My sins nail Christ to that cross. For he came to die not for any
sins of his own, he came to die for my sins. If we see that,
then our hope of acceptance with God lies not in our vows of goodness,
not in our determinations, but in the determination and willpower
of the one who is on the throne. The apostles preached the invitations
of the gospel, but they were the invitations of a king, not
the invitations which sent forth suggestions. How many of you served in the
armed services? Any? Did you get an invitation
to do so in the mail? Did you get that? That was a
nice thing, wasn't it? Uncle Sam wants you to report
for such and such a date. You are hereby invited to come
and report for such and such a date for your induction into
the service of your country. That was an invitation. But I
tell you, it had power behind it. It had power behind it. It was a Lord who was sending
that. It wasn't somebody just inviting
you and suggesting you to come to a Sunday school picnic. There
was an invitation, but it was the invitation of a Lord. And
Jesus sends forth gospel invitations through the preaching of the
gospel. But they're the invitations of a Lord, not the suggestions. come and bow down, if you expect
to find life, it's in the hands of one who has been crucified."
Now, salvation involves believing in Jesus as our Lord. The apostles
went forth and they preached Jesus as a present reigning king. They preached that there would
be a judgment coming, and they preached one message for both
Jews and Gentiles. They did not have a message for
the Jew and a separate message for the Gentiles. I've had Baptist
ministers talk with me at length on this, and they disagree here
entirely. They tell me that the Apostles,
if they went out and they confounded someone who was a Jew, that they
preached repentance unto the Jews. If they went out and they
found someone who was a Gentile, they did not preach repentance,
they just preached belief or faith. And thus, they say, the
early apostolic preaching consisted of the message of repentance
for the Jews and believing, or faith, for the Gentiles. And
hence, since we are Gentiles, there is no need to call upon
any Gentile to repent. We just call upon them to believe
in Jesus. And in application, that much
of that is done. Just believe in Jesus. Do you
believe he exists? Do you believe he's the Son of
God? Do you believe he rose from the dead? Believe that, and that's
what's involved in being initiated into the Christian faith. Let's
see if this is the case. Go with me to Acts chapter 17.
Acts chapter 17. The book of Acts gives us the
apostolic method of preaching. Now when they went out as missionaries,
how did they go, what did they preach? Verse 1 of Acts chapter
17, one of the missionary journeys of Paul. Now when they had passed
through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where
was the synagogue of the Jews. And Paul as his manner was, went
in unto them, and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of
the scriptures, opening and alleging that Christ must needs have suffered,
and risen again from the dead, and that this Jesus, whom I preach
unto you, is Christ." Now then, down in verse 7, If we go to
verse 4, some of them believed, consorted with Paul and Silas,
the devout Greeks, a great multitude, and the chief women, not a few.
Down in verse 7, they were charged by those who opposed them, whom
Jason hath received, and these do all contrary to the decrees
of Caesar, saying, There is another king, one Jesus. How did the enemies of Christ
understand the apostles to preach him. They understood that the
apostles were preaching that there was another king who had
more power than Caesar. And Paul, in this Jewish synagogue,
he opened up the Old Testament and he reasoned with them that
Christ must needs have suffered, and he must needs have died and
be raised from the dead, and that Jesus is this Messiah. Now
hold your location there and go with me to Acts 20. Don't
leave Acts 17 first. Acts 20. We'll be coming back
to 17 in just a moment. Rehearse our question. Did the
apostles have one message for the Jews and another message
for the Gentiles? Acts 20. how I have kept back nothing
that was profitable unto you, but have showed you and have
taught you publicly and from house to house, testifying both
to the Jews and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God and what? And faith in the Lord Jesus Christ."
Now then, did he have one message for the Jews and another one
for the Gentiles? No, he said publicly and in private. whoever I witnessed to, whether
they be a Jew or a Greek, I testified two things toward them. They
were to repent toward God and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ."
So he did not have a separate message, one for Jews and one
for Gentiles. And in Acts chapter 17, if you
go back there now, you will find in the first part of that chapter
that he is evangelizing the Jews, and he did so by beginning in
the scriptures and bringing them to see that Jesus Christ was
the fulfillment of the scriptures, and he would then call upon them
to repent of having sinned against God and trust in the Lord Jesus
Christ. Now go down to Acts chapter 17
and verse 18. And here you'll see him changing
from the Jews to the Gentiles on Mars Hill. What does he preach
unto them on Mars Hill? He begins with God. Secondly,
he begins with the creation. Thirdly, he continues with God's
providence. Fourthly, he introduces them
to the subject of a coming day of judgment, and then coming
over to verse 20. Verse 30, And the times of this
ignorance God winked at, but now commanded all men everywhere
to what? To repent. Where did he bring
the Gentiles to from their understanding of God and God's creation, the
providence of God, a coming day of judgment? He called upon them
to repent. Why? because he hath appointed
a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by
that man whom he hath ordained, whereof he hath given assurance
unto all men, and that he hath raised him from the dead. And
when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, and
others said, We will hear thee again of this matter." How is
it that Jesus is going to judge men? Because he was raised from
the dead and is now the Lord. Do you see then how the Apostles
evangelized? They brought men from where they
were in their religion, and they brought them to the same point.
Repent of having offended God, and trust in the one whom God
hath raised from the dead. And they showed them up unto
that great truth. Jesus is now Lord of judgment,
and he is also the Lord of grace. Jesus is everybody's Lord. He's
your Lord here today. Whether you acknowledge it or
not, he's your Lord. He's everybody's Lord. He may
be your Savior. He's everybody's Lord. Go with
me to Philippians chapter 2, the book of Philippians, the
second chapter, beginning in verse 9. God hath highly exalted
him, and given him a name which is above every name, and that
the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven,
things on earth, and things under the earth, that every tongue
should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the
Father." And my people, Jesus is Lord. Well, you say, Pastor,
what are you laboring in? I see that on bumper stickers.
I see that on signs all around Birmingham. Jesus is Lord over
Birmingham. Every church I know of believes
that Jesus is Lord. So what's the big issue? I'm
saying when the apostles preached Jesus is Lord, they were conveying
a message that men's destinies lay in the free will of the Lord. That's what I'm saying. That's
not what those bumper stickers are meaning that you see on the
back of your bumper. That's not what that big sign up here if
you go down to Interstate 59 says, Jesus is Lord over Birmingham.
I got news, he's Lord over everything! And he didn't get that way by
permission of the act of men. He was Lord before men ever acknowledged
him as Lord. And he holds the destinies of
all flesh in his hands, Brother James, and he can give eternal
life or he can withhold it. Now, how are you going to know
where you're going to spend eternity at if you treat Jesus as if you
have the option? Masses of men are in churches
today and they are told, you have the option. Jesus wants
to be your Lord. Now, you either accept him or
reject him, but that's not the way the apostles presented this
thing. They shut men up unto their understanding
that Jesus was the one who controlled the options. Now, go to him. Can you trust a Jesus like that?
I know of no other one to trust. To whom can I go to? Only he
has the words of life. I know that John says, All that
the Father giveth me shall come to me. I know that's true. It's in the Bible. Then how can
I know whether I'm included in that great group? Him that cometh
to me I will in want. No wise cast out. That can be expressed like this
after last Sunday's message on Lordship of Christ and I can
rephrase that text in John 6.37 to mean the same thing as what
I'm about to. All that the Father giveth to
me shall respond to me. And he that responds to me I
will in no wise cast out. Have you responded to the Lordship
message of Jesus Christ? Have you acknowledged him as
the ruler of heaven and earth? If you have done so and really
understood the implications of that, there is eternal life residing
upon and within you at this very moment and shall never be taken
away from you." Now, everyone is going to confess this sooner
or later. It's just a matter of time. Just a matter of time. You see, God's controversy with
men is not with Christ's Saviorhood, but with his Lordship. That's
where this whole thing of sin started back there in the garden
in the human race. They would not have God to rule
over them. And that's where God confronts
the sinner. In his bringing the sinner to
himself, he brings them and confronts them at the point of our departure
from God. And what is it that every member
of Adam's race has within them that is common? They don't want
God, a God who will what? Rule over them and control their
outcome. They don't want that. We don't
want that. As I've said here on numerous
occasions, if I exercise how to win friends and influence
people, I can get along with a lot of people. I can get along
with everybody here in this church, until I start doing one thing,
and that's telling you what to do. What happens then in human nature
when the husband tells the wife what to do, when the wife tells
the husband what to do? when the parent tells the child
what to do, when the policeman tells the speeder what to do. I've only got caught speeding
one time at age 16, so I'm not experienced in this, but that
one time was enough for me. When you see that red light coming
behind you, You just relax and say, oh, happy day, is that right? No, immediately there's a mechanism
that kicks on within you, who is that fellow to do this to
me, what rights does he have to pull me over? I wasn't doing
this, I wasn't speeding, I wasn't, and then self-defense comes to
the forefront. Man will get along with a God
who will not tell him what to do. It was at that point that
Adam and Eve left God, and it's at that point that God confronts
the sinner in his approach to God. So modern evangelism never
makes that confrontation. It says to the person, you want
to go to heaven? Raise your hand. Believe in Jesus. Believe he died for you. And
there's never a confrontation. But in apostolic preaching, they
preached a confrontation. Before you receive the benefits
of the cross, you must come and acknowledge in repentance that
you have sinned against the Lord. Repentance and faith in Jesus
Christ. Multitudes of men that I'm acquainted
with in preaching the gospel today will affirm the opposite
and say that there is no need to preach repentance. Listen
to the radio and TV ministries that are the popular ones and
see if repentance is part of that message. You know why it
isn't? Because it offends the givers. It offends the givers. And you've
got to have the givers keep you on the program. So you just accentuate
the positive and never mention the negative. That's not apostolic
preaching. Brother Jim, when Stephen preached
in Acts chapter 7, he got stoned to death for accentuating the
negative. If he'd have preached what's
being preached today, he'd never had any problem. They just said,
My, he's a good preacher. Don't like what he's saying,
but he's a good preacher. People fool, we fool ourselves
sometimes in saying about our looking to preachers. Who was
it that got his head cut off for preaching. Anybody remember? Wasn't it John the Baptist? You
know the fellow who cut his head off, had his head cut off? You
know what the Bible says about that king? Wasn't it Herod? The Bible says he loved to hear
John preach. He loved to hear him preach.
But he didn't like to hear John tell him, repent and cut off
that adulterous relationship with your brother's wife. He
didn't like that. So it's one thing just to preach
and it's another thing to preach repentance and confront men that
they are trying to be Lord and God and manipulate God rather
than God being God alone. I close with this illustration.
The only thing that makes the devil the devil is that he will
not bow to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. James 2, verse 19, says
that you believe that there is a God, you do well, but the devils
also believe that and they tremble. Does believing that there is
a God make you a Christian? No. Does believing that God sent
his Son into the world, does that identify you as a Christian?
No. Does believing that Jesus Christ
died on the cross identify you as a Christian? No. Does believing
that he rose from the grave identify you as a Christian? No. The devil
believes all of these things, and he trembles at them. But
why is the devil still the devil? He will not bow to the authority
of the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Are you with me? What then makes
a sinner a sinner? Is it something he believes or
doesn't believe? No. A sinner is a sinner because
he will not bow and acknowledge the authority and the sovereignty
of Jesus Christ. Now, until that is done, in apostolic
realm, there was no baptism that was ever administered upon a
person. Men and brethren, what shall
we do? Repent ye and be baptized. Repent of your sin, trust in
Jesus Christ, acknowledge him as your Lord, and as your Savior. This is apostolic preaching.
Oh, that we might have a return from this. Salvation, then, in
conclusion, is the experience which involves the submission
of our heart, our mind, and our will to the lordship of Christ's
person. Salvation is the enthronement
of Christ's will upon the desires of the human heart. That's the
evidence of being saved. Not because you got your name
on a Baptist church roll, not because you were baptized in
a Baptistry or a river somewhere, not because that you made a profession
of faith, not because of any of these things, but the evidence
that a person is a Christian is if Jesus Christ desires and
his will is enthroned upon their will and their heart. That's
salvation. And that's what the apostles
preached. Let's stand.
The Method of Gospel Preaching
Series Lordship of Christ
| Sermon ID | 4920334115451 |
| Duration | 43:34 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday Service |
| Bible Text | 2 Corinthians 4:5 |
| Language | English |
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