Good morning, good morning. This is the Old Trailblazer broadcast coming to you once again from the Metropolitan Tabernacle, 501. Yes, the Old Trailblazer broadcast coming forth this morning, riding old Dan, blazing the path to the hearts of sinners, cutting back the briars and the brambles and the bushes that clutter up your heart, and refuting error that's abounding everywhere in our land. Oh, my friend, I think about that scripture many times. The Lord said, not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter in. No! Listen, folks, that's what we're speaking of today. True preaching. True preaching. You're not a blessing. Someone has told me that the greatest thing that could ever happen to a congregation is to have a true, born-again, called-out, saved preacher. Saved pastor. And then one of the worst things that could ever happen to a congregation is to have a false preacher. One who is not saved, and yet thinks he's saved. Deceived. And his people are deceived, believing that he's saved. And he's leading them down to a devil's hell. We want to just continue our broadcast this morning, but let me give you my mailing address. Many folks write me and they say, you don't give your address enough, Pastor. And they say, I can't pronounce your name. Well, it's Penn Darvis. Pastor Albert Penn Darvis. Just three little syllables, Penn Darvis. And it's the old Trailblazer, Post Office Box 6250, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70174. Now you have my address and my name, so I'll be expecting a letter from you. I'll be expecting a card or a letter or a phone call from you. Would you do that? Now I want to speak to you again this morning on this subject, true preaching. And today we're looking at true preaching versus false preaching. We drew you a picture yesterday on our last study of two extremes in our modern-day preaching. One presents salvation largely by works, that a man is judged on the basis of his good deeds as to whether or not he gets to heaven. This is largely a mixture of law and grace, all sorts of things. The unsaved preacher has a role, has a rule, doesn't know the difference. He thinks that preaching salvation, holy of grace, will give people a license to sin. Therefore, he mixes works and law with his message. This produces the class of people who are self-righteous. The other extreme is the individual who preaches salvation by grace, stating that the only thing we have to do is to trust Jesus as our Savior, make a decision for Jesus, give the pastor your hand, Christ paid all our sin debt, therefore we are saved. And this leaves out Holy Spirit conviction and Bible repentance now let me stop right here man asked me recently said pastor trailblazer what do you mean by Holy Spirit conviction and let me let me just see if I can explain that to you man by nature you and me We are born into this world as a sinner. Whether you believe it or not, whether you understand it or not, we are born into sin because our father and mother were sinners. Adam and Eve were sinners. They were created perfect, but they sinned. And so down the line, through all the generations of man, we were born sinners. Our parents were sinners. So therefore we were sinners. And here we are, living on God's green earth, as folks say. And we are sinners. We are walking about Our hearts are at enmity, or they are enmity against God. Our whole body and soul and everything is against God. We don't want the Lord to rule over us. Don't tell me you want the Lord to rule over you. Oh, you may be a little religiously vain, a little religiously oriented, but underneath it all I have, folks, Here at mom my ministry who who? Tell me they say tell me they religious tell me they're there But when I get on their toes a little bit when I call seeing saying when I catch them Skirting around saying I put my finger on it in all holy hell breaks loose. Well. They don't know anything about the Lord No, sir. They don't know a thing in the world about the Lord. Oh my friend listen listen Holy Spirit conviction though is a is a product or power of the Holy Spirit, the third person. Don't call the Holy Spirit it. No, I've heard folks say, well, have you got it yet? Have you received it yet? The Holy Spirit is the third person of the triune God. He is God, just like God is God, just like Christ is God, my friend. Listen, but the Holy Spirit comes to that sinner in his sinful condition and awakens him. You ever been awakened out of a deep sleep physically? Maybe you're tired and weary and took something to go to sleep by, and later on, later on, someone comes in the room and shakes you and wakes you. You don't want to wake up. But when the Holy Spirit shines the light, you know the best way to wake a fellow up? Turn the light on him. Turn the light on him in the middle of the night. He'll come up from there, take a flashlight and shine it in his face. He'll come up from there. Well, the Holy Spirit takes the light of the gospel, the preached word, the written word. Oh, he takes that word. by the preaching of some man, some good, kind, honest, gentle, saved man. You hear that? Saved man. And he calls out unto that poor sinner by the preaching of the gospel that he shines that light of the gospel, the good news shines it into that darkened recess of a heart and lets the light shine in there so that you can see. When you turn the light on in the room, you can see all this spider webs and cobwebs and dirt daubers sticking around on the wall of a dungeon, can't you? Oh, yes, you can. But listen, listen. Holy Spirit conviction. Now, that's what it is. It's the awakening power of God. It's the Holy Spirit's work to call sinners out. And then, what does that do? That brings repentance. You see your heart, you see your wickedness, you see your wretchedness, and you cry out against it, O Lord, O Lord, deliver me from the power of sin. No, that's what you want. You don't want sin. No, not when the Lord shows it to you. Such an individual never knows a hatred for sin if he's never come to know and to realize that he has no righteousness. And how will he come to realize that except the Holy Spirit show him? Therefore, pardon and forgiveness are not real to the average person. You ask the average person how the Lord saved him. Let me give you a good test, folks. When you go to church next Sunday and you sit down by someone there in your Sunday school class, adult Sunday school class, or even after service when you're standing around fellowshipping, say, my friend, tell me how the Lord saved you. Would you just tell me what the Lord means to you? Would you do that for me? Or if your pastor comes home to take dinner with you one night, ask him, say, Pastor, you know, I'm really confused about my own soul. Would you just tell me how the Lord saved you? The old trailblazer tells us how the Lord saved him, how the Lord brought him down as a poor, old, wretched sinner, showed him he was lost, and then gave him grace to repent. Preacher, do you know anything about repentance? Just tell us about it. Would you, Pastor, be kind to him, be gentle to him? Oh, if he's a saved man, he loves your soul. But maybe he's just missed. Maybe he's just missed Holy Spirit conviction. Maybe he's never been saved. He's preaching on the energy of the flesh, bringing what he thinks is God's message, because he's been called by his mama or his papa or his pastor. Oh, listen. Listen, folks. Don't be cruel to him. Don't ridicule your pastor. He's standing in the breach for your soul if he knows the Lord. But just ask him kindly. Hey, Pastor, tell us one day, take the noon service, 11 o'clock hour, and tell us how the Lord saved you. Would you do that for us? Oh, listen, listen, you'll never forget it. No, but pardon and forgiveness of sin is not real to the average individual, and he's missed Christ. The individual who preaches this type of gospel is of the world, according to John 4 or 5. They are, 1 John, they are of the world, therefore they speak of the world, and the world heareth them not. I hear many of our pastors and preachers on the radio at night, sometimes when I can't sleep, I'm weary, and I like to listen. Maybe I'll hear something that will bless my heart. And I hear many of them struggling to bring God's message. bring a message and Many of them are the message are erroneous. I don't criticize them I listen to some of them sometime for 30-40 minutes. They never mentioned the name of the Lord They never mentioned that they've been a sinner. They never mentioned how the Lord saves a sinner They go off on a tangent about these tear-jerking stories they tell over and over and over again and get their people all worked up and And at the end they sing a hymn, sing a hymn of amazing grace or why not tonight or all of those things. And some of them sing 10, 12 verses before anybody will ever come out and make a decision so they can go home. My heart goes out to those folks. They do. They do. I'd like to sit down by their side. Oh, my friend, I know that this message we bring is not a popular message, I know that, because folks don't want to give up to God, don't want to give up their sin. They don't want to be saved, they just want to go to heaven. I told a man that this morning, asking me if I was afraid to die. And I said, no, why should I be? I'm going to be with the Lord. And he said, well, I'm afraid to die. Because I read that story about the rich man wanting to drop a water to put on his tongue. He said, I wish I'd have never been born. I said, no, what you want is to go to heaven and live in your sin. You don't want to break with sin. You don't want to be saved. You just want to go to heaven. afraid that you're going to miss something and you don't know how to and I played with him he's old covetous old devil won't turn loose of a nickel no that's right that's right but listen listen they preach these fellows preach that which is acceptable to fallen human nature I see folks now patterning their message to fit their congregation. They do. I hear these folks on the radio and I read their periodicals. I read them. They come to my desk by the dozens every month and I read them and some of them are off the wall so far that you can't read them but I read where they have where they have patterned their message to suit their congregation, whatever level that they're on. They wouldn't insult anyone for nothing in the world. They wouldn't get on the toes of one of their head deacons or one of their good givers for not a thing in this world. They wouldn't do it. And listen, one of the things the old prayer blazer does, he steps on folks' toes. I get letters many, many times that say, Pastor, you stepped on my toes, but I needed it because I caused sin, sin. You've got some old fellow in your In your congregation, my friend, it's catting around. Pastor, and you don't put your finger on it, you're just as guilty as he is. You got your piano player catting around with your choir leader or with their head deacon, you're just as guilty as they are if you don't call attention to it. No! You say, well, I'm judging. No, I'm just telling you what the Lord loves, and that's the truth. No, you can't. You're God's man. You're the watchman on the wall. You're the one who stands in the breach, my friend, if you're preaching the truth. But listen, if you're preaching error, you're going to stand there one day at the Great White Throne Judgment and give an account for all of your preaching. You're going to have your congregation there behind you. You'll be called up as a group. Oh, will the First Baptist Church of so-and-so walk up? First Methodist Church? Episcopalian, Presbyterian, whatever, Church of God, Church of Christ, Apostolic, whatever, whatever. Come on up here and be judged. Here's your pastor going to be there. Pastor, why didn't you tell these folks the truth? Well, I didn't know the truth, my Lord. No, you didn't. That's right. And you know what? Ignorance will be no excuse. Did you know that? Oh, my friend, you won't have it that you're a sinner. You won't have it that you're a lost sinner and that you need to be saved. No, you want to be a big shot. You want to be somebody come. I see folks like that. They got their hair in place. They got a necktie to match their hanky. The hanky matches their socks. And they got a long limousine. And they got all of those things. And a lot of them got a young woman on their arm who is a singer or whatever out there. cavorting around with them listen folk i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know it doesn't preachers who left on the plane so it would be a woman on their own because they couldn't stay i know those things but listen up for him the lord when the lord save you all that power broken say it is broken in that heart no more there's no more that you want to trust the law you want to honor the lord honor the lord would you like my friend that's what a true pastor does that's what you're preaching is honoring the Lord, not honoring the congregation, not honoring this one and that one and the other, putting plaques on the wall, painting names on the windows. I don't mean a thing in this world, my friend. Are you being true to their soul, preacher? Are you? Are you standing up preaching against sin? Sin! God is angry with the wicked every day. Did you know that? God hates sin, my friend, in you, in me, and in every other creature. God, sin can't enter where God is. How do you think you're going to enter heaven with sin, your back laid down with sin? That sin has to be cleansed here. Does your pastor ever preach about the blood? Does he sing that song, Amazing Grace? Or does he sing that song, There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuel's veins, and sinners plunge beneath that blood, lose all their guilty stains? Oh, my friend, my preacher friend, my pastor friend, don't mislead your congregation. Make your calling and election sure, would you? The old trailblazer heart is burdened for you this morning. I'm going to be kind to you this morning, not rail on you a little bit like I do sometimes, bringing the gospel. This is the Old Trailblazer. This is Pastor Albert Pendergast. Remember, my mailing address is the Old Trailblazer Post Office Box 6250 New Orleans, Louisiana 70174. Goodbye and God bless you.