tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post3141806008905686509..comments2024-03-10T10:40:32.319-07:00Comments on Pyromaniacs: Why Error Is Now Thriving in the ChurchPhil Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649092052031518426noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-35852329246703945252008-09-02T14:08:00.000-07:002008-09-02T14:08:00.000-07:00Thank you so much. I have listened to both messag...Thank you so much. I have listened to both messages and they have helped me to understand what I feel is far more Biblical.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16222582647354750228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-88654944211783018492008-09-01T20:29:00.000-07:002008-09-01T20:29:00.000-07:00Ian:I'm not a fan of Steve McVey's teaching. Ditto...<B>Ian:</B><BR/><BR/>I'm not a fan of Steve McVey's teaching. Ditto with Bob George and others in that mold. Do a Google search for the site that hosts my sermons and look for the two-message series called "I, yet not I." It includes an explanation of why I think the idea of sanctifying grace that is more or less assumed in that quote from McVey is pretty seriously wrong-headed.<BR/><BR/>To reply to the item you quoted, it's true that our motives are often tainted when we are doing good things, but the remedy for that is purer motives, not less doing good things. I don't think McVey understands that.<BR/><BR/>And if he <I>does</I> understand it, he doesn't make it clear for his readers.Phil Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00649092052031518426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-43416958440568953472008-09-01T18:54:00.000-07:002008-09-01T18:54:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16222582647354750228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-46714613604361794462008-09-01T18:18:00.000-07:002008-09-01T18:18:00.000-07:00Huh?? You spoke 3 times, Ian? You're doing 5 TV pr...Huh?? You spoke 3 times, Ian? You're doing 5 TV programs? Thanks for checking your blog? Is your blog called "Profile not available"?<BR/><BR/>This looks like a complete cut-n-paste, which is (A) bad manners and (B) frowned on.DJPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16471042180904855578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-68738945895091442362008-09-01T17:05:00.000-07:002008-09-01T17:05:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16222582647354750228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-87827688726037390852008-08-26T08:39:00.000-07:002008-08-26T08:39:00.000-07:00While I have not been commenting on your posts...I...While I have not been commenting on your posts...I have been reading them for some time...*: ) I love the Spurgeon posts...It is soooo important that we have a connection to the grounding of the past...One thought that came as I was reading here, is how easily we can drift off to modern thought...and the scary part is while the Internet is wonderful for resources...it is also easy for the information to be changed (in this age of wiki-ness)...Just as new translations of the Bible come forth and older ones are placed in online status...will the original source books be obsolete? Will there be a method for verifying older written truth?(or is there now?)...Who actually is keeping up with the originals?...Electronic books...can be really scary.Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03127927719002627674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-13604455696844205272008-08-24T13:21:00.000-07:002008-08-24T13:21:00.000-07:00I'm going to pick up on Spurgeon's last point as w...I'm going to pick up on Spurgeon's last point as well. I believe he is 100% correct. There are so many false converts in the church today, so many pretenders, who teach the Word for their own profit. And why is that? It is because many who are true Christians, many who are regenerate, preach a message that is close to the gospel but is not quite THE gospel. The good news without the bad news first is no news in my opinion. Yes God can work a wonder in the heart of a sinner with a message that is found wanting. Does that mean we should preach half-heartedly knowing that God can overrule our feebleness? Of course not! Good news without the bad news is news that is misleading. It is not the whole counsel of God. <BR/><BR/>In a sermon he once preached entitled "Turn or Burn" Spurgeon had this to say, "Two hundred years ago the predominant strain of the pulpit was one of terror: it was like Mount Sinai, it thundered forth the dreadful wrath of God, and from the lips of a Baxter or a Bunyan, you heard most terrible sermons, full to the brim with warnings of judgment to come. Perhaps some of the Puritanic fathers may have gone too far, and have given too great a prominence to the terrors of the Lord in their ministry: but the age in which we live has sought to forget those terrors altogether, and if we dare to tell men that God will punish them for their sins, it is charged upon us that want to bully them into religion, and if we faithfully and honestly tell our hearers that sin must bring after it certain destruction, it is said that we are attempting to frighten them into goodness. Now we care not what men mockingly impute to us; we feel it our duty, when men sin, to tell them they shall be punished, and so long as the world will not give up its sin we feel we must not cease our warnings. But the cry of the age is, that God is merciful, that God is love. Ay; who said he was not? But remember, it is equally true, God is just, severely and inflexibly just. He were not God, if he were not just; he could not be merciful if he were not just, for punishment of the wicked is demanded by the highest mercy to the rest of mankind."<BR/><BR/>Spurgeon said this in December 1856. It is frightening to think considering the church today. He fought tooth and nail against the downgrade controversy. He was vocal against those who dumbed down God's Word. Hey, it won't win you any friends, but then did we not consider the cost when we said yes to His call?Rob Hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16444052961373974712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-23558729276048137492008-08-23T16:48:00.000-07:002008-08-23T16:48:00.000-07:00Thank you for this cool, refreshing wind!Just disc...Thank you for this cool, refreshing wind!<BR/><BR/>Just discovered your blog and will be visiting again soon to try to plumb the depths! (operative: try)Lorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09665135517742271045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-49638048380952609022008-08-23T16:42:00.000-07:002008-08-23T16:42:00.000-07:00"An unregenerate heart lies at the bottom of 'mode..."An unregenerate heart lies at the bottom of 'modern thought'"<BR/><BR/>...and coupled with that same unregenerate heart of old, there now exists in 2008 a new, unabashed, blatantly pagan, and thoroughly rebellious satanic spirit that lies at the bottom of postmodern thought!Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930864320573865515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-70900227547431370672008-08-23T16:37:00.000-07:002008-08-23T16:37:00.000-07:00Spurgeon:"An unregenerate heart lies at the bottom...Spurgeon:"An unregenerate heart lies at the bottom of "modern thought." Men are down-grade in doctrine because they were never put on the up-grade by the renewal of their minds."<BR/><BR/>So true.<BR/><BR/>This reminds me of a quote from John Calvin:<BR/><BR/>“Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain”NothingNewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08499186024285784090noreply@blogger.com