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| 1 | Tilling the Soil | Matt 11:5 | DocTrinsograce | 243504 | ||
| "Now it is perfectly true that men must be brought to Christ one by one. There are no labor-saving devices in evangelism. It is all hand-work. And yet it would be a great mistake to suppose that all men are equally well prepared to receive the gospel. It is true that the decisive thing is the regenerative power of God. That can overcome all lack of preparation, and the absence of that makes even the best preparation useless. But as a matter of fact God usually exerts that power in connection with certain prior conditions of the human mind, and it should be ours to create, so far as we can, with the help of God, those favorable conditions for the reception of the gospel. False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the gospel. We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation or of the world to be controlled by ideas which, by the resisters force of logic, prevent christianity from being regarded as anything more than a harmless delusion. Under such circumstances, what God desires us to do is to destroy the obstacle at its root. Many would have the seminaries combat error by attacking it as it is taught by its popular exponents. Instead of that they confuse their students with a lot of German names unknown outside the walls of the universities. That method of procedure is based simply upon a profound belief in the pervasiveness of ideas. What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires. In that second stage, it has gone too far to be combated; the time to stop it was when it was still a matter of impassioned debate. So as Christians we should try to mold the thought of the world in such a way as to make the acceptance of Christianity something more than a logical absurdity." --J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937) |
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| 2 | Tilling the Soil | Matt 11:5 | EdB | 243520 | ||
| To properly "till the soil" the tiller must have the unction of the Holy Spirit within him. Many of great evangelistic services have seen thousands come to Christ only to walk away a short time later when the emotion, the hype wears off. Salvation requires a change. 2 Corinthians 5:16-17 (NASB) 16 Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. As a new creation the old is indeed passed away. We don’t worry if we were elected or not and we don’t worry if we can lose our salvation because we are new creations and as such are called to holiness. Willful sin is not an option of we fully love Christ. We are not yet perfect and may still sin but that is as Paul said something we fight not give into. Evangelism has become the game of numbers, how many did you get saved, instead of work Holy Spirit through man. That explains the state of the church in many situations filled with people that seek man’s leading, man’s intellect, man’s logic. It is a church that mocks those that endeavor to live Holy and Upright before God. It is a church that quotes man injecting doctrine found nowhere in scripture. |
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