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Bible Question:
"Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is Thine; Thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and Thou art exalted as Head above all" (1 Chronicles 29:11) "The Sovereignty of God is an expression that once was generally understood. It was a phrase commonly used in religious literature. It was a theme frequently expounded in the pulpit. It was a truth which brought comfort to many hearts, and gave virility and stability to Christian character. But, today, to make mention of God’s sovereignty is, in many quarters, to speak in an unknown tongue. Were we to announce from the average pulpit that the subject of our discourse would be the sovereignty of God, it would sound very much as though we had borrowed a phrase from one of the dead languages. Alas! that it should be so. Alas! that the doctrine which is the key to history, the interpreter of Providence, the warp and woof of Scripture, and the foundation of Christian theology, should be so sadly neglected and so little understood." "How different is the God of the Bible from the God of modern Christendom! The conception of Deity which prevails most widely today, even among those who profess to give heed to the Scriptures, is a miserable caricature, a blasphemous travesty of the Truth. The God of the twentieth century (21st) is a helpless, effeminate being who commands the respect of no really thoughtful man. The God of the popular mind is the creation of a maudlin sentimentality. The God of many a present-day pulpit is an object of pity rather than of awe-inspiring reverence." [A.W Pink- The Sovereignty of God] What are your thoughts as to why this is? What can be done about it? |
Bible Answer: Dear Brad: The obvious, but obviously simplistic, cure for the eradication of the doctrine of the false god being portrayed as the God of Scripture in numberless modern organizations having the stupid audacity to call themselves churches is to quit those groups forthwith and seek and join a church that teaches the truth of the message of the gospel and worships the sovereign God. The man and woman in the pew ultimately are responsible for what comes forth from the pulpit. In common terms that we all can understand easily: if there is no "market," i.e., no audience, for the slop that is being fed to congregants in the pew, if they cease to condone it, walk out, and leave the false preacher standing there talking to himself -- and not getting paid for it, by the way! -- it won't take long for the nonsense to cease. The big question, of course, is how to reach that man and woman in the pew who are being deceived, present them with the truth, and convince them to walk away from false teaching. Modern pseudo-Christianity is in big, big trouble and sorely needs the unceasing, fervent prayers of the righteous. --Hank |