who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season;
reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;
but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
As a result, some conclude that there is therefore no need of the preaching ministry!
But that's a foolish conclusion!
Where then is the place of the ministry of the word? Good question.
It is very necessary for God's children, elect already regenerated by God, to hear the word of truth, the gospel of their salvation (Eph 1:13). They need to hear and to know the truth of their glorious salvation by grace. God has appointed the ministry of the word to bring temporal blessings to His children here on earth.
The ministry of the word is MOST NECESSARY - but only for the purpose it is ordained by God, not what man has VAINLY imagined. Preachers have been called to feed the lambs... but many have vainly and foolishly thought that God have called and commissioned them to HELP God birth His children. The command is, "God, and make disciples..." Too many think it is, "Go and make children of God." God's children must be discipled... instructed and taught the truth of their eternal salvation by God's free grace, taught to observe all the commands of Christ - this will bring them the temporal salvation in this life. The command is, "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations..." Only those whom God has already effectually called to eternal life, eternally saved, are capable of receiving teaching from God-sent preachers. Too many foolishly think, "Go ye therefore, and assist God to bring forth His children."
The ministry of the word is MOST UNNECESSARY for the BEING of God's children.
The ministry of the word is MOST NECESSARY for the WELL-BEING of God's children.
It was never ordained for that purpose. The deluded man has perverted it. I have not heard of a father who has ever claimed that diapers and baby clothing have anything to do with the BEING, the conception and birth of a child. But there are too many deluded preachers and believers that the ministry of the word and faith has something to do with their BEING as children of God
Without the ministry of the word, not one jot of the eternal salvation of one elect is ever lost. Without the ministry of the word, a child of God is deprived of the temporal salvation which comes from the ministry of the word. That explains the urgency of 'preach the word, be instant in season, and out of season...' That explains the command, 'take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou BOTH SAVE THYSELF, AND THEM that hear thee.'
Would the eternally wise God risk the eternal salvation of His elect by conditioning it upon something finite man must cooperate and assist? God forbids. That's about all I know - and it is a fraction of a drop in the south china sea.
God is sovereign, and I am an optimist.
Now, you may tell me the difference between what I believe and what a Muslim believes about predestination.
sing
excerpt taken from here:
http://things-new-and-old.blogspot.com/2008/02/many-christians-on-broad-way.html
Comments
Cantoro
Joe
Among the
Baptists, they are divided into Old School Baptists, Reformed Baptists,
Southern Baptists, Fundamental Independent Baptists etc.
Cantoro
Joe
Ok, Sing F
Lau, did Spurgeon also graduate and promote the school of old baptism? 😊
Sing F Lau
Modern RBs
praise and adore Spurgeon but condemn the man the Spurgeon loved and honored as
his mentor, John Gill, the giant of the old school baptist. So, deduce your own
answer.
Dan Hya
Baptist
divisions above (as per associations and organizations) are superficial. At its
very core, baptists are classified only into two: Arminians & Sovereign
Gracers.
Sing
"Did Spurgeon also graduate and promote the school of old baptism?"
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Good
questions, Cantoro.
1.
Spurgeon DIDN'T go to any cemetery (ooooop! seminary I mean). So, he didn't
graduate from any. However he did set up a Pastors' College.
2. Spurgeon began moving away from the faith of his old school, Baptist fathers. That is why so many so called calvinist baptist loves and adore him, but despise and hate John Gill, whom Spurgeon honoured and gladly owned as his own mentor!!!
Dan Hya
Those that
God has predestinated to eternal salvation, God himself will bring them to
eternal salvation, without any assistance or cooperation from finite man. As a
result some conclude that there is no need of preaching ministry! But that's a
foolish conclusion!
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This is
like saying that since one is already alive, there is no need to eat for
sustenance.
Good read,
Bro. Sing!
Charles
Page
Would it
be comical to say that once a person has made a sincere acceptance of Christ
then he is eternally saved and not in need of further preaching? That is the
practical way most Southern Baptist laity live. The wide latitude of the
BF&M makes preaching the truth impossible. Which preacher is correct? They
say they all are!!!
