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A Paul Washer's message on the preaching of Salvation - A Challenge for Pastors -
Uma mensagem de Paul Washer sobre a pregação da Salvação, Um desafio para Pastores ...

TRANSCRIPT

Look at this passage. I love this passage. Verse 24.
Now, I'm going to put emphasis on the
personal pronoun I.

"For I will take you from the nations; I will gather you from the lands, and
I will bring you into your own land. Verse 25. Then
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean;
I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Moreover,
I will give you a new heart and
I will put a new spirit within you; and
I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and
I will give you a heart of flesh.
I will put My Spirit within you and
I will cause you to walk in my statutes, and you will be careful to observe my ordinances."

Do you recognize a pattern there? Salvation is all about the work of God demonstrating the glory of God, and that is why men such as ourselves should guard it so severely and preach it so carefully, because it's all about God and His name, that His name be great among the nations.

Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done.
When you no longer have regeneration in preaching, you have nothing. Nothing. He says, For I will gather you from the nations. Separation. Separation. I will take you out of there, and I will do it with a strong hand. If there is no work of separation in your life, recognizable at any point in time, you're lost. You
say, Oh, Brother Paul, if I say that, they'll kill me. Then, die!
I'll lose my home. Then, lose your home.
It will cost me. Then, make the payment. Don't tell me about that. How many Calvinists do we have? How many men who have good theology but they are too coward to preach it?
Because it'll get me in trouble. What do you expect it to do? All the ones who have gone before us, their blood they shed. You're preaching to a largely unregenerate church body. What
do you expect them to do to you? But how is it going to change except we suffer?
I was preaching at no small school several years ago, and a genuine revival broke out, so they tell me. I am never allowed to be back in that school again. And someone asked me about it. They said, I don't understand. I said, This is what you've got to understand. Men are too civilized to want revival. They are
too proper to want revival. They want everything pretty and clean, and they'll never get revival, because when revival comes, it's going to rip everything apart, including us.
The worst thing that ever happened to a preacher is that he becomes civilized. It's worthless. Worthless. One thing I noticed about Leonard Ravenhill, and I'd take a Leonard Ravenhill over 20 dead Calvinists. One thing I noticed about Leonard Ravenhill, he was dangerous. He was
dangerous. We are to be men of love, men with towels, men who weep, men who serve, but we are to be dangerous about truth. Do you really expect to get out of this unscathed? Without any scars? Just read Howell Harris,
Daniel Rowlands, Whitfield, the two Wesley boys, even Edwards himself. Look what it cost. And it's the same thing in their day that it is in ours. Do you see that? What was going on? I'll tell you what was going on? If you've been baptized as an infant, you're in the church. Even though you're unregenerate, you're in the church. You're in the church. You got in. Why? Because you went through some manmade superstitious thing. Southern Baptists are no different. It's just we don't have infant baptism. We have that silly superstitious prayer at the
end of a Roman road that sends more people to Hell than every brothel in this country.

It's true. It's true. It's true.