Please, Dr Graham before you die and meet your maker, renounce the gospel you have preached. Renounce the "one percent that the believer has to exercise in order to be saved." Please tell everyone there is no work of righteousness that the believer can do to be saved.Tell them they are saved by grace alone. Tell them they are sinners under condemnation from birth. They are incapable of making a decision for Christ.
Quit this man made appeal and let the Holy Spirit do His work. Call the elect regenerate to obedience. Just preach Christ and Him crucified. Tell your son to do the same.
Please, don't face God with the message you have preached to the world! It is not too late.
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Amen, Brother Charles.
Just think of preaching for 60 years, and find it's all not acceptable.
I shudder to think what I'm going to answer for-the many times I preached my prejudices, instead of God's Word.
The times I used the pulpit to bully people.
The times I used the pulpit for self recognition and advancement.
But to find after 60 years, that I watered down the Gospel, may God open his eyes before he dies.
Wow. I am honored Charles. Thank you. Just think, to be a feature topic on your blog with the likes of great people like Rogers and Graham. Thank you very much for the compliment.
Just sayin'.
oc.
oc
It's not a compliment to be associated with men who preach a gospel that says that salvation is based on a man comming forward to receive Christ.
oc, men don't come to Christ they are drawn by the Holy Spirit to the Father. All this is based on grace and not any work that man does to be saved.
God's decision saves us and not our decision.
I find it a compliment none the less. While I agree with what you have said so far theologically in your 6:62 post, I still submit your judgment towards their theology is suspect. When I read the Bible, I see much more Matthew 5-7 in the two of them than I have seen from you. So I again I will once again thank you for the association.
Also,you spend a lot of time and many words demeaning AR and exalting Calvin. But you yourself have said you saw AR in Heaven. How did he get there if he believed a false Gospel?
If he believed a false Gospel, and yet you have claimed to have seen him in Heaven, I would suggest your are not as Calvinistic as you wish you were. You have by your own words wanting on the one hand to damn the man, yet on the other hand placing him in Heaven. You seem confused in your theology. One time you seem Calvinist, the next time you seem Universalist. You seem to be somewhere in the middle of a theological quandry. Maybe your conversations with the Jehovah Witness has back fired on you, and you just aren't sure.
oc
simple, he was a sinner saved by grace, just like you and me. If he went to heaven because he preached a true gospel, believe you me, oc, there are very very few American Christians there, especially you and me! (if you insist, in your context, on using Matt 5-7 as a guide on who goes to heaven) There is a wideness in his grace. Like AR when we get there we are severely accountable for our obedience to Matt 5-7 and the gospel we preach. There is a feiry indignation that awaits us if we are 'willfully' disobedient.
There is a lesser indignation if we are unknowingly disobedient.
oc, I want a crown of righteousness to be awaiting me. That means I have to fight a good fight and keep the faith. With all the theological garbage in America Evangelicalism you have to have the presence of the Holy Spirit to enter the fray!
Armed with the most expensive leather bound Bible Lifeway sells, KJV no less and listening to 'Bought' radio, you will beat the air with your words. You have to have the Holy Spirit directing 'every blow' and no blow is wasted.
Very good Charles. You said the key word. Grace. Now give some.
Very good Charles. You said the key word. Grace. Now give some.
And yes, the Holy Spirit must not only be directing, but also in action. You have to follow His direction, and know when to fight and when to let Him.
PS. I wasn't using Matthew 5-7 as a "guide on who goes to heaven". I was pointing to the fact that no one except Jesus has fulfilled even the Beatitudes.Even still, a study of the Sermon on the Mount yields the character traits portrayed in that portion of Scripture and makes it clear that those who are aligned such are more in tune with the heart of God than those who run around and beat people over the head with doctrine and condemnation.
oc
what is the problem for those who run around and beat people over the head with doctrine and condemnation (actually I personally don't know anyone who does this, I'm sure there are some Christians) since no one is aligned and in tune with the heart of God but Christ. According to your logic what else is left to do?
Maybe this is an antinomian view in which the moral law (Matt 5-7) is no use to us today! Beating people over the head with anything is ok! I mean the more people you beat over the head with anything the greater is the grace that saves you!
"those who are aligned such are more in tune with the heart of God"
seems clearly to me you have taken up residence on the mythical island of righteousness and assume for yourself a state of being impossible to attain.
Now if you are refering to me as one who is beating people over the head with doctrine and not in tune with God, it could be that I am in tune with God and beating you over the head with biblical truth (Calvinism) and that, oc, is the source of your condemnation.
oh, just saying
Brother in Christ
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