TODAY ON TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
CHRISTIANITY IS AN ABSOLUTE RELIGION,
AND ITS DOGMA OR TEACHINGS,
AS THE WORD MEANS, ARE ABSOLUTELY TRUE.
THERE ARE TWO COMPETING VIEWS: LIBERALISM AND CHRISTIANITY.
SO, I’M SAYING TRUE CHRISTIANS NEED TO
STAND UP AND DEFEND THE FAITH.
HELLO, AND WELCOME-AND HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!
I’M PASTOR ROB PACIENZA,
AND THIS IS TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM,
A PRODUCTION OF CORAL RIDGE MINISTRIES.
IN THE EARLIEST DAYS OF THE CHURCH,
THEY HAD TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE WHO CAME IN
DISTORTING THE TRUTH AND LEADING CHRISTIANS ASTRAY.
THAT BATTLE CONTINUES YEAR AFTER YEAR, CENTURY AFTER CENTURY,
SINCE THERE ARE ALWAYS, AS THE APOSTLE PETER PUTS IT,
“UNTAUGHT AND UNSTABLE PEOPLE WHO TWIST
THE SCRIPTURES TO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION.”
FALSE TEACHERS OFTEN WANT TO ADAPT
CHRISTIANITY TO THE WORLD,
RATHER THAN THE WORLD ADAPTING TO CHRISTIANITY
AND THE RESULT IS COMPROMISE AND A LOSS OF THE GOSPEL.
ON TODAY’S PROGRAM, YOU’LL DISCOVER HOW TO WEED OUT
SOME OF THE FALSEHOODS OF OUR OWN DAY.
AND WE BEGIN WITH A LOOK AT A VIRTUALLY PROPHETIC BOOK
PUBLISHED A CENTURY AGO THAT SHEDS LIGHT ON THE BATTLES THAT
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH FACES HERE IN 2024 AMERICA.
THE CHURCH NEEDS A WAKE UP CALL.
A FEW YEARS BEFORE HE DIED IN 2012,
NOTED CHRISTIAN AUTHOR AND PRISON REFORMER CHUCK COLSON,
WARNED ABOUT TRENDS HE WAS SEEING IN MODERN CHRISTIANITY.
THE CHURCH HAS BEEN COMPLACENT,
THE CHURCH IS KIND OF AT THE...
AT COMFORT LEVEL IN THIS MATERIALISTIC CULTURE,
DOESN’T WANT TO REALLY ROCK THE BOAT,
WANTS TO GROW, WANTS TO HAVE LOTS OF PEOPLE.
THAT’S NOT THE CHURCH.
THE CHURCH ARE THE PEOPLE OF GOD
BOUND TOGETHER TO DEFEND GOD’S TRUTH.
AND IF IT’S LESS PEOPLE, THAT’S OKAY.
I LIKE WHAT MACHEN WROTE A CENTURY AGO.
MACHEN SAID,
“LIBERAL CHRISTIANITY IS NOT CHRISTIANITY AT ALL.”
THERE ARE TWO COMPETING VIEWS:
LIBERALISM AND CHRISTIANITY.
SO, I’M SAYING TRUE CHRISTIANS
NEED TO STAND UP AND DEFEND THE FAITH.
IN 1923, SEMINARY PROFESSOR J. GRESHAM MACHEN WROTE
THE SEMINAL BOOK, CHRISTIANITY AND LIBERALISM,
CONTRASTING ANTI-BIBLICAL THEOLOGY WITH THE TRUE FAITH.
AND THAT BOOK IS STILL MAKING WAVES
SO MUCH SO THAT WORLD MAGAZINE LAST YEAR
MADE IT THEIR 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR,
EVEN THOUGH IT WAS 100 YEARS OLD!
MACHEN WAS IN MANY WAYS,
ONE OF THE JUST QUINTESSENTIAL THEOLOGICAL AND
BIBLICAL FIGURES OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY.
HE WAS A MEMBER OF WHAT WAS CONSIDERED TO BE THE FACULTY
OF THE BASTION OF PROTESTANT ORTHODOXY IN THE UNITED STATES,
IT WAS PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
AND SO LONG AFTER UNION IN NEW YORK
AND THE HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL,
AND SO MANY OTHERS HAD GONE OFF INTO LIBERALISM.
PRINCETON WAS STANDING STRONG AND HAD FIGURES, OF COURSE,
LIKE CHARLES HODGE AND LATER BB WARFIELD,
WHO WAS A COLLEAGUE TO GRESHAM MACHEN.
BUT IN THE FIRST TWO DECADES OF THE 20TH CENTURY,
PRINCETON BEGAN TO REFINE AND REFORMULATE ITS CURRICULUM.
WITH RAPID ADVANCES IN SCIENCE, A GROWING NUMBER OF
CHRISTIAN INTELLECTUALS TRIED TO ADAPT CHRISTIANITY
TO MAKE IT MORE ACCEPTABLE TO MODERN SENSIBILITIES.
MACHEN HELD THAT LIBERALS, SUCH AS THOSE AT PRINCETON,
WERE REDEFINING EVEN THE BASIC GOSPEL
AND THUS LOSING CHRISTIANITY ITSELF.
AS MACHEN WROTE IN HIS BOOK,
WELL, MACHEN JUST BASICALLY HAD TO LEAVE PRINCETON BECAUSE
PRINCETON WAS MOVING IN A VERY DIFFERENT DIRECTION THAN WHAT
HE CORRECTLY SAW AS PROTESTANT CONFESSIONAL ORTHODOXY.
AND THAT'S WHY HE ESTABLISHED
WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
AND PRINCETON HAS CONTINUED HIS MARCH TO THE LEFT EVER SINCE.
A MAJOR PROBLEM WITH LIBERAL SO-CALLED CHRISTIANITY,
SAID MACHEN IN HIS BOOK,
IS THAT IT MINIMIZES THE HORRORS OF SIN,
SINCE MODERN SENSIBILITIES WERE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH IDEAS LIKE
SIN, DIVINE WRATH, AND SACRIFICIAL ATONEMENT.
WROTE MACHEN,
PART OF THE WHOLE BATTLE HERE THEN
IS ONE OVER WORDS AND DEFINITIONS.
MACHEN IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT THAT THE BATTLE
THAT WE ENGAGE IN IS ONE OF LANGUAGE.
IT'S A CRITIQUE OF LANGUAGE; IT'S A CRITIQUE OF DEFINITIONS.
IT'S THE DECONSTRUCTION OF LANGUAGE.
WE ARE SEEING THAT IN EVERY WAY, SHAPE AND FORM.
PEOPLE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT A WOMAN IS ANYMORE.
WHY? THAT'S THE IDEA OF DECONSTRUCTING LANGUAGE
TO MEAN SOMETHING TOTALLY OPPOSITE WHAT IT SHOULD MEAN.
MACHEN WAS DEALING WITH ISSUES
THAT CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE AWARE OF GIVEN A CHRISTIAN
AND BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
HERE WE ARE TODAY DEALING WITH LANGUAGE,
NOT NECESSARILY THAT'S CHRISTIAN OR THAT WE WOULD THINK OF
AS LANGUAGE THAT WE WOULD USE IN A CHURCH, BUT
IT'S JUST OUR EVERYDAY COMMON LANGUAGE ISSUES LIKE MARRIAGE.
IT WAS MACHEN WHO SOUNDED THE ALARM THAT LIBERAL CHRISTIANITY,
WHICH GAVE UP ON THE DOCTRINES OF SIN, DIVINE WRATH,
JESUS’S VIRGIN BIRTH AND SUBSTITUTIONARY
DEATH ON THE CROSS, AND HIS BODILY RESURRECTION.
TO MACHEN, REJECTING THINGS LIKE THIS WAS NOT ONE
VARIETY OF CHRISTIANITY, BUT A DIFFERENT RELIGION ALTOGETHER.
AND THE IMPACT OF MACHEN’S BOOK STILL REVERBERATES TO THIS DAY.
WELL, JAY GRESHAM MACHEN'S CHRISTIANITY AND LIBERALISM
WAS ONE OF THE MOST FORMATIVE BOOKS THAT I READ
WHEN I WAS COMING OUT OF A PERSONAL FAITH CRISIS.
I STARTED TO READ IT AND I FELT LIKE I WAS READING WHAT WAS
EXACTLY HAPPENING TO ME RIGHT THEN AND THERE IN,
WHAT WAS IT, 2011 OR 12, IT READ
TO ME LIKE A BOOK THAT COULD BE WRITTEN ABSOLUTELY TODAY.
THE SAME ISSUES THAT JAY GRESHAM MACHEN WAS DEALING WITH,
WITH THE RISE OF THEOLOGICAL LIBERALISM WERE THE SAME ISSUES
THAT I WAS DEALING WITH AS A STAY-AT-HOME MOM
IN 2012 OR WHENEVER IT WAS.
AND HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE
IMPORTANCE OF SUBSTITUTIONARY ATONEMENT.
AND THEN WHEN HE WOULD TALK ABOUT THE WAY THAT
THE LIBERAL PREACHERS WOULD PREACH
IT WAS READING ABOUT MY PASTOR.
IT WAS LIKE READING ABOUT SOME OF THESE OTHER THOUGHT LEADERS
THAT SOME OF MY FRIENDS WERE STARTING TO FOLLOW.
AND I THOUGHT, OH BOY, THE CHURCH HAS BEEN THROUGH
THIS BEFORE AND IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE IN ROUND TWO OF IT NOW.
AND THEN I REALIZED THAT THAT THEOLOGICAL LIBERALISM
IS A BIT LIKE A PARASITE THAT WAS LOOKING FOR A NEW HOST,
AND IT FOUND ONE ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO IN THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH.
AND SO WE HAVE A VERY SIMILAR FIGHT TO TODAY
THAT JAY GRESHAM MACHEN HAD BACK IN 1923
WHEN HE WROTE CHRISTIANITY AND LIBERALISM.
A KEY INSIGHT OF J. GRESHAM MACHEN
IN HIS LANDMARK BOOK CHRISTIANITY AND LIBERALISM
WAS THAT THEOLOGICAL LIBERALISM WASN’T JUST A VARIETY
OF CHRISTIANITY-IT WAS A DIFFERENT RELIGION ALTOGETHER.
WHEN WE TAKE THE BIBLE’S TERMS AND FILL THEM WITH NEW MEANINGS
THAT ARE ALIEN TO THE BIBLE,
WE’RE NO LONGER DEALING WITH GOD’S TRUTH,
BUT RATHER WITH MAN’S INVENTION.
THAT’S WHY SO MUCH OF OUR CULTURAL DIVIDE
IS A BATTLE OVER LANGUAGE,
AND THE HARD LEFT REALIZED MANY DECADES AGO
THAT TO CONTROL THE LANGUAGE IS TO CONTROL THE CULTURE.
DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY SAW THIS CLEARLY
AND HE HELPS US SEE IT CLEARLY TOO
IN THIS PORTION OF HIS MESSAGE,
“DISCERNING GOOD AND EVIL.”
IN RECENT YEARS WE HAVE READ AND HEARD
A GOOD BIT ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE ARE INVOLVED IN THIS COUNTRY
IN A “CULTURE WAR”
WELL, HAVING EXAMINED THAT ISSUE AT SOME DEPTH FOR MANY YEARS,
I CERTAINLY WOULD HAVE TO AGREE
WITH THE COMMENTATORS WHO PUT IT THAT WAY.
IT IS A WAR, A WAR FOR THE MINDS AND SOULS AND LIVES
OF EVERY AMERICAN,
AND IT HAS BEEN GOING ON APACE AND GROWING IN INTENSITY.
IT IS ULTIMATELY A BATTLE OF FAITH AGAINST UNBELIEF.
YOU MAY HEAR IT DESCRIBED IN MANY OTHER WAYS,
BUT I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THAT’S WHAT IT REALLY IS.
IT’S ULTIMATELY A BATTLE FOR GOD OR AGAINST HIM.
GOETHE, THE GREAT GERMAN WRITER, SAID
THAT THE ONLY STRUGGLE IN THIS WORLD WORTH OUR ATTENTION
AND OUR ENERGY IS THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN FAITH AND UNBELIEF.
AND AS MORTIMER ADLER,
WHO EDITED THE GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD, SAID
MORE CONSEQUENCES FOR LIFE AND ACTION STEM FROM BELIEF
OR DISBELIEF IN GOD THAN FROM ANY OTHER FACTOR.
SO THIS IS A PERVASIVE, ALL INCLUSIVE WAR WE ARE ENGAGED IN
NOW, THE FIRST PHASE OF ANY WAR, AS A GENERAL WILL TELL YOU,
IS THE SEMANTICAL PHASE,
AND WE HAVE BEEN IN THAT FOR THE LAST CENTURY.
IT IS A WAR OF WORDS.
IT IS A WAR THAT DEFINES WHAT THE WAR IS ALL ABOUT.
NOW THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, IN ALMOST ITS ENTIRETY,
SAW THE UNFOLDING AND
DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SEMANTICAL WAR
AND I MUST TELL YOU THAT WE ARE VERY DEFINITELY LOSING IT.
WE HAVE BEEN OUT-GENERALED, OUT-STRATEGIZED, AND
OUT-MANEUVERED ON EVERY SIDE, AND WE ARE LOSING THAT WAR.
I WANT TO TALK TO YOU TODAY ABOUT THREE OF THE MOST CRUCIAL,
CRITICAL TERMS BEING USED THAT HAVE BEEN PERVERTED,
TRANSFORMED, AND CHANGED INTO SOMETHING ALTOGETHER
OTHER THAN WHAT THEY REALLY ARE.
AND USED TO DECEIVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND TO FORWARD THE ATTACK
AGAINST GOD AND CHRIST AND CHRISTIANITY IN THIS COUNTRY.
I HOPE YOU WILL REMEMBER THESE WORDS.
YOU MIGHT EVEN WANT TO WRITE THEM DOWN.
THE FIRST ONE IS RELATIVITY.
THAT IS A FAMILIAR WORD TO US ALL.
ALLAN BLOOM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IN HIS BLOCKBUSTER BOOK
ENTITLED THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND.
IN THE FIRST SENTENCE OF THE VERY FIRST PART OF THAT BOOK,
HE SAYS THIS,
“THERE IS ONE THING A PROFESSOR CAN BE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN OF:
ALMOST EVERY STUDENT ENTERING THE UNIVERSITY BELIEVES,
OR SAYS HE BELIEVES, THAT TRUTH IS RELATIVE.
IF THIS BELIEF IS PUT TO THE TEST,
ONE CAN COUNT ON THE STUDENT’S REACTION:
IF SOMEONE SHOULD SUGGEST THAT THIS PERHAPS IS NOT ACTUALLY
TRUE THEY THE STUDENTS WILL BE UNCOMPREHENDING.
YOU MIGHT AS WELL TELL THEM THAT 2 + 2 IS 7.
THEY CANNOT BELIEVE THAT ANYONE BELIEVES
THAT ALL TRUTH IS NOT RELATIVE.
THEY CERTAINLY KNOW THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES.
THIS, SAYS PROFESSOR BLOOM, IS THE ONE THING
THAT TWELVE YEARS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
HAS TAUGHT TENS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICAN STUDENTS.
AND THE STUDENTS BELIEVE ONE THING AND
THAT IS A BIG LIE THAT EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE,
THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES,
THERE IS NO MORAL TRUTH THAT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE.
THERE IS NO TRUTH OF ANY KIND
THAT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE
AND THAT HAS LED TO ALL KINDS OF OTHER EVILS AS WELL.
WHICH MOVES US TO THE SECOND POINT I WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS
WITH YOU TO SHOW YOU WHERE THAT HAS GONE FROM THERE.
AND THE SECOND WORD IS THE WORD TOLERANCE.
NOW ALL OF US KNOW WHAT TOLERANCE MEANS.
TOLERANCE MEANS THAT YOU PUT UP WITH OR
BEAR WITH PEOPLE WHO HOLD TO VIEWS OR BELIEFS
OR VALUES OR LIFESTYLES THAT YOU DON’T AGREE WITH.
AND IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN, OR FOR THAT MATTER
EVEN A GENTLEMAN OR A LADY YOU WILL BEAR WITH THEM GRACIOUSLY
AND KINDLY EVEN THOUGH YOU DISAGREE WITH THEM,
YOU WILL TRY TO BE TOLERANT AND KIND TO THEM.
THIS IS WHAT TOLERANCE MEANS.
NOT ANYMORE.
THE NEW TOLERANCE IS THE IDEA THAT WE ARE NOT ONLY TO PUT UP
WITH AND BEAR WITH OTHERS WHO HAVE DIFFERING VIEWS AND VALUES
AND HABITS AND LIFESTYLES AND BELIEFS THAN OUR OWN,
BUT WE ARE TO ACCEPT THOSE BELIEFS, THOSE VALUES,
THAT LIFESTYLES AS ABSOLUTELY EQUAL TO
AND JUST AS VALID AS OUR OWN.
THEREFORE, YOU DON’T HAVE ANY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
THAT ARE ANY BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE’S, SINCE AFTER ALL,
EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE.
AND SINCE YOUR BELIEFS ARE NOT ANY BETTER THAN THEIRS, AND
SINCE YOUR MORAL VIEWS ARE NOT SUPERIOR TO THEIR MORAL VIEWS,
NO MATTER IF THEY ARE LITTLE MORE THAN ALLEY CATS
IN THEIR SEXUAL LIVES, YOU CANNOT, INDEED,
IMPOSE YOUR VIEWS UPON THEM WHICH FLOWS OUT OF THAT.
YOU MUST ACCEPT NOT ONLY THEM, BUT YOU MUST GRACIOUSLY
AND KINDLY ACCEPT THEIR LIFESTYLE, THEIR BELIEFS,
THEIR HABITS AS ABSOLUTELY EQUAL TO YOUR OWN.
AND IF YOU DON’T, AH, MY FRIEND,
THERE ARE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES WAITING FOR YOU,
BECAUSE THEY GO ON AND THEY HAVE PROGRESSED EVEN
BEYOND WHAT I’VE SAID SO THAT TODAY THEY WANT NOT ONLY
YOUR GLAD ACCEPTANCE OF ALL OF THEIR VIEWS, LIFESTYLES,
BELIEFS, VALUES, AND HABITS AS EQUAL WITH YOUR OWN,
BUT THEY WANT YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN WHAT THEY DO.
THEY WANT YOU TO ENDORSE IT AND PARTICIPATE IN IT.
THE THIRD TERM BESIDE RELATIVITY AND TOLERANCE
IS THE ONE THAT WE ARE ALL FAMILIAR WITH
DISCRIMINATION. DISCRIMINATION.
WELL, WHAT SHALL WE SAY ABOUT DISCRIMINATION?
THE TRUTH IS, THE ONLY PEOPLE THEY REALLY WANT TO DISCRIMINATE
AGAINST AND RULE OUT ARE CHRISTIANS.
THAT’S THE PEOPLE THEY WANT TO GET RID OF: YOU.
THEY WILL TOLERATE ANYTHING
BUT THOSE WHO HAVE BELIEFS IN DOGMA AND ABSOLUTISM.
BUT YOU SEE, CHRISTIANITY IS AN ABSOLUTE RELIGION.
GOD IS THE ULTIMATE ABSOLUTE.
HIS WORD IS ABSOLUTE TRUTH.
HIS SON IS THE ABSOLUTE DIVINE SAVIOR,
SO CHRISTIANITY IS AN ABSOLUTE RELIGION,
AND ITS DOGMA OR TEACHINGS,
AS THE WORD MEANS, ARE ABSOLUTELY TRUE.
SOLOMON PRAYED TO GOD AND HE ASKED GOD TO GRANT TO HIM AN
UNDERSTANDING HEART THAT HE MAY DISCERN BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD.
NOW THE WORD “DISCRIMINATE” COMES FROM THE ROOT DISCERNERE.
THAT IS FROM THE ROOT CERNERE, WHICH MEANS TO DISCERN.
THEREFORE THE WORD “DISCERN” IS THE WORD FROM WHICH DISCRIMINATE
COMES, AND THEY BOTH MEAN VIRTUALLY THE SAME THING.
SO SOLOMON IS PRAYING THAT
GOD WOULD GIVE HIM AN UNDERSTANDING HEART AND
THE ABILITY TO DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.
NOW, IF HE HAD PRAYED THAT PRAYER TODAY,
THE ACLU WOULD BE ALL OVER HIM, IF HE HAD DONE IT PUBLICLY.
AND THEREFORE THIS CANNOT BE ALLOWED.
FURTHERMORE, SINCE GOD SAID THAT HE WAS VERY PLEASED
WITH WHAT SOLOMON HAD PRAYED.
AND HE ANSWERED HIS PRAYER SO THAT SOLOMON IS KNOWN
3,000 YEARS LATER AS THE WISEST MAN THAT EVER LIVED
AS HE GAVE HIM THE ANSWER TO HIS PRAYER.
GOD IS GUILTY, ACCORDING TO THE NEO-POSTMODERNISTS OF OUR TIME
AND THEIR VIEWS ON ZERO TOLERANCE
FOR ANY KIND OF DISCRIMINATION.
BUT GOD WE FOLKS, WE, TOO, NEED TO PRAY
THAT GOD WOULD GIVE US AN UNDERSTANDING HEART AND THE
ABILITY TO DISCERN BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD, BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.
DISCRIMINATION IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A GARDEN AND A JUNGLE,
JUST PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
DISCRIMINATION IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MUSIC AND NOISE.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
BARBARISM AND CIVILIZATION IS DISCRIMINATION.
IT IS VITAL THAT WE ARE ABLE TO DISCERN
BETWEEN THE BAD AND THE GOOD.
BUT YOU NOTICE THAT IT IS THE BAD AND THE GOOD
NOT THE BLACK AND THE WHITE,
THE OLD AND THE YOUNG, THE MALE OR THE FEMALE.
IT IS THE GOOD AND THE EVIL AND THE ABILITY TO DISCERN BETWEEN
THE TWO AND TO CHOOSE THE GOOD IS WHAT MAKES CIVILIZATION.
AND WHEN THAT ABILITY IS LOST OR POUNDED INTO THE MUD,
AS IS BEING DONE DAILY IN OUR SCHOOLS,
EVENTUALLY A SOCIETY WILL DEGENERATE BACK INTO THE JUNGLE.
AND THAT IS WHAT IS GOING ON IN OUR COUNTRY TODAY.
IT HAS BEEN WELL SAID THAT THE
LAST VIRTUE OF A DEGENERATING POPULATION IS TOLERANCE.
WHEN PEOPLE NO LONGER LIVE UP TO
ANY OF THE MORAL VALUES THAT MADE SOCIETY GREAT,
THE LAST VALUE THEY HANG ONTO IS TOLERANCE.
THEY DEMAND THAT EVERYBODY TOLERATE THEIR WICKEDNESS,
AND THEY WILL TOLERATE THEIRS
THE LAST VALUE OF A DEGENERATE SOCIETY.
WELL, THINGS ARE GOING TO CHANGE.
LET’S MAKE IT HAPPEN.
HI, I’M JENNIFER KENNEDY CASSIDY.
AS YOU JUST HEARD FROM MY FATHER, CHRISTIANITY IS AN
ABSOLUTE RELIGION, AND GOD’S WORD IS ABSOLUTE TRUTH.
THOSE ARE WORDS THAT MAKE OUR
CULTURE VERY UNCOMFORTABLE TODAY.
CERTAINTY AND OBJECTIVE TRUTH ARE SEEN AS ENEMIES,
WHILE IT’S NOW CONSIDERED VIRTUOUS TO HEDGE AND DOUBT.
THOSE WHO WANT A MORE MODERN VERSION OF CHRISTIANITY THAT’S
MORE IN TUNE WITH THE FEELINGS OF OUR CULTURE HAVE WORKED THEIR
WAY INTO OUR SEMINARIES, OUR CHURCHES, AND OUR INSTITUTIONS
AND THEIR GOAL IS TO REWRITE CHRISTIANITY
TO FIT A MARXIST, WOKE WORLDVIEW.
THAT’S WHY YOU NEED TO SEE OUR COMPELLING DOCUMENTARY,
HOW THE LEFT IS STEALING YOUR CHURCH,
AND WE’LL SEND IT TO YOU AS OUR THANKS FOR YOUR
GENEROUS DONATION TO THE VITAL WORK OF THIS MINISTRY.
THIS NEWLY-UPDATED DOCUMENTARY FEATURES ROSARIA BUTTERFIELD,
VODDIE BAUCHAM, ERWIN LUTZER, AND MORE.
FROM GEORGE SOROS GIVING MONEY TO CAMPUS CRUSADE,
TO THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION’S RECENT FLIRTATION
WITH CRITICAL RACE THEORY,
YOU WILL DISCOVER HOW THIS FALSE IDEOLOGY IS BEING
SMUGGLED INTO THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH IN THE DOCUMENTARY,
HOW THE LEFT IS STEALING YOUR CHURCH.
AND IF YOU’RE ABLE TO GIVE A GENEROUS GIFT OF $50 OR MORE,
WE’LL SEND YOU THE DVD PLUS
OUR NEW HARDCOVER PRINTING OF THE CLASSIC BOOK,
CHRISTIANITY AND LIBERALISM
BY J. GRESHAM MACHEN.
THIS NEW PRINTING FEATURES A FOREWORD
FROM DR. PETER LILLBACK,
THE PRESIDENT OF WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY,
WHICH MACHEN ORIGINALLY FOUNDED
IN ORDER TO COUNTER THE LIBERAL UNBELIEF
THAT WAS DESTROYING MOST AMERICAN SEMINARIES AT THE TIME.
CHRISTIANITY AND LIBERALISM OFFERS
A CLASSIC DEFENSE OF ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY AND A DEVASTATING
UNMASKING OF THE COUNTERFEIT RELIGION CALLED LIBERALISM.
IT WAS WRITTEN TO OPPOSE THE RISE OF LIBERALISM
IN THE EARLY 1900S,
AND IT BRINGS CRYSTAL CLARITY TO THE SAME CHALLENGES
THE CHURCH IS FACING TODAY.
CHRISTIANITY AND LIBERALISM WAS NAMED ONE OF THE
WE’LL SEND YOU A NEWLY-PUBLISHED HARDCOVER COPY,
WITH THE NEW FOREWORD FROM PETER LILLBACK,
ALONG WITH THE DVD DOCUMENTARY,
HOW THE LEFT IS STEALING YOUR CHURCH,
AS THANKS FOR YOUR GIFT OF $50 OR MORE.
OR, YOU CAN GET THE DVD
AS THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROUS DONATION.
YOUR GIFT HELPS US TO BROADCAST THE GOSPEL
AND THE COMMANDS OF CHRIST
AROUND THE WORLD VIA TV, RADIO, PODCASTS, AND THE WEB.
AND YOU HELP ESTABLISH AND EXPAND OUTREACHES LIKE
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THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THERE’S NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.
THAT CERTAINLY APPLIES TO THEOLOGICAL LIBERALISM,
WHICH THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
ALWAYS HAS TO BE ON GUARD AGAINST.
THAT GUARD IS NOT BECAUSE WE’RE AFRAID
OF DISAGREEMENT OR CHALLENGE.
IT’S BECAUSE THE VERY HEART OF THE GOOD NEWS
OF WHAT JESUS CAME TO DO IS CHALLENGED WHEN WE REDEFINE
THE CHRISTIAN FAITH TO TRY TO MAKE IT MORE MODERN.
ONE OF THE CHIEF PROBLEMS WITH LIBERALISM
HAS BEEN ITS DESIRE TO REDEFINE THE CROSS TO MAKE IT
A MERE EXAMPLE OF SACRIFICIAL LOVE BUT WITHOUT BEING
A SATISFACTION OF THE WRATH AND JUSTICE OF GOD.
YOU SEE, BIBLICAL TRUTH IS SOMETIMES OFFENSIVE
TO SENSITIVE MODERN EARS-BUT THAT’S BECAUSE,
AS THE BIBLE SAYS,
OUR MODERN CULTURE WANTS TO TELL YOU THAT YOU’RE
WONDERFUL JUST THE WAY YOU ARE,
AND THAT GOD RECEIVES YOU NO MATTER WHAT.
BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT GOD’S INSPIRED WORD TELLS US.
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS,
YOU AND I WERE BORN WITH A NATURE TOWARD SIN.
WE CAME INTO THIS WORLD BENT AWAY FROM GOD,
AND AS SOON AS WE’RE OLD ENOUGH TO DO ANYTHING,
WE BEGIN DISOBEYING HIM.
AND SIN IS NO SMALL MATTER, BECAUSE
THE TRUE GOD IS ABSOLUTELY HOLY AND COMPLETELY RIGHTEOUS.
OUR SIN IS TREASON AGAINST OUR CREATOR AND DESIGNER.
THE JUST PUNISHMENT FOR THIS TREASON IS DEATH.
BUT GOD WHO IS RICH IN MERCY, AND FULL OF LOVE AND COMPASSION,
SENT HIS SON JESUS CHRIST INTO THE WORLD
TO PAY THE FULL PENALTY FOR OUR SINS ON THE CROSS.
JESUS SUFFERED IN OUR PLACE, DIED,
AND ROSE FROM THE DEAD AGAIN ON THE THIRD DAY
SO THAT YOU COULD HAVE NEW LIFE.
THE BIBLE TELLS US,
PROPITIATION IS A THEOLOGICAL WORD
THAT MEANS ATONEMENT.
SO HAVE YOU RECEIVED IT?
YOU CAN HAVE THE FREE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE
BY PUTTING YOUR FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST,
EVEN RIGHT NOW WHERE YOU ARE.
I WANT YOU TO SIMPLY PRAY
THIS PRAYER WITH ME, FROM YOUR HEART.
“FATHER, I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I’M A SINNER
AND THAT I DESERVE YOUR WRATH.
BUT I THANK YOU THAT YOU SENT YOUR SON JESUS TO TAKE MY PLACE.
THANK YOU THAT HE SUFFERED YOUR RIGHTEOUS WRATH
IN MY PLACE SO THAT I COULD BE SAVED.
LORD, I PUT MY TRUST IN JESUS CHRIST ALONE FOR MY SALVATION,
AND I WANT TO TURN AWAY FROM MY SINS AND LIVE MY LIFE
WITH YOU AS MY LORD. I PRAY THIS IN JESUS’ NAME, AMEN.”
IF YOU SINCERELY PRAYED THAT PRAYER
WITH ME JUST NOW, PLEASE LET US KNOW.
WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU AND SEND YOU A FREE GIFT.
IT’S BEGINNING AGAIN, DR. KENNEDY’S BOOK FOR NEW BELIEVERS
TO HELP YOU GET STARTED IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST.
CONTACT US TO RECEIVE YOUR COPY TODAY.
AND MAY GOD RICHLY BLESS YOU.
I WANT TO THANK FOR BEING WITH US TODAY.
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FINALLY, HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY TO ALL OF YOU MOMS,
AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO!
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