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T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
February, 1934
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pose as Christian leaders substitute religious veneer for a genuine gospel. He sees the Word o f God ridiculed, muti lated, denied— in the church as well as in the world. The whole terrible travesty sickens him. It is because this loneliness is the experience not merely o f one, but o f hundreds o f loyal preachers o f the Woi;d, that an urgent call is going forth for the uniting of all evangelical Christians— those who accept the whole Word o f God and proclaim it— for the purpose o f mutual encour agement and fellowship in the gospel. Ifhe need for such unity is voiced by W . E. Pietsch, an evangelist whom God has used in campaigns in this country and abroad. Mr. Pietsch writes as follow s: I feel that it is o f vital importance that we get all the fundamental forces together, cooperating in a more united, militant testimony. . . . The Lord willing, I expect to be leaving [about June 1] for an extended trip to New Zealand and Australia. The Macedonian call has come to us to stand by our fundamental brethren in Australia. It was my privilege to organize the Australasian Christian Fundamentals Association, and we have some 500 mem bers who have taken a militant stand for fundamentalism. . , W e would appreciate the prayers of our brethrefl7/-yV/3/J»,i)l Believers everywhere, especially those who “ feed the flock,” will praise God for these five hundred, and for other hundreds elsewhere who are steadfastly “ speaking the truth in love.”— L. T . T. The Gospel I t is possible to preach a theology without God, a Bible without inspiration, a cross without atonement, a Jesus without deity, a Christ without Messiahship; but this is not the gospel. The gospel centers in Jesus Christ our Lord, who is very God o f very God, as well as very Man—the only Saviour from the guilt, power, and presence o f sin— the Lord of lords and the King o f kings. — R o y T a l m a g e B r u m b a u g h . One’s Duty to This Generation T h e church has a twofold battle. There are enemies with in as well as foes without. Professors, preachers, and teachers who strike at the integrity and authority o f the Bible are enemies to the Christian faith. Whether these detractors be definitely arrayed against Jesus Christ and His church or whether they use the vocabulary o f faith, and at the same time quietly deny the absolute authority o f the Word o f God, they are foes. The worst thing any man can do is to undermine a young man’s faith in his Bible. Thank God, the Bible will live on when the corruptors o f that sacred volume are dead. But the harm done to their generation can never be undone. Some Christians attempt to justify their indifference to the present situation by re minding us that God and His Book will triumph ultimately. But such an attitude reveals a callousness toward lost souls in this generation o f unbelief. |In my work as an evangelist, I have met many moral and spiritual wrecks—men and women with lives ruined as the direct result o f modernistic preaching and teaching. A loosening o f the morals o f the nation is the inevitable result o f unbelief. It is supremely important that evangelical Christians recognize the serious ness o f the attack and the imminence o f the moral disaster in lives o f this generation!!— J a m e s W o r b o y s . / W f **
Why We Preach a Gospel that Is 2 ,000 Years Old R e c e n t l y , I attended two very interesting conventions in Los Angeles— one a gathering o f medical men, and the other a company o f high school teachers and college professors. Both of these bodies were discussing this “ new day” and the new message and methods for this enlightened period. As I sat there, I thought :]Lf school teachers and medical men, as well as bankers, manufacturers, and others in public activity, find themselves living in a new world and must discard the methods of yesterday, should not the professing church recognize this fact also and bring forth a new message for the day in which we liv e jjl - * * Paul lived in a different day from ours and met with people o f a very different economic and cultural back ground. The messages o f John Knox and Jonathan Ed wards were very severe; should they not be set aside as having served their purpose and having become out o f date ? This attitude o f rejection o f the old is taken by many within the professing church. Recent theological works bear wit ness to this fact. The New Theology, The Shorter Bible, The Need o f a N ew Bible and a Creedless Church, and other volumes are illustrations. Our answer to those who advance this position is that the spiritual realm is entirely different from the material. There is a line o f demarcation between the spiritual and the material— a boundary beyond which flesh and blood dares not pass. A preacher deals with truth that never changes. The ills that called for the preaching of the gospel 2,000 years ago are in the world today, and the gospel is the only remedy for them. In some realms, con ditions may change and call for new methods, but the needs that the gospel meets, and the evils it corrects in individual lives, are still here. The difficulties that Paul saw and met 2,000 years ago are the same that confront me every where I go—broken hearts, broken homes, lives alienated from God by sin. fThere is no message that can correct these conditions except the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the all-sufficient message for every age. Throughout the centuries, the good news o f God’s redemption has been proved to be the only cure for the world’s illsjHn view o f .. the facts that God’s righteous requirements are unalrerea and the human heart is unchanged, the church dares not bring forth any new message to supplant God’s eternal truth. In this day when sin is coming in like a flood, in stead o f modifying our message, we need to preach, with deeper earnestness than ever before, the gospel which is the power o f God unto salvation.— L. T. T. was a time when the children o f Israel forsook the covenant o f the Lord, threw down His altars, and slew His prophets with the sword. No wonder the prophet Elijah, surrounded by such apostasy, was prone to think that he only remained as Jehovah’s true witness! From the depths o f a cave his sad complaint issued: “ I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.” Many a preacher today feels as Elijah must have felt. He sees on every hand a departure from “ the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints,” while those who Not Left Alone T h e r e
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