P ink reserved some of his harshest criticism for those whom he saw as corrupting the gospel message with easy-believism. "The evangelism of the day is not only superficial to the last degree, but it is radically defective." (Studies on Saving Faith, 1930) Pink clearly foresaw, even in the 1930's, major problems with emerging no-lordship-doctrine:  Saving faith consists of the complete surrender of my whole being and life to the claims of God upon me: "But first gave their own selves to the Lord" (2 Cor8:5) It is unreserved acceptance of Christ as my absolute Lord, bowing to His will and receiving His yoke. Possibly someone may object, Then why are Christians exhorted as they are in Romans 12:1? We answer, All such exhortations are simply a calling on them to continue as they began : "as ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him" (Col 2:6) Mark it well that Christ is "received" as Lord. Oh, how far, far below the New Testament standard is this modern way of begging sinners to receive Christ as their own personal "Savior." If the reader will consult his concordance, he will find that in every passage where the two titles are found together it is ALWAYS "Lord and Savior" and never vise versa. (Luke 1:46; 2 Peter 1:11; 2:20, 3:18) |
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"The terrible thing is that so many preachers today, under the pretense of magnifying the Grace of God, have represented Christ as the Minister of sin; as One who has, through His atoning sacrifice, procured an indulgence for men to continue gratifying their fleshly and worldly lusts. Provided a man professes to believe in the virgin birth and vicarious death of Christ and claims to be resting upon Him alone for salvation, he may pass for a real Christian almost anywhere today, even though his daily life may be no different from that of the moral worlding who makes no profession at all. The Devil is chloroforming thousands into hell by this very delusion. The Lord Jesus asks, "Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and DO NOT the things which I say?" (Luke 6:46); and insists, "Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that DOETH the will of My Father which is in heaven." (Matt 7:21) "It is the bounden duty of every Christian to have no dealings with the "evangelistic" monstrosity of the day, to withhold all moral support...those preachers who tell sinners they may be saved WITHOUT forsaking their idols, WITHOUT repenting, WITHOUT surrendering to the Lordship of Christ are as erroneous and dangerous as others who insist that salvation is by works and that Heaven must be earned by our own efforts." (like Buddism, Judaism, Islam, New Age, etc.) |
