Your sermon of the week is Romans 3 by Paul Washer. Many of the sermons featured on DefCon are directed toward those already converted (or at least warming a pew). I have been looking for a good sermon for the lost and I think this one may be it.
I think this message provides a clear presentation of the gospel, one that the unconverted outisde the church needs to hear as well as the unconverted inside the church.
This week’s sermon is a message that Paul Washer delivered at his own mother’s funeral service. It is only 19 minutes in duration and is entitled Sermon at Barbra Washer’s Funeral Service.
Regeneration is the supernatural work of God whereby the sinner’s dead, depraved heart of stone is replaced with a new heart that is both willing and able to respond to God in love and obedience.
– Paul Washer
The Church in contemporary America does not need more strategies, steps, or keys to the Christian life. The Church needs truth, and more specifically, the great foundational truths of historical Christianity.
– Paul Washer
God is a holy God, that’s something that the Americans have forgotten. Many of the things that you love to do, God hates. Did you know that? . . . . You’re going to have a youth meeting, you want God to move, but before you go there you watch programs on television that God absolutely despises and then you wonder why the Holy Spirit hasn’t fallen on a place and why you have to create false fire and false excitement.
– Paul Washer
There seems to be a great abyss separating the biblical theologian and the Christian in the pew. While the theologian is able to climb the Everest of God’s truth and be transformed by the vision, he often communicates the vision in a language that is beyond us. Thus, we are left at the mercy of popular Christian literature that is often nothing more than quaint stories, pragmatism, and baptized psychology.
– Paul Washer
Regeneration is the supernatural work of God whereby the sinner’s dead, depraved heart of stone is replaced with a new heart that is both willing and able to respond to God in love and obedience.
– Paul Washer
This new message from Paul Washer is–in my opinion–one of his top five sermons (if not in the top three). What he preached to the church youth in his famous “Shocking Sermon” (audio here, video here) regarding false conversion, he now delivers to the preachers, teachers, and pastors who are creating all those false converts. If you only listen to one sermon this week, or month, make it How to Witness to the Lost, the Biblical Way, then pass this on to someone who is making false converts; it is a message that must be heard.
In modern day evangelism, this precious doctrine [of regeneration] has been reduced to nothing more than a human decision to raise one’s hand, walk an aisle, or pray a “sinner’s prayer.” As a result, the majority of Americans believe that they’ve been “born again” (i.e., regenerated) even though their thoughts, words, and deeds are a continual contradiction to the nature and will of God.
– Paul Washer
Oh young person, you want to wear the Christian T-shirts, and sing the Christian music, and hang around with Christian friends, but how many of you will wear out a Bible and say “I must know this, else I die?”
– Paul Washer
Source: Slice of Laodicea
A faithful DefCon reader made the following videos containing sermons from Paul Washer and Jonathan Sims and sent them to me to share with you. I hope they are a blessing to you all. Thanks Wendy!
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Paul Washer addresses the psychological manipulation involved in the “alter call.”
Your Sermon of the Week is part four of the four-part family series by Paul Washer. This one is entitled Father, Where Are You? Listen to it here or download it here. Paul Washer delivers a profound sermon on the family that should be heard by everyone.
This series changed my view pertaining to the family and I highly encourage you to check it out for yourself. I also recommend you check out part one, two, and three.
How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? . . . How many times have I heard evangelists say, “It’ll only take five minutes.“? No my dear friend, it will take your life–all of it! “We’re just trying to attract people and then we’ll gradually bring them in further and further.” That is what the cults do, that’s not what Jesus did. Notice that in the gospels every time a great crowd is following Jesus, he turns around and says something so radical to them that most of them walk away. Of course Jesus probably would not get invited to teach evangelism [in most churches today].
– Paul Washer
Many people will read these passages and say, “Ok, you got to believe in Jesus but you have to have works to or you’re not going to Heaven.” They do not understand salvation. We are not saying here that in order to be saved you have to believe in Jesus and then you got to add to that works, what we’re saying is that if you believe in Jesus it’s because God has already done a work of regeneration through which he’s completely changed your heart, made you into a new creature created in the image of God, in true holiness and righteousness and you have to have good works. Because just like a sinner has to sin, the righteous have to do righteously.
– Paul Washer
There are so many people, especially in my own denomination . . . because of the pathetic theology and pathetic preaching . . . on church membership rolls—and they are as lost as they can be. Because we have forgotten that salvation does not cometh by praying and asking Jesus to come into your heart; salvation does not come by going through four spiritual laws and saying a prayer at the end; salvation does not come by all these silly little mechanisms we’ve developed. It comes as a supernatural work of God through which God regenerates, makes the heart alive, He gives the man repentance, He gives the man faith, the man repents, he believes and is saved. And it is a supernatural work of God that manifests as much if not more of the power of God than when God stood on the first day and said, “Let there be light.”
– Paul Washer
Your Sermon of the Week is part three of a four-part family series by Paul Washer. This one is entitled Responsibility, The Duty of Fathers. Listen to it here or download it here. Paul Washer delivers a profound sermon on the family that should be heard by everyone. I encourage you to check out parts one and two.
Your Sermon of the Week is part two of a four-part family series by Paul Washer. This one is entitled Honor, The Gateway to Blessings. Listen to it here or download it here. Paul Washer delivers a profound sermon on the family that should be heard by everyone. I encourage you to check out part one here.
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