The Effectual Call (Rom. 8:28-30)
Image from Pixabay I’m not a prophet or the son of a prophet. However, I believe that sometimes pastors are meant to speak prophetically – not in the sense of giving new revelation or foretelling but in the sense of forthtelling and speaking old truth to those who have forgotten it. Now I see a lot of men in pulpits today who seem to think they are prophets, but who only speak against people who are not in their tribe. However, the Biblical prophets spent far less time pointing the finger at the Ammonites and saying, “Badly done, Ammon, badly done!” and spent far more time addressing the problems among their own people. That’s what I feel called to do today. What I mean by that is that this message today is intended to correct what I believe to be some serious doctrinal problems that have for some time been circulating among the Primitive Baptists. Today I am going to preach what you might call a polemical sermon. I sort of did that last S...
