Recently, I have been going over a diary that I have kept for a number of years, and I stumbled on some of the notes I took from Rev. Den Butter's sermons. Some of those notes I incorporated into my recent post: The Pharisee, The Publican, and the Sandy Hook Massacre. Below is yet another excerpt from a sermon I heard by Rev. Den Butter in the early 1980s:
"Jesus
of Nazareth passes by. Don't let this opportunity slip. Why should you do
it? Why should you run the risk to be lost in the place of the
damned? What is so valuable in life, that you would put your soul in
jeopardy? Can I not persuade you? Can I not convince you that there
must be a calling upon the Lord? Remember, if we fail to make use of
God's offer of grace, we will regret it throughout all the ages of
eternity. And there are many at this very same moment that weep and
cry and wail because of their lost condition. Jesus passed by and
they did not cry. And now they cry, but they are lost, and why are
they lost? Not because of any unwillingness on the part of Jesus to
save them. But because Jesus passed by, and they did not cry out to
him!”
That's calvinism! And Calvinism is just another word for the Gospel!
