In my last post -
How to Set a Church on Fire - I introduced you to
Dr. Ian Paisley. Dr. Paisley stands in a long tradition of faithful ministers of our Lord Jesus Christ who are not afraid to preach his pure gospel. He stands in sharp contrast to the compromise ministers - such as Dr. Billy Graham - who recently made the news by praying with Mormon Presidential candidate Mitt Romney (see
Billy Graham Prays with Mitt Romney;
Billy Graham's Website Removes 'Mormonism' from Cult List)
"It is today as it was in the Reformer's days. Decision is needed. Here is the day for the man. Where is the man for the day?...If we turn to the right, mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way. But if we turn to the left, generations yet to come will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to his Word!"
Dr. Paisley and Dr. Graham represents a fork in the road for Christians. On the one hand, you have Billy Graham who has been quoted as saying: "My beliefs are essentially the same as those of the Roman Catholics." (See
A Woman Rides the Beast and the Introduction to
Faith Alone - The Evangelical Doctrine of Justification).
On the other hand, you have Dr. Ian Paisley. Hold on to your seats and listen to Dr. Paisley speak on
The Black Pope and His Murdermen - An Exposition of the Jesuits.
Over 100 years ago, Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon saw clearly this fork in the road, and left no doubt which direction those who love our Lord Jesus should take. He writes:
"We admire a man who was firm in the faith, say four hundred years ago...but such a man today is a nuisance, and must be put down. Call him a narrow minded bigot or give him a worse name, if you can think of one.
"Yet imagine that in those ages past Luther, Zwingli, Calvin and their compeers had said, 'The world is out of order, but if we try to get it right we shall only make a great row, and get ourselves into disgrace. Let us go to our chambers, put on our night caps, and sleep over the bad times, and perhaps when we wake up things will have grown better.'
"Such conduct on their part would have entailed upon us a heritage of error. Age after age would have
gone down into the infernal deeps, and the pestiferous bogs of error would have swallowed all. These men loved the faith and the love of Jesus too well to see them trampled on.
"It is today as it was in the Reformer's days. Decision is needed. Here is the day for the man, where is the man for the day? We who have had the gospel passed to us by martyr hands dare not trifle with it, nor sit by and hear it denied by traitors, who pretend to love it but inwardly abhor every line of it...look you, sirs, there are ages yet to come.
"It the Lord does not speedily appear, there will come another generation, and another, and all those generations will be tainted and injured if we are not faithful to God and to his truth today. We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right, mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way. but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to his Word."
Recommended reading:
A Marxist, a Mormon and a Catholic go into a Bar...
A Woman Rides the Beast - The Roman Catholic Church in the Last Days, by Dave Hunt
Faith Alone - The Evangelical Doctrine of Justification, by R.C. Sproul
The Vatican Exposed - Money, Murder and the Mafia, by Paul L. Williams
