PAUL WASHER | OTHERS CAN, YOU CAN'T.

when I was a brand new convert one of my dear friends had was talking to Leonard Raven Hill the old English revivalist and said Brother Paul's really been struggling with some things I was a brand new believer just a year or two old Leonard Raven Hill sent me a track the track said others can you cannot and what that track basically said was this yes others can play with the world others can walk hand inand with the world others can live trivial lives and play Trivial games but if you want to be an instrument of God you can not the Christian Life does not begin with what you do it begins with what you don't do because if you don't turn away from some things it doesn't matter what you do on the other side it doesn't matter if you take a shower five times a day if seven times a day you fall back into the cpol we are a people called by God do you see that we have been called out of this world out of its moral filth out of its moral okay we have been called out of its its trivial the trivial that it does playing with marbles wasting its life until it finally crawls into the grave no wiser than when it started you've been called out to serve him you've been called out for eternity you've been called out so come out the things in your life that are soiling you the things in your life that are holding you back the sins that are besetting you let them go you say well I'm in a holy church it doesn't matter if you're in a holy church if you're not a holy person you say I'm in a church that that is really really given to the Great Commission it doesn't matter if you're not given to the Great Commission you don't fight this war by proxy you you are so special you have a place you have a place come out not just leaving immorality behind leaving the trivial behind so much wasted time so much looking and looking and looking no no that's not for you as wine is to be given for those who have no hope let those things be given to people who have no hope but you have hope of eternal life and eternal glory and of Eternal purpose oh take sleeper and arise come out from among them he has called you to be Sons and Daughters you were born in Zion your name is inscribed in the book come out and join forces with those who labor with those who suffer with those who cry with those who fight present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to God acceptable to God what do we care about whether or not we're acceptable to this world this Dark Twisted stinking filthy world that now now the West turned over to a parent reprobation and apart from a Revival will run headlong into hell what do we care Let the dead speak to the dead your only concern is to be acceptable to God and do what is pleasing in his sight that's your only only concern and again I'm not talking to a group of people I'm talking to you and you and you and you acceptable to God which is your spiritual service of worship the word can also mean rational remember one time dealing with there was an atheist that had been brought to me by a person who claimed to be a Christian but lived in continuous carnality wanted me to witness and I just stopped and I said you know what I have more problems with you than I have with the atheist and they said how can you say that I said because he's consistent he he's immoral and that's consistent with what he says he believes there is no God there is no absolute truth he can run on Instinct and at least I have to applaud his logic but you you have no rationality to you you're a walking contradiction if Jesus Christ is Lord to you and he is but if you claim to be aware of it that he is your lord you acknowledge Him has lord well there's an issue there it's called sovereignty Lords are sovereign and they reveal their Sovereign will through certain decrees this book the most rational thing you can do is give your life away Jim Elliott he is no fool to give up that which he cannot keep to gain that which he can never lose

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Published: Thu Apr 25 2024