The Unpopularity of Jesus and His Doctrines - A. W. Tozer Audio Sermons

not a night in the seventh chapter of John after these things Jesus walked in Galilee for they would not walk injury because the Jews are killing now the Jewish feast of tabernacles was at hand his bread and therefore said unto him depart hence and go into Judea that I disciples also may see the works that thou doest but there is no man that goes anything in secret and he himself seeketh to be known openly if thou do these things show thyself to the world for neither did his brethren believe in him then jesus said unto them my time is not yet come but your time is already the world cannot hate you but me admit it because I testify of it that the works there all are evil go ye up unto this feast I go up I go not up yet under this feast for my time is not yet full come when it said these words unto them you're both still in Galilee that's as far as we'll go tonight and I want you to relax and lean back and don't expect any thing amazing just over here the what the word of the Lord says and we'll see whether we can get real help out of this opening these opening verses now I call attention to this that Jesus walked in Galilee and he would not walk in Judea here called jury because the Jews sought to kill him now I see something here that I wonder if you see I see a perfectly poised and self-assured our Lord was in God his father he was perfectly free and earned influenced by a opinions he was not forced to be reckless to keep up his reputation it is great to be free to say Amen when you want to give it appropriate whether anybody else is saying it or not he perfectly quiet when everybody else is excited and to stand still when everybody else is running and to run when everybody else is standing still and it is strictly what you feel God wants you to do regardless now we have wonderful to be free employed and self-assured like that mostly we go along with the Brethren mostly particularly that inner circle of Brethren who are real Christians but Jesus our Lord was not stampeded by the opinions of the people they said why don't you go to Galilee and he said I am NOT going together to do Judy I'm not going there I'm staying in Galilee and he did stay in Galilee now he might have been afraid that someone would call in the tower he might have been afraid that somebody would say if you don't do that you're a coward then he got under bondage to that person who was accusing him of cowardice and would have gone to Judea out of the will of God but he was too free for that and too sure of himself in God so that he stayed in Galilee even though he was on the borderline of being thought afraid to go into Judea now there are people who are too cowardly not to do something and then there are those who are too cowardly to do it you see what I mean my friends but everybody is doing it and you see that it's not right for you to do it then it's possible to be too cowardly to obey your conviction you know we let ourselves get get jockeys into doing things that God does others - do you say well now what will the people say well usually the answer to that is what's the difference what the people say how Jesus didn't care what the people say he stayed in Galilee because he did not want to go up and put himself in jeopardy before the time and the historian what saying he was scared our Lord would not walk into a trap he would not go into an ambush there in Judea he was just plain frayed and he knew that they would say and yet he was so completely freeing God did he let him think and say what they wrote he stayed in Galilee and let's somebody would say well then he was afraid I remind you that when the time came for him to go he went I remind you that our Lord Jesus Christ did not know fear he sent word to Herod Herod said a word to him and somebody and said did you know the parent has said that where King Herod has said a word to you he was walking along he stopped and turned round and said you will tell that a rule pops out of you for three days and then I go just three days you wasn't afraid to call that King an old Fox because it wasn't afraid and when the tape time came he went up to Jerusalem and he told the people now the time has come I am going up to Jerusalem and I'm going in to fall into the hands of the Jews and they will sell me to the Gentiles the Gentiles will crucify me and I will be crucified and three days I'll be in the earth well he wasn't afraid he walked up Bowlen did what he had to do in the will of God he was neither afraid to poop out of power nor was he a coward he was just what he was in God now that's a good lesson that I wish we could learn so many of the Lord's people do things under bondage to other people's consciences because somebody else thinks their testimony is not quite consistent if you do this your testimony isn't consistent some fella says I believe the Lord heals all right he does and the Lord does healing maybe 15 times the 16th time Wayne feels that he has to go somewhere to get an operation or take a pill a vitamin cap tool or something but he's afraid to take it because he's afraid of what the people will say he's not a free man and then ought to be free to say that God now God you leave me and say to the people now God's leading me didn't expect me to do anything at all not what you expect if you expect me to disappoint you you can expect me to say and do things that you don't agree with and I will fall in your sight I will shrink and get little in your eyes because I'll be doing things you don't think I shouldn't be doing I'll be taking of course you're not approving oh my my if I'm a free in God I say now god I'm sorry that my brethren don't agree with me but this is the course now are leading me and go do what God's calling you to do now that was exactly what Jesus did he stood before Pilate and the was there's no panic there he'd had his bloody sweat in the Garden of Gethsemane and now porridge himself possessed sure of himself and unaffected by the consciences of other people or a public-opinion he went calmly out to die you were not even be turned aside by his he kind button but badly directed sympathies of these people he did what he did and that was that now that lesson number one for me and it's good if God people will only get out from under bondage to each other I've always had that to worry about when I go into the pub I when I go into other proof its other places I have that the father's name and I talked to myself I will mean audibly but I say to my own soul now wait a minute here friend you take a position that's different from these people and if you say the things to this congregation that you say at home people the whole know you and the ones that don't like you don't come and and you sing your audience out and they're there people who expect that kind of thing from you but these people don't know you and if they have you talk to them the way you talk at home your work people you will you'll get in back and you'll disappoint the man that called you and you'll disappoint the man that runs the meeting Oh calm down here just give them a nice little talk tonight now so help you God and every yield to that cowardly temptation never I'm never yield of that power to temptation I get up there take an outline that I preached at home first usually and bridge exactly harder preached at home but also if I have been preaching for our buttons under fire reading type of creature that expects high-pressure evangelism and preaching on hell three times a night and the Lord said now son now this this congregation needs love and grace and they've been preached hell it's been held over like an atom bomb given full-out and rapes I'll give them love and race even if the band that called me Fitz and frown first time I met brother McAfee was 11 years ago he was a song leader in the church in a certain section the city of Chicago and I was the Evangelist the pastor had called me over there and call him to lead the sink or he was there for what a party time and I understood after I had gone that he was very much disappointed in me he expected me to preach the loving evangelism with a few souls but instead of that I plowed into his congregation and they were headed and I plowed into them and I plowed in every blessed night I don't know what happened but I plowed it he didn't like it so well he was disappointed in me but I clean the bully right to disappoint men in order not to disappoint God Jesus didn't disappoint God but some people thought he was afraid notice what his brothers said to him and his foes of course were his blood brother son of his month sons of his month now they throw their their ignorance and their earthliness they said this to me they said depart hence and go into Judea that I disciples also may see the works without doers for there is no man that doeth anything in secret and he himself said seeketh to be little openly that I'll do these things show thyself to the world now they were creating Jesus in their own image they thought he had a right they thought they didn't believe in him it says so here and they didn't claim to be disciples they said if you want to get known the way we believe you do why don't you go up to Jerusalem where the great feast of tabernacles is on where you'll be able to talk to 20 people compared with the one they're talking to here why don't you go up and make yourself known if you want to put on this road rage' bracket why don't you go up there and get none other people who they said just trying to promote himself and yet stays with a little circle why don't you go upward is a big crowd now they were creating him in their own image they couldn't understand the selfless man they didn't know how to pray the man who didn't have an ax to grind or anything to gain our Lord was here to die for people not to win them - who is - to his political side or even his religious side he was here to die for men and save them now this my brethren is authentic cynicism a cynic you know the word cynic comes from the greek word dog the old cynics was it sour pusses that they snarled at the people they said their dog they call them sins now a cynic at the philosopher who believes with the devil that every man has his price you remember dr. max Reich's great sermon on job when he told us that the devil was the sin because he said young dumb don't serve God for love that cynicism that hedonistic philosophy or drink hedonistic philosophy that says everybody moves for his own ends and everything we do we do for our own ends heckles of hedonism cynicism of compounding years it was crystallized by the Greek philosophers but it's been in human nature all these years and we find it even now in human nature it was Clarence Darrow who said that when a man wouldn't Porter in the cap of a blind man on the street corner he didn't put that in the cap in order to help the blind man he put it in to make himself feel good now that cynicism you see that rat the devil's doctrine the doctrine that you that that every man has his price and that you can always be saved in looking back of the or of the motives the the facet of things to the real motives that every man is out for what he can get that cynicism and that of course what they said about the Lord they said now what are you doing looking down here in Galilee you're promoting a racket here why don't you go up with the clouds and get known if you're doing these things commentator says that that these things was casting records they didn't believe in the things he was doing doing in their real at what you say the islands you drop them show them off now my friend here was a complete misunderstanding of Jesus and what we can learn by from these things to true things we can learn here be careful about judging other people's motives you never quite know why a man does things you might know but you're likely not to know and particularly you're likely to be mistaken with you yourself are not in sympathy with what is doing so let's not judge each other's motives before the time and the second thing is that your own family may be the last people to accept you that is one of the hard things for us to get although why is it that our own family is the last of the livings Jesus own brethren now born of his old mother didn't believe in him they said why don't you take your disciples you grew up with your disciples your disciples that differentiated between his disciple and themselves the Brethren were not his disciples that is a tough one for us all a hard thing for any Christian to understand is why his own people do not believe or are the last to believe that's hard but you may figure on that that you see Jesus would grew up among them and they played together and this time bro and they said why we know this boy he's our brother what does he know anyhow he we know as much as he and they were right in it from the human angle but they didn't accept him and I suppose that was hard for Jesus to take the human Christ at his own brethren didn't believe in him and I want to tell you that it may be there believe in you in some other city before they'll believe in you in your own Hope House under your own roof now that's strange but a prophet is not without honor in except in his own country and among his own people so if you're having a hard time at home remember Jesus had a hard time at home and remember John Wesley's wife used to throw shoes at his head while he knelt and prayed in Latin so she couldn't understand and remember that many of the saints of God have not had an easy time at home for all the Christians that have an easy time at home I suppose we ought to be planted but sometimes Christians are made not in an easy home but in the fiery furnace of Opposition Jesus Christ our Lord Himself was not believed in by his own people now that's a little lesson now notice about Christ in the world that lesson number three the world cannot hate you he said but me it hate the world can't hate you why did he say this because they were part and parcel of the world and a house divided against itself cannot sustain the world cannot hate you because there is a spirit that indwells the world and you are part of that spirit he said and that spirit is in you the world people can call and the blood each other's noses but basically they're warm they're one spirit and therefore the world clings together they're United and the spirit that's in the world jesus said many times that the world was one that he made the world it collected now me in unit no that's good at the dwelled in the world is empty God and Antichrist this is what's so hard to make people see in the dead which we live so very hard to make people see but the spirit that lives in the unregenerate world is Antichrist and antique God in Ephesians Paul tells us that plainly he tells us that plainly Romans our Lord tells us mainly in the Gospel of John that the spirit in John the first John tells us the same thing the spirit that dwelleth in the world is hostile to God and hostile to Christ this thing of cold peaceful coexistence between the born-again and the unborn again here is a myth they that are born of the flesh persecute them that are born of the Spirit even as it is today said the Holy Ghost in your person no peaceful coexistence can only be maintained by unworthy compromise on the part of the people of God Christ it all together of another spirit the two spirits are entirely this is why I don't understand the people can get this it's so simple it's a biblical it is found in the writings of the Saints it's part of the thiol idea of the Church of Christ it is the believe the traditional evangelical believe the sets from the Pentecost to the present hour and yesterday people don't see it and I always feel somehow that I'm not a gear in the times when I remind people what plainly taught in the scriptures that the spirit that in dwell of the unborn again world is an anti-god Antichrist spirit hostile to God and not subject to the law of God neither can it be and when we become truly born again something is born into us that is hostile to the world not welcome to the poor suffering dying people of the world but hostile to that religion of pain that fills the world now the world cannot hit you and Jesus said I testify that their works they're all more evil he that is born of the flesh persecuted him was born to spirit someone said that Jesus our Lord when he came into the crowd he he he made the heart condemn itself whatever makes the heart condemn itself will never be forgiven keep that in mind you can talk religion to people and they'll come back for more but when you are so spirit filled and so in touch with God that your life and your demeanor and your very presence is for porn Christ like that it rebukes the sinner and makes it old and our turn against them and condemn itself you're a marked man you'll not be forgiven until of course conviction comes on that soul and he falls down before is God and finds hope a lot of criticism of Leonard Ravenhill ladies and gentlemen I think we need a little more Leonard Ravenhill in these days in which we live I'll have no part in meetings that simply console all the saints and give them more assurance and Pat their that reality and and smooth down the hack along on their lovely carnal banks and then we'll part in it because sin is a reality and devilish terrible damning grave filling hello filling reality and when we take the stand against it we're going to raise the anger of the rooms whose hearts feel shall commend because of religions every place now every place somebody sent me an article called patty on the Potomac as written in one of the current magazines worth national magazines for the reporter but I was headed to meet with three pages and they show how that it's in vogue now they're religious I remember just between the two world wars without the boat to be religious you couldn't be intellectually respectable and be religious but after Second World War they said there was no way that we're going isn't possible then became religious or intellectually respectable to be religious I was religious all the time in between respectable or not respectable and some of you were but they have now given us the right to be religious and it's quite the proper thing to say something nice about God but gerber is one thing to say something nice about God it's quite another thing to be so in God that your very breath makes the hearts of men condemn themselves they won't forgive you for that you can talk all you want about religion being good for mankind - they'll approve you and you can say I think there are any churches in every community and they'll nod and say that's right you you can say I believe that the teachings the morality upon which America was founded ought to be restored they'll all nuns and that's right that's fine that's fine wherever that's true doctor that's good brother but when you get past that keen-eyed religion that religion of patriotism and and shallow philosophy and and get past that and through to the point where it's either Christ or damnation and you won't be lying and doing this you're going to you're going to find that same spirit rising up against you God the spirit that gives in Christ and the spirit that is in the religious world or fossil - enough or in the world I'm not talking about the church's 9 talking about the world you know you know what the Jews said about Jesus they said some of them said he's a good name another said no he just sees the people whose side are you on on that here's the debate here was debate here they screwed and their little beard you're quivering with anger in your eyes flashing he's a good man said something no but he deceives the people said other oh there was a dividing line in Jesus always a dividing line oh you walk down the street you draw a knife played between men and one side are you on he is a good man nobody deceived the people whose side are you on on this I don't mind telling you bluntly I'm on the side of those who said maybe but he deceived the people now let's talk show you what I mean they both believed that he was just a man and believing that he was just a man and not God it took their size and some said he is just a man but he's a good name and the other said if he is just a man he's a deceiver and he's not a good man whose side are you I'm on the side of those who said he's not a good man if he's lying to the people he's not who he said he is he's not a good man the other said no but now women here don't don't come them that's the way he works that's his religion that's don't condemn other people religion that his religion and he believes that not perfectly all right it's all right so it said on the radio broadcast I heard to see him alive aggressive afternoon he said I have a cream what was his Creed it was something about if you'd always be good where I think would go well with you and now let's say that he Creed let him alone they say don't bottle don't disturb me alright intent on a subscription you're condemning other people other people with chains were failing worships and Judas's worship and the worship that Paul condemns in his epistles and price castigated in his teachings and John condemned in his teachings and the evangelism reformers on the centuries have had to stand up and protest the pagan religion of the world and accept everybody's religion Jesus Christ was not the good man if he would only a man he had to be more than a man but else he was deceiving the people they were both wrong for they both began on a wrong premise it was that he was a name if they had said he's a good man and he's a god man they didn't write but they said he's a good name sure he's mistaken but he's a good name certainly he was extreme but he's a good name certainly he's making demands that we can fulfill but he's a good man certainly he's talking about things that just couldn't be so but he's a good man that kind of smirking holler and religion is worse than atheism I rather than English and have that kind of religion he's a good man he's a good man of course he's mistaken he's a child and he's a me but he's a good man now if he's only a man he's anything but a good man for he led the people to believe in him as God and if he was not God he was the world top liar and when you come and say your God we smile at the little colored man in New York I'd always New York not Iran now but I think he's in Keating Philadelphia little pellets and he's wonderful and God we saying that cute the little bald-headed boy said I'm God he is not cute brethren it's had it it's terrible remand to see the people that's not a good man and the man who leads people to believe that he is what he's not is not a good name even though he can prove he can point to good that has been done not everything that does good is good remember that and not everyone who is capable of doing some good sometimes is to be trusted there's a great divine any well intentioned religion is good says some and the others say no he's either gone or he has tragically misled generations I think my psychic and I say but I found him to be now Jesus Christ cannot be tolerated as being merely good he must either be obeyed or yet neither obeyed or get one death but this is the day of the tolerance of the Lord Jesus we're tolerating now in civilized the civilized world for tolerating just as we tolerate the queen-mother here that broadcast every day with the Queen Mother made a national speech it'll house my government soon later dr. Klaus your little lady she was nice we tolerate Queens when they come over here them and call them your majesty but they true tolerance and basically we don't we don't believe in we believe in the democratic processes believe no man's a king or queen in America or rather every man every woman McLean we tolerate them smilingly treat them nicely and Jesus had been tolerated by society he gets into the newspapers now magazines and his name as you read over the radio a lot Tom to somebody with the speeches me he is the tolerated sin no no no he can't be can't be how long can it go on I'm not a puppet but I think a little common sense will help me to see something we've been scared by communism we've been scared quite by the dangers of the cobalt bomb we've been told that people would go sterile and couldn't reproduce the human race it was under more radiation where we've been told what it works I thought no later than today yesterday's press we've been told that there's enough radiation in the air now because women who produce instead of healthy offspring cripples and deformed people we've been frightened we're a jittery scared frightened people and we're tolerating Jesus Christ as a cow tolerate the bush in our octane we're getting up with hiding from the Flies and the heat because we won't maybe if we're good someone help us and we get a little help spirit of George Washington or something else whether or not wonder how long much longer we're going to continue to be scared now let me prophesy a little and I don't know I need to apologize for but let me tell you something maybe I won't be here to see it maybe I will give I am out of mind let me tell you something if there comes a period of peace if there should come I don't know the ten but if there should come a period in the world when Russia is no longer feared as an aggression and when some kind of nine nations or something else has pushed war into the remote future and there's no longer anything to be scared about we will see such a reaction from our present religious piety as you haven't seen since the 17th century in France we will see the church's lefty and then go there Holloway's you can only scare a man into being good so long and when he gets hardened to the scare there's no longer afraid of the future then his carnal self will go in a wild thing you will see what will help have happen in America we're a scared people now so everybody's talking about trying the Lord and turning to God being religious but we're not making Jesus Christ Lord of our lives in this country and we're not drawing the line fine and saying I believe in him not as a good man but as my god and savior and Lord we're saying rather he's a good man and I believe religion ought to be promoted I think we ought to do better and acknowledge the Lord and when we say we're here for one nation indivisible under God I think we ought to put that phrase under God I was the other night a high school gathering and when they did the pledge to the side that the first time I'd ever heard it the phrase hundred gone he God We Trust says the dollar that some scoundrel is prying out of our will he God We Trust says the dollar that some punk is winning at the in the gambling day no my brother is going to be more than in god we trust' it's going to be more than under God we do this and that going to be more than friendly gestures in the direction of God before God Almighty spray power comes into a human life to make it over order there has to be an acknowledgment of the lordship of Jesus he is Lord to the glory of God the Father and we think that I would make that assertion now he is Lord to the glory of God he tells us the day will be when in hell they'll make that assertion they'll grind it out of there hots blister teeth he is Lord to the glory of God and all around the world that admit me as Lord the glory of God to fire who are the ransom who are the same who are his friends there are loans that admit it enough but say not he's a good name not he deceived the people but he is Lord to the glory of God the opening night of physic the first little talk I gave my little nine points I didn't know whether they'd run me down the alley or whether they would accept me except the red pad want to print the print of all the things that I said was this there is no Savior would without porch you cannot receiving that Savior and denying was Lord you cannot be saved and bought your own life he is Lord to the glory of God the Father or he's just a good man friends we gotta make up her mind stuff isn't it wouldn't you like me or something sweeter well I should be here this morning I preached on me immortality and last week I preached on the descent of the holy city no conscience in that nobody scared in that everybody looking forward to the holy city coming down from God out of heaven as a bride adorned for who's going to be the ones that will see it who'll enter into it they live only with the lower in this hour they grew in the midst of piety and religion and soft talk and paper to them it stood out and said whatever the world believes I take him as my Lord and see my Lord and my god they're the happy ones old Jerusalem the golden all they stand those halls and I'm all jubilant with song and write with many an angel and all the martyrs on the Saints are ever in them the daylight is serene the pastures of the Blessed are decked with glories brethren they who have taken in this lower whose side are you he that is not for me is against you there can be no new color no new color before some things that can be known with holiday when Hitler is not ism is capturing the world am an older book sake called only the stars are neutral there's no authority when it comes in a system there's no talent and it comes to communism something you can't be neutral about stand up and they come take your medicine like a man when it comes to Jesus Christ is no new color he that is not for me is against me either gathered not with me scattereth abroad wouldn't it be a terrible thing if in that hour we find that we had been camp followers of the Lord mixed multitude only wouldn't it be a tragic thing if we found in that day that we hadn't had never really obeyed him we've been ruled through believing in him by thoughts of fear or thoughts of how much better country is a belief in God you've heard men say our noble heritage of religion and charmless but we ourselves never actually founding God and see that would be a terrible thing I think and much worse for you because you have had a chance to know I prefer didn't prove that it would be frightfully returned terrible for me I preach to others my subunit cast Tara tell I'd rather died like my old old man back in the hills of Pennsylvania that got old and they shot him to get him out of his misery better had I died and sleep beside his old congressman that I stand and preach these holy things and myself here which side are you he that is not with me she gets no neutrality there - before I miss to believe on Him obey Him and let the world know let the world know underground more Christian underground no hiding place no underground if you deny me before men I will deny you before my father which I tell the world never let him hear the last of it he's my Lord and my god to the glory of God the boss never like the world you're the left you would hide stop doing something you begin doing others start giving your tithes and start pegging the missions start attending services but don't tell anybody you're Christian no no no you can't do it he that is not forming against me he that's not gathering with under my banners gathering under my enemy's manner you're denying me before men I didn't either before God in him that's the world that's the world not the whole intelliwhite people what God hath done for thee go home to school and let the people in school know what God's done for thee that everybody loved don't hide obey Him as Lord and Savior means you leave on him obey him and let the world astray Lord who Lord Jesus our Lord the great world sons of Cain nice people many friendly people people that would give a dollar who got in trouble then does our lawnmower help us if we got a flat tire good people but in religion followers of that man who brought the flowers and didn't bring the light maybe Cain maybe Abel's this position wasn't his nicest he he's found the refuge under blood he was born of the new spirit then he that was only born once murdered him that was born twice Oh God we hate the thing we love people we love the world we want to get along with everybody we wish that we could always nod our head may men everything everybody says we think to be on the other side we hate to be stubborn contentious but old Jesus they're saying that a good man now there's a say no religion deceived people so they're fighting it out they're both wrong oh Christ but more than remand our God how our God that self God begotten of the father before all ages I like that self man born Mary in time a perfect man and perfect God compounded this night all Lord Jesus we paid the carelessness and the the brain easiness might go out of our spirit we might we know Lord we take knives even if it's against our friends we take nice you only Lord the bus's to do tell us what to do we promise to behave you would be disciples of I'm taking the cross and following movie paper and may this night not have taken this way pray for such baby here God have mercy endures mercy whoa some of God have mercy tonight for the world is very evil and the times I waxing late the judgments drawing near the seats the Lord pity in despair and forgiving have mercy on our horse the accident

Channel: Christian Sermons and Audio Books

Views: 30,727

Rating: 4.8990293 out of 5

Keywords: a.w.tozer sermons, a.w.tozer, a w tozer sermon, Christian (Adherents), Jesus Christ (Deity), Pastor (Profession), Preacher (Profession), God (Deity), tozer sermons, aw tozer, aw tozer sermons, a w tozer, Sermon (Literature Subject), a.w. tozer, tozer, a w tozer audio, a.w. tozer sermon, a.w tozer, a w tozer sermons, a. w. tozer, a.w tozer sermons, A. W. Tozer (Deceased Person), Christianity (Religion), a. w. tozer sermons, audio sermons, A. W. Tozer Audio Sermons

Id: zlCPvZidduQ

Length: 46min 48sec (2808 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 27 2011