And so many of you think 'Doug Wilson is kinda OK...'
The person giving this sermon is so strikingly stupid it's impossible to even make fun of him.
That he's part of Doug Wilson's crew shouldn't surprise.
His main point is: "Why do all these corrupt, worldly religious movements survive in the world and the biblically sound movements die out?"
Well? Be...cause....the worldly, corrupt movements are in their element? Possibly?
And the assumption that biblically sound movements 'die out' is God-mockingly moronic. God always has His remnant, and apostolic biblical doctrine never dies out. The Word of God never dies out. And the effect of His elect - always a small number compared to the numbers of the world - is always profound and usually becomes part of the very ground you stand on (but in the case of some, like this sermon-deliverer, what is in the foundation is too obvious to be reocognized and too taken for granted to be valued).
You also see a lack of historical perspective in this person's 'insights' that is all too typical of the formally educated these days. If he could go back in time and see the Puritans at any point of their history he'd see a very small band of believers in a sea of unbelievers and worldly corruption. The effect of just one real school (such as the school of Geneva) is always out-of-proportion to the numbers involved in the school. That is how God's Word and God's influence through His elect works in this world. If your standard is 'numbers' don't look to Biblical Christianity.
I would normally go on with some satire on a fool like this, but these Wilsonites are pure ministers of the devil working 'inside the tent' of Reformed Theology and Calvinism (which will get them a special sentence when they are judged, by the way) and just need to be labeled as such which doesn't take too many words.
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An addendum to a critique on this individual's sermon could also be how post-millennial eschatology endumbnifies one in their doctrine in a wholly-orbed way... That is to say, if the person isn't just using post-millennial eschatology purposely and consciously to defile biblical doctrine to begin with...
All this nonsense, though, is what happens when practice isn't married to doctrinal study. You have nowhere to go but to get warped.
A regenerate Christian can discern the truth (can know the truth). Once you get there you have to take the step of actually doing the Faith. Going to the practical level.
But my assumption is I'm talking to regenerate souls and not the mischivous knaves and devils who mock God and mock God's Word and who wake up every morning with renewed intent to defile biblical doctrine in any subtle or not-so-subtle way they can possibly do it...
I'm now currently listening to this devil's entire sermon, and he, on cue, is descending deeper and deeper into his satanic argument. The more he unfolds his mind and purpose in this sermon the more the devil grins out from behind the mask of his face.
See, folks, and I get castigated by wet boys like Frank Turk for criticizing Doug Wilson and his followers. "You can't criticise a minister of the Word!"
Real Christians are rare, folks. Stick to the Bible and very time-vetted teachers like Mr. Calvin...
God how shallow this boy is. Either that or his 'angle' to deliver his satanic message assumes a shallowness in his church that even I wouldn't suspect exists in a visible church...
The ramblings of this individual are the ramblings of an unregenerate fool.
This is why regenerate Christians aren't in the visible churches. We don't waste our time listening to fools like the person giving this sermon.
He is so deeply shallow he poses his intellectual pet words and concludes with sentences such as: "We have to think long and hard how to get this (sentimentalism, rationalism, etc.) out of our thinking, or else we will forever be the uncool people in the commercials."
Yes, this is posing a practical solution to an everyday concrete problem...
How about just saying: read the Bible and pray that God regenerate you? Maybe?
And notice how he talks as if he is giving a lecture to a typical student-type audience. Like he has the power to give a passing grade. He has that kind of inane 'menace' in his voice that says: "You must listen to and agree with my vain ramblings, and you know why... (hiss, hiss)."
He ends his sermon by posing 'Reformed' as something that represents a people or culture rather than representing simply biblical doctrine. He can't understand why the 'world' can't be a part of 'Reformed'. He's not just stupid, folks (though he is that), he is a propagandist against biblical doctrine. He focuses on the term 'Reformed' and 'Calvinist' for a reason: to smear in propaganda style apostolic biblical doctrine. This is his sole aim. Notice his obvious pleasure in mocking 'Reformed' and 'Calvinist'. He is mocking God's Word. In mocking biblical doctrine and people who hold to it he is mocking God and God's Word and God's people.
At the very end he even suggests that 'Reformed' are possibly 'demonic'.
The amount of juvenile projection in his entire worldview and performance is also another theme I could hit on, but... Enough of this devilish garbage.
> The ramblings of this individual are the ramblings of an unregenerate fool.
Well said.
Of course you could be being sarcastic or ironic and referring to me, but if not, or, either way your meaning could turn, thank you...I think...
Regeneration, though, is always the central, underlying subject. It's the most important thing. Without regeneration a person isn't even capable of seeing the truth. So, this is why I always end up just saying: read the Bible complete. Regeneration is effected, when it is, by the Word and the Spirit. But you can draw close to God and He says He will draw close to you. He also says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God... Do both by reading the Word of God. Dedicated complete reading(s).
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