Restoring the Authority of Christian Doctrine in the Church

"doctrine and I've in a sense got no complaint against them at all I wouldn't expect them to like it they wouldn't be where they are if they did like it you don't expect anything from the world except rejection of Christian teaching the world has always done that there's nothing new about this nothing new at all it was the world that rejected the Lord Jesus Christ and his teaching it was the same world that rejected the teaching of these Apostles there's nothing new about that we don't expect the world to do anything different but this is what is new today and this is what is alarming and this is what is tragic that the opposition to Christian doctrine is not confined to the world it's at the very center of the teaching of the church" [00:06:05]

"Christianity has been taught as a theology a body of beliefs about God and His dealings with mankind it concerned the creation the fall of men the awful consequences of the Fall it concerned God's Plan of Salvation whereby he came down to earth as a man was crucified rose again from the dead and ascended into heaven in order to make possible the Forgiveness of sins and the gift of eternal life who to those who by faith accepted this amazing sacrifice of himself for the sins of the world these are the topics about which the councils of the church disputed and about which they drew up the Creeds" [00:08:09]

"it is harder for the Modern Men to believe in the Christian faith than it was for his forebears scientific and social re ution have produced the assumption that with knowledge and power men can make their own world life has become a do it yourself Affair and the sense of Providence has been weakened whereas men once prayed for rain he now builds reservoirs I must preach on that last sentence sometime not tonight whereas men once prayed for rain he now builds reservoirs" [00:10:50]

"here you see a men who are alarmed at the mar declension in taking place in this country the open arrogant unashamed Vice the selling of it in books the suggestion of it in plays and on the television and so on they hold up their holy hands in horror at all this this is terrible they say and they say these intellectuals who are behind this proposal they mustn't make this claim that they are the nerve center of the creative community in Britain no no the people who are at the nerve center of the creative Community the bishop of wch and tiik and some of these others who are mentioned who are prominent in other Realms and in other spheres" [00:15:57]

"here is a paper alarmed at the moral declension and yet at the same time attacking the apostolic teaching and lording men who are doing their utmost to deny the apostles Doctrine and teaching now this is a very serious thing because it is to me of all attitudes the most hopeless shall I be misunderstood I wonder when I say this I See Much Greater Hope for the people who are producing Penthouse than I do for the bishop of woolich and tiik and others who follow the same school of thought" [00:16:46]

"the Christian Church herself is attacking the only Doctrine and teaching that can deal with the moral situation and yet he doesn't see that it's blind to it alarmed at the moral situation but attacking and denying the only message that can deal with it now let me put that to you let me put it like this what is our answer then in terms of an exposition of this second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles well I'm not going to waste your time with all this nonsense about the Modern Man fancy talking about geology and biology as if it's our modern knowledge that makes people deny the gospel and live a life of sin" [00:17:39]

"the loss of the authority of the Bible and the institution that has been most responsible for the losing of the authority of the Bible has been the Christian Church herself for the last 100 years scholarship as it's called has been attacking the truth of the Bible and they're telling us that the Bible is only an ordinary book like every other book that's what John Wilson of willit says that's what tick says these men have riddled the Bible with their criticism there's no Authority here any longer they simply put up their own suppositions their own theories and their own speculations" [00:19:46]

"there's been a great reaction against the old Evangelical preaching the old Apostolic Doctrine and instead of it men have been preaching what was called before the first world war a social gospel preachers used to say no no that old gospel of individual personal salvation it's no good what we need is a social message so they've been preaching Social Gospel ethical teaching ing they say that's the only way to redeem society and this is the interesting thing the more they've done that and the less they've preached the apostolic Doctrine the more the immorality and the rice and the ethical problem have increased" [00:21:00]

"the ethical teachings of Christ, when divorced from the doctrine of His death and resurrection, become a hollow shell. The church must recognize that the gospel is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes." [00:23:33]

"the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and it is only through a relationship with God, grounded in His Word, that we can hope to see a revival of morality. The church must stand firm in its commitment to the truth of the gospel." [00:33:05]

"there is no standard ultimately apart from the law of God which is universal in its application and of course it was because it had that law that the nation of Israel the Jews stood out in the ancient world they were the most moral and ethical people for that one reason that it wasn't all speculation and relative positions they had the law of God hard as it had been revealed to them it accounts for their uniqueness very well then there is my first reason for rejecting as the very plague itself This Modern suggestion that we don't need the apostles doctrine that we simply need ethical teaching" [00:33:40]

"one that not only does it not give us any standard by which to live it doesn't give us any reason why we should live it either this is equally important I have no standards but now why should I be concerned even about standards why should the ethical problem engage my attention why should I be troubled by the proposal to print this magazine and similar things why should I be disturbed at the tendencies that are so evident before our eyes now here you see there is no reason given there is no motive given to me at all as to why I should TR to be moral and ethical why I should try to live a good life no reason there is no ultimate motive suggested" [00:34:19]