AN APPEAL TO SINNERS
"You
are maimed and your arms are gone. But you are worse off than that, for if you
could not work your way to heaven, yet you could walk your way there along the
road by faith; but you are maimed in the feet as well as in the hands; you feel
that you cannot believe, that you cannot repent, that you cannot obey the
stipulations of the gospel. You feel that you are utterly undone, powerless in
every respect to do anything that can be pleasing to God. In fact you are
crying out-
Oh, could I but believe,
Then all would easy be,
I would, but cannot; Lord,
relieve!
My help must come from thee.*
To
you I am sent also. Before you I to
lift the blood-stained banner of the cross, to you I am to preach this gospel, ‘Whoso
calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved;’ and unto you I am to cry ‘Whosoever
will, let him come and take of the water of life freely.’"**
*extracted
from a hymn by John Newton
** From
the New Park Street Pulpit, Vol. 4 (sermon called “Compel Them to Come In, Luke
14:33)
Copied from The History of the English Calvinistic Baptists 1771-1892 by Robert W. Oliver, pages 343-344
Copied from The History of the English Calvinistic Baptists 1771-1892 by Robert W. Oliver, pages 343-344
Here
we have an example of a self-admitted Calvinist, whole-heartedly committed to
the doctrines of grace giving an evangelistic appeal for sinners to cry out to
God for salvation, begging for help, not from them, but from God. This is a far
cry from, ‘Just ask Jesus into your heart.’ Don't you think so?
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Gregg Metcalf has served as the Teaching Pastor of Surprise Valley Baptist Church (Cedarville, CA) and the Mirror Lake Baptist Church (Federal Way, WA.) He graduated from Shasta Bible College in 1989. Gregg is married to Irene and the Lord has blessed them with four daughters and six grandchildren, with a great grandchild on the way. Gregg invites your comments and interaction concerning his posts and this blog! Gregg enjoys reading, boating, song-poem writing, and his family.