Being Astonished Is Not Enough
The crowd was astonished both at the matter and manner of His preaching, for He spoke with weight, a majesty, an earnestness which carried conviction. They were filled with a temporary wonderment: yet it is not said that they repented or believed on Him or became His disciples. A.W. Pink, The Sermon on the Mount, […]
His House Fell
Sometimes God exposes those who have made an eminent profession by sending them such anguish of conscience and foretastes of hell that at the end they are exposed to all around them. A notable example of this was Francis Spira in the seventeenth century. A.W. Pink, The Sermon on the Mount, Chapter 63
A House Built Upon Sand
A mere intellectual assent to the Gospel or a belief in the historical Christ is worthless, for it brings forth no spiritual fruits. To hear and acquiesce and then perform not is a mocking of God. A.W. Pink, The Sermon on the Mount, Chapter 62
Obedience
From all that has been before us on the different points it will be seen that everything goes back to and turns upon the word “doeth”: that strikes the keynote of the verse, and therefore its dominant theme is our practical compliance with the Divine will. A.W. Pink, The Sermon on the Mount, Chapter 61
Sobering
No wonder there is now so much dishonesty among those in the pew when there has been such dishonesty in the pulpit. A.W. Pink, The Sermon on the Mount, Chapter 60, “Profession Tested”
Depart From Me
Here then is the awful verdict: “I never knew you”; no, not even when you were preaching and working in My name. You may have deceived yourselves and those to whom you ministered, but it was impossible to impose upon Me. A.W. Pink, The Sermon on the Mount, Chapter 59
Give Diligence!
Yet again, A.W. Pink uses the sharp word of God to pierce through the formalism that we, by nature, love. We must have clear teaching so that we will not be deceived about our own case. How cautiously and conscientiously should we examine ourselves, testing the grounds of our hope, determining whether or not there […]
False Faith
Such a strong warning from Mr. Pink, and so obviously needed in our day. We are so far from what Jesus taught, that we almost cannot see how fitting this is to the majority of “Christians” today. Such a faith consents not to take a whole Christ: it will embrace Him as a Saviour, but […]
If True Then…Then What About Now?
“Never were there so many millions of nominal Christians on earth as there are today, and never was there such a small percentage of real ones. Not since before the days of Luther and Calvin, when the great Reformation effected such a grand change for the better, has Christendom been so crowded with those who […]
The Duty of Warning
Jesus’ words “Beware of false prophets” is not an empty warning. Nor is it merely a thing just for the individual believer. Pink describes it this way: “The very fact that eternal destiny is involved by what we believe is sufficient to show the deep seriousness of the issue here raised. He who has the […]