I want you tonight, if you will, to understand my heart. I...I have to confess to you that the biggest grief, of course, in my life and you will understand this because it is yours as well and it is the Lord's, is that we find no pleasure in the death of the wicked. We find no delight in people who are condemned to hell. We long that people be saved. That is the great heart cry of every true Christian, salvation for all they know. As we learned from the story this morning of the rich man in hell, even in hell he had an evangelistic passion wanting somebody to go and warn his brothers. If that is the impulse of those who are the damned, what kind of impulse do the redeemed have for the salvation of sinners that they may escape eternal hell? There are many religions in the world who promise heaven and do not deliver it; many religions in the world that are satanic deceptions. All of them, in fact, but the true faith and the true gospel fall into that category.
Roman Catholicism belongs in the category of false religions, clearly. Not because of what I say about them, but because what they say about the Bible and what they say about the gospel and what they say about religion. All one needs to do to understand a false religion is to see what they believe and understand what they advocate and they can be then measured against the Word of God so that we can clearly understand that.
Today there is a very, very aggressive and concerted effort among evangelical people, so many of whom don't know the true gospel...
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“ Couldn't stop listening! ” I was brought up in the Catholic Church, but never in my wildest fantasies could I have imagined it as Pastor MacArthur describes it here. His sources are impeccable, and I know he's not making any of this up (unbelievable though it may seem). MacArthur is among the most compelling, forceful and clear speakers in the evangelical Christian world today. I don't know whether his reformed theology jibes with his dispensationalism, and I really don't care. Eschatology bores me to death anyway, and probably should be left to those who thrive on speculation. There's a good reason why Calvin wrote no commentary on the Book of Revelation.
In any case, a beginner in evangelical Christianity could probably learn all he or she needs to know by reading the bible and listening to MacArthur.
Widely known for his thorough, candid approach to teaching God’s Word, John MacArthur is a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker, and has served as pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969. John and his wife,...
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