As has been announced, I want to speak tonight upon Dr. Billy Graham, the supporter of Romanism
and Ecumenism.
If you have your Bible, turn with me to the 19th chapter of the 2nd book of Chronicles.
2nd Chronicles, chapter 19.
Chapter 15 of the 2nd book of Chronicles and chapter 19 deal with a king called Jehoshaphat.
He was a good king.
He was a godly king.
In his day he did many good things and many bad things.
But alas, through pressures he customized.
He entered into the league with the ungodly.
He made an alliance with the forces of falsehood.
And one day he was met by Jehu, the son of Hannai, the seer.
And he went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, and these are his words, 2nd
Chronicles, chapter 19, and verse 2, Shouldest thou help the ungodly and love them that hate the
Lord, therefore is wrath upon me from before the Lord.
Shouldest thou help the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord, therefore is wrath upon me from
before the Lord.
Before I come to give you the facts this evening concerning the support that Dr. Graham gives to
the Roman Catholic Church and to the ecumenical movement, I want very briefly to set before you
the facts concerning the Roman Catholic Church.
Because in these days there is so much falsehood, so much deception, that even God's people don't
seem to be aware of the real nature of the Roman Catholic system, the real nature of its dogmas,
and the real nature of its practices.
I have in my hand a textbook which is a must for every Roman Catholic priest.
This is a book that sets out the dignity and duties of the priest.
It is written by Alphonsus Liguri, who in the Roman Catholic Church is one of the greatest of
the saints, Saint Alphonsus Liguri.
And the Church of Rome is so caught up with the teachings of Liguri that in the notice that
appears in front of this book, it says, Let Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and Alphonsus.
So the Church of Rome puts this saint on a par with the Lord Jesus Christ.
What has this book to say about the Roman Catholic priest?
What is the place of the priest in the Roman Catholic Church?
How many Protestants in this meeting are aware that Rome teaches that Jesus didn't die to save
sinners?
He didn't die to make an atonement to take away sin.
He didn't die because man were sinners.
He died for one purpose only, and that was to make Roman Catholic priests.
You say that's a fantastic statement.
That is not.
That's the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church.
Let me read it to you.
Jesus has died to institute the priesthood.
It was not necessary for the Redeemer to die in order to save the world.
A drop of His blood, a single tear, or prayer was sufficient to procure the salvation for all.
For such a prayer, being of infinite value, should be sufficient to save not one, but a thousand
worlds.
But to institute the priesthood, the death of Jesus Christ has been necessary.
Had He not died, where should we find the victim that the priests of the New Law now offer?
A victim altogether holy and immaculate, capable of giving to God an honor worthy of God.
As has already been said, all of the lives of men and angels are not capable of giving to God an
infinite honor like that which a priest offers to God by a single mass.
Jesus didn't die for the ungodly.
That's what the Bible says.
Rome says no.
This man has the book, offered himself without spot unto God, but sacrificed for sin.
No, sir, says the Church of Rome.
The Church of Rome says He died in order that we should have such a system as the system of the
Roman Catholic priesthood.
This book goes on to tell us about the power of the priest.
Every Roman Catholic priest claims to have this power.
Let me read it to you.
With regard to the mystic body of Christ, that is all the faithful, the priest has the power of the
keys, or the power of delivering sinners from hell, of making them worthy of paradise, of
changing them from the slaves of Satan into the children of God.
Pilgrim's working at it, but he's not making much progress.
And God Himself, God Himself is obliged to abide by the judgment of His priests.
And either not to pardon, or to pardon according as they refuse, or give up solution provided the
penitent is capable of it.
So God in heaven has His hands tied by the priesthood.
And if the priest doesn't pardon you, God can't pardon you.
There's not a hope for any of you free Presbyterians.
Not a chance.
You haven't got a chance at all.
This is what Rome teaches about her own priests.
Listen to this.
And let me say, these are the men that Billy Graham welcomed to his meetings and invited to his
congress of evangelism.
We had Richard Wormbrat in our church the other Sunday morning.
Are you aware that Billy Graham would not allow Richard Wormbrat to go to his congress of
evangelism in Berlin?
Because Richard Wormbrat said he would expose communism.
And Billy said we will have no exposure of communism in our congress.
And Wormbrat said I have been tortured by communism.
And Billy said we are going to have no controversy in our congress.
Listen to this, the claims of the Church of Rome.
Were the Redeemer to descend into a church and sit in a confessional to administer the sacrament of
penance, and a priest to sit in another confessional, Jesus would say over each penitent,
ego te absolvo.
The priest would likewise say over each of his penitents, ego te absolvo.
And the penitents of each would be equally absolved.
So the priest and Jesus are not apart.
And the priest has as much power as Jesus.
But then this book goes on, and it says the priesthood is superior to Melek.
He conceived Jesus Christ only once.
But by consecrating the Eucharist, the Mass, the priest as it were, conceives Him as often as he
wishes.
So that if the person of the Redeemer had not as yet been in the world, the priest, by pronouncing
the words of consecration, would put just the great person of the God-man.
You ever listen to such blasphemy?
And it goes on to say that the priest may in a certain manner be called the creator of his
creator.
That's the system of Rome.
That's the textbook of popery.
That has upon it the prime mark of the Antichrist.
And every priest of Rome claims to have this particular power.
Now, what has been the historic attitude of the Protestant churches to Roman Catholicism?
I will just take the main creeds of the great churches.
The Episcopal Church of England.
This is what it says in the historic 39 articles.
Transubstantiation, or the change of the substance of bread and wine in the supper of the Lord,
cannot be proved by holy writ, but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthrow of the
nature of a sacrament, and have given occasion to many superstitions.
Wherefore, the sacrifices of masses, in the which it was commonly said that the priests did offer
Christ for the quick and the dead to a remission of penitent guilt, were blasphemous feebles and
dangerous deceits.
That's the established Church of England, their historical stance.
The Presbyterian Church, in its Westminster Confession of Theism, says, There is no other head
of the Church but the Lord Jesus, nor can the Pope of Rome in any sense behead the law, but is that
Antichrist, that man of sin and son of perdition, that exalted himself in the Church against Christ
and all that is called God.
The Methodist Church, John Wesley, in his Commentary on the New Testament, says, However in
many respects the Pope has an indisputable claim to the title man of sin.
He is in an emphatical sense the man of sin, as he increases all manner of sin up a measure.
And he is too properly styled the son of perdition, as he has caused the death of
numberless multitudes, both of his opposers and followers, destroyed innumerable souls, and will
himself perish everlastingly.
The Old Baptist Confession of Theism says, The Lord Jesus Christ is the head of the Church, in
whom by the appointment of the Father all power for the calling, institution, order, or government
of the Church is infested in a supreme and sovereign manner.
Neither can the Pope of Rome in any sense behead the law, but is no other than Antichrist, that man
of sin and son of perdition, that exulteth himself in the Church against Christ and all that is
called God, whom the Lord shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.
The Savoy Confession of Theism, the old Congregational Confession of Theism.
There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus.
Nor can the Pope of Rome in any sense behead the law, but it is that Antichrist, that man of sin
and son of perdition, that exulteth himself in the Church against Christ and all that is called God,
whom the Lord shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.
So the great standards of the astronomic promised intentions viewed the system of Rome as
Antichristianity, and viewed the Pope as the representative of that system of Antichristianity
and the Antichrist in the Church.
And a forerunner of the final great expression of Antichrist in the last days.
But we live in strange days.
We live in days of compromise.
One of the great tenements of the Church of Rome is baptism and regeneration.
That a child that baptizes, when the priest carries out the sacrament, the priest by his power
causes regeneration to take place.
The devil is cast out, original sin is cleansed, and the soul of the child is regenerated.
That is the doctrine of Rome.
That is the doctrine to which today Dr. Billy Graham subscribes.
You say, surely you are not telling me that a Baptist preacher who does not believe in infant
baptism in any way, should believe in baptismal regeneration?
I have a photostat copy, and by the way, the facts concerning Billy Graham can all be found in this
book, Billy Graham and the Church of Rome, written by myself in 1907.
It is a two-edition, and the Billy Graham organization were to provide an answer, but they
have never answered it.
Because it's the facts, the indisputable facts.
Here is what he says, I still have some personal problems in the matter of infant baptism, but all
of my children, with the exception of the youngest, were baptized as infants.
I do believe that something happens at the baptism of an infant.
I'll tell you what happens.
It's wetter, but no better.
But all of my children, with the exception of the youngest, were baptized as infants.
I do believe that something happens at the baptism of an infant, particularly if the parents are
Christian, and teach their children Christian truths from childhood.
Because that is a contradiction.
For how could it happen when they are infants, if it happens through Christian teaching in
childhood?
So Billy's off the reels all right.
He's gone off the reels on this one.
We cannot fully understand the mysteries of God, but I believe that a miracle can happen in these
children so that they are regenerated.
That is mere Christian through infant baptism.
That was in the time, I believe, he was taken up with by his Baptist brethren in the United States
of America.
Let me tell you something, friends of mine.
No mold of baptism can see of your soul.
No mold of baptism.
Will it be a few drops of water in infancy, or deep immersion, when you have aged and understand?
Nothing can consider it all.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
I want to reiterate that tonight.
I want to tell you tonight, my friend, with God's holy book in my hand, that this Bible teaches that
salvation is vested not in church, not in creed, not in sacrament, but in Christ.
Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven, given among men.
But by Him we must be saved.
So if you are going to be saved, friend, you will not be saved through infant baptism or immersions
when you are older.
You will be saved by coming to the cross and trusting Christ as your own and personal Savior.
No other way.
But of course, when you start running about and flirting with Romanists, the contagion's influence
of the Roman Catholic system will rub off upon you.
Then, when he was in San Paolo, Brazil, that's a Roman Catholic country, where Rome is supreme,
almost, what happened?
The Roman Catholic bishop stood with Dr. Graham at the end of each meeting.
And as Dr. Graham made the appeal for people to come forward to accept Christ, the Roman Catholic
bishop put the sign of the cross over each congregant.
And Dr. Graham boasts about this.
A photograph from the New York Times, November the 9th, 1963.
Dr. Graham recalled that during a recent Graham crusade in San Paolo, Brazil, the Roman Catholic
bishop stood beside him and blessed the converts as they came forward.
And he put upon them the sign of the cross.
What happens to them?
You know, in 1957, there was a suspicion sowed in the hearts of men in the United States, good,
faithful men, that Philly was plundering with Rome and sending converts back to Rome.
But the Philly Graham organization rigorously denied this.
They said, no, we don't send the converts who come out of our meetings back to Rome.
But it was a straw in the wind.
And now today, it is publicly stated by Graham, and I'm reading from an interview he gave with the
San Francisco News in November 11, 1957.
And he says, anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to the local
clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jew.
Protestant, Catholic, or Jew.
So if you come forward at a Graham mission, and you're a Jew, the Jews reject the Lord Jesus
Christ as the Messiah.
They reject that He was the Son of God.
But Philly Graham will send you back to the synagogue where your Savior is denied.
He will send you back to the Roman Catholic Church where the once-and-for-all, never-to-be-repeated
sacrifice for sins by Christ upon the cross eternally is rejected in the mass.
Some time ago, I had a visit from a dear man of God who has now gone to heaven, the Reverend
Duncan Campbell.
The Reverend Duncan Campbell was the instrument that God used in the great revival in the outer
Hebrides.
He told me that one day in the city of Edinburgh, his own son was having a cup of tea in a cafe
there, and there was a man sitting beside him.
His son had a strange urge to speak to this young man, and so he starts up to witness to him.
The young man said he was interested, but he was not prepared to have done with his sin and take
Christ as his Savior.
But he said, If I ever come to Christ, I'll remember you and the urge and love that was in you
to speak to me.
And he handed young Mr. Campbell his card, and he said, That's me, and if I ever come to Christ,
I'll let you know.
Some months afterwards, while the Campbell family were at their family altar having prayer, the
telephone rang.
And young Mr. Campbell went to answer it, and strange to relate it was this young man that he
had spoken to in the cafe.
And he said, You'll be glad to hear the news.
I have come to Christ at Dr. Billy Graham's crusade at Earls Court.
Young Mr. Campbell was delighted, and he gave him encouragement, and he said to him, I'll be in
touch with you again, for I would like to put you in touch with some good ministers of Christ in the
city of London.
The young man thanked him.
Some time afterwards, the young man got in touch with him again by letter.
And this is what he said in the letter.
He said, I am sure you will be delighted to know that I am going to be received into the Roman
Catholic Church.
Very short, Mr. Campbell's son was deeply grieved and amazed.
He rang up the young man, and he said to him, I am not delighted.
He said, I am grieved and dismayed that you are going to become a Roman Catholic.
Oh, said the young man, you don't need to worry.
It's all through the Billy Graham meeting that I am becoming a Roman Catholic.
He said, how did that happen?
Well, he said, when I went into the inquiry room, and I received instruction and counsel, after I
had been counseled, they said, what church do you belong to?
And he said, I said to him, well, I don't belong to any church.
Well, then they said, what was the last church you were ever in?
Well, he says, strange to relate, the last church I was ever in was a Roman Catholic church.
Because this man was secondary to a very famous film star, whose name I must keep anonymously.
And this film star is a Roman Catholic.
And this young man, when the film star's chauffeur was not in business, he used to drive his master
to the Roman Catholic church every Sunday morning.
And out of courtesy, he used to go in with his master to the Roman Catholic church.
So the Billy Graham counselor said, well, what was the last church you were in?
He said, I was in the Roman Catholic church, and he mentioned it.
That was all right.
The Billy Graham counselor took his name, took the name of the church.
And the young man said, a few days afterwards, a priest from that church called with me.
He said, I have received a card from the Billy Graham organization.
You have put down your name as a Roman Catholic.
You have made a decision for Christ.
I want to counsel you further.
And that priest, with the subtlety of Jesuit way, took the young man away from the simplicity of the
gospel of Christ.
And today that young man is in the Roman Catholic church.
Does this break Dr. Green's heart?
Does he say this shouldn't happen?
No.
This is what he says.
He says, many of the people who reach a decision on Christ in our meetings have joined the Catholic
church.
And we have received commendations from Catholic publications for the revived interest in their
church following our campaigns.
This happens both in Boston and Washington.
After all, one of our prime purposes is to help the churches in the community.
What churches?
The Roman Catholic church.
Apostolic church.
Modernistic church.
Liberal church.
Bible-denying church.
The purpose of this campaign is gladly to be commended by the Roman Catholic church.
If after we move on, the local churches do not feel the effects of these meetings in increased
membership and attendance, then our cruciate would have to be considered a failure.
And in Pittsburgh, when he arrived there for a campaign, he said that his cruciate in Pittsburgh
would be interdenominational.
He hoped to hear Bishop Fulton chasing at one of the masses at St. Paul's Cathedral tomorrow.
So at night, he started his campaign, and in the morning, he went to the mass in Pittsburgh.
And then he's happy that his preaching has caused a revived interest in the church overall.
My friends, you and I are faced tonight with this problem.
Do we obey the word of God, or do we not?
To those of us who know the Bible to be the word of God, there is only one pathway for us.
That is the pathway of complete and utter separation.
When he went to Boston, what happened there?
One of the first men he saw was Cardinal Kutcher, a very well-known Roman Catholic bishop.
And Cardinal Kutcher said that if you wanted to become a better Catholic, go and listen to Dr.
Gleam.
And Billy Gleam said to him, I feel that a new spirit is in the world as a result of the Second
Vatican Council.
So Billy said to the Cardinal, there's a new spirit abroad because of the Second Vatican
Council.
And the bishop says to Billy, you'll be a better Catholic if they go and listen to you.
This is the sad downgrade that has taken place.
Are you aware that in the San Francisco campaign, 1,300 converts were directed to the Church of Rome
in San Francisco?
Those are not my figures, those are the figures of the official standard that was issued by Billy
Gleam's organization.
1,300 converts returned to the Church of Rome.
And the Billy Gleam organization said they are good Catholics still, they go to Mass and confess
to the priest in the confession.
Alas, alack, the last time he was in London, Sir Cheryl Black, a notable Baptist ecumenist, who was
once the MP for Wimbledon, a conservative, he wrote to me and asked me would I go and eat dinner
with Billy Gleam.
I wrote him back and I said I don't keep company with those that deny the faith, or fellowship with
those that deny the faith.
That the virgin birth of Christ and the precious blood of Christ mean too much for me, for me to
sit down in your ecumenical fellowship.
Do you know what they did at that meeting?
Cardinal Heenan was there.
And they got up and eulogized Cardinal Heenan as a man of God.
And they united to send him a telegram wishing him God's blessing for a steady recovery.
Cardinal Heenan, well known for his apostasy and his arrogant and bigoted ruminations.
And so it goes on.
And now we have Dr. Gleam in this city.
Of course I know people have sat already up like me.
They've said, you know, E.M.
Paisley is jealous.
Why should I be jealous?
Why?
Let me tell you something.
Before, many weeks before Billy Gleam came here today or yesterday when he came, I was approached
by a very prominent associate of Dr. Gleam.
And he approached me in the halls of the apartment in Westlake.
And he asked me would I associate myself with Gleam's invitation.
I see Billy Gleam said he was pressurized to come here.
So I was one of the ones asked to put pressure on him.
See, would he come?
I said no, I would do nothing of the kind.
This man said to me, but why?
Why?
I said, I'll send you a book and it will answer you every page of it.
Why?
I said, I happen to believe the Bible.
And the Bible says, shouldst thou help the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord.
And the answer to that is no, I shouldn't help the ungodly or love them that hate the Lord.
Therefore is wrath upon me to the other ones.
I don't want God's wrath on my ministry.
You know you could have the world's popularity on the throne of God.
Better to have the pride of man and the smile of heaven.
Far better.
So the evangelicals are going to help breakfast with him.
And then they're going to help dinner with him.
It's not revealed yet who has been invited to the breakfast.
Or who has been invited to the dinner.
But Billy Graham has made it clear that he has come on a peace mission.
Peace mission.
Do you know what his associate said to me in London?
He said, you know, Senator Kennedy's interested in Northern Ireland.
He said, President Nixon is interested in Northern Ireland.
So Billy thinks he should be interested in Northern Ireland.
Sort of political operation, is it?
He should be interested.
And he made this statement.
He said he's going to condemn nobody.
Going to condemn nobody.
But any man of God that comes to this city at this time and doesn't condemn the brutality of the
murderous IRA, that man knows nothing about this book that lies in front of him.
This book says thou shalt do no murder.
This book says thou shalt not take away thy neighbor's life.
This book says thou shalt not plunder or steal.
But that's exactly what the IRA are doing.
And the first place he visits today is the scene where all the laymen blew up themselves.
And if they hadn't blown up themselves, they would have taken that hundred pound bomb, and they would
have plastered it in a forested district, and probably would have murdered every one of them.
I want to tell you this.
I have every sympathy with those that are killed.
Pure, deluded souls as they may be.
But let me tell you, God's judgments are in this province at the present time.
I have been praying before God, and so has this church, and so have many of God's people that God
will deliver us.
And you know what I'm praying?
I'm praying the prayer of the Zamas, that the pit that they have digged for others, they will fall
headlong into it themselves.
And that has been happening.
And I have been praying to God that it will happen more and more.
And that these men will destroy themselves because of their evil, and because of their murderous
intent.
Come on a peace mission.
Come to get all the churches to unite in a peace mission.
Let me announce that the Free Presbyterian Church will not be taking part in this peace mission,
because we believe that it's destined to the Lord.
Dr. Fitch has finished his ministry tonight.
He's finished it.
This church arose from a session in Ravenhill Presbyterian Church many years ago.
We were a little struggling church.
When I came to this room 26 years ago, we were despised.
Many a time people spat as I passed their doors on this room.
Many a time I knocked on their doors and they slammed it in my face.
For 26 years I have preached God's truth on this room.
Through good report and ill report.
I am going to continue to preach it.
And I want to say to you tonight, Dr. Fitch has finished his ministry.
And he thinks that he's finished it in glory.
When the seats that have been dusted for many a long day are now for the first time dusted down to
seat the congregation.
You say, how do you know they're dusted?
Because I went to a meeting in that church.
When that dear policeman was murdered.
And I went on to the gallery.
And the seats in the gallery hadn't been sat on to me for a generation.
You could have written your name on the dust in those seats.
I was there, I know what I'm talking about.
First time then for me.
Let me tell you this.
And I'm not the prophet nor the son of a prophet.
But the church that brings to its pulpit Philegrium.
And associates itself with this campaign of bolstering up and sending converts back to the
darkness of Romanism.
That the curse of the Almighty will rest upon that church.
It may not be seen today.
It may not be seen tomorrow.
For the criminals of God grind slowly.
But they grind exceeding small and sure.
But you mark my words.
If I am a man of God, you mark them well.
That someday God will publicly vindicate His truth about this matter.
I have no jealousy in my heart.
Why would I be jealous?
Haven't I enough to do?
Haven't I?
When I look after Northundram and Banshine.
And look after all the sheep in the pasture of the martyrs memorial.
And the goats that come in occasionally to steal the grass.
Why should I be jealous?
I'm happy when men are seen.
I've given my life for evangelism.
Preaching every night.
There's something more important.
That that is the honor of Jesus.
Don't say anything.
Well, if you don't go to the breakfast.
Be a nice boy.
That was attracting public attention.
That that man was another Judas Iscariot.
When Dr. Graham comes to this city.
And a lot of them are supposed to be the cream
of evangelicals.
And they'll be all at the breakfast.
I couldn't go and breakfast with Billy Green.
And that man said, well, I don't think I should go either.
He said, I don't think I'll bother now going having heard that.
The letter will be too last.
We will get no laurels from the world.
We'll not be liked by the world.
We'll be hated by the world.
If the world could shut this preacher's mouth, the world would do it.
If the world could burn this church, it would do it.
If the world could stop this.
But I want to tell you something.
God in the midst of her doth dwell.
Nothing shall her remove.
The Lord to her a helper will.
And that right early proved.
And I'm not worried, my friend.
I've got the young.
I'm not worried about empty seats.
I'm not worried about what people think about me.
For after 26 years of hammering, my height is pretty tough today.
And I don't feel these things the way a young preacher.
There was a time I did feel them.
I don't feel them.
But there's one thing I do feel for.
I feel for the honor of my master.
I love Jesus with all my heart.
Many years ago as a boy, he sealed my soul.
And I have sought to live for him and I have failed miserably.
But he has never failed me once and never will.
I've been in many tight places.
In the prison cell twice.
I've been pilloried in the press.
Lapooned by the world's media.
But in those days, Jesus didn't let me die.
All that Ian Paisley ever was or ever is or ever can be, I owe it to Jesus Christ.
Wouldn't I be a poor Christian if I kept silent?
Wouldn't I be a poor specimen if I held my tongue for private gain?
Wouldn't I be a man to be despised and a veritable coward if I didn't speak up for my master?
When his honor is attacked.
When men who have denied his virgin birth and DNA are taken by the hand by the great evangelist.
What would you think of me if I would so betray my master?
Friend, I want to tell you, I couldn't do it.
I love him too much.
And that's why I have spoken.
And I have one apology to make.
And that is that I haven't spoken fierce enough and strong enough.
But that's the weakness of the human freedom.
And if I have said anything tonight and you have been offended by it, I can't help it.
If I had hog-kneeled boots, I would jump on your pet corns and not ask any apology for doing so.
I must be fearful.
And I'm making an appeal.
There's a lot of people here tonight.
And some of you are still in the World Council of Churches.
You're still caught up in this movement, this ecumenical movement.
And you come here and you say, God bless Ian Paisley.
And on Sunday morning you're found in an old dead church, listening to an old dead preacher.
And you know what?
And you say, well I don't give him too much.
Give him nothing!
Yes.
A woman wrote me the other day.
She says, I've taken the corn from my preacher.
He'll not eat of my corn anymore.
You should come out and be separate and touch not the unclean thing and the Lord will receive you.
Come out from among them and be a separate.
That's the word of God.
You should stand up and shout out and get out and stay out!
That's what you should do.
You say, should I become a free Presbyterian?
It's manners to wait until you're asked.
If the Lord leads you to this church, God bless you.
I don't want you if the Lord doesn't lead you.
Because if you came on your own, you would go away on your own.
But if the Lord leads you to this place, you'll stay.
Through good report and ill report, you'll remain.
You'll stay by the stop until Jesus comes or goes.
And if there's a poor sinner sitting somewhere in this pew, and you're not saved and you don't know
my Savior, you've never met Him.
Could I invite you to Him tonight?
Could I invite you to trust Him?
I'm going to make no further appeal tonight.
All I'm going to ask you now is simply to stand to your feet, everyone.
Let's all stand.
Let's bow our heads just for a moment.
As our heads are bowed, I'm putting a strict question to every man or woman.
How is it with you?
Are you in the World Council of Churches?
You should get rid of it.
Make the decision as you stand there in the pew that you're going to join up with a Christian
church that stands for God and righteousness.
And if you're not saved, make up your mind you're going to come to Christ.
And remember, there's a room here on the right-hand side of the pulpit.
I'll be in that room.
I'll be glad to open the Bible and point you to the Savior.
And God's people tonight, we're gathering around the Lord's table.
Will you gather around the table of the Lord with us?
And let's remember the Lord, if you're saved, till He comes or calls.
Father, we thank Thee for Thy presence.
We thank Thee for a real sense of Thy presence tonight.
We thank Thee that Jesus is here.
And we pray that man may meet Him.
Those that are not saved may they meet Him.
Those that are backslidden may they meet Him.
May God's people meet Him.
And those that are still in apostasy, may they meet Him too.
And may there be a great coming out for the Lord's sake.
Hear this, our prayer, for Jesus' sake.
And everybody sang, Amen.
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And remember that John Calvin, in defending the Reformation's regulative principle of worship, or
what is sometimes called the scriptural law of worship, commenting on the words of God, which I
commanded them not, neither came into my heart.
From his commentary on Jeremiah 7.31, writes, God here cuts off from men every occasion for making
evasions, since he condemns by this one phrase, I have not commanded them, whatever the Jews
devised.
There is then no other argument needed to condemn superstitions, than that they are not commanded by
God.
For when men allow themselves to worship God according to their own fancies, and attend not to
his commands, they pervert true religion.
And if this principle was adopted by the papists, all those fictitious modes of worship, in which
they absurdly exercise themselves, would fall to the ground.
It is indeed a horrible thing for the papists to seek to discharge their duties towards God, by
performing their own superstitions.
There is an immense number of them, as it is well known, and as it manifestly appears.
Were they to admit this principle, that we cannot rightly worship God, except by obeying his word,
they would be delivered from their deep abyss of error.
The prophet's words then are very important, when he says, that God had commanded no such thing, and
that it never came to his mind.
As though he had said, that men assume too much wisdom, when they devise what he never required,
nay what he never knew.