One of the top priorities for pastors is preaching powerful sermons . It means that you can choose the best out of the lot, right? And so, you have error flooding the church. And we have to recover the identification of a true Christian, and that means we have to get back to the doctrine of deliverance. And the subject of deliverance has been much on my mind. That word is also a Hebrew word that is a synonym to natsal. Same thing, exactly. Its the fear of man. And the only answer I can come up with, and I think its a general one, and Murray in his book agrees with me on this: the fear of being alienated. Please be aware that these items are sent out from our office in the UK. One of the great words in the Bible is the word deliverance. It is, however, not commonly used in the Christian vocabulary. You go all over the world, and you see people who claim to be Christians. That is why Romans11:26, great statement, says, The Deliverer will come, and He will remove ungodliness. Now, thats deliverance. Secondly, there is the word palat. Liberal Anglicanism in England back in the 60s was in its heyday, and there were some evangelicals in the Anglican church, and they thought, well, we need to move in to the Anglican church and get a hold of this thing, and partner up with these brothers. Im always asked that question, and I always answer basically the same way. It is translated by deliver, or save in most instances. You can look at the American denominations: the Presbyterian historic denominations of the Presbyterians, and the Methodists, and the Episcopalians, and even largely the Lutherans and others, and you can see the tremendous slide. And by all rights, I should go back to it this morning, but I am compelled in another direction. Because it lets you move up the social strata in the world of Christianity. I was asked that question on a number of occasions by Italian folks, and also by the people that were a part of our group, asking me: what do you think is the main issue facing the church? Its not that you belong, or that you believe in Jesus somehow. God is the rescuer, and man is the rescued. And unfortunately, it has kind of been smothered under familiar terminology, most often being saved and salvation. Im certain that Im grieved in my own heart because I understand enough about the Bible to know what the Lord wants the church to be, and its not that. And sometimes I wonder if those who cant discern the true church cant discern it because theyre not part of it. Thats sad. I dont expect non-Christians to be discerning about the church, but I do expect Christians to be discerning about the church. The only way we can know a Christian is by a transformed life. And later in that same verse it says, And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins. Theres going to be a deliverance here, and its going to be a deliverance that turns somebody from ungodliness to godliness, and from sin to righteousness. And such deliverance, listen, is the common experience for all believers in Christ. You cant look for a forensic declaration by God. So, you find it very, very often in the Psalms, a few other times in other places where poetry is included in the Old Testament. I have to be accountable to the Lord. Deliverance The term deliverance in religion describes the process by which a person is delivered from the control a demon or demons. The issue of who is truly a Christian is at the very center of the churchs life and ministry. True Christians have been delivered from lies to the truth, from error to the truth. We sent you an email. If you redefine non-Christians as Christians, you obliterate the distinctiveness of the church and you therefore create an environment in which you have to tolerate error because these people represent error. Deliverance means total victory. Any of those words carries the same idea: the idea of a rescue, the idea of a dramatic deliverance of someone who is in a dangerous situation over which they have not sufficient control. And while those terms are great terms and they have meaning to us, they are not common terms in our English vernacular. Because God is a deliverer who developed a plan of deliverance by which He delivers sinners from all that dooms them. The word deliverance is not a part of Christian vocabulary, but really should be. The answer is: Christians are people who have been delivered. This is deadly stuff. And, I am always asked this question: what do you think is the main problem facing the church? Thats safe enough. Of all the issues of discernment, and there are many, theres a lot of confusion in the church, theres a lot of error in the church about a lot of things. We cant always distinguish between the wheat and the tares. The only hope for the church is discriminating, discerning preaching. Deliverance: The Neglected Doctrine. We cant know a Christian by a forensic declaration of God. And then you go into western Europe, and earlier this year in France, and then in the last couple of weeks in Italy, and there is this massive monolithic system called Roman Catholicism which believes itself to be the only true Christian Church on the planet. But at the same time I have a passion to teach the Bible, I have a passion for the church. There is a dramatic change in their personal life. As I read Psalm91 earlier in the service, do you remember? But you must do it for the sake of the truth and the sake of the souls of men, and the sake of the purity of the church. Were not talking about that because thats not manifest. He was dealing with the same issues 200 years ago. All kinds of views about all kinds of things. If were going to be discerning about anything, there is one thing we have to be discerning about and its this: who is a Christian? So one of the great concepts in the Old Testament is this concept of deliverance. The meaning of it does so aswell. Natsal is also used numerous times to speak of spiritual deliverance. He is a very esteemed Englishman and has been here many times. And, I very reluctantly have missed, through a vacation time and in my absence in Italy, I missed the gospel of Luke. When we talk about conversion, when we talk about regeneration, when we talk about new birth, being born again, new life, transformation, when we talk about these matters of grace, we are really talking about being delivered from certain things. As you know, weve been studying the gospel of Luke, and the gospel of Luke is compelling and riveting material, and we have loved every moment of it. This has to be protected. The biggest problem in the church is its inability and unwillingness to distinguish true Christians from false. See, its not the issue of when and where you made some decision. And it goes back. May have to be that way, but isnt it interesting that the church that persecuted the true believers? Because whatever evangelicalism was there has succumbed to the power of liberalism, and the pollution of the church. They may believe in Jesus, they may believe certain things about Him, they may function in some fashion in His name, but the fact of the matter is: they have never been delivered. Help Grace to You bring important resources like this to people in your community and beyond, free of charge. And so, Im really compelled in my heart to address it this morning, and even beyond this morning, as a little bit of an interlude in our study of Luke. They said they were Christians but they were wrong, and they came in and they stole the institutions and sent them right down the drain. Weak theology, shallow, superficial knowledge of Scripture, all kinds of uncalled, unqualified people standing in pulpits who were not sent by God like the false prophets Jeremiah talks about, and dont have the Word of God and dont understand it, are inventing all kinds of things that the church is buying into. The very sound of it stirs the heart and mind. The One True God has got your back and is ready to restore you! And I guess I feel at this point, Ive got nothing to lose anyway. You know how to discriminate. There are all kinds of views of the work of the Holy Spirit, the person of the Holy Spirit. Its the idea that anybody who believes in Jesus is a Christian. Right now, in this day, and its been this way for a long time through this 20th century. Iain Murray again writes, When churches have recovered from apostasy, historically, such as at the time of the Reformation and the eighteenth century evangelical revival, thats from Wesley through to Jonathan Edwards, when churches have recovered, it has always been, I love this, by a return to such discriminating preaching and practice.. And what we need is exactly what Murray say: we have to have some discriminating preaching. Accordingly, we have updated our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions in order to comply with GDPR. A Christian is a person who has been, what? You can turn on your television and watch TBN. Because we dont want you to incur expenditure for which you are not prepared, could you please confirm whether you are willing to pay this charge, if necessary? It is used of physical rescue or physical deliverance. It can mean an actual rescue of a person from a dangerous earthly situation. It is an accounting of God by which He credits righteousness to our account and puts our sin to the account of Christ who pays the penalty for it. A superficial knowledge of Scripture, a weak theology, all kinds of error flooding into the church cripples discernment. You remember me saying that a couple of times? Because they were being persecuted, not by the secular world, they were being persecuted by whom? I dont think we need more meetings, more seminars. Its a word, as I said, filled with drama and filled with adventure. I dont recollect in any part of the world where I have talked with Christians, who speak my language, that they have used the word deliverance, unless it has been used in some context related to demons, or exorcism. Ive been all over everywhere and I can just tell you this. Its something else for Bill Bright to say that the Pope is a fine, outstanding Christian. There is a third word, yasha, and it is the most common word. Murray is tracking the 20th century decline of evangelicalism and its a book of history that is very, very revealing. In fact, we rarely use the word saved, it seems, unless were talking about something thats put away for safe keeping, something like an account somewhere, or something youre holding back for future usage. Its just time to stand up and say this has got to be brought to the test of Scripture. Paul uses that word in Colossians1:13 when he says, God has delivered us from the domain of darkness into the kingdom of His dear or beloved Son.. In fact, it is limited to usages in Old Testament poetry. This obliterates the line of clarity and invites the enemy into the camp and it just devastates the church. Its the desire for popularity. Its the desire for a reputation. It does not have the ability to fight error because it doesnt know the truth. This is continuing to escalate, and I guess its time to just stand up and say there has to be a line drawn. I wrote that book and it started a fire storm and it hasnt stopped nearly 15 years later because there are so many people in the church who think you can be saved without confessing Jesus as Lord. In fact, if you try to be the discriminating preacher, if you try to bring the truth into the situation, youre a problem. In recent months, as we have been studying the gospel of Luke, I have mentioned a couple of times that Ive been prompted to write a book on deliverance. If hes saved, hes been delivered and he will love God, he will love Gods service, he will long after holiness, he will live in a holy way in sincerity and truth or hes not saved. Because Satan always wants to get the church confused about whos saved, then he can infiltrate and take over, as hes done in so many institutions and denominations. The gospel is more often attacked on TBN than it is on NBC. There is a dramatic change in their personal life, their personal nature, and this is the work of the Holy Spirit. Most often, it has to do with deliverance from spiritual danger, and is the word commonly translated save, or salvation. A Christian is not someone who says they believe in Jesus. That is forensic; that is a judicial act of God. God bringing a plan of deliverance, and thats why Psalm68 verse 20 says, God is to us a God of deliverances, plural. You have to look at your life to assess whether or not youre a Christian, and you cant look back at some point in time when you prayed a prayer, or walked an aisle, or put your hand up, or responded to an invitation, or felt some kind of impulse, or felt some emotion. To enable Smart Transcript, click this icon or click anywhere in the transcript. Why dont they say what needs to be said? GDPR is the new European privacy regulation, which will replace the Data Protection Act 1998 in the UK and the equivalent legislation across the EU Member States. 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