This is an article that I found online,
and this article just blew my mind.
The blindness of anyone who wrote this article
or thinks that this article is the truth.
The blindness, it just blew my mind.
And let me show this to you.
This is written by a guy, I've never even heard of this guy,
but it's written by a pastor called Matt McPhillips.
And he's a pastor from Port Huron, Michigan.
I don't even know who this guy is.
But this was on the website of a church
called Old Paths Baptist Church,
pastor by a guy named Jason Cooley.
And not only that, but at the end of it,
there's this paragraph added by a traveling circus evangelist
known as Brother Ted Alexander.
And he basically says, I'm evangelist Ted Alexander,
and I approve this message.
So three heretics and false teachers
are promoting this article.
In fact, when you go to that Baptist church where I found it,
under Bible doctrine, they have one article, one tab,
repentance, and this is the article.
Just listen.
You've seen what the Bible said.
You've seen what John said.
You've seen what Acts said.
Yeah, we didn't go through the other 64 books today,
but we saw a lot.
I'm going to attempt to write about the doctrine
of repentance.
That's not how you start an article.
That's just something you think in your mind.
You think to yourself, I'm going to attempt to write an article.
Then you start writing the article.
I mean, this is like when people write you a letter
and they're like, hi, how are you?
I'm fine.
You can go ahead and leave that out.
You know what I mean?
I'm going to attempt to write about the doctrine
of repentance.
About two years ago, I became so troubled
about my lack of study about the gospel
and my acceptance of four points in a prayer
that I dove into studying it head first.
Now, when you hear that,
don't you expect he's going to get out the Bible?
He's going to, I want to see what Luke says.
I want to see what John says.
I want to see what Acts says.
See what Romans says, right?
He says I dove into studying it head first,
not knowing completely what my conclusion would be.
I saturated myself with scripture, the Bible, the word--
no, no, no.
I saturated myself with books, articles, and sermons by men.
That's literally-- I'm reading a verbatim.
I saturated myself with books, articles, and ser-- you're
saturated with something else, buddy.
But anyway, saturated myself with books, articles,
and sermons by men of the 1900s, 1800s, 1700s, and 1600s.
He defined an amazing thing, the issue of what is repentance
and reference salvation is a modern issue.
What's he saying?
This is only controversial in modern times.
I mean, when you look at the 1900s, the 1800s, the 1700s,
the 1600s, you know, everybody's saying the same thing
about repentance.
This is modern.
Listen to what he says.
I looked at the numerous confessions of faith
only to realize that they all defined it as sorrow for,
and turning, and turning from sin.
This would include the London Confession, 1644,
the Armenian Confession of 1834,
the Philadelphia Association of 1734,
the French Confession of 1879,
the Swiss Confession of 1848, the New Hampshire.
Yeah, 'cause when everybody in a country all gets to get,
all the Baptists in the country all get together
and agree on what they believe,
that's being an independent Baptist, right?
When the whole country of France gets together
and writes a confession,
the whole country of Switzerland,
all the Baptists get together, is it?
But, and many others.
As much as it pained me,
I even began to look at non-Baptist confessions,
only to find the same.
Even unsafe people are agreeing
with my definition of repentance.
(laughing)
So, maybe it was that I would find men from the past
that would define it as a change of mind.
From unbelief to belief, or from one dependence,
you know, like depending on something else to save you,
to, you know, depending on Christ.
I was amazed at what I found.
Notice that all of these men agreed
as the true nature of rinse.
And he gives a bunch of quotes from famous preachers
of the past, most of which were not Baptist.
So he's like, oh, it's really painful for me
to look at non-Baptist.
It must not have been that painful
since more than half of who you quoted was not a Baptist.
Otherwise you were in a lot of pain
when you wrote this article.
So then after he quotes all these men,
which mean nothing to me,
then at the end he has these questions.
He's like, I'm going to leave you with these questions.
He confronts us, the reader, with these questions.
He gets five questions.
Question number three is this.
Can you find our modern day definition of repentance
more than a hundred years ago?
So what's he saying?
Hey, I looked at all this stuff.
Everybody agrees.
There was no dispute.
There was, this is a modern,
this controversy is a modern day issue.
Everything, everybody defines it the same way, okay?
And he says, I defy you to show me anyone
that was more than a hundred years ago saying,
you know, that it's changing your mind
and turning from unbelief to belief, you know,
or just trusting in one thing to another.
But you want to know what's funny?
He gives the answer in the article
because one of the people that he quoted
was Charles Spurgeon, listen to this, from 1872.
Now, somebody help me out.
Is 1872 more than a hundred years ago?
This is in his article.
I didn't even have to go do reading.
Oh, I'm going to find people.
I'm going to go find people that define it.
No, no, no, it's right here in his article.
Listen to the quote that he gives from Charles Spurgeon.
"Just now," meaning in what year?
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This is the first words out of Charles Spurgeon.
It's one of the first quotes he gives.
"Just now, some professively Christian teachers
are misleading many by saying that repentance
is only a change of mind."
What in the world?
So he just spent two paragraphs like, I check.
Nobody believed in this.
Nobody's ever heard of this modern thing
of change in your mind being repentance.
You can't find it anywhere.
I defy you to find it more than 100 years ago.
Let me just show you.
Here's a quote from Charles Spurgeon in 1872.
And Charles Spurgeon says, "Just now, some professionally
Christian teachers are misleading many."
He's like, there's multiple preachers.
And they're misleading many people,
teaching them that repentance is only a change of mind.
Here's what he says next.
"It is true that the original word does convey the idea
of a change of mind."
I'm not leaving anything, I'm reading this verbatim.
This is like a parody.
I mean, you can't even make this stuff up.
Well, it is true that the original word does convey
the idea of a change of mind, but the whole teaching
of scripture concerning repentance is more radical than that.
Okay, well, here's what's funny.
He doesn't quote a single scripture in this quote.
In fact, there is virtually no scripture quoted
almost in this entire article.
Four pages, no verses backing up their position.
Okay, one of the quotes, a guy references Isaiah in one quote.
The rest of it is just void of scripture.
So what's funny is that you're like,
okay, Charles Spurgeon, give us script.
Well, okay, yeah, that is what repent means
to change your mind.
But, okay, well, Spurgeon, give us the scripture
to tell us that it means something different.
Well, it's just the whole scripture.
I mean, don't you love it when you tell people like,
hey, can you show me, you know,
the pre-trib rapture and scripture?
And it's just like, well, just the whole Bible.
Well, where's the Bible teach that you have to repent
of your sins to be saved?
Whole Bible.
Well, can you point me to a specific verse?
The whole thing.
"Just now, some professedly Christian teachers
are misleading many by saying..."
Man, praise God for all that soul winning
that was going on in 1872.
Sounds like to me that there were a bunch
of faithful word Baptist churches over there in England
that were doing the real soul winning,
while that phony Charles Spurgeon is just all famous
and everybody loves him and he's all inter-denominational
and he's all big and popular.
Look, are all the popular preachers today phony?
Name a big popular named preacher on TV
that's not a phony, name one.
Oh, he's not a phony?
You mean he is a phony.
All right, good.
You need to pay a little more attention.
(laughing)
Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, Kenneth Copeland.
What's the Hakala gondola of?
Benny Hinn, Benny Hinn, T.D. Jakes.
So look, Billy Graham, Billy Balaam.
So when we name the big name preachers of our day,
if we look at the biggest churches in Phoenix,
Phoenix First Assembly, Cornerstone down in Chandler,
these are churches that are so apostate.
Where do we begin, okay?
And yet we have this weird idea,
oh, the popular preachers of the past,
they all preach the truth.
No, it's all, even in Jesus' day,
he said, "Woe unto you when all men speak well of you."
So they didn't have the false prophet.
Why is everybody loves Spurgeon?
'Cause he's a phony.
Why is he so popular amongst a whole bunch of denominations?
Because he was phony.
Because every popular preacher has always been a phony.
And you know what's funny?
We don't even know the names of all these Christian teachers
who are misleading so many people by telling them
it's by faith alone.
And their repentance is just changing your mind
and believing on Christ.
You know, we don't know who they are, but you know what?
They're the ones with all the crowns in heaven.
We don't even know who they are.
But they were doing some major soul winning
to the point where Charles Spurgeon is like,
"Man, I need to deal with this.
This is spreading.
This doctrine of faith alone salvation.
I need to get up and teach all my Calvinistic garbage.
I need to ramp up my teaching of Calvinism
and repent of your sins salvation."
But this is what it is, folks.
Oh, I delved in and figured out my doctrine
by reading a bunch of men.
But not only that, you're reading the phonies.
You know why?
And you go, "Well, everybody I read was a phony."
Yeah, because you know what?
The real preachers, they didn't get published
by all of Satan's media institutions.
They couldn't get a book published.
They couldn't get on TV.
They couldn't get on the radio.
Why?
'Cause they're telling the truth.
And that's what, look, think about it.
What if all of a sudden, what if our country somehow,
let's say our country was just nuked
and everything crumbled and collapsed, everything's dead.
And then like hundreds of years later,
somebody comes and excavates it as an archeologist.
And they wanna talk about what Christians believed
in America in the 21st century.
What are the chances that they're gonna find
an "After the Tribulation" DVD
versus finding a Joel Osteen DVD?
What do you think there's more of in circulation?
Yeah, they're gonna be brushing off.
This artifact from 2015 is of a Joyce Meyer book.
You know, that's what they're gonna find.
What, look, go walk into Walmart.
And it's not like, hey, you get a deal
when you buy "After the Tribulation"
and "New World Order Bible Versions," get a discount.
No, it's gonna be, in Walmart, it's all gonna be who?
Left Behind, Rick Warren, Joel Osteen, right?
Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, the harbinger.
It's everything that's false.
Don't even get me started on that.
I don't have the throat for that.
But let me tell you something.
Whoever wrote this article was blindfolded
while they wrote it.
Because how can you sit there and defy us?
Show me one, show me one person 100 years ago.
And then they provide it.
Here's the noose to hang me with.
Here's a gun, shoot me with it.
It's like, here, let me dig my own grave real quick.
People are nuts.
Look, this is why we go to the Bible.
Well, but what's the historical position?
Not important to me, I don't care.
What does the Bible say?
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.