Hello everybody, it's MrToll23 back with another video, and in this video I want to continue
the series defending the new IFB and defending my church against the attacks from other churches
or other preachers or just other Christians, whether they be heretics or even brothers
in Christ who don't like the new IFB for whatever reason.
And one of the things that is a common tradition amongst old IFB churches and amongst other
evangelical type Christians today and just other Baptist type churches, and this also
exists in Pentecostal churches and other places, is this practice of an altar call.
And at my church, Faithful Word Baptist Church, and other like-minded churches, we don't practice
the altar call because it's not biblical.
Now to a lot of people this is a very sensitive subject because it's become in the mind of
people who grew up Baptist that this is somehow a tradition of a Baptist church or a tradition
of Christian churches in general and they say like that's part of the old time religion
and all this kind of stuff.
Even though as I'll explain later in this video the altar call has only existed for
like 200 years and it's not in the Bible.
So we don't practice the altar call, we go out soul winning instead because people getting
saved, as I explained in the last video, is by preaching to people the gospel and then
if they believe it they call on the name of the Lord.
That's how salvation works.
It's not wait for them to come to you and then preach the gospel in a church service
and then they come down the aisle, as you probably heard, people coming down the aisle
to get saved.
That's not how people get saved.
People get saved by preaching or by hearing the gospel and believing it.
So I'm sure some people have gotten saved at an altar call or an evangelical type service
but the point I want to make in this video is that the altar call is not in the Bible
and it really takes away from the purpose of what you're supposed to be doing in church
which is not to preach the gospel but to preach other doctrine because the local church is
for people who are already saved.
It's not for people who are not saved and then you have to get them saved in the church
service.
That's not what church is.
Church is the congregation of believers and so the altar call is not biblical so we don't
practice it and some people you know think that we're like some kind of you know liberal
like oh you're not you know doing the traditions and the old-time religion so you're you know
this newfangled way of doing things no no the altar call is not in the Bible and the
altar call is actually a new practice instead so let me read some scriptures pertaining
to the subject it says in Matthew chapter 28 verse 19 this is a command of Jesus Christ
to his disciples he said go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded you and lo I am with you always even unto the end of the world
amen Mark chapter 16 verse 15 and he said unto them go ye into all the world and preach
the gospel to every creature John 20 verse 21 then said Jesus to them again peace be
unto you as my father has sent me even so send I you so Jesus says that I'm sending
you Jesus says go ye therefore and teach all nations not wait for them to come to you but
go he said go ye into all the world and preach the gospel it is a command to go and to preach
okay so that is why we go soul in it instead of doing the altar calls because we're supposed
to go and preach the gospel not wait for them to come to us and hope that they get saved
by coming down the aisle whatever that means that you don't see that in the Bible right
and not only this but the only time that the word altar is mentioned in the New Testament
it's talking about usually the altar upon which sacrifices were offered in the Old Testament
which we know sacrifices and offerings are done away within the New Covenant so we don't
offer sacrifices and offerings anymore now people will say well yeah but we offer spiritual
sacrifices right we're supposed to you know yield their body as a living sacrifice unto
God and that's why in some altar calls they won't just you know lead people to to get
saved but they will also you know say people who are already saved you know come down to
the altar and you know get right with God and confess your sins and all that kind of
stuff and they'll say well you're you're offering a spiritual sacrifice to God yet the only
time that the New Testament ever says the word altar it's referring to the Old Testament
altar sacrifices it never says anything about an altar in a church service and usually these
old IFP churches which have this altar call and have you know coming down to the altar
and kneeling at the altar what they mean by an altar is a raised platform upon which the
preacher stands and usually it's like these steps which is funny because the Bible literally
says in the Old Testament when you make an altar to not put steps leading up to it that
nobody can you know be under it and look upon your nakedness or something like that I think
that's in Exodus chapter 20 so it literally commands when making an altar to not have
steps and then the thing that they call the altar in Baptist churches nowadays is literally
just a platform with steps isn't that ironic so this thing of there being an altar which you come
down the aisle to get saved or to get right with God and confess your sins etc this is not in the
New Testament and never mentions anything like that so you might ask well where does the altar
call come from then if it's not in the New Testament then who invented it where does it
come from why is it prevalent in Baptist churches today well it actually comes from this heretic
named Charles G Finney who's burning in hell right now okay and it baffles the mind that some Baptist
churches of the past have praised Charles G Finney as some kind of man of God I've heard Jack
Hyles for example in some of his sermons say that Charles G Finney was a man of faith and talked
good about him but when you actually look at what he believed in what he preached he was a heretic
and a work salvationists and he was a false prophet so here are some examples and I made a
video a few years ago about some of these false heroes of the faith like Charles Finney and Charles
Spurgeon and John Wesley and people like this and I quoted some things from from the text and the
sermons of these people to show that these people were heretics and so I'm going to repeat some of
these things again just so you know what kind of person Charles G Finney was because anybody who's
watching this who is a Baptist and believes that salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus
Christ and understands that it's only faith alone and once you believe you're saved forever and you
could never lose it anybody who's saved would realize from these quotes that Charles G Finney
was not saved okay here's what he said in his book systematic theology in lecture 55 it says
so he's saying well the only reason why the Bible says the only condition of salvation is faith is
because faith actually doesn't mean faith it actually means obedience and sinlessness so
according to Charles G Finney in order to be saved you have to yield your whole self to Christ and be
100% perfectly obedient and without sin that's heresy because number one that's impossible the
Bible says if we say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves the truth is not in us but
also the Bible never says you have to obey Christ and do works and follow him and things like this
to get saved it just says believe right faith means trust faith means believe it doesn't mean
yield yourself and submit to him and make him the Lord of your life that's foolishness there's
another thing that Charles D Finney says in his sermon called salvation always conditional that's
a red flag right there preached in 1840 lecture 24 Oberlin College this is what Charles G Finney
said he says no one act of faith nor any other exercise can render salvation from sin or hell
unconditionally certain Romans chapter 10 disagrees with you buddy he knows that now because he's in
hell anyway it says this is manifest from the fact that warnings and threatenings are everywhere
addressed to the Saints which would be absurd if their justification or sanctification were
already unconditionally certain it is a capital mistake in a dangerous error to maintain that one
act of faith brings the soul into a state of unconditional and permanent justification well
the Bible says but to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his
faith is counter for righteousness so according to Bible you're justified if you believe so Charles
Finney was a heretic he preached a false gospel he preached a false way of salvation so that means
Charles Finney wasn't even a man of God he was a false prophet and he's currently burning in the
flames of hell in the lowest hell because he deceived millions of people and sent millions
of people to hell with him so this is the man who invented the altar call and it doesn't take much
research to figure that out just quickly type in on Google where did the altar call come from and
every single source said it was Charles G Finney and even some sources I found that he did it
because he was an abolitionist and he was trying to recruit people to his abolitionist movement
that that was really where the altar call came from because it's not in the Bible so that means
it's a tradition of man and you know what Jesus said teaching for doctrines the commandments of
men as he calls it vain worship in vain do they worship for me teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men so if you say that part of our religion is doing this altar call then basically
what you're saying is that the commandments of men are part of our religion so what are you doing
you're worshiping God in vain by doing the altar call that's a meaningless thing because it's
invented by man particularly by a man who is a false prophet so that's why we don't do it because
it's unbiblical and it's invented by a heretic right now just a few other points about the altar
call and about why it's unbiblical besides the fact that it's just not in the Bible I mean that
should be enough so it's like why would you do this if it's not in the Bible but then also the
fact that the Bible teaches that the church is for the saved okay so this altar call is kind of
turned church into preaching the gospel every Sunday morning and every Sunday night and every
Wednesday night and so they expect half the people to be there or that are there to be not saved and
then therefore they preach the gospel and hope that a lot of people come down the aisle and this
is typically how it is at old IFB churches and this is why a lot of old IFB people are deceived
on a lot of doctrine because no doctrine is ever preached because they only just talk about the
gospel they are babes as it talks about in the book of Hebrews that babes you know just only you
know who are unskilled for in the word of righteousness they just it's all about the milk
to them so they never actually preach the meat of the word so these people go to church and all they
hear over and over again is the gospel even though they're already saved because the pastor wants
people to get saved in the service even though that's not what church is for here's what the
Bible says churches for and what the offices of the church are for in Ephesians chapter 4 it says
verse 11 to 12 and he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and
teachers for the perfecting of the Saints so that people who are already saved for the work of the
ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come in the unity of the faith and of
the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the
fullness of Christ so the Bible tells us these offices are given for for the Saints that they
might be perfect that they might be edified that they might have perfect knowledge right so church
is for people who are already saved that they might grow in the faith right it's not for people
who are unsaved and so these evangelical type services where they have these these altar calls
inviting people that come forward to get saved obviously sometimes you know you have a big
congregation people there aren't gonna get saved but what you should do is instead just preach
them the gospel before or after the service instead of making the preaching about preaching
the gospel because a pastor's job according to the Bible is to edify and to perfect the body of
Christ meaning people who are already saved and baptized the pastor's job is not to get up in
church and just only preach the unsaved because then the saved people are not being fed here's
another reason why the altar call is unbiblical because some churches they might not have this
evangelical type altar call where they're they're trying to get people saved in the service but they
might have this thing where they're like well if you're not right with God you know if you have
this sin in your life or whatever come down to the altar kneel before the altar and confess your sin
to God and get right with God this is something that's also common today in old IFB churches the
Bible teaches though that when we pray we shouldn't do it openly to be seen of men which is exactly
what the altar call is it's something to be seen of met Matthew chapter 6 verses 5 to 6 the Bible
says when thou prayest thou shall not be as the hypocrites are for they love to pray standing in
the synagogues and in the corners of the streets that they may be seen of men verily I stand to
you they have their reward but thou when thou prayest enter into thy closet and when thou is
shut thy door pray to thy father which is in secret and thy father which seeth in secret shall
reward thee openly so the way that these altar calls are performed is they say hey you know
everybody bow your head close your eyes and you know if you're struggling with XY and Z sin you
know raise your hand and come down to the altar and you know I'll pray for you and you could pray
here and you know God bless you I see that hand and all that kind of stuff and you know all these
people are coming up to the altar and they're getting right with God and I've seen this before
at the old IV Church I used to go to where we have these altar calls where after the end of
every service they say okay stand bow your head and you know try to get right with God or whatever
and come down to the altar and they it would be the same people over and over again coming to the
altar to pray and then eventually you see those people they just get out of church they're not
right with God they're not serving God it's like what are they doing when they're praying and
kneeling before the altar they're not getting right with God they're just doing it to be seen
a met okay because why would somebody have to pray before everybody else every week you know kneel
down at the front of the church before everybody they so everybody can see them and then yet
nothing changes in their life right because it's not genuine because they're doing it to be seen a
met so that's the point I'm saying that we shouldn't just go and just pray in front of
everybody else just like hey look at me I'm so godly I'm repenting right now no pray in secret
in your closet okay obviously there's a time to pray in church right as a congregation but to
just like do your own prayer before everybody else you know look at me I'm so godly and repenting in
front of everybody else that's a Pharisaical attitude so this is not biblical it's not said
anywhere in the Bible that we should do this altar call thing it was invented by a heretic
and it really takes the focus of church away from people who are already saved to people who are
unsaved and in the cases where it's you know a sort of thing of you know get right with God
repent of your sins or whatever then it often just makes people basically be hip you know
Pharisaical and look at me and look I'm praying before everybody I'm getting right with God all
that kind of stuff it draws attention to to people by you know everybody coming forth the altar or
whatever so that's why the altar call is not righteous to do and it's not in the Bible and
I don't think we should do it at all and so go soul winning instead if you want to get people
saved don't fill up the church the house of God with people who aren't believers because the house
of God is for believers go out to their doors and their places of hanging out or whatever and go
preach to them and then you can bring them in and then they won't have to come down the aisles or
whatever they'll already be saved so this is the way that we should do it this is what the Bible
said it's command to go preach the gospel so stop getting your traditions from men stop doing vain
worship and stop thinking that Charles Finney is a good man of God because he's a heretic and he's
burning in hell so that's that's what I hope you get out of this video so thank you buddy for
watching God bless you and goodbye