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.
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.
Okay, 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 of the Bible?
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 in verbatim.
I saturated myself with books, articles, and sermons, you're saturated with something else,
buddy.
I saturated myself with books, articles, and sermons by men of the 1900s, 1800s, 1700s,
and 1600s, only to find an amazing thing.
The issue of what is repentance and reference to 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, because 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.
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.
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 France and he gives a bunch
of quotes from famous preachers of the past, most of which were not Baptists.
So he's like, oh, it was really painful for me to look at non-Baptists.
Well, 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?
He says, hey, I looked at all this stuff.
Everybody agrees.
There was no dispute.
There was, this is a moderate, this controversy is a modern day issue.
Everything I, everybody defined 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, you know, turning from unbelief to belief,
you know, or, or just trusting in one thing or 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 gets from Charles Spurgeon.
Just now, meaning in what year?
This is the first words out of Charles Spurgeon.
This is 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 checked.
Nobody believed in this.
Nobody's ever heard of this modern thing of changing your mind, being repentance.
You can't find it anywhere.
I defy you to find it more than a hundred years ago.
Let me just show you.
Here's a quote from Charles Spurgeon in 1872 and Charles Spurgeon says, just now some professively
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, it's all, you can't even make this stuff up.
Well, it is true that, you know, the original word does convey the idea of a change of mind,
but the whole teaching of scripture concerning repentance, you know, 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, well, okay, yeah,
that is what repent means to change your mind, but okay, well, Spurgeon, give us a 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 in scripture, and it's just like, well, just the whole Bible.
Well, where does 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 professively Christian teachers are misleading many by saying that it sounds
like, 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 interdenominational, 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.
Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, Kenneth Copeland.
What's the haka la gondola?
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?
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 promise.
Why does everybody love Spurgeon?
Because 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.
That 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 sin's 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 thought, 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?
Because 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 and everything's dead.
And then like hundreds of years later, somebody comes and excavates it as an archaeologist.
And they want to talk about what Christians believed in America in the 21st century.
What are the chances that they're going to 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 going to be brushing off.
This artifact from 2015 is of a Joyce Meyer book, you know, that's what they're going
to 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 of Bible Versions.
You get a discount.
No, it's going to be, in Walmart, it's all going to 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.
You know, it's like, here, let me dig my own grave real quick.
These 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.