Keith Green
This is the final post of this article written by Keith Green. I hope and pray you enjoyed reading it as much as I did posting it. Someone said ‘If your favorite author isn’t dead, try picking someone else’. I have found that most of the currant Christian authors are shallow and unscriptural. They seem convinced that for some reason that the Gospel needs to be recreated to make it more meaningful and in the process less demanding. A gospel devoid of repentance and lacking the Cross, is no gospel at all. Consequently their followers exchange any hope of eternal glory with Jesus Christ for a shallow worldly ‘best life now’. So I offered this series to you as an example of what the true Gospel of Jesus Christ is compared with what is being taught in our churches today. My prayer is that as we ‘meet God in the closet’ that we will be emboldened to stand up and proclaim the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. — D.J.H.
And now we come to the end of this “Bible study.” Yes, that’s just what it has turned out to be. I hope you will take the time to look up each of the Scriptures given, and see for yourself what God has said in His Word about all these things. I realize that these articles will step on many toes, and some might even be deeply offended, but that is not my intention at all. My only prayer is that through this little effort, many will begin to take up the cross and preach the good news of our salvation with the same power and anointing that Jesus promised and gave to the early Church, and that when we ministers stand before Him on that great day, we will be able to say with Paul, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith . . . I have fully preached the Gospel of Christ” (2Ti 4:7; Rom 15:19), so that we may hear those sweet words from our King’s lips, “Well done, good and faithful servant!” (Mat 25:21)
Beloved family, the world around us is going to hell. Not because of communism, not because of television, not because of drugs, or sex, or alcohol, or the devil himself. It is because of the Church! We are to blame! We alone have the commission, the power, and the truth of God at our constant disposal to deliver sinner after sinner from eternal death. And even though some are willing to go… into the streets, the prisons, foreign lands, or even next door, they are taking a watered-down, distorted version of God’s message which He has not promised to anoint. That is why we are failing. And unless we admit that we are failing, then I’m afraid there is no hope for us or the world around us. We have the choice between causing eternal tragedy for our whole generation, or bringing our beloved God a whole family full of “good and faithful servants.”
Please pray over all of this. God is waiting to meet you in the closet. (Mat 6:6)
The following list is a list of books for further in-depth study on evangelism and the content of the Gospel:
Today’s Gospel by Walter Chantry – The Banner Of Truth Trust
Finney On Revival by Charles G. Finney – Fleming H. Revell Co.
Gems from Tozer by A. W. Tozer – Christian Publications, Inc.
That Incredible Christian by A. W. Tozer – Christin Publications, Inc.