REGENERATION IS THE CREATIVE ACT OF GOD-Part Four

Pure Bible preaching is very discriminating.
You can tell Cain from Abel, when sacrifice is the subject.

Jacob from Esau, when love is the topic;
and Daniel from Nebuchadnezzar, when sovereignty is the thought for investigation.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ discriminates between The Gospel of Redemption, and The Social
Gospel.

When the vicariousness of Christ's death is preached, everything in natural man is condemned.
His self-love, self-righteousness, and self-justification, are discovered and condemned.
This is something the non-regenerated man despises.
It does something to his unbelieving ego, and he begins to rebel.

GALATIANS 4;28-29--[Turn].

During the Reformation as the truth of justification by faith, began to spread, bitter persecution broke out with a bitter cry.

The Cry went forth, ''Put these people to death, who believe in salvation through grace, who do not believe that they can be saved by penances and human merit;
do everything POSSIBLE, to rid the world of them''.

As it was in the human heart then, so it is now.
The only difference now, is in the restraint of Civil Authority.

Today, every Christian, in the USA, should be thankful, for such restraint, in God's providential dealings with him.

As there was division in Christ's day, over the subjects of His Death and Resurrection, so it's impossible, to insist upon, the spiritual teaching respecting these matters, without causing division--
John 10;14-19--''I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the
Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. Therefore doth my Father love me, because i lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.''

Advocates of the social gospel, are not concerned, about the cause of social evils.
They only treat symptons.

They, like Cain, have gone the way of human pride and works--Jude 11--[Turn].

These false teachers, believe that, The Preachers of Free Grace, are enemies to their program of social reform.

Now get this truth; Our Lord came not to socially reform society, but, to redeem the Elect--
LUKE 12;13-14--[Turn].

Why did Christ refuse to enter into the dispute/
There are 2 ways of dealing with men;
[1] REGENERATION-Internal Change by the work of The Holy Spirit.
[2] REFORMATION-External Change by formulative laws, thus seeking to change moral, social,
and political evils.
Our Lord refused to interfere, because His mission, was not to socialize, but to redeem the elect of God.

Now, It's imperative, at this point, that we emphasize the office and work of Jesus Christ.
The Son of God came, to give His life, as a ransom for many, and to proclaim and establish principles.

Number 1-The Lord Jesus Christ disclaimed His position of Judge, or Divider, at His First
Coming--
John 3;17--''For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.''

He reminded the person, who spoke, that he, as well as, his brother, was moved by covetousness.

A person may be as selfish in seeking his rights, as another man is, in withholding them from
him.
There is A MANIFESTATION OF This, on every hand, today. . .


Number 2-Our Lord forbids oppression--Christ didn't take from the oppressor, and give to the oppressed;
neither did He encourage the oppressed, to take from the oppressor.
He didn't exercise this prerogative, at His first coming.

Number 3-The purpose of Christ, at His first coming, was not to found His body, on outward law and jurisprudence, but on a spiritual disposition, applied by The Holy Spirit, in Regeneration.

The Gospel, however, does not interfere with civil rights and human laws.
But human government cannot legislate righteousness.