A medium…who consults the dead… is detestable to the Lord. –Deuteronomy 18:11-12–
Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus. –Matthew 17:3–
I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. –Revelation 20:12–
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I have myself many times found on a sudden so lively an apprehension of a deceased friend, that I have sometimes turned about to look…those that died in faith. In dreams, I have had exceeding lively conversations with them; and I doubt not but they were then very near. –John Wesley–
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Clifford Wilson and John Weldon, Occult Shock and Psychic Forces (Master Books, 1980).
Andre Pradel, St. Vincent Ferrer: His Life… (R. Washbourne, 1875), pp. 32-33.
By what authority are you doing these things? –Mark 11:28 (NIV)–
The time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. –2 Timothy 4:3-4 (ESV)–
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. –Isaiah 58:1 (KJV)–
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How couldst thou speak of Heaven and Hell in such a careless, sleepy manner? Dost thou believe what thou sayest? Art thou in earnest or in jest? How canst thou tell people that sin is such a thing, and that so much misery is upon them and before them, and be no more affected with it? Shouldst thou not weep over such a people, and should not thy tears interrupt thy words? Shouldst thou not cry aloud, and shew them their transgressions, and entreat and beseech them as for life and death? –Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, pp. 238-239–
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Dr. John R. Rice, Why Preach Against Sin? (Sword of the Lord, 1985).
—. We Can Have Revival Now, ch. 9: “God’s Way to Mass Revival.” In another city known to me, good pastors got together to have a “revival campaign.” But so there would be no hard preaching against sin, no issue raised about movies, dances, lodges and other worldliness, they asked a good pastor to lead in the “revival campaign.” He preached good sermons. But he did not take the time for preparation of Christians, preaching against sin, getting them to pray and win souls, as Moody and Torrey and Billy Sunday and other blessed evangelists have always done. He simply preached sermons to the unsaved, good, sound sermons on the blood of Christ. But not many unsaved attended the services, there was a notable lack of real conviction, and pastors were disappointed because there was no genuine revival. There are a lot of good preachers, sound preachers, devoted preachers who are not evangelists. They are not called to be evangelists, not anointed to be evangelists.
The grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age. –Titus 2:11-12 (NKJV)–
Someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? –James 2:18-20 (NKJV)–
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All of these books teach the doctrines of salvation from a pro-lordship point of view. All of them except for the last two are Calvinist and teach a lordship-based perseverance of the saints: found in the Southern Baptist Church (SBC), the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC), and the Confessional Baptist Association (CBA). The last two are from a Wesleyan-holiness view of lordship. Mine is at the bottom. Those denominations that would be agreeable to them would be the Church of the Nazarene, the Wesleyan Church, the Free Methodist Church, Church of God (Cleveland) (COG), and the International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC). Most of these books will name Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS), Grace Evangelical Society (GES), Zane Hodges, and Charles Ryrie as the top false teachers of the antinomian, anti-repentance, anti-obedience, cheap grace gospel teaching, which eventually came to be called the no-lordship view of salvation. Drs. Robert Peterson and Christopher Morgan’s Hell Under Fire (Zondervan, 2004), and Bill Wiese’s Hell: Separate Truth from Fiction (Charisma House, 2008), should fill in all the gaps about the doctrine of Hell.
John MacArthur, The Gospel According to Jesus (Zondervan, 2008).
—. The Gospel According to the Apostles (Thomas Nelson, 2005).
Paul Washer, The Gospel’s Power and Message (RHB, 2020).
—. The Gospel of Jesus Christ (RHB, 2016).
Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr, Lord of the Saved (P&R Publishing, 1992).
Curtis I. Crenshaw, Lordship Salvation: The Only Kind There Is! (FP, 1995).
Robert Lescelius, Lordship Salvation: Some Crucial Questions and Answers (RL, 1992).
Harald Lindstrom, Wesley and Sanctification (FAP, 2000).
