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Welcome to No Compromise Radio, a ministry coming to you from Bethlehem Bible Church in West Boylston.

No Compromise Radio is a program dedicated to the ongoing proclamation of Jesus Christ based on

the theme in Galatians 2, verse 5, where the Apostle Paul said, But we did not yield in subjection to them for

even an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

In short, if you like smooth, watered -down words to make you simply feel good, this show isn't for

you.

By purpose, we are first biblical, but we can also be controversial.

Stay tuned for the next 25 minutes as we're called by the divine trumpet to summon the troops for the honor and

glory of her King.

Here's our host, Pastor Mike Abendroth.

Welcome to No Compromise Radio ministry.

Michael Lee Abendroth here, and I am glad that you listen.

The Lord has blessed the ministry of No Compromise Radio beyond measure in nooks and crannies all

across the world.

Very, very thankful that you would listen.

Try to make it 24 and a half minutes of something that would be encouraging,

positive.

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So this theme is Fall 2013, issue 225, the theme of the work of Christ.

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What else is up today?

Well, I could give you the Mother's Day Prayer to Our Mother God, but I'm going to do that another day.

Christianity Today, October 2013.

Andy Crouch is the executive editor, and he says, on page nine, it's a

smarter, bolder, and a little bit taller Christianity Today.

Yes, it's really different.

Above all, we wanted to convey how serious we are about serving our readers in print.

We've adopted the glorious typefaces, Periodico, and

Calibra, among the most

intriguing and graceful font designs of the last decade.

How about more mainline, I don't want mainline, how about more

traditional, orthodox, biblical articles?

I'd settle for that.

How about that instead of hermeneutics?

How about real hermeneutics?

How about getting more scholars from the evangelical stripe?

How about that?

But see, once you figure out that I've got to maintain readership, I've got to go for the broad base, watered

down.

To contribute, you can send checks, U .S. dollars only.

To contribute, how about I already pay for the thing and then only use it for my no -code diatribes?

How about that?

Well, there are some things in here that make fun radio.

How about this?

Now, for those of you that know me, you will know that I believe the Catholic Church's doctrine

is not biblical.

It will damn you, and you need to run from such doctrine.

But that does not mean I hate Roman Catholics.

That does not mean that everything a Roman Catholic says is false.

It doesn't even mean everything a Roman Catholic leader says is false.

I'm going to enjoy watching the complete implosion with the new Pope and the Vatican.

They'll reel him in soon enough.

You just watch.

Mark my words.

Cardinal Francis George, the Archdiocese of Chicago, said something

that I really liked.

And so, see, this is not me endorsing the Roman Catholic Church.

I'm just saying, good for this guy.

Good for this guy.

I appreciate this man's statement here.

Cardinal Francis George, when he defended the withdrawal of Catholic support from an

Illinois immigration coalition over its expansion into same -sex marriage advocacy.

So we've got the immigration deal, but now you've got to wrap it up in the garb, in the livery,

in the clothing of same -sex stuff, because that is the new religion.

That is the new opiate.

That is the new mantra.

That is the new everything.

And he didn't like it, and so they withdrew Catholic support from that coalition.

Kudos.

Good job.

Way to go.

But what he said was the best.

Jesus is merciful, but he's not stupid.

Jesus is merciful, but he's not stupid.

Cardinal Francis George.

Yes, of course Jesus is merciful, but he's not going to want the same -sex

marriage advocacy deal.

So I just like that.

All right, this is fascinating here.

Messiah, fourth rank among fastest -growing names for American boys in 2012.

762 boys named Messiah in 2012, placing it between Scott and Jay.

There aren't many Scotts out there, and there are not many Jays.

This is according to the Social Security Administration.

So see this Christianity Today.

Don't you want to spend $19 .99 for this?

They have this open views deal, open question, three views.

Actually, somebody who listened to No Compromise Radio said they sent my name to them to be one of the open

views, open question, three views.

How can churches best support parents who adopt from overseas?

And then, of course, they have to put their little editorial mark in there.

There are no easy formulas.

This social agenda deal has just gone bonkers.

It's gone bonkers in evangelicalism, in mainline churches, in liberal Protestant

churches.

How can churches best support parents who adopt from overseas?

Why is that even a question?

Somebody would adopt from overseas here at Bethlehem Bible Church, I'll say, well, make sure you do all your research so

you don't spend a lot of money, and then you get jobbed overseas

for something else.

Make sure you use a reputable place.

I'm thankful that you want to adopt a baby, and way to go.

But see, this whole 2K deal comes into play, and what is the church's

responsibility?

As my brother likes to say, is the church's responsibility to start

doing ambulance services?

That would be helpful to the community.

After all, we're closer to some of the people here, and we've got some EMT folks and some paramedics.

I'm not against adoption, although it is romantic to many people, it is a cool thing to do.

I think it's a very self -sacrificial thing to do, and for many years I thought I'd probably adopt a kid.

In the old days, if you were a pastor, there was a good percentage chance that you would be adopting a child, because there'd

be a young lady at church, and she would get pregnant out of wedlock, and she would want

to give up the baby for adoption, and with the same mentality that people think,

well, you know what, I should probably get counsel from the pastor, since he's at the top of the heap, and I should also

probably give my baby to the pastor, because he would take care of that baby, and so for years I thought, we'll probably have a

child given to us, and that was never the case.

I'm not against adoption, that's my point.

But I am against churches who forget the Great Commission, small g.

The Great Commission, capital G in my mind, is God the Father commissioning the Son, the Covenant of

Redemption, to go save the elect.

But it is a great commission to go make disciples, baptize, teach in the

name of the Father, Son, and Spirit, the singular name.

So, how can they support, like, give money to them?

I wouldn't be wrong, I guess, for a church to do that, but it's just confusing.

It's blurring the lines, and I don't like that.

I don't like that.

What is the church's mandate?

What is the church's commission?

What is the imperative of the church?

Is it social imperative?

If you listen to people in big churches in New York City, I think you'd probably figure that out, that it

should be that.

All right, it's got a big article about the Jesus Calling, Sarah Young book, and she's listening

to Jesus.

She's praying by seeking guidance and listening, and then writing what I feel

He is placing on my heart.

When you read the Bible, if you want to say that's listening, fine.

When you talk to God, that's prayer, never let the two meet.

I'm not against meditation, I'm not against biblical meditation, I'm not against turning everything off and

sitting there quietly.

I often do that, and I have a Bible with me, and I have a piece of paper and a pencil, but I

don't write the things down that Jesus tells me, because the canon's closed.

We have a sufficient Scripture.

We believe in sola scriptura, and you functionally deny sola scriptura every time you do this, you know, God's

talking to me.

Just like Lily Tomlin says, when I talk to God, it's called prayer.

When God talks to me, it's called, I'm schizophrenic.

And so, we have to be careful, and of course, the Jesus Calling book is a worldwide famous

book, and you ought to run from that.

They quote Kierkegaard here, and it's interesting to read Kierkegaard, but

he's not evangelical, he wasn't orthodox.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking, but he became more and more quiet

until in the end he realized that prayer is listening.

Ooh, sounds so good, couldn't be farther from the truth.

Listening?

What am I to listen for?

I guess I could listen for loud sounds, like the guy who's mowing across the

street, cars just drove by.

Notice that the people that ride by on carbon fiber bikes aren't emitting any pollutants.

I could listen to sounds and listen to a bird and go, you know what, Lord, you even take care of the birds.

Birds are taken care of, you're going to take care of me.

Birds don't even last that long, the flowers don't even last that long, and yet you care for me, why am I anxious?

I could listen to the sound of a siren and say, Lord, would you please help those people that need

this emergency care?

I could listen to the no -compromise radio and say, could you pray for that guy?

I'm going to pray for that guy.

I could listen to my own heart.

Boy, that's a bad idea.

You trust in your heart?

What does Jeremiah 17 .10 say about that?

You don't want to do that.

You don't want to listen to yourself.

That's why we have Scripture external, outside of us.

We need that, because we're fallen.

And even as Christian people, we still have—oh, let's put it this way.

You're less than glorified, aren't you?

Unless you're some crazy Keswick guy or Methodist perfectionist

lady, which neither of those is a good place to be in.

You're going to be tainted, and that's why you need external help.

That's why you need other counselors to sharpen you and come alongside.

That's why you need wisdom from God.

You need to run from this whole deal.

Listening for God knows what.

Well, on the positive side, I like to look at the ads at the back of Christianity Today, especially for the

seminaries.

My name is Mike Cavendroth, No Compromise Radio, and this is Christianity Today.

There is a great ad for Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and

I'm proud to be an adjunct faculty member.

Can you imagine?

Me, of all people, an adjunct faculty member.

I taught a class called the Proclamation of the Word—Proclamation—Ministry

of Proclamation.

That's what it's called.

Three thousand, I think, was the name of it.

And I'm going to be teaching here in the Northborough area in

January through March of 2014, preaching class and then the preaching practicum, where the

guys get up and preach and then I critique them.

And so I'm happy to be an adjunct faculty member.

I'm happy to get letters from Dr. Mohler, welcome to the staff.

I mean, that is really—it's amazing to think of.

And there is a great ad for—I can't say it's my employer, because Bethlehem Bible Church is my employer,

but my seminary, it says here, shows Mohler standing there preaching,

and then it says, don't just stand there.

Now what's the normal fill -in line to don't just stand there?

Do something.

But it doesn't say that here, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, with the sub

-theme here of serious about the gospel.

It says, don't just stand there.

Say something.

Say something.

That's what the gospel is.

It's something to be said.

It's something to be declared.

It's something to be delivered with this pace that I have as a Southern Baptist -style preacher.

It's a cadence.

Herald the Word.

Preach the Word.

Proclaim the truth.

The gospel is to be proclaimed.

You don't live the gospel.

You proclaim the gospel.

I have good news.

No matter how great your sins are, no matter what you've done in the past, no matter how many

times you've done them in the past, Jesus Christ died for sinners like you.

While you couldn't live up to God's law, you couldn't love Him with your whole heart, and you couldn't love your neighbor as yourself, and you couldn't do

anything that the Bible calls you to do, you couldn't honor God, you couldn't give Him thanks as a creator,

you couldn't admire His power and nature, you couldn't give Him thanks

properly because you didn't have faith in Christ Jesus.

But Jesus, He did all those things.

He honored God.

He gave Him thanks.

This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.

And it wasn't just at His baptism.

You could put that umbrella statement over His entire life.

He always pleased the Father.

That's an amazing thing to think of.

And He did it because He was fully man.

The eternal Son of God cloaked Himself with humanity

and lived in Israel.

He lived there, walked there, ate there, and perfectly obeyed.

When you think of a sacrifice, why does it have to be unblemished and spotless?

Well, just think typically a little bit farther in the future into the anti -type Christ Jesus.

Spotless, blameless, perfectly kept the law, then died on the cross for

our sins, 1 Corinthians chapter 15, and was raised from the dead according to the Scriptures.

Believe it.

Change your mind.

Repent.

Trust.

We talk about good news in a world full of bad news.

When you go to theological seminary, you need to be trained to say something.

Moeller says here, 2013, to fail to say something in the time of trouble is sin.

And yet the temptation to sin is ever so present among us, and increasingly so because it costs more to speak the

truth, sbts .edu forward slash say something.

Great ad.

I didn't say that to get the job.

I've already got the job.

Well, my name is Mike Avendroth.

No Compromise Radio.

If you have show ideas, you can always write me.

It takes a lot of research.

You know, you want me to do some theonomy deal, or you want me to do something about the Masons.

I have some stuff that's ready.

But here's the thing, as you can probably tell, I don't really study for the show.

Now if this was my job, I'd have it all set up.

I'd have my crack staff all get my research together, and I'd come in here, and I'd be, you

know, demanding two chocolate doughnuts and some Pete's coffee.

That was the last time I had a doughnut.

I think I had at Gail's Bakery in Santa Cruz some

cinnamon roll kind of thing, but it was foo -foo.

It was five bucks.

That, by the way, is Phil Johnson's, one of his favorite places to eat, Gail's Bakery.

I think Phil listens to No Compromise Radio only when I'm on Wretched Radio.

And so, I don't know, Phil, you're backsliding a little bit.

I need to have Phil back on the show, don't you think?

Maybe you could write me and ask me to have certain guests on.

Could you please have so -and -so on your radio show?

I used to get free books from people.

I'd read them, have them on the radio, and it just took a lot of work.

So I have a job.

I want to minister to the people here.

Lots of folks, lots of needs, lots of other things going on.

And so, three or four days a week, I can't sit down and do the show.

So it's usually one or two days, I'll tape two or three shows at a shot, and then maybe four

total for the week, and then I have to move on.

So I get an idea, come over here, say, Lord, help me, hit click, and then 24 and a half minutes later, I send it to

our server.

So anyway, if you have ideas for shows, you can write me.

If you want me to interview certain people, I try to interview some folks, and they say no.

They say no.

I'm trying to think what else is going on here.

Things That Go Bump in the Church, I wrote that book with Byron Yawn and Clint Archer.

Those guys, Byron used to write for Cripplegate, I don't think he does anymore.

But his books on, By Harvest House, Suburbianity, and

the one for young ladies, and the one for young men, What Every Son Wishes His

Father Would Have Said, and the flip side for the female version.

He's an excellent writer.

Clint is an excellent writer.

And so, kind of Scary Doctrines for New Christians.

That's going to come out early spring 2014, and so

maybe I'll interview myself.

My chapters are on Unconditional Election, because, you know, Scary Doctrines.

This is a book you want to give new members or, you know, new Christians, people that are unchurched Harry's and

de -church Sally's.

Unconditional Election, Hell, Church Discipline,

God Told Me, you know, lead kind of thing, the subjective deal, you know how I love to talk about that.

And there's one other chapter, Oh Sin, just, you know, I'm dysfunctional, I'm

full of illnesses, diseases, and demons.

So, you can pick that up.

Zondervan is going to publish an S. Lewis Johnson commentary, Romans, it's called Discovering Romans,

Spiritual Revival for the Soul, Samuel Lewis Johnson, Jr., adapted by

Mike Ebendroth.

It's not with, because it wasn't with me, but it was adapted by me, and I'm trying to, it's due in a week

or so, I'm trying to whittle that manuscript down to the 90 ,000 words, and I didn't know footnotes counted, and I

think I'm at 96, so what do you do?

Anyway, those are the things going on here at No Compromise Radio.

Mother God, today we honor the mothers of the world, and we honor our mother God.

We honor the deep strength and sheer grace, the unending love, the watchful eye of the fierce unwavering

protector.

We honor the lioness, the stalwart vigil kept, the

spirit fire lit, the tears bravely spilt, the strategic sacrifice, the

billowing brilliant mind which thinks, which dreams, which leads us in the harsh struggle for the greater good,

Jennifer Crumpton.

She was on Fox News trying to talk about how she's this new Christian writer,

blogger, or mainstream Christian, and she is whacked.

She's the loony bin lady.

Do I need to read any more?

Our mother God is the God of dreams deferred.

She is by necessity by the sins of humanity, but this is not her passivity, it is her power.

She is free, yet she stays with captives.

She is whole, yet she lives in pieces next to the hurt, the abused.

She moves for the immobilized.

She speaks for the silent.

She defends the defenseless.

She exhausts herself with righteous rage, making the assassin argument on behalf of those who receive man's

selfish anger.

Not to resort to violence, not to shed blood, not to prolong the cowardly wars, and not to make

vengeance hers.

Last time I checked, the Scriptures talk about the Lord is a warrior.

Revelation 19, has she ever read?

I don't think they taught her that at the seminary she allegedly attended.

Friends, it's good to look at bios.

It's good to do a little research.

And if people are on Fox News yet, you ought to ask yourself the question, why would Fox News have such a person on?

It makes me mad.

It makes me super mad.

I mean, what's the difference between that and a UFO?

You know, of course, down below it, it says you also may like zealot, the life and times of the fake

Jesus that the Muslim writes about.

Sophia, wisdom and peace.

We honor God who birthed us, and we honor the many women who have also raised us in every way.

You find me, paganism, and I'll show you mother, womb, birth stuff.

We believe in Jesus.

He's a lamb slain, but he's standing, substitutionary atonement.

They don't like the cross?

Well, I don't doubt it because they're unbelievers.

And so read 1 Corinthians chapter 1, 18 and following, and that'll set us straight with that.

My name's Mike Abendroth, NoCompromiseRadio .com.

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