February 14, 2022 Show with Dr. Richard Caldwell on “Spirit Empowered Preaching”

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This is Chris Arnzen, your host of Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, wishing you all a happy Valentine's Day

on Monday, February 14th, 2022.

It's not a very happy day for me because I turned 60 this morning at 12 midnight.

And I guess I should be happy.

I should be very thankful to God that He has preserved me this many years,

and I trust that He will preserve me for many more, not

as many as He has already preserved me.

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providence and mercy will give me.

Today we have a first -time guest.

I'm looking forward to interviewing him.

He is one of the speakers at the upcoming True Church Conference.

His name is Richard Caldwell, and he is the pastor teacher at Founders Baptist Church in

Spring, Texas.

Today we are going to be addressing the theme, Spirit -Empowered Preaching, and it's my honor and privilege to

welcome you for the first time ever to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Richard Caldwell.

Thank you, Chris. Good to be here.

Thank you, brother.

And I want to add that today we are conducting this interview in a

prerecorded fashion.

This will not be live when you're hearing it, 4 to 6 p .m. Eastern time, folks.

So please, this is one of those rare occasions when I'm asking you not to submit questions to

Pastor Caldwell because this is, as I said, prerecorded.

It is being recorded, however, on Monday, February 14th, the same day that it is

airing.

Tell us something about Founders Baptist Church in Spring, Texas, and even specifically about the name.

Yeah, Chris, it's

called Memorial

Baptist.

After I've

been

there, the

Mother Church,

I

re

-evacuated.

Yeah, with Dr. Tom Askell?

Absolutely.

And so we appreciated that and admired that, and we wanted people who would come to

want to people to understand at the outset.

Great.

Well, I am so delighted to hear that Founders Baptist Church has

the same doctrinal convictions that I cherish.

And although I don't always interview people who are theologically identical

with me when I broadcast Iron Sherpa's Iron Radio, it is just an

extra joy to know when I've got a guest on who is echoing the precious doctrines of

sovereign grace.

If anybody wants more information about Founders Baptist Church in Spring, Texas, the

website is foundersbaptist .org, foundersbaptist .org.

Before we move into our main theme of the day, spirit -empowered preaching,

and also a promotion of the True Church Conference, I'd like you,

as a part of our tradition here on Iron Sherpa's Iron Radio, whenever we have a first -time guest, I'd like you to

give a summary of your salvation testimony, which would include any kind of religious

atmosphere you may have been raised in and what kind of providential circumstances a sovereign Lord

raised up in your life that drew you to himself and saved you.

I would love to do that.

I

was raised in a

homely, basic,

just in God's good, proper point of view.

They loved us and took good care of us and all of that.

But I do not believe that

either of my

parents were

very sporadic thereafter

and held on to that from seven as a

genuine salvation experience.

But I had no hunger for the things that believers hunger for.

I had no real hunger to know more Scripture.

As I would get older, the times I would attend church,

I was happy to get out of there as soon as I could.

I wasn't really enjoying it very much.

And then when I was about 15, my dad may have

been converted earlier, but around that

time came no doubt that the Lord as well,

over the course of a year.

And all of a sudden, I was in morning and evening on Sunday and evening on

Wednesday evenings.

And sitting under a young pastor who

understood how to do it, I look back now and definitely some immaturity

there, but he was doing his best.

And so we're going through the book of Romans on Sunday.

Quickly, I don't

know

whether I'm, but

tonight I know what it

means.

And Chris, from that day until now, I'm 58 years of age.

In fact, I struggled for a time after that with whether or not I needed to be baptized on the right side of my

conversion, whether I was saved at seven or whether I was seven years old, I submitted to

believers' baptism.

Amen.

Amen.

I wish more Baptists would do that.

There are many Baptists who have a right understanding of

what might be nicknamed Lordship Salvation.

They have a right understanding that a faith without repentance is a dead faith

and is not a real faith.

But very often, you will have people who were wrongly baptized because

they made some kind of a profession, either as a young child or even later in

life, that proved to be a false profession

and a false conversion.

And when the genuine article comes about by the grace and

mercy of Christ, many of them who were

biblically baptized in regard to the mode, they were immersed as a

so -called believer, they weren't really biblically baptized because there was

no repentance involved.

And many of them just think that since we do not, as Baptists,

believe that baptism is a requirement for salvation or regeneration,

but at the same time, in order to, I think, properly obey the command,

repentance is required.

So I think that folks who have been even baptized by immersion after a profession

of faith, if they realize later in their lives, when they truly get saved, that their

earlier profession was false, I believe they should be rebaptized.

And I applaud you for what you did.

Absolutely, Chris.

I mean, baptism, and so if the reality is,

it would be like

a genuine

conversion.

Yeah, or another analogy might be you're wearing a wedding ring after you get married, but you're a habitual

unrepentant adulterer, and you're not actually living according to the vows you made.

Right.

So, yeah, I appreciate that testimony very much.

And how was it that you became introduced to and

embraced the doctrines of sovereign grace, also nicknamed Reformed theology or Calvinism?

I began to listen to John's preaching

ministry, and through that I sort

of made it be produced so

that I could

minister

ecclesiology.

And in doing that, I began then to read,

and even, of course, outside of Baptist circles.

So we're talking about, it had a big influence on my thinking and began to help

me understand answers why any of us

believe these things.

I believe these things not because Sproul taught them or Calvin taught them.

I believe these things because the Scripture teaches them.

Amen.

In fact, when I came to embrace the doctrines of sovereign grace,

I don't know how many months it was after I came to Christ and was baptized,

but my pastors and some folks in the church knew that I was really struggling

with these doctrines called Calvinism, and I was really vehemently

rejecting them.

I was angry about them.

And a brother in the church from England, Nigel Stone, who's now in heaven with the Lord,

he said to me, I've heard that you have some troubles with the doctrines of sovereign

grace.

Let me give you this booklet.

And he gave me George Whitefield's letter to John Wesley on election.

Yes.

Published by Chapel Library.

I did not know who John Wesley was.

I did not know who George Whitefield was.

I did not know who John Calvin was.

I did not know who Charles Spurgeon was.

So the issue was that George Whitefield so biblically

refuted John Wesley's arguments against Calvinism, and John Wesley

had a lot more biblical arguments against Calvinism than I had, and

George Whitefield so beautifully and biblically refuted all of them that

my initial reaction was, oh, no, this is true, but I still hate it.

But then within, I don't know, a month or two, I fell madly in love with the

doctrines of sovereign grace, and it really revolutionized my own understanding of

salvation, and it personalized the substitutionary

atonement provided by Christ on Calvary, because instead of Jesus

dying for a sea of faceless, nameless humanity,

dying hoping that these people for whom he was dying would be saved,

it just totally transformed it to Jesus Christ died for me, Chris Arnzen.

Chris Arnzen was on his heart and mind when he died on Calvary, and he finished

the mission. He 100 accomplished the mission that he set out to do, and

he guaranteed my salvation through that precious act of redemption on the cross.

Right, and as

you know, even

when it comes

to things like, you

no longer see anything

like that, emotional pressure,

because God's at work to genuinely love this.

Amen.

In fact, I think that only Calvinists can logically and

consistently say that they owe 100 of

the praise, honor, and glory for their salvation to Christ alone.

Arminians and other non -Calvinists will say that, but they're really not

being logically consistent when they do.

I love the way you, their desire to give glory to,

it's only those who believe in the sovereignty of God and salvation that can give all.

I want to make it also clear, folks, that I am making no such false argument

that all Calvinists are superior Christians to all Arminians and other non

-Calvinists.

That's ridiculous.

There are brothers and sisters in Christ whose Christian faith, their

walk with Christ, their obedience to Christ, far exceeds and is far superior to

my own.

Folks who are even in the Arminian camp, who are

more obedient Christians.

They are better spouses than I was.

They're better children to their parents.

They're better parents to their children.

They're better employees, employers, citizens, and on and on I could go,

even though they have not been given the

insight into the doctrines of sovereign grace and have not yet embraced them.

So I'm not claiming that just because somebody may be correct in their theology and in agreement with me that they

are superior to other Christians outside of the Calvinist camp.

I'm not saying that at all, and I'm certainly not saying that you must be a Calvinist to be saved.

There is a group out there, I'm sure you're aware, brother, who believe that if you do not

believe in the five points of TULIP, you are lost, you are damned.

And some of these folks have even come to assign John Calvin

to the ranks of the reprobate because Calvin did not believe you had to

understand and agree with every tenet of his faith to be saved.

Some of these folks go as far as if you give an open door or extend a hand of

brotherhood to a non -reformed person, that you are also

damned, regardless of what your doctrines are yourself.

I mean, it's really crazy, isn't it?

It is crazy.

Yes.

And so, like

everything

else in the Christian world.

Yeah, you just reminded me of something that most people in the Restoration movement,

also known as the Church of Christ, revere Alexander Campbell as a hero.

And yet, many today, not all, but many would insist today

that even a Baptist who comes to genuine faith in Christ has to be re -baptized because

you must believe it is a requirement for the remission of sins

in order to be saved.

And yet, Alexander Campbell, who was baptized by a Baptist, was never re -baptized.

Wow, that's amazing.

But tell us about the True Church Conference, where you are one of the speakers on a

really phenomenal roster of speakers.

And I just thank God that I will be attending this conference, by God's grace.

Tell us about the True Church Conference.

I've been aware of the conference.

I think I'm the best guy to ask most character on

Truth and

Love.

We have that in January.

And I just admire what's

immovable about what

makes for it.

And he

doesn't take

the first step when he puts something on his heart.

And he gave reasons.

I can't disagree with his reasons.

And just watching what the Lord has done for us, I have great love and

admiration for that.

Yes, there is an error, actually, on the website, folks.

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-church -conference forward slash, you will see that

it states on the website that the conference is February 17th through

the 20th.

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So just keep in mind that that is a typo.

And I hope somebody at Anchored in Truth Ministries is listening so that they can correct that.

That may make or break some folks' plans to attend.

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which is this Thursday.

And once again, that website is anchoredintruth .org forward

slash true -church -conference forward slash.

Anchoredintruth .org forward slash true -church -conference forward slash.

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And when we return, we're going to be getting into the heart of our discussion today, spirit -empowered preaching.

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And we are now back with our guest today, Richard Caldwell, Pastor -Teacher at Founders Baptist Church in Spring,

Texas.

We are discussing Spirit Empowered Preaching.

And by the way, I wanted to clarify something that we were talking about before.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Founders Movement and the Founders Conference, the

reason why that movement and conference and Founders Baptist Church use the word founders

is because every single founder of the Southern Baptist Convention in the 19th century were

thoroughgoing five -point Calvinists, unlike today where we see

those that believe in the doctrines of sovereign grace being a tiny minority of

those within the Southern Baptist Convention.

Any knowledge as to why you believe this

switch, this swap occurred where the doctrines of grace were the

dominant teachings of the Southern Baptist Convention for quite a while, and now the reverse is

true, that even anti -Calvinism and non -Calvinism flourish

there where those who are Calvinists such as yourself are a tiny minority?

I don't.

What I

can

say, large

crusades,

evangelism,

and that's all.

I'm not trying to engage in a battle of wits or

share the gospel faith in our hearts.

So I think our convention is plagued by pragmatism.

Amen.

And today we are highlighting spirit -empowered preaching, which is the theme of your

message at True Church Conference.

Some of our charismatic and Pentecostal brethren might look at that and

either think, that's strange, I didn't think that Calvinists believe that the spirit

empowered anybody to do anything, or they might think that we are charismatic by using a phrase like that.

But the irony is, and I'm assuming you would agree, that those who believe in

the doctrines of sovereign grace, we actually believe that the Holy Spirit

has an infinitely more vital role in the Christian life than most

charismatics and Pentecostals do who are predominantly Arminian, because we believe that

somebody can't even possess faith without the Holy Spirit's involvement.

And the Holy Spirit is the one that sanctifies and preserves us.

I mean, don't you think that we have a more vital role in our understanding of the

Scriptures that is involving the Holy Spirit?

Amen.

Well, tell us about this specific theme, spirit -empowered preaching.

Definitely.

So you seem to be emphasizing not only

spirit -empowered preaching, but spirit -empowered hearing.

We're talking

about what

the Spirit of God does in

and through.

And let me say, for the sake of argument, and get your response to it,

I agree with everything you said, but isn't there an important role for homiletics

in the public proclamation, vocal proclamation of

God's Word, also known as preaching?

There are many folks, both in and outside of Reformed theology,

who don't seem to think homiletics is a very important issue.

You will have folks get up to a pulpit and talk about life

and death situations, matters of urgency and eternal consequence,

who will be presenting those truths as if they are reading a bus schedule, and just

very calmly and very quietly and very impotently and very weakly

talking about the things of God in such a monotone way.

And although God has saved countless numbers of lost souls, even through

that kind of preaching, don't you think that it is important

that we preach with passion and urgency and as if the eternal souls of those

listening is at stake?

And Charles Spurgeon, someone we both think very highly of, he believed that it was

important.

Don't you also believe that?

I absolutely do.

It's blood

-earned.

Yeah, I've heard a lot of fundamentalist folks

preaching with a lot of volume and power and boldness,

but sometimes their messages were very shallow and sometimes,

dare I say, silly.

And sometimes heretical.

And I am not broad -brushing.

I have friends, very close friends, who are independent fundamentalist Baptists, even of the King James only

variety, who are wonderful brethren, who love Christ, who are very biblically

literate.

I just disagree with them on certain issues.

So I'm not broad -brushing.

So the volume and the fury is not all of the package either that

a biblically -driven, Spirit -driven pastor should be involved in.

Yeah, no doubt.

And it means

we

embrace what God

has given us,

talking by the Spirit,

to be.

Explain the text.

Paul rejected what the Greeks had come to love

in which he

did not reject.

And you see, he was very careful in how he

organized his ideas.

He was very purposeful in the way that he would take his readers from one subject to the next and build a

case.

All of that is important in preaching.

That gets to what you mentioned, homiletical skill.

So yes, this is not a rejection of homiletical skill, carefulness,

training, preparation.

What it is a rejection of is a kind of presentation

that gets in the way of the text.

That's what we have to reject in our preaching.

For example, in my text, lofty speech,

that word that points to the

idea that we would be

speaking.

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Richard Caldwell, pastor teacher at Founders Baptist Church in Spring, Texas.

We are addressing spirit -empowered preaching.

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We are, as I said before, we are addressing the theme, very important theme,

Spirit -Empowered Preaching.

And don't you think that there is far too much timidity and cowardice

when it comes to those, even those that have correct doctrine, who ascend into

pulpits because they are not relying on the Spirit.

They are capitulating to the whims of

the day.

They don't want to offend people in the audience.

They don't want to risk losing their jobs as the pastor of a particular church.

They don't want the wrath of the community surrounding them to be outpoured on that congregation.

And we could go on and on and on.

It might be just something as simple as the pastor craves being liked by everyone.

Don't you think that they are not relying enough or at all on the Spirit to empower their preaching?

They communicate.

On the other end of the spectrum, you have men who

communicate

the truth, and

we're going to

communicate the

truth, loyalty to God,

but

genuine

love.

And I think

that's the

key right there.

Do we, and if we believe it, I mean if we really

believe, if you're talking, if you believe in Heaven, believe that

men are and need to be delivered from the domain of darkness.

That comes from

that of the

sermon.

It's earnestness.

Do I believe this?

I listened to Martin Lloyd -Jones, and Lloyd -Jones is not loud,

but he's blood earnest.

Amen.

I agree with every word.

Now, if we leave out the more obvious,

flawed, or even false preaching of modern

evangelicalism, we leave out Joel Osteen's, and we leave out

those that are just trying to build up the self -esteem and

the happiness of the listener, regardless of what their state before God is.

If we leave those folks out, what would you say, from your experience, from what you've heard

from the pulpits of other men, is the greatest flaw within the pulpits of

churches that would claim the same doctrines that you and I cherish?

If

we

preach

the Word

of God,

I have won

the day in

which that has been bringing into the world in which I'm living.

I think what happens too often is we try to bring the message over too quickly.

We don't really, we have to go back before you can bring it forward, and we don't do a good job of taking our

listeners to hear those verses in

where the audience would have heard it, and then bridge into our world,

and make valid applications, bring forth valid implications.

It would be to work really hard,

not use it as a

launching point.

In other words, I think, Chris, what we have is a lot of theological preaching, instead of

expository preaching.

We have a theological point that is based in the text.

We're not wrong that it's in our verses, but we sort of preach above the text of Scripture, so that we're making our

theological point based on that text, instead of allowing the text

from that.

From the context that was intended, or the context that surrounded the original

author.

And the.

Intent of the original author.

Yes.

As my friend James White of Alpha Omega Ministries has frequently said, I think this usually comes up when he's

debating someone who is misrepresenting him, and

he will respond to his opponent, that if you're

going to quote someone, quote them honestly and with

integrity as far as what they are truly saying in their own writings and

taking them in context and so on, and there are preachers who violate

that when it comes to the God -breathed perfect.

Word.

So, right on.

Dr. White was making, you can't

really.

Critique me accurately.

Exactly, exactly, exactly.

So I think we have to do the same thing.

Yeah, one thing about the original context,.

I think that a lot of the problems and maybe you agree or maybe you disagree with me,

but I think a lot of the problems that non -Calvinist, non -Reformed

Christians have, those that reject the doctrines of grace, when they are

attempting to exegete certain passages, especially those

that in the English language and perhaps even in the original languages reflect

a universal idea of certain things.

The uses of the words all and everyone and so on.

Don't you think that sometimes this is occurring when

people are actually applying or exegeting a universal

salvation whether it be a full -blown universal salvation

like a universalist might teach or the more common amongst evangelicals the idea of a universal atonement

that is intended for everyone, every single human

even though a minority of them will actually benefit from that atonement.

Do you think that sometimes it is a failure to comprehend or realize the context

of certain passages that use universal terms because in certain

cases the audiences were Jewish and the idea

of the Gentile nations being offered the gospel and an opportunity to become

children of God was a scandal.

It was something that was completely foreign to the

minds of many if not most Jews in Christ's day and earlier.

They had a bigoted notion of

Jewish exclusivity ethnically Jewish exclusivity.

And.

Even Peter got himself in trouble and required the rebuke of the Apostle Paul when he was not

eating with the Gentiles and so on.

Am I making sense here?

Yes, you are making

a class of humanity, a particular category of humanity.

You have to listen to those terms.

Just like in the book of Revelation we have John referring to

those from out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation and

the concept of all being out from all of those groups not necessarily every

single person that has ever lived or ever will live in the future.

Well, one example that for

all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification.

If you don't understand the two uses, you get

universalism and

he says it

leads to justification, it

meant in the

first place.

And I have to bring this up if we're going to be trying to clean house in

our own camp.

One of the major flaws I believe of those who share our

confessions those who share a profession of the doctrines of sovereign grace

is that very often you will ironically and tragically have pride

and arrogance as the fruit of those who claim to believe these things which

is 180 degrees opposite from what those teachings intend to bring about in

the mind and heart of a sinner which is humility.

And don't you think that we have to be very careful as much as we want to be meticulous and rightly.

So about the accuracy and truthfulness of doctrine and theology.

We cannot think that our possession of those things our understanding of those things at whatever level we

understand them makes us superior to others who have been purchased by the same

blood of Christ as we have.

In fact I understand

men to the

death and God

and his,

that would

go on beyond that.

And you did I

earn what part of it did I deserve, what part of it is explained by me, the answer is none of

it.

And so this was Paul's question to the Corinthian church, what do you have that you didn't receive.

If you didn't, what do you boast of.

Now one thing that is a controversy amongst, even amongst those

with the same profession that you and I have is the debate

over what to include in a sermon even

if you're involved in expository exegetical preaching, and what I mean by that is there are some

brethren who may have our same confession and so on who will say

I am not going to bring up controversies of the day such as

the heresies of the woke movement such as same sex marriage

such as other things that are on our TV screens and on our computers

and in all forms of media on a daily basis because I'm just going to stick with the text and if the

text isn't specifically mention things like that, I'm not going to address them

and as much as I might be personally opposed to those things, I'm not going to bring them up in a sermon.

And there are others that say that even if they are involved in expository preaching that

there will be texts that do address the very root of why something is a heresy or

an abominable act so they will specifically mention by name

the heresies of the woke movement.

They will mention infanticide that's going on in the abortion mills, they will

mention the abomination of same sex marriage and things like that, where would you stand and how would you

respond to what I just said?

I

don't

know

the sheep

God has

assigned how

faithfully applies to

which these principally gender

confusions which we've

addressed in making those applications.

I guess

you're not

the Pope.

Then.

Exactly Chris, and so what I think is

we have we act

like what is happening in every place in the world at any given time is happening

in our back door and it's not and so we're constantly being

upset.

It's almost as if we have an omniscient existence which is that belongs to God in

an omniscient sense and so what I think we would do well to pay attention to

is what is going on in our church right now what needs to be addressed in this congregation.

I don't mean in a way that turns a blind eye to what's happening in the rest of the world.

I don't mean in a way that doesn't care about our brothers and sisters in Christ all over the globe.

I don't mean we don't pray for one another and care for one another but I've been given an assignment and one day

I'm going to stand before the Lord and give an account for how I've watched for the souls that God assigned to our church and our

eldership.

I want to be faithful there.

So yes address all the issues of the day as you come to them in the text you've got to make those connections

but I am not going to stay constantly upset about what's happening all over the globe at one time because I have an

assignment and I want to be faithful to the flock that God has assigned to us.

Amen.

Well if you didn't hear it I just gave a very loud sigh of relief after hearing your answer

because I agree with you 100%.

And here I am picking on independent fundamentalists again and remember folks I'm not

broad brushing there are many fine men in that group but one of the things I find interesting

is that over the years I have heard fundamentalists preaching

they very often will be very quote quote bold

and uncompromising preaching against sins that are not known to

be committed with any frequency or any.

There may be no known committing of certain sins at all in their

congregations and those are the sins.

And those sins perhaps even only that these fundamentalist preachers will be

quote quote bold and uncompromising about and preach with much preach against with

much fervency and elevated voices.

But don't we need to remember that the people in the pews right in front of that

pastor need to be rebuked and challenged and exhorted

over issues that may be more common in that church

the sins of pride and gossip and not that we would ever take

a woke movement spin on this but the sin of racism.

In fact I believe that one of the primary heresies of the woke movement.

Is.

Ethnic and racial.

Quote.

Quote bigotry.

I believe we only have one race of humans from God.

I use that just because the common vernacular of our day uses the word race but I think the woke

movement those involved in it today are the chief proponents

of actual racism anti -white racism.

But.

We need to preach against racism especially if it's known to exist in our own congregation or in our community.

Am I making sense?

You are making sense in an amazing way

and

each

lettering

in there

is not general I think

what we.

And this gets back to what we talked about earlier Chris.

We've got to begin if we aren't already to be men who submit our mind

to because

when you do that

something's wrong if no matter what text you

send to any

congregation.

And yes we must

be long -suffering.

That's the part of shepherding people and we preach publicly in house to house too so we preach what we do from our sermons but then we also

meet with people and shepherd them individually and help apply scripture in a way that deals with the specific individual

weaknesses issues going on in our own congregations.

But you look at those seven letters each one of them is different same region

existing at the same time yet all those letters are unique to those congregations.

We have to get to our final break.

Right now it'll be a lot more brief than the others.

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Since 2007, Anchored in Truth Ministries has hosted the annual True Church Conference at

Grace Life Church of the Shoals in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

This conference began as a training conference for pastors and church leaders who are striving to build true, biblically healthy

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And we are back with our final moments with Richard Caldwell of Founders Baptist Church in

Spring, Texas, one of the scheduled speakers at the True Church Conference.

We have been talking about Spirit Empowered Preaching.

And if you could, I want to make sure that you have a few minutes of uninterrupted time, Pastor Caldwell,

to really bear your soul, to really have etched in the hearts and minds of our

listeners today what you most want them to remember when they leave.

This

program.

Well, that's.

The best birthday gift I've received today, that's for sure.

Well, I appreciate you.

Yeah, I think what's most on my heart these days, Chris, we all recognize

in a new,

and

I'm about to be in a conference, we host a

conference every year, so I'm not against conferences.

There seems to be

this, I believe, need as

the True

Church is

doing in our day, it's happening in

largely, and are

faithfully opening the Scriptures every week.

If you're in a healthy church,

to sit in unhealthy places,

faithful pastoral preaching, that's the need.

Now, you said.

Something very important, and I don't want to insult those that have said

this and are doing it, because they may be actually making inroads, by the

grace of God, in less than adequate churches.

But very often I will hear from brethren that are right on the money in their

personal theological positions.

Their understanding of the Scriptures.

Their life seems to be glorifying to God.

But I am very often shocked to hear that the churches where they are members

are really abysmal.

They are perhaps not in the actual category of being a cult,

or a false church, or a liberal apostate church, but they are really known, even

across the board and the community where they are, as being compromising

and very weak.

Don't you think the excuse that I am here to make improvements, I'm here to

have a positive impact, even though that can be an occasion where that is

truthfully being conducted, and it's bearing fruit, that is an excuse that's too often made,

and it's really stunting the growth of the one saying it?

So you

have

that, and

you have being a healthier church,

that's one thing.

Growth is going to be stunted, where things are not going to change, and you have

opportunity to be somewhere else.

I don't know why you would say that.

Well, folks, please join Pastor Caldwell and myself at the True Church Conference in

Muscle Shoals, Alabama, this Thursday through Sunday, February 18th through the 20th, and for more details,

go to anchoredintruth .org anchoredintruth .org and click on the conference tab

at the top of the page.

Also, don't forget about Founders Baptist Church in Spring, Texas.

Their website is foundersbaptist .org foundersbaptist .org.

I want to thank everybody for listening today.

I want to thank Pastor Caldwell for doing such a superb job, and I want you all to remember for the rest of

your lives that Jesus Christ is a far, far greater Savior than you are a

sinner.