Preaching Up a Storm by Ian Paisley — Compilations

Total Commitment to God

Mr. Nicholson, one of our great preachers, said some churches, if you brought a bucket of milk through the door, it would be ice cream before you got it to the pulpit. They're so cold. That the sort of Christian you are?

Putting Body, Soul, and Spirit on the Altar

You're only playing at it. I have found in my Christian experience that if I'm going to do anything for God or be anything for God, I've got to put myself, body, soul and spirit into every bit of me, from the big toe to the top of my head.

Every bit on the altar for God. No reservations. Totally, absolutely, unconditionally, the lot for God. To a church that's alive with the power of God. God give us churches where sinners are scared. They're dead scared of getting saved.

Churches Alive With the Power of God

Couldn't go to that church where the window would get shaved. Amen. That's the sort of churches we need today. Converting shops where people are really and truly born again of the Holy Ghost. And we are confronted today, in our day, with darkness.

Darkness in Religious Institutions

And the darkness doesn't come so much from secular society as it comes from religious society. The greatest darkness of our day comes from darkened men who are blind. Darkness in the pulpits. Darkness in the colleges.

Darkness in the universities. Darkness in the assemblies. Darkness in the conventions. Darkness in the council of churches. I like that word, against. There are things that you and I are against. Yes, we're against them.

Standing Against Religious Apostasy

I'm against the Pope. You remember that. I'm against the World Council of Churches. I'm against the National Council of Churches. I'm against the great. Every bit of it. Against them. And I want to tell you, brethren, when you go to a little country town to start a church, you let people know you're against something.

Preaching With Boldness and Authority

You let them know you haven't come as a soft-voiced sissy to be another pulpit ornament two times on Sunday. That you're not a soft-peddling, fence-straddling, cream-puff-pie preacher. That you're a man of God with fire in your belly, and you're going to preach the Word with power.

The pulpit, brethren, you're a pulpit little church, but thank God you're a king, and you're going to preach the King's Word. Hallelujah. I want to say that to you today. Young man, there's only one way to build a church.

Building the Church on the Word of God

It's with that book. That's all I have got. I have no gimmicks. I have nothing. But let me tell you, I have a book, and that book will build a church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

The Preacher's Calling

And you're not called, young man, let me say this to you, you are not called to be, first of all, an organizer, and secondly, to be a manager, and thirdly, to be a promoter. You're called to be a preacher.

That's what you're called to be. A preacher. And you go out with your credentials.