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Now listen carefully to what I say. Some people would say, Look, Paul, why did you keep preaching and get yourself stuck in that prison? I mean, if you just soften the message and quit confronting everybody, and quit preaching in public places, and attacking public figures, if you would just quiet down and sneak around the back part of town and pass out tracts and beat it, nobodys going to know youre there. Youve got to be subtle. Now look what youve done. Youve got yourself in prison, Paul, and now your ministry is really messed up. Now there are people who think like that. There are people today who are under the allusion that the only reason the gospel has freedom to go out in America is because Americas free. And so there are people who want to spend all their time in political action trying to keep America free so that the gospel can keep going out. Now I dont want to argue with that. But theres this idea that if we didnt have a democracy in America, the gospel could never go forth and the Word of God would never accomplish anything, and so we have to work very hard to keep America free so God can keep proclaiming His truth. I want to tell you something, folks. Youve got to look at this verse again. Paul says, I may be in prison but the Word of God is not...what?...its not bound. You better understand this. There is never a justification to compromise the gospel to make it inoffensive so we dont lose the right to preach it. Because if we make it inoffensive, then what good is it to preach an inoffensive gospel? Thats no gospel at all. We preach the truth with boldness, we say what ought to be said. We dont mince words. You must speak the truth. - John MacArthur #GodFirstLifeSecond

Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 22:23:52 +0000

Now listen carefully to what I say. Some people would say, Look, - TopicsExpress

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