I find this teaching and preaching very disturbing too Lillith.
Here we have two different gospels being preached.
Sermon 1.
EVERY GENERATION NEEDS TO SELL ALL
We could say it in this way: without the messenger establishing that ground of fellowship, our joy could never be made full. We could never realise the treasure of our sonship.
The treasure of course is our calling as a son of God.it is our name, our works, and our unique part within His body.
We find that this treasure is buried in the ground, or field of fellowship that is established by the presbytery through the proclamation of the word. This is the fellowship that is ‘with the Father and the Son.’
Jesus explained that to obtain this treasure, we must sell all that we have to buy that field, and we must sell our most prized article, which is or own understanding.
This is our own understanding of the gospel, our own understanding of how life works; and what the way to success looks like.”
Andrew Hay
BCF sermon / 17July 2022
Sermon 2.
EVERY PROMISE FULFILLED
The New Testament shows us that the means by which God’s promises are fulfilled can be summed up in two words:
JESUS CHRIST
Christ is the perfect fulfillment of all God’s promises. He is the reality of all God’s great assurances.
Wait no more, then, to see how God will fulfill His every promise.
We know now that each one was, is, and ever will be satisfied through Christ:
He has promised
* to be with you,
* to work for you and through you, and
* to bring you to an eternal kingdom of perfection.
There are times when it is hard to hold on to those promises. When those times come, we look back to a man born of Abraham and David’s line, conceived of the Spirit, who was able to announce, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand” and who hung on a cross and rose from the grave
so that all God’s promises would become “yes” in Him.
Except from Alistair Begg
January 3, 2024
Truth For Life
If you read both these excerpts from two different sermons please note which one brings life, rejoicing and thanks to your heart, soul and spirit and which one brings you under condemnation, control and bondage?