The contemporary church deliberately avoids laying the cross on the modern day disciple of the Lord Jesus. They make Christianity to be entertainment and easy believism while the message of N.T. Christianity is a call to the crucified life. This leads to a totally different style of Christianity. Alas, we fear that we cannot call the contemporary Christianity at all for it is not taught by the Lord Jesus nor the apostles. There is therefore a need to put the cross back into Christian living. Not the cross of glitter and jewelry but the cross of self denial and conformity to the death of the Saviour. This message reasons for the value of pursuing a crucified life to enjoy the power of effective Christianity.
SERMON ACTIVITY
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“ Second time... ” ...i have listened to this sermon, and found it as humbling,practical and awesome as the first. This doctrine is all i can think about at the moment,as i realise now the Lord is chastising me ,because He loves me,to be conformable to the death of Christ.
My smug Christian living has been well and truly turned on its head by this sermon and the previous (weeping for souls.)Bless God for His longsuffering with me,and for bringing our brothers ministry into my life. I feel like the shrub that really needed to be cast away and burnt,but my lovely Saviour has dug around it and dunged it one more time.It makes one tremble!Phew ! Oh that it may bring forth fruit to His glory !
Norman Smith (8/4/2005)
from New Haw, Surrey,UK
“ What a Sermon! ” It seems this sermon was the next preached after the weeping for souls sermon,and they complement each other so much in a big way !Thankyou brother for such a heart searching sermon,am i seeking to mortify the lusts and sins of the flesh,and crucify the old man,and get onto resurrection ground? As our brother points out,to be conformed to Christs death is not optional,it is neccessary and vital,and a command !. Oh Lord,i want to, i need to, help me so, to thy glory,the blessing of my soul, and through my willing submission, others may be blessed too.
Ordained to the Gospel ministry in 1981 after studying at The Whitefield College of the Bible in Northern Ireland, Pastor Ian Goligher was the pastor of the Free Presbyterian Church in Cloverdale, B.C. Canada, since pioneering the church there in 1984 until his retirement in...
