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Sword & Trowel 2019: Issue 1  dead man’s duty? Just as much as


the adjuration of the sons of Sceva the Jew, when they abused the name of the Lord Jesus in commanding the spirit, who left the man and mastered them; and so these labour for the unconverted till they get into the gall of bitterness themselves… Ye might just as well go to the gates of the grave and tell the sleeping dust it is their duty to come forth as Lazarus did. Mr Ryland may just as well do the one as the other.’


What a confused jumble is that! Confounding the word of power (He- brews 1.3) on the lips of Christ, with the word of reconciliation (2 Corin- thians 5.18, 19) in the mouths of his servants. What the Lord does is none of our business. The commission he has given his servants is to preach the Gospel to every creature, and they certainly have not fully obeyed until they bid their hearers ‘Repent ye, and believe the gospel’ (Mark 1.15). Whom God quickens is his own affair; ours is to faithfully warn the unsaved, to show wherein their sins consist (enmity against God), to bid them to throw down the weapons of their warfare against him, to call


upon them to repent (Acts 17.30), to proclaim the One who receives all who come to him in faith. In allowing that Peter ‘spoke the Word promiscu- ously to all ’ Mr Huntington pulled down what he laboured so hard to build up. To affi rm that the ministry of the apostles (recorded in Acts) furnishes no precedent for God’s servants today, is as foolish, as ‘inconsistent’, and unwarrantable, as it would be to say that Acts 6 supplies no present rule for deacons to be governed by. The physical condition of those in the cemetery is vastly different from the moral state of the unregener- ate still upon the earth. The former cannot sin, cannot reject Christ; the latter can and do. The former cannot read their Bibles or call upon God for mercy; the latter should! It is because the natural man possesses the same faculties of soul as does the regener- ate that he is an accountable creature, responsible to use them for God in- stead of against him.


From the May and August 1936 editions of Studies in the Scriptures, by A W Pink.


OVERSEAS MINISTRY FUND


Many of our readers have helped us support 20 overseas pastors, most of whom are the only teachers of the doctrines of grace in their region, and all of whom are fervent evangelists. Many also dispense compassionate aid such as the feeding of hungry children. The need for basic buildings and other help grows. Readers moved to help may send gifts to: The Treasurer, Metropolitan Tabernacle, Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6SD. Please make cheques payable to ‘Metropolitan Tabernacle’, marked ‘Overseas Ministry Fund’ on the reverse.


Gift Aid forms will be sent on request. No deductions are made for administration or ‘home expenses’, the fund being entirely deployed overseas. page 22 Duty Faith – by A W Pink


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