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Foreword
FOREWORD Peter fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord" (Luke 5:8). John "fell at his feet as dead" (Rev. 1:17a).
Many years before, the prophet Isaiah cried out, "Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts" (Isaiah 6:5).
People do not know the God of the Bible. This is the reason the Church has become convictionless and her worship frivolous. This is the reason why, in the midst of so much religion, society continues to grow worse.
The message that Noah preached before the flood came and swept away the world of the ungodly was not "Smile; God loves you." Neither was it "I'm O.K.; You're O.K." If he had preached such a message, he would have been a lying prophet (See II Peter 2:5). The message the angels carried to Sodom was not, "God loves you just the way you are." Neither was it, "Something good is going to happen to you." God had determined to turn the city into ashes, "making it an example unto those that after should live ungodly" (II Peter 2:6).
The psalmist testified of God saying, "Thou hatest all workers of iniquity" (Psalm 5:5). And again, "The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked, and him that loveth violence his soul hateth" (Psalm 11:5).
The God of the Old Testament is no different from the God of the New Testament. "I am the LORD, I change not" (Malachi 3:6a). Therefore, the Bible commands, "Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling" (Psalm 2:11); but modern worship prostrates no one before the Lord because it praises a god who is not to be feared.
People in this generation do not know the God of the Bible. This volume is therefore presented "for the cause of God and Truth."
Timothy Fellows
(Copyrighted © 1993 All rights reserved)
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Published in 1993
U.S.A.
by Pilgrim Brethren Press
Petersburg, OH 44454