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WHAT OSWALD CHAMBERS MIGHT HAVE SAID ABOUT: THE
CHURCH GROWTH MOVEMENT, THE SIGNS AND WONDERS
MOVEMENT, AND AN END-TIME UNIVERSAL RELIGION
The quotes below are taken from The Psychology of Redemption, by Oswald
Chambers and are used by permission. (This book is recommended for your
reading and I believe it is now published under the title "Biblical Psychology"
and can be reviewed here ► Oswald Chambers Publications Association.
Purchase. Oswald Chambers is the author of the well-known devotional "My
Utmost For His Highest." It was recently said of one of America's top church-
growth pastor/experts (in the jacket of his book) that he ministers "his
distilled wisdom" in the tradition of Oswald Chambers." Evidently those who
made this statement never read what
Oswald had to say below. After reading the below quotes you may have
quite a different opinion. This material is under copyright and should not be
used in an unauthorized fashion.
What Oswald might have said about: Church Growth Movement
The one tempting came and said to Him, If you are God's Son, speak so that
these stones be made loaves of bread. But answering He said, It has been
written, Man shall not live only by bread, but by every word proceeding out of
the mouth of God. Matt. 4:3,4.
"The first temptation was to set up a Selfish Kingdom. 'You are the Son of
God, then command these stones to be made bread; You do not need to be
hungry; satisfy Your own needs and the needs of men, and You will get the
Kingship of men.'... The first temptation of our Lord comes to us on this line
-- 'Be sensible, You are here for the service of men, and surely it is the most
practical thing to feed them and satisfy their needs.' The clamor abroad
today is all on this line, 'Put man's needs first; never mind about the first
commandment, the second commandment is the all-important one' (see
Mark 12:29-31) This advice sounds
sensible and right, but at its heart is the temptation of Satan to put men's
needs first. The insistent demand in the world today to put men's needs
before God's will is the outcome of the reasoning of human wits and wisdom,
and who can say that the demand is a wrong one? So long as our wits and
human solutions are on the throne, to satisfy the needs of men is ostensibly
the grandest thing to do. Every temptation of Satan will certainly seem right
to us unless we have the Spirit of God. Fellowship with our Lord is the only
way to detect them as being wrong....Jesus Christ is not a social reformer;
He came to alter us first..."
Oswald Chambers, The Psychology of Redemption, p.64,65. {Oswald
Chambers is the author of the
well-known devotional "My Utmost For His Highest." Oswald Chambers
Publications
Association.} The above quote is copyright material and should not be used
in an unauthorized fashion.
What Oswald might have said about: Signs and Wonders Movement
Then the devil takes Him into the holy city, and stood Him on the wing of the
temple, and says to Him; If you are God's Son, cast yourself down. For it has
been written; He will give His angels command in regard to you and they will
bear you in their hands so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.
Jesus said to him; Again it is written, you shall not tempt the Lord your God.
Matthew 4:5-7
"This temptation presents a wild reach of possibility: 'You are the Son of
God, then fling Yourself off the pinnacle of the temple; do something
supernatural; use signs and wonders and bewitch men so that they will be
staggered out of their wits by amazement, and the world will be at Your feet.
Set up a Spectacular Kingdom.' Our Lord never once used signs and
wonders to get a man off his guard and then say, 'Now believe in Me.' Jesus
Christ never coerced anybody, He never used supernatural powers or the
apparatus of revival; He refused to stagger human wits into submitting to
Him, He always put the case to a man in cold blood, 'Take time and consider
what you are doing' (cf. Luke 9:57-62). Jesus Christ is engaged in making
disciples in the internal sense, consequently He never entrances a man
by rapture, or enamors him out of his wits by fascination. Instead, He puts
Himself before a man in the baldest light conceivable, 'If you would be My
disciple, these are the conditions' (see Luke 14:26-27,33). A man must
believe in Jesus Christ by a deliberate determination of his own choice. The
temptation to the Church is to go into the 'show business.'"
Oswald Chambers, The Psychology of Redemption, p.66-67. {Oswald
Chambers is the author of the well-known devotional "My Utmost For His
Highest." Oswald Chambers Publications Association.}
The above quote is copyright material and should not be used in an
unauthorized fashion.
What Oswald might have said about: An End-Time World Universal
Religion
Again, the devil takes Him to an exceedingly high mountain, and shows Him
all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he says to Him; All these
things I will give to you, if you will fall down and worship me. Then Jesus
says to him: Go away Satan; for it has been written, You shall worship the
Lord your God, and you shall serve Him only. Matthew 4:8-10
"Our Lord was then asked to compromise: 'You will become the King of men
and the Savior of the world by judicious compromise; build your Kingdom on
broad-minded lines; be judicious, You know there is evil in the world; then
use it wisely, and don't be so intense against sin; don't talk about the devil
and hell; don't be so extreme and say a man needs to be born from above.
Tolerate my rule of the world, call things 'necessary evils;' tell men sin is not
anarchy, but a disease; fall down and worship me and my way of looking at
things, and I will withdraw and the whole world will be Yours. Establish a
Socialistic Kingdom.' The first sign of the dethronement of Jesus is the
apparent absence of the devil, and the peaceful
propaganda that is spread after he has withdrawn. Will the church that bows
down and compromises succeed? Of course it will; it is the very thing that
the natural man wants. This line of temptation as revealed by our Lord is the
most appallingly subtle of all....The temptation to win and woo men is the
most subtle of all, and it is a line that commends itself to us naturally. But
you cannot win and woo a mutiny; it is absolutely impossible. You cannot win
and woo the man who, when he recognizes the rule of God, detests it....The
only way in which the Kingdom of God can be established is by the love of
God as revealed in the Cross of Jesus Christ, not by the loving-kindness of a
backboneless being without justice or righteousness or truth. The
background of God's love is holiness. His is not a compromising love, and
the Kingdom of our Lord can only be brought in by means of His love at work
in regeneration....We recognize his (devil) temptation in the teaching which
proclaims that there is no such being as the devil and no such place as hell;
much that is called sin is a mere defect; men and women are like poor babes
lost in the wood; just be kind and gentle with them; talk about the
Fatherhood of God, about Universalism and Brotherhood, the kindness of
Providence and the nobility of man."
Oswald Chambers, The Psychology of Redemption, p.68-70. {Oswald
Chambers is the author of the well-known
devotional "My Utmost For His Highest." Oswald Chambers Publications
Association.}
The above quote is copyright material and should not be used in an
unauthorized fashion.
For More Articles Like This Go To: www.atrueandfaithfulwitness.com
CHURCH GROWTH MOVEMENT, THE SIGNS AND WONDERS
MOVEMENT, AND AN END-TIME UNIVERSAL RELIGION
The quotes below are taken from The Psychology of Redemption, by Oswald
Chambers and are used by permission. (This book is recommended for your
reading and I believe it is now published under the title "Biblical Psychology"
and can be reviewed here ► Oswald Chambers Publications Association.
Purchase. Oswald Chambers is the author of the well-known devotional "My
Utmost For His Highest." It was recently said of one of America's top church-
growth pastor/experts (in the jacket of his book) that he ministers "his
distilled wisdom" in the tradition of Oswald Chambers." Evidently those who
made this statement never read what
Oswald had to say below. After reading the below quotes you may have
quite a different opinion. This material is under copyright and should not be
used in an unauthorized fashion.
What Oswald might have said about: Church Growth Movement
The one tempting came and said to Him, If you are God's Son, speak so that
these stones be made loaves of bread. But answering He said, It has been
written, Man shall not live only by bread, but by every word proceeding out of
the mouth of God. Matt. 4:3,4.
"The first temptation was to set up a Selfish Kingdom. 'You are the Son of
God, then command these stones to be made bread; You do not need to be
hungry; satisfy Your own needs and the needs of men, and You will get the
Kingship of men.'... The first temptation of our Lord comes to us on this line
-- 'Be sensible, You are here for the service of men, and surely it is the most
practical thing to feed them and satisfy their needs.' The clamor abroad
today is all on this line, 'Put man's needs first; never mind about the first
commandment, the second commandment is the all-important one' (see
Mark 12:29-31) This advice sounds
sensible and right, but at its heart is the temptation of Satan to put men's
needs first. The insistent demand in the world today to put men's needs
before God's will is the outcome of the reasoning of human wits and wisdom,
and who can say that the demand is a wrong one? So long as our wits and
human solutions are on the throne, to satisfy the needs of men is ostensibly
the grandest thing to do. Every temptation of Satan will certainly seem right
to us unless we have the Spirit of God. Fellowship with our Lord is the only
way to detect them as being wrong....Jesus Christ is not a social reformer;
He came to alter us first..."
Oswald Chambers, The Psychology of Redemption, p.64,65. {Oswald
Chambers is the author of the
well-known devotional "My Utmost For His Highest." Oswald Chambers
Publications
Association.} The above quote is copyright material and should not be used
in an unauthorized fashion.
What Oswald might have said about: Signs and Wonders Movement
Then the devil takes Him into the holy city, and stood Him on the wing of the
temple, and says to Him; If you are God's Son, cast yourself down. For it has
been written; He will give His angels command in regard to you and they will
bear you in their hands so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.
Jesus said to him; Again it is written, you shall not tempt the Lord your God.
Matthew 4:5-7
"This temptation presents a wild reach of possibility: 'You are the Son of
God, then fling Yourself off the pinnacle of the temple; do something
supernatural; use signs and wonders and bewitch men so that they will be
staggered out of their wits by amazement, and the world will be at Your feet.
Set up a Spectacular Kingdom.' Our Lord never once used signs and
wonders to get a man off his guard and then say, 'Now believe in Me.' Jesus
Christ never coerced anybody, He never used supernatural powers or the
apparatus of revival; He refused to stagger human wits into submitting to
Him, He always put the case to a man in cold blood, 'Take time and consider
what you are doing' (cf. Luke 9:57-62). Jesus Christ is engaged in making
disciples in the internal sense, consequently He never entrances a man
by rapture, or enamors him out of his wits by fascination. Instead, He puts
Himself before a man in the baldest light conceivable, 'If you would be My
disciple, these are the conditions' (see Luke 14:26-27,33). A man must
believe in Jesus Christ by a deliberate determination of his own choice. The
temptation to the Church is to go into the 'show business.'"
Oswald Chambers, The Psychology of Redemption, p.66-67. {Oswald
Chambers is the author of the well-known devotional "My Utmost For His
Highest." Oswald Chambers Publications Association.}
The above quote is copyright material and should not be used in an
unauthorized fashion.
What Oswald might have said about: An End-Time World Universal
Religion
Again, the devil takes Him to an exceedingly high mountain, and shows Him
all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he says to Him; All these
things I will give to you, if you will fall down and worship me. Then Jesus
says to him: Go away Satan; for it has been written, You shall worship the
Lord your God, and you shall serve Him only. Matthew 4:8-10
"Our Lord was then asked to compromise: 'You will become the King of men
and the Savior of the world by judicious compromise; build your Kingdom on
broad-minded lines; be judicious, You know there is evil in the world; then
use it wisely, and don't be so intense against sin; don't talk about the devil
and hell; don't be so extreme and say a man needs to be born from above.
Tolerate my rule of the world, call things 'necessary evils;' tell men sin is not
anarchy, but a disease; fall down and worship me and my way of looking at
things, and I will withdraw and the whole world will be Yours. Establish a
Socialistic Kingdom.' The first sign of the dethronement of Jesus is the
apparent absence of the devil, and the peaceful
propaganda that is spread after he has withdrawn. Will the church that bows
down and compromises succeed? Of course it will; it is the very thing that
the natural man wants. This line of temptation as revealed by our Lord is the
most appallingly subtle of all....The temptation to win and woo men is the
most subtle of all, and it is a line that commends itself to us naturally. But
you cannot win and woo a mutiny; it is absolutely impossible. You cannot win
and woo the man who, when he recognizes the rule of God, detests it....The
only way in which the Kingdom of God can be established is by the love of
God as revealed in the Cross of Jesus Christ, not by the loving-kindness of a
backboneless being without justice or righteousness or truth. The
background of God's love is holiness. His is not a compromising love, and
the Kingdom of our Lord can only be brought in by means of His love at work
in regeneration....We recognize his (devil) temptation in the teaching which
proclaims that there is no such being as the devil and no such place as hell;
much that is called sin is a mere defect; men and women are like poor babes
lost in the wood; just be kind and gentle with them; talk about the
Fatherhood of God, about Universalism and Brotherhood, the kindness of
Providence and the nobility of man."
Oswald Chambers, The Psychology of Redemption, p.68-70. {Oswald
Chambers is the author of the well-known
devotional "My Utmost For His Highest." Oswald Chambers Publications
Association.}
The above quote is copyright material and should not be used in an
unauthorized fashion.
For More Articles Like This Go To: www.atrueandfaithfulwitness.com
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Rick Warren
Forty Days: False Gospel
Forty Days: A Closer Look
Forty Days: Which Jesus?
PDL: God's Wisdom
PDL: Exalting the Fallen Creation
PDL: A Purpose-Shaped
Worldview
Antichrist
Will Antichrist Be Revealed
Before the Tribulation?
The Great Harlot
"Mystery" Babylon
"Emerging" Church
Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell - Part 1
Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell - Part 2
Church Growth Movement
Schuller, Hybels & Warren
Review of Schuller's "Self-Esteem"
False Apostles, False
Prophets, False Revival
River of Seducing Spirits
Spiritual Warfare Script
Deception of Spiritual Warfare
Flags & Banners...Spiritual Power
Tools?
Davidic Warfare/Worship?
Jesus of the "Signs" Now the
"Christ" of Apostolic Government
Mystical Christianity?
Tenney's Mystical Deity Chase
Richard Foster: Quaker Mystic?
Willard and "The Way of Jesus"
What Oswald Chambers
Might Have Thought About
Todays "Christianity"