I trust you will open your New Testament with me at this epistle of Jude. In every evil age that we read about in God's Word, there has always been a challenge to that evil age, a challenge to the darkness of that evil age, a challenge to the leadership of the apostasy of that evil age. And there has always been, thank God, the triumph and the victory of God's people in an evil age. You know, there are some people, and they live in a spirit of defeatism, and they say, well, things are going to get worse and worse, and the devil is going to have a field day, and that Christ is going to be revealed, and so on and so forth, and we cannot do anything about it. I believe, friends, not only that we can do something about it, but I believe God Almighty is going to do something about it. And I believe that we have a responsibility to share the triumph of Christ in an evil age. The darkest days in church history were always the brightest days for the church of Jesus Christ. When they were burning, the saints of God, thank God, the gospel burned with mighty fire. And thank God it was said in Scotland when they burned Patrick Hamilton, the first martyr of the Scottish Reformation, that everybody his smoke blew upon became a Christian and left Old Harlot. Scarlet Church of Rome. We need to discover that in the darkest day, God has victory for His people. This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. And thank God for the faith once for all delivered to the saints, the faith of God's elect people. Now, do you know that when the Bible opened, It sets down the great principle in regard to the confrontation against darkness. The first few verses of the Bible set down a principle that is worked out all through the Scriptures. So let's open the Bible at the first chapter of Genesis. And when you come to verse 2, after the declaration in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. You read, and the earth was without form and void. And then you get mention of the darkness. Darkness! And we are confronted today, in our day, with darkness. And the darkness does not come so much from secular society as it comes from religious society. The greatest darkness of our day comes from darkened men who are blind leaders of the blind. Darkness in the pulpits. Darkness in the colleges. Darkness in the universities. Darkness in the assemblies. Darkness in the conventions. Darkness in the council of churches. Ecclesiastical, religious, spiritual darkness. Darkness covers the earth and cross darkness the people. But then when you come down to verse 3, thank God you have light. So God does not leave the darkness unchallenged. What God did in creation, He is still doing today. The Lord Jesus Christ said, My Father worketh and I work. God the Father is still working, hallelujah, and He is working by sending forth light. Listen, God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shined, hallelujah, into our hearts. What glorious light when God shines into our hearts. So you have light. Light confronting, challenging the darkness. But you have something else. Between the darkness, the darkness of verse 2, and the light of verse 3, you have praised God two things. You have the Spirit of God, and you have the Word of God. The Spirit moved upon the waters, and God said. That's God's Word. The Spirit of God, when the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against them. I like that word, against. There are things that you and I are against. Yes, we're against them. I'm against the Pope. You remember that. I'm against the World Council of Churches. I'm against the National Council of Churches. I'm against the great apostate denominations, whether it be Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Baptist, or called by any other name. I'm absolutely and totally against them. from the top of my head to my big toe. I'm against them, every bit of me, against them. And I want to tell you, brethren, when you go to a little country town to start a church, you let people know you're against something. You let them know you haven't come as a sob-voiced sissy to be another pulpit ornament two times on Sunday. That you're not a sob-peddling, fence-straddling, cream-puff pie preacher. That you're a man of God with fire in your belly, and you're going to preach the Word with power. The pulpit, brethren, is a throne, and kings sit upon the throne. And every time you get into your pulpit, it may be a small little pulpit in a small little church, but, thank God, you're a king, and you're going to preach the King's Word. Hallelujah. And it does something. It shakes the place. Just the Bible. That's what Luther had. He just had a Bible. But he gave the Pope spiritual records. And the Pope has been suffering from them ever since. Yes. You've got the Bible, the Word, and the Spirit. So you have the principle. But what's the outcome? You know what the outcome is? God divided. Separation is always the outcome. That's what happens. Separation. And you have darkness. And then you have light. And you have the Spirit of God. And you have the Word of God. And glory to God, you have separation. Right there in the first chapter of Genesis. And the Bible is all about that. That's what the Bible is all about. I can't stay in Genesis today. Now let's look at Jude. This epistle is about fundamentalism. It's fundamentalism versus apostasy. And right down through this epistle, you can see the fundamentalists stand here, and you can see over against it the stand of the apostasy. And fundamentalism and apostasy don't dialogue. Let me say, friend, a fundamentalist disputes with the apostate. He doesn't dialogue with them. I am quite happy to be called a fundamentalist. I like to be identified with those that are fighting the Lord's battles. You know, there are some fellows who would like to be called fundamentalists, but they have no right to the name. They are fundamentalists, pseudo-fundamentalists. They come into the fundamentalist nest, they would use the fundamentalist money, and they would destroy the fundamentalist den. Yes, you need to cast them out. You need to finish with them once and for all. I hope you understand that. You'll not need a dictionary to understand what I'm through this afternoon. You'll understand all right. The Bible says, no other foundation can any man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. A fundamentalist is a person who has no other foundation but Jesus Christ. He's built upon the rock of ages, and thank God no potency will disintegrate that rock. It will stand forevermore. Now there are five views of fundamentalism in the epistle of Jude. You get fundamentalism in its person. You find out who the true fundamentalists are. It's a good thing to identify them, isn't it? To know who the fundamentalists really are. In this day when people want to go one way one day and another way the next day, it's a great thing to be able to identify them. Say, those are the fundamentalists. That is a fundamentalist church. Then we have not only fundamentalism in its persons, but you have fundamentalism in its preview. And you have a preview of a fundamentalist battle in the past. But do you know this battle didn't start yesterday? It didn't start with the modernistic fundamentalist war that you had in this country and we had in our country, when higher criticism came in like a flood? Do you know where it started? It started one day when the devil challenged God Almighty. That's when it started. This war that we are in started in heaven, and God started a war. You know, some people say, we don't like churches that there are wars in. We like these fighting people. Why can't we have peace and everything be nice? I had a woman come to me some time ago. She said to me, I don't like your church. You're always battling. There's always a scrap, a fight on. You're always fighting. She says, in our church, we have perfect peace. I said, Madam, I've been in many a graveyard. There's plenty of peace there. The peace of the dead, you can have that. We don't want the peace of the dead. We want to be in the battle for the Lord. And the Lord declared war upon the devil. Apostasy is the offspring of hell, the begotten of the pit. That is what apostasy is. That is why it hates the blessed Son of God, challenges the deity of my Saviour and the sinless purity of the incarnate Christ. It is of the devil's begotten of the pit, apostasy. But thank God we have a preview of the fight. And it's encouraging. There was a man called Enoch. He didn't belong to the World Council of Churches. He was an old-fashioned preacher of the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Before the Lord came the first time, he was preaching the second coming, this man Enoch. And he walked with God in a dirty, filthy, degenerate, apostate age. He walked with God. And he cried out what a sermon he preached against the hard speeches of ungodly sinners. Man, you study this book and you will get a preview. Yes. And then we have the devil fighting over the body of Moses. That is a very interesting one, isn't it? And Michael the archangel had a rough time that day. And he found that angelic strength could not deal with satanic strength. But he found that God's strength could deal with the devil. And he says, the Lord rebuke you. I may not be able to deal with you, Lucifer. I may not be able to silence you, Beelzebub. But God Almighty will silence you. Amen. Thank God we can call in the Lord. Great thing to be able to call in the Lord when you are having a rough time. Bring the Lord in. He will handle the apostates all right. Yes. The great champion of the cross. Emmanuel, Victor, he is able to deal with all apostates. So you have a preview. Then you have in this great passage, this epistle, the program of fundamentalism. And I want to tell you that evangelism is not the first in the program. I want you to get that. Oh, there's evangelism in the program. And don't misunderstand me. I'm an evangelist. I'm preaching evangelistic campaigns all the time. And I believe in soul winning with all my heart and soul. And a preacher that doesn't win souls, get rid of him. He's no use. That's right. If I was in a shop selling books and I never sold one, you wouldn't keep me. You'd say, get him out. He's no good. He can't sell. And a preacher that doesn't win souls, He's no use. You have to win souls for the Lord. And I want to tell you, God will give you souls for your hire. He'll give you souls for your hire. But do you ever remember this, young man, that you bring forth your fruit in season? And every period in the church is not a revival period. Every season is not a revival season. It is easy, you know, to be on fire for God and praise the Lord when revival is on and people are getting saved. But old Habakkuk said, when there is no oxen in the stall, when there is no food in the larder, when there is no harvest in the field, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. And until you learn that, you will never be a true man or woman of God. To put your rejoicing. You remember they came home and they told the Lord about the great mission that they had, the campaign they had, and the devils were subject to them. And the Lord said, Don't rejoice because you have been successful. Rejoice because you are saved. Your name is written in heaven. Oh, you will have a hard time at times. The sun will not shine. It will be a dark night. You will have to go through with the Lord. The program is not, first of all, evangelism. The first thing in the program is contending. You get that in verse 3. You do not get the evangelism until you come down the chapter to verse 22. And if some of them have compassion, making a difference, and others see it with fear, pulling them out of the fire, that is where you get the evangelism. But the first thing you do is contend. I think that we would need to get back to Scripture, and we need to get our priorities right. The fundamentalist has a program. And then we have fundamentalism in its purity. It's a purer thing. And I'm sad. When I see fundamentalism in your country, it hasn't come to our country. But we have a fundamentalism that's deteriorated here in the United States of America, where the church is trying to win an ear for the gospel with things that are polluted. And I want to say that to you today. Young man, there's only one way to build a church. It's with that book. That's all I have got. I have no gimmicks. I have nothing. But let me tell you, I have a book. And that book will build a church. And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And you are not called, young man, let me say this to you, you are not called to be, first of all, an organizer, and secondly, to be a manager, and thirdly, to be a promoter. You are called to be a preacher. That is what you are called to be. A preacher. And you go and preach it. And you say, well, I don't have, listen, You don't need anything. You get on fire in the pulpit and people will come out to see you burn. They'll say, there's a fire up the road. Come on out. We had a great preacher in our country called William P. Nicholson. He was a great revivalist. And he had a little church in the heart of Scotland. And he couldn't stir it. And he got down one day on his knees and he said, Lord, stir this sleepy, little, half-damned village and do something. W. P. Nicholson, when he was at the height of his ministry in our country, it was nothing to see twelve, fourteen hundred people saved in one campaign of three weeks. He discovered something. He discovered that the book will do the job. And when you have to turn to anything but this book, there's something wrong. Search your heart. This Word will do it. It's a pure thing. It's a holy faith. It doesn't need the gimmicks of the devil or the worldly methods. It just needs a pure faith. Give me a holy man with faith in his soul and a Bible in his hand, and he'll shake the community God puts him into. He'll shake it. He doesn't need anything else. He doesn't need to say, if I get 150 out to the morning service, you can put shaving soap all over me. I'll swallow a goldfish if we reach the 500 mark. It doesn't need that. That's polluting. That's polluting the gospel. Away with it! It's not part of the fundamentalist witness. And I want to tell you, when you go in for that, the next thing you'll be in ecumenical evangelism. And I find these churches that go in for that, then they go to ecumenical evangelism. And then they don't take any stand on the issue. Oh, there's nothing stands up to testing like holiness of heart, a dedication to the law, a desire to be like Christ. It was Jonathan Edwards of New England who preached the great sermon, Sinners in the Hands, of an angry gob that cried out in prayer, Oh, to be as holy as it is possible for a justified sinner to be. That should be the prayer of our hearts. Fundamentalism has its purity. And then, bless God, it has its preservation. God preserves it. You know why God preserved this school? Because it stuck to the book and it kept to the standards. That's why. Stick to the book and keep to the standards. Oh, it's not popular. If I take a stand, I lose people. Better lose people than lose God. Better have nobody with you than have God for you than have the crowd with you and God against you. Was W.B. Henson, the great fundamentalist leader on the west coast of your country, said there's something worse than an empty church? It's an offended God. And so it is. Thank God there's a preservation of the fundamentalist way. Isn't it great that we're in the same great conflict that Abel was in? I'm glad Abel believed in the blood, and he fought that old Unitarian King. Yes, that unbloody Unitarian King, he fought him. Now what happened? He became a martyr. You'll become a martyr if you stand for God. Yes. And if they can't kill you, they'll kill your reputation. But don't worry about it. You'll survive. I have had everything said about me that could be said about any man. Everything. And of thousands of enemies. But of God before you, who can be against you? Oh, let me tell you, friend, the Lord will preserve us if we do what's right. You know, I pray a prayer continually. I say, Lord, if ever this mind of mine suggests that I should compromise, put a shroud on me. Put me into the coffin and get me out of this world. I had a great father, a wonderful man of God. He was a preacher, a fundamentalist preacher. Anything I know, he taught me. And he used to say to me, Ian, it's not how you start the race that counts. It's how you finish it. And I want to have a good finish. You know there are men who have destroyed all they've done at the end of their days by their folly and foolishness because they left off the anchorage. May the Lord preserve us to the end. I want to finish with my guns blazing against the devil and his crowd. I want the last sermon that I preach to be ten times hotter against the devil's crowd than the first one. I want to go out fighting the battle. Do you remember that great Mr. Valiant for the Truth? And when he passed over the River of Vengeance, Pilgrim's Progress, he said, I carry my scars with me as a testimony to my Lord that I loved him. Have you got any scars? I'm glad I have a few scars in my ministry. They're tokens that I have loved Jesus with all my heart. And he says, I leave my sword to those that will take it up and fight the Lord's battles. And I just long to see the face of the King. Oh, I want to tell you, friend, you'll be called many a thing. But you've got to take a strong, bold stand and be certain about it. And find out where that fellow stands, that other preacher stands, and let your people know where he stands. And when somebody comes to town with a big name, don't be afraid of them. If he doesn't stand for God, go after him. You've got a weapon that can cut chunks out of them. And that's the Word of God. When you're finished with them. Many years ago, when I was a young preacher, Leslie D. Weatherhead, the president of the Methodist Conference in England, came to our city. Leslie Weatherhead was an arch-apostate. He's now in hell. He's gone to his own grave. He was the man that said that Jesus Christ was the bastard child of Zechariah, John the Baptist's father, and Mary, who was a prostitute of the temple. That's what he says in his book, The Christian Agnostic. That's about as vital a thing as anybody could say. So I said that as he had come to the city, I wanted to confer a new degree on him. And I publicly conferred on him the title G.O.V. And boy, the press came after me. They said, what does that mean? Generation of Vipers. That's what it means. And I tell you, we had some fun with Leslie D. Weatherhead. He never forgot his visit to Belfast. He wrote afterwards to the press, and he said, that fellow Paisley is too quick with his sword. Hallelujah. Best testimony I ever had. Amen. He couldn't be quick enough with a sword. My brethren, we have got to take a stand against certain men. When you have not backed down, don't back and die. I know preachers, and when Billy Graham comes to town to say, well, I'm not going to say anything. Well, Billy Graham came to my time, and he preached in the big Presbyterian church that our congregation originally came out of. And I put a huge advert in the press, and I preached on it. Both services on the Lord's Day, I called his number, told the people, and people said to me, you'll hurt yourself. I don't care whether I hurt myself, I'm not going to let the Lord be hurt. If you're looking, my friend, to yourself, you'll never get anywhere. You look to the Lord, honor the Lord, and the Lord will honor you. But if I'd only started preaching on Billy Graham when he came to town, people would have been confused. But I've been preaching against Billy Graham for years. And I have my people well taught. If he comes to Belfast, I'm telling you, he'll be in trouble, because the people know all about him. And his romanizing, and his apostatizing, and his backsliding, and his compromise. Tell the people. Let them know. Let the people know. Don't run around whispering in their ears. What you've heard in secret, shout from the housetop. That's what the Lord says. Make no apology. Don't clear your throat and blow your nose and say, I'm terribly sorry. I have to say these things. Nobody has any time for a man that makes apologies for what he's saying. Say, I'll not apologize. I'll not take anything back. I'm going to say, this is what I'm going to say. And if my speech could be a thunderbolt and every word a lightning stroke, glory to God, let it be. That's the way you preach. Get at it. Get at it. It's not pleasant language. It's holy ghost language. And I pray every day that God will give me holy ghost language in my preaching, like the prophets of old. What men they were. I wish Elijah was around today. I'd love to be with Elijah when he would be challenging the prophets of Beal. And he really would. And he mocked them too. Imagine mocking them. Oh, if you did that today, these lovey-dovey crowd would say, that's not Christ-like to mock them. Yes, wouldn't it? Let me tell you something. The only standard of Christ-likeness is revealed in the New Testament. Christ-likeness is not what some old apostate professor thinks Christ was like. Christ-likeness is what God says about His Son. And when the Lord went after the apostates in His day, He didn't say, lovely liars, delightful serpents, beautiful sepulchers. No, sir. He didn't preach like that. I want to delight my Lord. Just let me come up to the Lord's standard. You know the way the Lord started His ministry? He started His ministry by cleansing the temple. He went into the temple with a whip, and He scourged them, and He overthrew the money changers, and He let all the pigeons off to fly around the temple court, and He cleared them out. Tell you, oh, you should deal with them in love. I'll tell you what love is. True love rejoices not in iniquity. That's true love. It doesn't rejoice. It rejoices in the truth! It's a devilish thing, a damnable thing, and it's got to be fought with all our heart and all our soul and all our mind. Oh, to be a pure son of Levi, to stand outside the camp with the Lord, in this evil day. Let us therefore go unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach." I like Moses. Moses reckoned that the reproach of Christ was greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. Oh, that we may gladly bear the reproach of Jesus Christ. He's a wonderful Savior, isn't He? He wore a crown of thorns, allowed His hands to be pierced with nails, hung up on a tree to die, stark naked in his shame. And bless God, He did it for me. And all I can say is, King of my life, I crown thee now. Thine shall the glory be, lest I forget thy thorn-crowned brow. Lead me to Calvary. In fields, fields we sat and wept, When Zion we bought our home. In Israel we had our heart, The willow trees of old. Let us all be quietly, to be God's help in need. Thus for years called for death, and said, I shall not die on sin. O how the Lord's song shall we sing Within a foreign land! 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