OPPOSITION
TO JEWISH EVANGELISM
Not only is there a foundation to Jewish evangelism, and not only
is there great promise of Jewish evangelism, there is opposition
to Jewish evangelism and about this we ought to be honest. We
live in a day when it is politically incorrect to say that anyone is
rightly destined for hell in the judgment of God but for salvation
through Jesus Christ our Lord. This is a day when politeness
and postmodern relativism have combined in such a way that it
just isn’t polite, isn’t neighborly, isn’t tolerant and, we are told of
all things, with this perversion of the word love in our modern
culture, that it is not loving to tell persons that but for the grace
of God through Jesus Christ our Lord, but for the gospel of Jesus
Christ who shed His blood as our substitute and was raised by
God on the third day. Without the gospel fact that He was truly
God and truly man, and the true unity of the incarnation, that
persons are going to hell; and that they deserve to go to hell,
because it would be the righteous verdict of God; that, these
days, is simply out of bounds of polite discourse. It is just not
accepted. It is rude. But, brothers and sisters, it is the gospel and
it is the only gospel we have and, even more importantly, it is the
only gospel that saves.
The true act of love is sharing the good news of the gospel.
Now, the Puritans used to say, “You have to do the sin work
before you can do the grace work.” For all of us there is bad
news before there is good news, right? There is bad news; we are
sinners. That is not good news. Now it is good news to know you
are a sinner if you are one, but the fact that you are one is not in
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