Page 2 2 Copyright 2007 Present Testimony Ministry – www.ptmin.org Good Faith Agreement–Please Read This eBook is a transcribed message that Frank delivered to a house church in St. Augustine, Florida on April 22, 2007. This message is suited for all house churches, simple churches, organic churches, and emerging churches who are rethinking the meaning and practice of church. We have converted it into a free eBook so that it can be distributed far and wide. We simply ask that as a good faith agreement, you pass the following link on to others in any form you wish–especially those who gather in the above types of churches–so that they can download the book for themselves: www.ptmin.org/bethany.htm
And if God does require the sinner – dead in sin – that he should take the first step, then He requireth just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as ever it was under the law, seeing man is as unable to believe as he is to obey, and is just as much without power to come to Christ as he is without power to go to heaven without Christ. The power must be given to him of the Spirit. He lieth dead in sin: the Spirit must quicken him. He is bound hand and foot, fettered by transgression; the Spirit must cut his bonds, and then he will leap to liberty. God must come and dash the iron bars out of their sockets, and then he can escape afterwards, but unless the first thing be done for him, he must perish as surely under the gospel as he would have done under the law.
C.H. Spurgeon