11/11/23

Salvation God Chooses Man Does Not - Limited Atonement Taught By Free Will Not Election; 1960's Classic .. Rolfe Barnard [Original Audio]


Free will or election. Only one can be true. And which one of these 'gospels' actually limits atonement? This is the subject of this short but very much classic sermon "The Old Gospel versus a New Gospel" from widely regarded evangelist of days past, Rolfe Barnard (1904-1969). The audio clip below is about 24 minutes long. The audio is an original recording from a radio broadcast date unknown but that had to have been pre-1969 so is somewhat raspy - have to listen closely. A portion is transcribed below:

[Sinner's prayer? Altar call? Neither of those is scriptural. Well worth 24min. of careful listening if not 48 or even 72]

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[13:31] "...we have to go on and explain that after all, nothing that God and Christ have done can save us...unless we add something to it. Now my friends if I'm not telling the truth about what's called the gospel today I want you to write me and straighten me out. We thus preach that the 'decisive factor' which [......?] ...what we really say is that Christ saves us with our help...and if you think that out what that really means is we save ourselves...with Christ's help. But my friends, if we start, as is done now, by affirming that God has a saving love for everybody, and that Christ died a saving death for everybody...and yet we do not preach that everybody will be saved, we just show how foolish we are. The man who preaches that Christ died in a saving way for everybody...has got to preach that everybody must be saved. The man who preaches that God has a saving love for everybody...has got to preach...that everybody must be saved. But we say brother Barnard we don't believe that. I know but that's what you preach.

You get in an awful stew...ohhhh...how I will [......?] about it...these folks running around here limiting the purpose and love of God:

[who say] "Wait just a minute we are simply saying that the old gospel limited the work and love of Christ simply this way...that the love of God accomplished all it was sent to do. And that the love of Christ dying for our sins means that those whom it was meant for are to be saved"

Now we need to be clear here. In this kind of preaching is the popular preaching of the day, instead of exalting the grace of God and magnifying the cross of Christ...we cheapen them. And people who preach that way limit the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ. People say to me brother Barnard...you believe in the limited atonement? And I say no but most of all the preachers in this country do...for they preach that Christ didn't actually accomplish what he set out to do...he just made possible something he hoped might accidentally take place. My friends the old gospel says of Christ...that Christ's death saves...aaall whom it was meant to save. The new gospel says that Christ's death, as such, actually saves nobody - what's good news about that?

What's good news about that? No wonder my friends you can go into most any church in this section today, and in three or four nights you enter the line, 95% of the people in the congregation will be saying that that fellow is preaching the truth.

Then I'm not saved. No wonder my friends that Baptists who've always said we believe in the eternal security of the believer...it's hard to find the Baptist now who feels any security - WHY? Well they've believed a gospel about a God who's made salvation possible...not a gospel about a God who actually saves. Dear old brother Spurgeon whom the preachers quote today but hate his gospel...they accused him of preaching the limited atonement and he answered in this way and I quote him. Brother Spurgeon said we are often told that we limit the atonement of Christ because we say that Christ has not made a satisfaction for all men...or all men would be saved.

Now our reply to this is, brother Spurgeon says, that on the other hand, our opponents limit the work of Christ...we do not. Our opponents say Christ died for all men. Ask them what they mean by him dying for all men. Ask them did Christ die so as to secure the salvation of all men..and they say noooo...certainly not. We ask them the next question...did Christ die so as to secure the salvation of any man in particular...they answer no. They are obliged to admit this if they are consistent...they say no...Christ has died in order that any man may be saved...if...and then follow certain conditions of salvation. Now, says Mr. Spurgeon, who is it that limits the death of Christ? Why it's you...you say that Christ did not die so as infallibly to secure the salvation of anybody. We beg your pardon...when you say we limit Christ's death we say nooo my dear sir...it is you that limits it. We say Christ so died that he infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through Christ's death not only may be saved...but are saved. Must be saved and cannot by any possibility run the hazard of being anything but saved. You are welcome to your atonement, says Mr. Spurgeon, you may keep it...we will never renounce ours for the sake of it. - [20:18]
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Romans 9:22-23 'What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory'

5 comments :

tom m. said...

to anon (above),

Calvin wrote no scripture. "Calvinism" - i.e TULIP - is actually not true. The doctrine of "election" is scriptural.

For instance the 'T' in TULIP -- stands for "total depravity". This is false doctrine. Man is not "totally depraved"...

No, he is in a far worse condition than merely depraved. According to scripture, he is dead - "dead in trespasses and sins" - Eph. 2:1.

Depraved man can do something, dead man can do nothing - unless God first acts upon him. To attach the name Calvin to the scriptural doctrine of election has only been done as a means to distort it - it is actually an attack on the truth of scripture.

To deny the election of God in salvation is to deny the sovereignty of God. It is a lack of understanding of scripture on the most fundamental level - Matthew 22:29

AV

Anonymous said...

You/Calvin write “God chooses”
God writes: “Choose for yourselves…” (Josh. 24:15)

So…yes, choose for yourself who to believe. I’m gonna go with what God says.

tom m. said...


To anon [directly above]:

Well.. let's get the scripture right.. God did not say that [Jos. 24:15] - Joshua said that

- God said this:

John 15:16 'Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you..'

Men are dead in sin and trespasses - dead men cannot respond to anything - only those whom he has 'quickened' (made alive) - Eph. 2:1

He must call them forth from the dead (and he alone can do this) - John 11:43

Yes.. let us go with what saith the word of God

Anonymous said...

This is now crossing into casting pearls before swine territory, but here goes…

According to your logic, we can therefore also ignore anything Noah, Abraham, Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Paul, Peter, Mark, John, James, etc. said also…because they are not God.

Just say no to mindless robot religion (Calvinism).

Continue believing whatever you want…I’m done here.

tom m. said...


to anon [directly above]:

what pearls.. don't see any

[*note first comment at top - not a 'Calvinist' - not promoting 'Calvinism' - the biblical doctrine of election is scripture - that doctrine has nothing to do with John Calvin]

- here are a few pearls though:

Noah? Gen. 6:7-8 'And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth.. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD' [election]

Paul? - Eph. 1:3-4 'Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.. According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world [cf. 1 Thes. 1:3-4]

Peter? 1 Peter 1:1-2: Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father..'

..and much more

- if you can receive it: Matt. 22:29 'Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God..'

Power of God he is absolutely sovereign in all things this includes election [Rom. 9:20-21].