The Truth Pulpit

I cant get enough!

Thank God for you. May his strength avail continually for you.

This is no bland, indifferent lecture such as I used to hear in the OPC: Pastor Green is deeply attuned to the reality and pain of betrayal and that Satan creeps into even the covenant-keeping House of God, even the "Orthodox" Presbyterian "Church," even OPCs operating under the name of the Khrist Kovenant Kountry Klub. Providentially, he preached this sermon originally just as I was experiencing betrayal myself in the KKKK.

As always, this strengthening and encouraging sermon full of clarity is not anything I ever have heard nor would expect to hear in the superficial spiritual wasteland of the Chicago suburbs and least of all from the cold, mechanical, academically detached "Orthodox" Presbyterian country club. Pastor Green is a rare treasure and a throwback to an age of preaching that has largely passed and been replaced by emotionally manipulative entertainment.

I'm not aware of any church in the spiritual wasteland of the Chicago suburbs, and certainly not the "Orthodox" Presbyterian country club, that ever preaches to the discouraged, downtrodden, and suffering--everyone in either these rock-concert venues or cold lecture-halls seems happy and superficial. This preaching is why I love Don Green's pulpit and this church.

I have never in my life heard any church anywhere here in the spiritual wasteland of the Chicago suburbs preach this gospel message, and certainly not from the pulpit of the cold, legalistic, works-oriented OPC, no matter how nominally "Reformed" it claims to be. This sermon is why I love Don Green's preaching and this church and why I would move to Cincinnati or across the river to Kentucky in a heartbeat if I were in a position to do so.

I can't imagine hearing a sermon such as this anywhere in the superficial spiritual wasteland of the Chicago suburbs and certainly not in the cold, academically detached OPC. This sermon is just one of numerous reasons I love and cherish the sober but heartfelt preaching of Don Green.

"I'm not what I used to be": I have not met a soul in the spiritual wasteland of the Chicago suburbs who attests to this reality, and certainly not in the "Orthodox" Presbyterian social club of Crystal Lake, Illinois, where an arrogant nominal believer who openly professed that he did not "need" God' Word was warmly embraced by that congregation as one of its nominal but "orthodox" own before they coddled him to hell.

What Pastor Green preaches here is not anything I have ever heard preached or even articulated anywhere else in the spiritual wasteland of the Chicago suburbs: that being a Christian is not about what YOU do or have done but rather what Christ has done TO you. It is about spiritual TRANSFORMATION, and I saw no evidence of it whatsoever in the spiritually dead "Orthodox" Presbyterian social club in Crystal Lake, Illinois.

As so many of Pastor Green's series are--I have yet to hear one that has caused me to yawn. And hearing this sermon for the second time around hits me even more forcefully. Pastor Green articulates the deep uneasiness I began to sense as a new Christian among the Stepford wives in the ostensibly "Orthodox" but spiritually lifeless Presbyterian "Church." This is not preaching I hear from any other pulpit.

This is such a seminal series, and how I wish I had heard it when I was converted from a lifetime of Roman Catholicism to Christ just at the five hundredth anniversary of the Reformation. This sermon is so typical of Pastor Green and so worth hearing repeatedly until its words and themes are burned into your mind and soul.

Pastor Green preaches a truth I have never heard preached in the spiritual wasteland of the Chicago suburbs: that without the doctrine of total depravity, there is no grace. As a new Christian, I heard the words of TULIP and the five solas mouthed at the OPC in Crystal Lake, Illinois, but the WTS lecturer there was too polite and inoffensive to connect grace with sin. There is no preaching like Pastor Green's here in Chicago.

This sermon is HUGE and represents all the difference in the world between the Reformed Confessional Baptist Church and the empty-suit, whited-sepulchre OPC which stares at its own navel as astutely observed by John MacArthur.

The "tension" of which Pastor Green speaks articulates my own increasing spiritual state of mind, even though I myself am not a pastor or preacher, and no such "tension" seems to exist here in the superficial, shallow spiritual wasteland of the Chicago suburbs, and certainly not in the cold, spiritually dead, academically detached and indifferent OPC, which couldn't care less whether or not anyone is trapped in the snares of the pervasive Roman Catholicism here.

Been helped by this pastor’s sermons on marriage very much… Marriage was made workable when I was first converted but over the years bitterness has crept in ...😓there is much here to help! thank you