R. Torrey: The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith (Sermons)

R. A. Torrey

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Preface Preface Table of Contents The author of these sermons has had a feeling for a long time that the great need in our churches in this day is systematic indoctrination. He put his theory into practice last winter in his own church, and these sermons are the result. We were having a great many accessions to our church. In the two years of the church's history we had had something like six hundred accessions to the church, and every month considerable numbers of new members were being added. While many of these came by letter from other churches, many of them were new converts and had had practically no systematic instruction in the fundamental truths of the Christian faith, so we announced a series of sermons on The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith. There was immediately a large increase in the attendance at the services where these addresses were given, and this increase has kept up until on the last Lord's Day we had much the largest attendance we have ever had, excepting on Easter Sunday. Many have testified to the blessing received from these sermons, and there has been a great demand that the sermons be printed for general circulation. This request has come from ministers of various denominations, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, and others. It is hoped that this volume will be useful to other pastors in suggesting lines of teaching in their regular pastoral work, and also that it may be used widely by pastors and others for circulation among Christians. We live in a day in which many of our church members are all at sea as to what they believe on the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith. These sermons have already helped many through their delivery. It is hoped they will reach and help far more in the printed form. R. A. Torrey.

I Inspiration, or to What Extent Is the Bible Inspired of God?

I. THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN APOSTLES AND PROPHETS DIFFERENT IN CHARACTER FROM HIS WORK IN ALL OTHER PERSONS

II. TRUTH HIDDEN FROM MEN FOR AGES, AND WHICH THEY HAD NOT DISCOVERED AND COULD NOT DISCOVER, BY THE UNAIDED PROCESSES OF HUMAN REASONING, HAS BEEN REVEALED TO APOSTLES AND PROPHETS IN THE SPIRIT

III. THE REVELATION MADE TO THE PROPHETS BY THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS INDEPENDENT OF THEIR OWN THINKING

IV. NO PROPHETIC UTTERANCE WAS OF THE PROPHET'S OWN WILL, BUT THE PROPHET SPOKE FROM GOD AND THE PROPHET WAS CARRIED ALONG BY THE HOLY SPIRIT AND NOT BY HIS OWN IMPULSE OR REASONING IN WHAT HE SAID

V. THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS THE REAL SPEAKER WHO SPOKE IN THE PROPHETIC UTTERANCES

VI. THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE APOSTLES GAVE NOT ONLY THE THOUGHT, BUT THE WORDS IN WHICH THE THOUGHT WAS TO BE EXPRESSED

VII. ALL SCRIPTURE IS INSPIRED OF GOD

VIII. THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD

II The Christian Conception of God, or the God of the Bible as Distinguished from the God of Christian Science and the God of Modern Philosophy

I. GOD IS SPIRIT

II. GOD IS A PERSON

III. GOD'S PRESENT RELATION TO THE WORLD AND TO MEN

III The Christian Conception of God—The Infinite Perfection and Unity of God

I. THE INFINITE PERFECTION OF GOD

II. THERE IS ONE GOD

IV The Deity of Jesus Christ

I. DIVINE NAMES

II. DIVINE ATTRIBUTES

III. DIVINE OFFICES

IV. STATEMENTS WHICH IN THE OLD TESTAMENT ARE MADE DISTINCTLY OF JEHOVAH, GOD, TAKEN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT TO REFER TO JESUS CHRIST

V. THE WAY IN WHICH THE NAME OF GOD THE FATHER AND JESUS CHRIST THE SON ARE COUPLED TOGETHER

VI. DIVINE WORSHIP TO BE GIVEN TO JESUS CHRIST

VII. INCIDENTAL PROOFS OF THE DEITY OF JESUS CHRIST

V Jesus Christ a Real Man

I. THE HUMAN PARENTAGE OF JESUS CHRIST

II. THE HUMAN PHYSICAL NATURE OF JESUS CHRIST

III. SUBJECT TO HUMAN LIMITATIONS

IV. THE HUMAN RELATION OF JESUS CHRIST TO GOD

VI The Personality of the Holy Spirit

I. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE PERSONALITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

II. FOUR LINES OF PROOF OF THE PERSONALITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

VII The Deity of the Holy Spirit and the Distinction Between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit

I. THE DEITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

II. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT

VIII The Atonement: God's Doctrine of the Atonement vs. Unitarian and Christian Science Doctrines of the Atonement

I. THE NECESSITY AND IMPORTANCE OF HIS DEATH

II. THE PURPOSE OF THE DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST

III. THE RESULTS OF THE ATONING DEATH

IX The Distinctive Doctrine of Protestantism: Justification by Faith

I. WHAT IS JUSTIFICATION?

II. HOW ARE MEN JUSTIFIED?

III. THE EXTENT OF JUSTIFICATION

IV. THE TIME OF JUSTIFICATION

X The New Birth

I. What is the New Birth?

II. RESULTS OF THE NEW BIRTH

III. THE NECESSITY OF THE NEW BIRTH

IV. HOW CAN ONE BE BORN AGAIN?

XI Sanctification

I. WHAT SANCTIFICATION IS

II. HOW MEN ARE SANCTIFIED

III. WHEN DOES SANCTIFICATION TAKE PLACE

XII The Resurrection of the Body of Jesus and of Our Bodies

I. THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY OF CHRIST AND OF OUR BODIES

II. THE CHARACTER OF OUR RESURRECTION BODIES

III. WHEN WILL THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY TAKE PLACE?

XIII The Devil

INTRODUCTION

I. THERE IS A DEVIL

II. THE NATURE OF THE DEVIL

III. THE CHARACTER OF THE DEVIL

IV. THE WORK OF THE DEVIL

V. THE DEVIL'S DESTINY

VI. HOW TO GET VICTORY OVER THE DEVIL

XIV Is There a Literal Hell?

I. HELL AND HADES ARE NOT THE SAME

II. THERE IS TO BE A LITERAL HELL

III. IS THE FIRE OF HELL LITERAL FIRE?

IV. IS THE LAKE OF FIRE A PLACE OF CONSCIOUS TORMENT, OR IS IT A PLACE OF ANNIHILATION, I.E., A PLACE OF NON-EXISTENCE OR IS IT A PLACE OF NON-CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE?

XV Is Future Punishment Everlasting?

I. WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES REGARDING THE ENDLESSNESS OF FUTURE PUNISHMENT

II. OBJECTIONS

III. WHERE ARE THE ISSUES OF ETERNITY SETTLED?

IV. CONCLUSION

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The author of these sermons has had a feeling for a long time that the great need in our churches in this day is systematic indoctrination. He put his theory into practice last winter in his own church, and these sermons are the result. We were having a great many accessions to our church. In the two years of the church's history we had had something like six hundred accessions to the church, and every month considerable numbers of new members were being added. While many of these came by letter from other churches, many of them were new converts and had had practically no systematic instruction in the fundamental truths of the Christian faith, so we announced a series of sermons on The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith. There was immediately a large increase in the attendance at the services where these addresses were given, and this increase has kept up until on the last Lord's Day we had much the largest attendance we have ever had, excepting on Easter Sunday. Many have testified to the blessing received from these sermons, and there has been a great demand that the sermons be printed for general circulation. This request has come from ministers of various denominations, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, and others. It is hoped that this volume will be useful to other pastors in suggesting lines of teaching in their regular pastoral work, and also that it may be used widely by pastors and others for circulation among Christians. We live in a day in which many of our church members are all at sea as to what they believe on the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith. These sermons have already helped many through their delivery. It is hoped they will reach and help far more in the printed form.