Category: <span>Dick Lucas Sermons</span>

Many Antichrists

You can listen to this sermon at The Proclamation Trust.

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This spirit of heresy that is everywhere and is in every age the same. It simply comes out in new dress, new colors, and new form. Hymenaeus and Philetus are long ago dead. We shall never meet people who are precisely the same as them, but we certainly will meet people who have got the family likeness.

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Dick Lucas offers a unique perspective on identifying first-century heresies, false teachers, and “small-a” antichrists—ones that can appear at any time in history. And, I think he’s on to something here.… Read the rest

You can listen to this sermon at The Gospel Coalition.

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J.B. Phillips has a nice translation for verse 1. “Oh, you dear idiots” — and I think that by the way shows that despite what people say about chapter 1, 6 to 10 , he’s not angry with them, he’s bewildered by them he’s utterly perplexed that his dear children are playing the fool like this he asks who has bewitched you and some commentators needless to say imagine that some of the missionaries were magicians like the woman in the road where I live who has a car with placards all over it “I believe in magic” — I always think it’s a marvellous testimony really because her car is without doubt the most bashed car in the square and magic has not managed to keep her obviously clear of accidents so it’s a fairly moth-eaten testimony and necessarily one look at her at the wheel is enough to tell you that she’s going to need all the help she gets.

You can listen to this sermon at The Gospel Coalition.

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The murmuring against God was inevitably that murmuring against the leader. And, of course, that will always be so, won’t it? often the murmuring against the pastor is actually murmuring against the God who sent him to you. So this does give some indication, I think, that Paul plucks these two words out of the Old Testament, which is quite common for him to do, and plants them there on the conscience of the Philippians and says you’re not to be like those men in the desert whom God, in the end, killed and refused to allow them to go into the promised land.

You can listen to this sermon at The Gospel Coalition.

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We have much cause for alarm, as well, of course, as for gratitude. The last 40 years have been years of enormous evangelical advance. The last 40 or 50 years have seen a complete change. But the question in my mind is, are those people who have been evangelical ministers and engaged in evangelical ministry, are those churches that have been known as evangelical churches, are they now going to continue as such? That’s the question.

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The Pastorals are a particular favorite with Lucas, and I think it is because his focus is and always has been Evangelical preaching and teaching that provokes Christians to carry the Gospel out into the world.… Read the rest