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“Every branch in Me that does not bare fruit, He takes away.” What does He mean? Let me just make this statement: There are men and women, young and old in every congregation who identify with the people of God but are unbelieving and fruitless, and when they die they will go to Hell.

- Paul Washer

Sermon of the week: “The 2007 Reality Check Conference” by Paul Washer.

I’ve found another uncompromising, convicting, powerful, must-hear sermon by Paul Washer. This is a compilation of highlights from a few different messages Paul Washer delivered at a 2007 conference. This is one of those Paul Washer messages that leaves you humble, contrite, and broken. Without further ado, I introduce you to your sermon of the week:The 2007 Reality Check Conference.

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What is the greatest privilege? To be able to preach like Spurgeon? No, to look like Jesus. When we talk about fruit we’re automatically in our American mindset thinking about activity instead of character, character, character; Chirst-likeness, Christ-likeness.

- Paul Washer

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You won’t hear much about this in modern day Christianity in America, but one of the greatest signs of God being with a people is His discipline. And one of the greatest signs of God not being with a people is the lack thereof.

- Paul Washer

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There has been somewhat of a reformation going on in American Christianity. It’s underground–not too many people know about it–but it’s true.

- Paul Washer

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One of the greatest problems in American households today . . . regarding parent children relationships . . . is this: children want to be recognized–they want to have the authority and the rights of an adult–without being willing or without being able to assume the responsibility.

- Paul Washer

This week’s sermon: “The Vine and the Branches” by Paul Washer.

This week’s sermon is entitled The Vine and the (True) Branches by Paul Washer. It is yet another powerful and convicting call for professing Christians to reexamine themselves to make sure they’re in the Faith. This is another must-have for your Paul Washer collection.

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Absolutely everything is for our good. The problem is many times we do not understand the good. The good isn’t big ministries, the good isn’t fame in the Christian life, the good isn’t that after we die someone will write a book about us, the good isn’t that we’re respected as the greatest pastor in the world. The good is that we look like Jesus; that we look like Christ.

- Paul Washer

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So many of us–so many times–fight against a certain work of God without which we will never produce excellent fruit. We have been so led into believing that everything difficult, everything that conflicts, everything that scrapes us and works as a rasp in our life to take away our comfort–that it’s from the devil. That’s what America has taught us; a comfortable Christianity. When what we do not realize is those who say such things are blaspheming. Because in the life of God’s people, in His Church, in His vineyard, God the Father is the vine dresser and He is the One that is cutting away at us. He is the One that is pruning us. He is the one that is cleaning us.

- Paul Washer

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Every other source of strength outside of Jesus Christ is a bitter source that will bare poisoned fruit. You take the most self-righteous, the most disciplined, religious person on the face of the earth, and externally their works might appear to be pristine; [but] their fruit is biter gall, it is poison, it will lead to damnation and hell. God accepts nothing from our flesh but only that which is produced from the source of life that flows from His dear Son.

- Paul Washer

Paul Washer bares his heart.

Paul washer bares his heart and the source of his passion in this 4 minute audio clip.

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I was preaching somewhere in a town of 5,000 people and this guy [who was a street preacher] . . . had earrings and everything and hair all moussed and all this stuff because man, he was working the street. . . . He’s the dude, he’s the man you know, Serpico for Jesus type thing . . . and he’s like you don’t understand, you’re in context, you know, you’re preaching . . . [And I said] look, I worked inner city Dallas, I lived with male prostitutes, alright? And I’ll tell you how I dressed: I wore a pair of blue jeans, tennis shoes, a shirt, and my hair was combed. ‘Cause I want to be honest with you, those guys down there selling their bodies and the other guy’s selling drugs, and the girls dying of AIDS, they could care less whether I looked like them or not. What they wanted was someone who loved them. So that whole idea of you gotta look like them to relevant–no, you gotta love them to be relevant.

- Paul Washer

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I believe that we should enter into relationships with unbelievers unless and until we begin to see that they’re having an influence on us. . . . It would be far more safe for me to sit down at a table with a bunch of drunks, drug addicts, and the whole nine yards, and sit there and talk to them and have fellowship with them; I am less likely to sin than to go to a Cabella’s or Bass pro-shop with a bunch of guys who are Christians and love to hunt. Why? The lifestyle of drugs and alcohol and all that stuff has no attraction for me anymore. But there are certain things, that are even good things, that can steal away your heart.

- Paul Washer

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You say, “Judge not lest you be judged!” And I say, “Twist not Scripture lest you be like Satan!”

- Paul Washer

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You can judge a book by its cover according to Jesus Christ. And it is terrible–I have spent my life preaching around this country and I want to tell you something, it is terrible when the guest preacher has to walk in with his head down because he’s afraid that he will be caused to stumble by other believers.

- Paul Washer

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Not enough is preached about separation, not enough is preached against the world and the things of the world and its pleasures and its trinkets . . . . How can you love the very things for which Christ was crucified? Can you love the nails? Can you bless the hammer? Would you kiss the hands that crushed His head with a crown of thorns? Because when you say you know Christ and you are a disciple of Christ and yet you love the world, you do that very thing. Oh my friend, there is a great divide; a great separation. The Scripture warns us that those who are not separate now will be separated on that Great Day from the sheep and they will be labeled goats and they will find their place in Hell.

- Paul Washer

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The Bible never says that God is “love, love love.” And it never says that God is “merciful, merciful, merciful.” But it does say God is “holy, holy, holy.” And the repetition is important, very important. You want to know what God is–who God is? God is holy. And if there was ever a message we needed to hear in America today, it’s that.

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It seems to me that persecution never hurts the Church and prosperity always does.

- Paul Washer

Paul Washer vs Joel Osteen.

Here’s a treat that you are sure to enjoy. Listen to this (9:30) audio clip Paul Washer vs Joel Osteen and see if you can spot a difference in their theologies. Thanks to Way of the Master Radio (WOTM) for putting this audio together (and my wife for finding it).

Just to whet your whistle, I’ve included my own example below:

God is preparing you for greater things. He’s going to take you further than you thought possible, so don’t be surprised when He asks you to think better of yourself and to act accordingly. - Joel Osteen

I’m not troubled in my heart about your self esteem. I’m not troubled in my heart about whether or not you feel good about yourself; whether life is turning out the way you wanted it to turn out, or whether or not your checkbook is balanced. There’s only one thing that gave me a sleepless night. There’s only one thing that troubled me all throughout the morning, and that is this: Within a hundred years a great majority of people in this building will possibly be in hell. - Paul Washer

Click here for a John MacArthur vs Joel Osteen video comparison, and here for a John MacArthur, Joel Osteen, Billy Graham, and Catholic Priest video comparison.

Reformation Nation has moved. Please visit us at our new blog: Defending. Contending.

A good interview with Paul Washer on Cross Talk.

Paul Washer is interviewed on this episode of Cross Talk.

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If you take contemporary Christianity in America you can find no equal to her in the past. She’s a devient, she’s separated, she’s cut herself off from her root and no longer Christian.

- Paul Washer

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   Now, the word legalism is oftentimes brought up today. And it’s just used totally out of context. Anybody who has any kind of conviction about anything, seems to be called a legalist. Now a legalist is someone who believes that they are going to have a right standing before through their own obedience, their own virtue and merit; and that’s a legalist. Now, Jesus Christ said, also in Matthew chapter 7, He said, “depart from me, you workers of lawlessness, I never knew you.” And what He’s saying there basically is depart from Me all of you who claim to be My disciples but lived as though I never gave you a law to obey.

- Paul Washer 

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  What so breaks my heart is when men are more concerned for coddling carnal unregenerate men than concerned for the glory of God and the God who died for them.
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  What are most youth groups like? You get a real personable young leader who’s usually not married and a lot of mousse in his hair. And then he gets a lot of young people around him, and what do they become? According to Proverbs they become companions of fools. When you put young people with young people in this atmosphere of adolescence you have no growth to adulthood, you have no maturity, no elders are involved, no parents are involved. It can’t work because it’s not Biblical.

- Paul Washer

Paul Washer lecture at HeartCry Missionary Society seminar.

Thanks to Chris for this video.

Another Paul Washer video.

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The only thing that’s going to save the Church in America–there’s only two possibilities: One is total reformation in our preaching, in our study of the word of God. Or the other is fierce horrifying persecution. That’s the only thing that’s going to save the Church in America.

- Paul Washer

Paul Washer: Shocking Sermon.

Paul Washer’s most shocking sermon and one of the most downloaded sermons on the internet. You can listen to it or download it by clicking here.

Paul Washer is the preacher for this generation. If you are not familiar with him I highly recommend this sermon to get acquainted with him. Be warned though, you will be challenged in your Christianity-as-usual.

You can download more sermons by Paul Washer here.

My First Paul Washer Video

This is my first (and last) Paul Washer video. I hope it encourages you fellow Pilgrims.

Paul Washer: How Much Has Christianity Cost You?

  Paul Washer MP3 sermon: How Much Has Christianity Cost You?

Paul Washer on the loss of the gospel in American churches.

Paul Washer on the name of Jesus.

Paul Washer on Decisionism.

The brand new Paul Washer video.

This is one of the best Paul Washer videos set to music that I’ve seen so far. It is very well done.

Paul Washer’s “shocking” sermon. Shocking only because it’s so rare to hear anyone preach like this in America.

For those of you who do not understand why I do what I do. For those of you who try to justify the lukewarmness of the “Church” today; or the vulgar and profane happenings going on in the “Church” today; for those who think they’re radical Christians because they wear a Christian t-shirt, allow me to acquaint you with a man your pastor will never invite to your mega-church. A man that will not preach on your Best Life Now or teach that “God Loves Sex”. A man that that understands and preaches what it is to fear God, reverence God and fall on your face before God… yes, because God is THAT holy! Allow me to introduce you to a man who will not pull any punches or sugarcoat any truth. A man who will tell it like it is, in spite of your “feelings.” A preacher desperately needed for this generation: Pastor Paul Washer.