Jeffrey Perry®

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I will not surrender one square inch of Christ’s finished work to satisfy someone else’s anxiety about antinomianism. The Lamb who purchased my salvation will lose nothing He purchased. Nothing.

Christ accomplished everything necessary to secure the salvation of His people.

Still got a day to enter

Matthew 28:19 commands us to disciple πάντα τὰ ἔθνη (“all nations”). That is indisputable. But the grammatical shift from neuter ἔθνη to masculine αὐτούς (“them”), together with the participles “baptizing” and “teaching,” identifies the recipients of discipleship as people. Matthew makes the same grammatical shift in 25:32, where the nations are gathered, but individuals are separated in judgment. The Great Commission is not a mandate to Christianize nation-states. It is Christ’s command to make disciples among all peoples, baptizing them and teaching them to obey everything He commanded. To confuse peoples with nation-states is not exegesis. It is reading your political theology into the text and pretending Christ put it there.

This doctrine of dying to the law, in point of justification, is a doctrine according to godliness, and the very means of holiness itself, and of living unto God: if this be Antinomianism, I am content to be called an Antinomian. Ralph Erskine (Law-Death, Gospel–Life, p.67)

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I've been genuinely encouraged by the number of confessional Baptist pastors who have responded. Brothers laboring in churches large and small, across the country and the world.

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Pastors of 1689/confessional Baptist churches: Where are you laboring? I’d love to get to know more men committed to Christ-centered preaching, the ordinary means of grace, and caring for Christ’s sheep.

It would be a dreadful thing if a man came to church burdened by his sin and troubled in his conscience, only to discover that the preacher had nothing better to offer him than his opinions. The church has not been entrusted with the task of saving the nation through political persuasion. She has been entrusted with the glorious privilege of proclaiming Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And we mustn't confuse the two. The man in the pew doesn't need to know how the preacher intends to vote; he needs to know how a sinner can be made right with a holy God. Political convictions have their place, of course. But they make a very poor substitute for the gospel. Our great confidence is not that the right people might one day occupy the halls of government, but that the risen Christ presently occupies the throne of heaven. So, dear preacher, give the people Christ. They will hear quite enough about everything else throughout the week.

The church has not been commissioned to preach a political party, promote a candidate, or persuade people to adopt our policies. We have been commissioned to preach Christ. Hard Stop.

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