Featured What do you guys think of Author Pinks handling of "Duty Faith"?

You are entirely misreading Pink's articles. In the extract you have given he is quoting from the rticles of the 'Gospel Standard' churches. Pink left two such churches because they objected to him making open appeals to sinners to come to Christ.
Just look at his first sentence!

 

He pastor a church near where I grew up in KY, they ran him off for some reason

 

Seems for good reason!

 

My apologies. I think I may have misread your O.P. Younare right that Pink strongly opposed those who restricted the open preahing of the Gospel. Pink believed in 'duty faith,' and rightly so.

 

Why worry about what this Pastor or that Pastor preaches, what does the Bible teach should be our concern. Then we should check those preacher's sermons to see if they match what scripture says.

No one "savingly" believes or repents or receives! It is God alone who credits or not our faith as righteousness, which is by His grace because all of our works of righteousness are as filthy rags to God.

It is true that every person's opportunity to seek salvation occurs when they hear and understand the gospel, and so for Pastor's to ask the lost to commit to Christ is perfectly valid. It is also true that some cannot respond, those who are like the first soil of Matthew 13. And it is true, some will respond such that God will not credit their "faith" as "righteous faith." But, some do and therefore evangelism in the "fields white for harvest" needs more laborers.

 

All self evident truths need to be believed. Truths are the reasons for faith.

 

I agree, no one should put their faith in falsehood!!!

OTOH, why not embrace Colossians 1:5?

 

I agree, no one should put their faith in falsehoods!!

OTOH, we should stick with Colossians 1:5 and 2 Thessalonians 2:13 and put our faith in the truth.
Col 1:5
because of the hope reserved for you in heaven, of which you previously heard in the word of truth, the gospel

2Th 2:13
But we ought to thank God always for you, siblings loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification (being set apart) by the Spirit and faith in the truth.

 

I agree 100% with Mr Pink on those comments.

 

by A.W. Pink



It is the bounden duty of all who hear the Gospel to savingly trust in Christ, otherwise their rejection of Him would be no sin.

Pink continues:
The commission He has given His servants is to preach the Gospel to every creature, and they certainly have not fully obeyed until they bid their hearers “Repent ye, and believe the Gospel” (Mark 1:15). Whom God quickens, is His own affair; ours is to faithfully warn the unsaved, to show wherein their sins consists (enmity against God), to bid them to throw down the weapons of their warfare against Him, to call upon them to repent (Acts 17:30), to proclaim the One who receives all who come to Him in faith.


Amen!

 

Thanks Alan. I haven't read very much Pink and was a little surprised to hear his take on it. You have to be careful reading him because he gives so much space to quoting the other side you can get mixed up as to who is saying what.

(By the way, it's XR650, not 350. Everyone in my opinion, at some time in their life, should have a dirt bike that can go over 100 mph. It gives you a good understanding of total depravity.)

 

Those people whom Christ didnt die for, unfortunately they are still married to the Law, and the only way they can be saved is to keep the Law perfectly, no sin in word, thought or action, which is impossible

 

Wow. A big argument on here is that since you're dead in sins and trespasses you can't respond to the gospel because you are like a dead person in the grave. In the last paragraph of that paper Pink says that comparison is not correct which really surprises me. He does not say that it means you can actually be saved by your own free will, but he does say there is enough ability there to refuse Christ and choose sin. Thus you can truly be held accountable for not believing. I was rather surprised by that.

 

So your saying that Pink believe in free will.
"ours is to faithfully warn the unsaved, to show wherein their sins consists (enmity against God), to bid them to throw down the weapons of their warfare against Him, to call upon them to repent "

 

I was listening to Martyn Lloyd-Jones sermon on John 3:1-8 on being born again. (He has about 3 sermons on that passage) He said the same thing, that your natural conscience gives you a restraining influence against some wrong things you might do but that really WANTING to obey God because you now find his word and law attractive is a sign of being born again, a supernatural work.

 

Whom did Christ Jesus not die for?

Romans 5:6 - For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Romans 5:8 - But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

1 John 2:2 - and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

1 Timothy 2:5-6 - For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.

1 Timothy 4:10 - For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.

Christ Jesus is the propitiation for the sins for the whole world of ungodly sinners and because He paid their ransom He is able to be the Savior of all men. Does this mean that men will be saved, no. But it does mean that all men that freely trust in Him will be saved.

 

Yes, as do I and as does the 1689 Confession.. I have been posting extensively on that subject.

 

Much of what you stated here is agreeable, however there is nothing common about Gods Grace since its grounded in the Person and Work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jn 1:17

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Rom 5:21

That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Now even though the non elect experience a benign providence in their life from God, its far from being of Grace, and natural conscience is seared[to spiritual matters] even though it can be guided by morality.