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Henry Mahan

Another Gospel

2 Corinthians 11:4
Henry Mahan October, 27 1974 Audio
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Now here in 2 Corinthians 11, Paul talks about another gospel. And in the book of Galatians,
chapter 1, verse 6, he talks about another gospel. There is sufficient scripture
for us to look into this subject, another gospel. There is sufficient warning for
us to desire to look into the subject. If anybody preach another
gospel, Paul says, let him be accursed. Woe unto me if I preach
not the gospel. Now, first off, I do not mean
to imply that all who do not agree with us in every doctrine
are preaching another gospel. Please understand that. There
are points which some men feel led of the Spirit of God to emphasize,
to major upon, while I believe they are preaching Christ. Paul
said he rejoiced when Christ was preached, even when he was
preached in envy and contention and competition. What would you say? Say you were
asked tonight to give what we call the identifying traits or
characteristics of another gospel. What would you say is being preached
today? Paul says they'll come preaching
another gospel, another Jesus, another spirit. Now what to you
are the traits of another gospel? I'm going to give you four. I
think I can give you four characteristics of the false gospel, this other
gospel, which Paul says is not another. It's a perversion of
the gospel of Christ. They don't come preaching totally
strange doctrine. They have just enough truth in
it so that it's a perversion of the gospel of Christ. They
talk about the blood and the cross, and they talk about Jesus,
and they talk about the birth of Christ, and they talk about
the resurrection, and talk about heaven and hell. They talk about
these things because it's not another gospel, it's a perversion
of the true gospel. Here are four points on which
deception is based in this day. Here are the points of deception. First of all, this other gospel,
this false gospel, this perversion of the gospel of Christ, the
first thing it does is deny original sin. That's the first point. Now, if any man's going to be
right on his doctrine, or right on his gospel, or right on his
knowledge of God himself, he's got to be right on the sin question.
If he's wrong on the sin question, he's wrong all the way. This doctrine of original sin,
you say, why do they call it original sin? It's called original
sin because it was the first sin. It's called original sin
because it was the sin that started all sin. It's called original
sin because it was the beginning of sin and because all sin is
the fruit of this sin and the offspring of this sin. We say
everybody will admit he sinned. Why, certainly he will. But how
many people will admit that they are sinned? Now then, that's
a white horse, as Roth says, of another color. A man will
admit he has sinned, but he won't admit he is sinned. Romans 3.23
says, "...all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God."
Everybody knows that. The 1 John 1, 10 says if we say
we have not sinned, we are a liar and the truth's not in us. We
all know that. It's not difficult to get people
to admit that they have sinned at one time or other to some
degree. But here's what the other gospel
fails to preach. It is difficult to get men to
admit the reason why they sinned. Now you broke God's law. Why
did you break God's law? You sinned against God. Why did
you sin? You stole a watermelon and it
was wrong to steal the watermelon. Why did you steal the watermelon?
If you can figure out why you did it, you'll know why you're
under condemnation. The argument between you and
God is not the fact you took the watermelon, it's why you
took the watermelon. That's the problem. That's original
sin. Now listen to this. The thief
is not a sinner because he steals. That's not why he's a sinner.
He steals because he is a sinner. He was a sinner before he ever
stole. If he hadn't been a sinner before he stole, he wouldn't
have stolen. That's original sin. The preachers today preach,
now if you do this, you sin. You do that because you're a
sinner. That's why you do it. That's what motivated you to
do it. And that's God's argument with you. That's the reason Christ
said in Matthew 15, look over at Matthew 15 just a minute,
they didn't understand the doctrine of sin back then either. That's
the reason these Pharisees went around teaching that you ought
not steal, and you ought not kill, and you ought not commit
adultery, and you ought not take God's name in vain. They taught
all those things. And if you didn't do those things,
you weren't a sinner. and you wash your hands before
you eat and all these things. And Christ said this in Matthew
15, verse 17, Do you not understand that whatsoever entereth in at
the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draft?
Those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart,
and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceeds
evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, theft, false witness,
blasphemy. These are the things that defile
a man. To eat with unwashing hands never
defiled anybody. The adulterer is not a sinner
because he commits adultery. That's not when he becomes a
sinner. Christ said, you've heard it said by them of old times,
thou shalt not commit adultery. I say unto you, the law says
to look and lust is to be guilty already. The man commits adultery
because he is a sinner. The liar doesn't become a sinner
when he lies. He's already a sinner, that's
why he lies. Men and women who know anything
about the Bible and anything about God and anything about
sin not only repent for what they have done, they repent for
what they are. The Bible doesn't say you're
at enmity with God. Well, you say, yes it does. Well,
let's see. Turn to Romans 8. The Bible does not say you are
at enmity with God. It doesn't say that at all. Though
it's true, Though it's true we are at enmity with God, we're
at odds with God, we cross, our will crosses God's will, but
that's not what it said. In Romans 8, look at it, verse
7 and 8, the carnal mind, what does it say, is enmity against
God. It's not at enmity, it is enmity. There is a nature, there is a
seed, there is a mind. in us that hates everything that's
holy, and everything that's good, and everything that's righteous,
and that flesh lusteth against the Spirit. And it's not, read
on, that carnal mind is enmity. It is not subject to the law
of God, and it can't be, and they that are in the flesh cannot
please God. When Adam fell in the Garden
of Eden, the original sin, the first sin, the beginning of all
sin, the source of all sin, when he fell, the Scripture says in
Romans 5, verse 12, by one man's sin entered this world, and death
by sin, so death, spiritual death, spiritual darkness, spiritual
depravity, passed upon all men right there. Romans 5.18 says, "...by the
offense of one judgment came upon all men. By one man's disobedience
we were made sinners." Now, we're born enemies of holiness. That's
what David's talking about in Psalms 51, and this is the thing
that this other gospel denies. It denies the seed of sin, the
nature of sin, putation and impartation of sin to us. In Psalms 51, David
said, verse 5, I was shapen in iniquity, in sin did my mother
conceive me. Now the average church preaches
that a baby is not a sinner, that it keeps on developing until
it comes to a crossroads in life. Some say twelve years old, some
say fourteen years old, but then when it first offends God, it
becomes a sinner. I'll give you one thousand dollars,
which I don't have. I'll borrow it from somebody,
but I'll guarantee you I'll give it to you if you can find that
teaching in this Bible anyway. It's not in the Bible. It was
concocted in some false doctrine. When do we become sinners? Turn
to Psalms 58, verse 3. The wicked are estranged from
the womb. They go astray as soon as they're
born. Not twelve years old, not thirteen,
not fourteen, as soon as they're born. You say, boy, I never heard
that. That's what I say. That's another
gospel. It denies original sin. It denies
what we are. And God's quarrel with us, and
I wish we could see this. We're supposed to pursue holiness,
and we're supposed to abstain from evil, and we're supposed
to walk in paths of righteousness, and the bin of our will is to
be righteousness and holiness unto the Lord. But the argument
that God has with natural man is just that. He's natural. He's
carnal! His whole mind and soul and being
and heart. Turn to Isaiah. Go with me to
the book of Isaiah, chapter 1. Here's a description of natural
man. In Isaiah, chapter 1, verse 6,
verse 5, God says, why should you be stricken any more? Isaiah
1, 5, you'll just revolt more and more. Your whole head is
sick. Your whole heart is faint from the sole of your feet, even
to your head. There's no soundness in you.
Wounds and bruises and putrefying sores that have not been closed,
neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Our trouble, friends,
is not just what we've done, it's what we are. Our trouble before God is not
just what we have performed in action, it's attitude. And when one denies this original
sin, he denies the need of the new birth. That's what it leads
to. When you deny original sin, when
you deny that men out of Christ are not spiritual, they're flesh. That which is born of the flesh
is flesh, Christ said. Ye must be born again. That which
is born of the flesh is flesh. In the flesh no man can believe
God. In the flesh dwelleth no good
thing. In the flesh man is enmity. That which is born of the Spirit
is Spirit. And that's the reason Christ
said you must be born again. And this other gospel denies
that. It denies original sin, therefore
it denies the need of the new birth. If there's a spark of
light and life and fire and righteousness in the sinner, he doesn't need
to be born again. He's already got a new nature. When we deny original sin, we
deny spiritual inability. When we deny original sin, we
give birth to freewillism. And Christ plainly said, to as
many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons
of God, who were born not of blood, not of the will of the
flesh, not of the will of man, but born of God. So that's the first thing about
this other gospel. It denies original sin. It denies the sinful nature. It denies the moral inability
of the sinner. It denies the fact that man, from the sole
of his feet to the top of his head, has no soundness in him,
that he's a sinner going astray. And you say, well, what about
babies? You don't believe babies go to hell, do you? No, and I
don't know anybody else that's got real good sense that believes
that either. But I'll tell you this, they're
in awful good hands, they're in the hands of God. And they
couldn't be in better hands. Now the second thing that this
other gospel denies, and this will really, if you had trouble
with that one, wait till I get to this one. The other gospel
denies that sinners, they deny that sinners, deserve to be damned. Do you believe sinners, do you
believe your mother and father deserve to go to hell? Do you believe your children,
do you believe these boys down here, your children deserve to
go, do you think God ought to send these boys to hell? Let
me take you a little closer home, do you believe God ought to send
you to hell? Now this is one of the most difficult
areas for the human mind to agree with God, right This is one of
the most difficult areas for us to justify God. Now, I'll
either get you saved or lost right here, one or the other.
Stay with me. We can rejoice in God's love, can't we? Huh?
We can rejoice in God's love. Oh, love of God, for God so loved
the world. Boy, everybody loves that kind
of preaching. When we all get to heaven, we
all aren't going to heaven, friend. Won't it be wonderful there when
we all get there? We ain't all going there. The
Bible tells us that. We rejoice in God's love and
God's mercy and God's grace. How many of you can rejoice in
God's justice and God's holiness and God's righteousness? How
many of you can say hallelujah when God sends a man to hell?
Can you? We don't see sin as God sees
sin, and we cannot in the flesh agree that God ought to send
the man to hell, can we? We just can't believe it. We
just can't agree with it. We just cannot bring ourselves
to agree with the justice of God. Is the sinner to be pitied
or to be blamed? He's to be blamed. Now, let me
ask you a couple of questions. Is Governor Ford obligated to
pardon all the criminals down in LaGrange? Is he obligated
to pardon all those criminals? You say, why, certainly not.
Is he unjust if he doesn't pardon them? Well, you say, no, he's
not unjust. They're guilty. They've broken
the law. They deserve to be punished.
Is God obligated then to take you to heaven? You've broken
the law of God. Is He obligated to take these
little criminals down here to heaven? Let's be honest, they've
broken the law of God. Is He unjust if He punishes their
sins? Is He unjust? Come on! No, he's
not unjust. They get just what they deserve.
Now, here's what it comes down to. You don't believe they're
criminals, do you? You don't believe your boy's a sinner,
do you? I had a woman tell me, when I said, pray for my son,
brother, man, he's a good boy, but he's not saved. I said, if
he's good, he don't need to be saved. No reason to save a good
boy. What does a good boy need salvation
for? Huh? Well, by then, pray for
my husband. He's a good man, but he's just
not saved. He doesn't need to be saved.
Only sinners need to be saved. People who are lost, people who
are going to hell, people who deserve to go to hell, that's
people for whom Christ died. He said, I came to seek and to
save the lost. I didn't come to call the righteous
to repentance. They have no need of repentance.
Now, what are you going to do? It boils down to the fact that
folks just don't believe they are sinners. And I'll guarantee
you this, you find you a sinner and you've found the oddest,
rarest commodity on the market today. There are not many of
them out there. God's going to save every sinner. Every sinner
is going to be saved. And when you come to realize
you're a sinner, God will save you, but not until. Suppose, now let me offer you
this, the governor is not obligated to free those prisoners. They're
guilty. You said they were guilty. They
deserve to say that. He's not unjust, is he, if he
leaves them there. That's right. So God's not obligated
to save you, and God's not unjust if He doesn't save you. You've
broken his law, all have sinned and come short of it. The wages
of sin is death. Sin, when it is finished, bringeth
forth death. The soul that sinneth it shall
surely die." That's what God said. I will in no wise clear
the guilty. So God Almighty will be perfectly
just if he sends you to hell. And he sends me and my whole
family and your whole family. Perfectly just. And I'll have
to say, I'll have to justify God. David said, that thou mightest
be justified when thou speakest, and clear when thou judgest.
You'd better get on God's side in this matter of sin. Now then,
suppose this, let me ask you this. Suppose Governor Ford,
through wisdom and investigation, suppose he goes down there and
does pardon one man. out of that prison. Or two. Suppose he pardons two men. Suppose
in his wisdom, and through his investigation, he believes that
he can make a good and useful citizen out of two of those men. Would he be unjust to the other
thousand they left in prison? Would he not? Would he be unjust
if he goes in there and takes out two men, and he's through
wisdom and He says, I believe these two men will make good,
useful citizens. I'm going to work on them. I'm
going to let them out. I'm going to pardon them. Is he unjust? No, he's
not. They're in prison paying for
their crimes. These men get what they deserve. The pardoned men don't get what
they deserve. They get mercy, don't they? They don't get what they deserve.
Those two boys that he took out of jail and sent them home. They didn't deserve to be sent
home. They got mercy. Now turn to Romans 9. You say, what are you trying
to do? Turn to Romans 9. I'll show you. I'm not trying.
I just did it. If you've followed me so far, if you've admitted
what I'm saying is true, if you've stayed with me so far, listen
to Romans chapter 9, verse 11. The children being not yet born,
neither having done any good or evil, because they hadn't
yet been born, they weren't even conceived, that the purpose of
God, according to election, might stand, not of works, but of him
that calleth. It was said unto her, The elder
shall serve the younger, as it is written, Jacob have a love,
but Esau have I hated." Now what are you going to say to that?
Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. He said, I will have mercy on
whom I will have mercy. And I will have compassion on
whom I will have compassion. So then it's not of him that
willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
Even for this scripture saith unto Pharaoh, even for this same
purpose have I raised you up, Pharaoh, that I might show my
power in thee, that my name might be declared throughout all the
earth." Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Moses found
grace in the eyes of the Lord. Pharaoh was destroyed. Did Pharaoh
get what he deserved? He certainly did. Did Moses get
what he deserved? No, sir, he got mercy. He got
mercy. Justice is necessary. Mercy is
optional. Justice is necessary. Mercy is
in the hands of God. So this other gospel that's being
preached today, it denies the seed of sin, it denies the source
of sin, it denies the nature of sin, it denies what a man
is by birth, and consequently denies the new birth and the
need for the new birth. And this other gospel that's
being preached today says, pity the sinner, not blame the city,
the sinner. God, it wouldn't be right for
you to send these men to hell. I don't believe a good God will
send a man to hell. If God spared not his own son,
he's not going to spare the rebels of this world. And we'd better
get on the side of God in this matter of sin. Turn to Revelation
with me just a moment. I think it's chapter 19. Now
listen to this. Revelation 19, verse 1, And after
these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven,
saying, Hallelujah, salvation, and glory, and honor, and power
unto the Lord our God. For true and righteous are his
judgments. He hath judged the great whore,
that's the great religious organization, which did corrupt the earth with
her fornication, hath avenged the blood of his servants at
her hand. And again this great multitude
said hallelujah, and her smoke rose up forever and forever. And the saved shouted hallelujah,
while God sent the religious organization to hell." That's
what it said. Now then thirdly, Those are two
basic facts of this new, this perverted gospel. It denies original
sin. It says the sinner doesn't deserve
to go to hell. The gospel of Jesus Christ says
that God must punish sin. And if God shows mercy to a man,
that man gets mercy and not justice. Now thirdly, this other gospel
teaches that salvation is quitting bad habits. And out here in this
city, right here tonight, 90% of the people in these churches
and walking the streets and out to meal and everywhere else think,
if you don't quit drinking, you're going to hell. And if you don't
quit cursing, you're going to hell. And if you don't quit gambling,
you're going to hell. And if you don't quit lying,
you're going to hell. Well, let me tell you something,
old friend, you can quit every one of those things and still
go to hell. You can be the most respectable, most moral, most
religious person in this town and still go to hell. Because
salvation is not just turning from idols, it's turning to the
living God. Salvation is not just quitting
something, it's joining someone, being vitally connected with
that person in a living union. That's the difference. How many
times have you heard somebody say, Oh, he's a wonderful Christian,
he doesn't curse, and he doesn't swear, and he doesn't drink,
and he doesn't corral, and he doesn't do the things that the
world does. Yes, and he doesn't know God either. Our Lord said, this is eternal
life. Turn to John 17, verse 2. This
is eternal life. Verse 3, John 17, that they might
know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast
sent. The program that Satan has in
this day is to make men religious without Christ. And if he can
do that, you're in worse shape than you are before you ever
became religious. He came up and whispered to Eve
that God said, you shall not eat of the tree. She said, that's
what God said. He said, God just knows that
you'll be like God. Don't you want to be like God?
Now, if you'll just eat this tree, you'll be like God. That
doesn't sound like a bad idea. You want to be like God? Wouldn't
you like to be like God? Well, you just eat that tree
and you'll be like God. It doesn't matter how you get
there, just so you get there. The means justifies the end.
And when Satan came to our Lord Jesus Christ up on the mountain,
he said, doesn't the Bible say, Satan quoted the Bible, he said,
doesn't the Bible say that if you cast yourself off here, he'll
give his angels charge over you, lest you dash your foot against
a stone, you don't have a thing to worry about, jump off of here
and prove you're the Son of God. Satan's program is to make men
religious without Christ, to make men moral without Christ,
to give men a righteousness of their own. Paul said over here
in Romans chapter 10, he said, My brethren, according to the
flesh, for whom I am greatly burdened and under great heaviness
and great sorrow, wanting them to be saved, they're ignorant
of God's righteousness, and they're going about to establish their
own righteousness. They were satanically influenced. I think when a man is saved,
he will quit his bad habits. I think when a man comes to know
Christ, he will pursue a life of honesty and righteousness
and truth and morality, but that's not how he's saved. He does those
things because he now knows the Lord and because he wants to
please the Lord and because he wants his life to be a testimony
for his master. But salvation is not just going
down to the church and quitting your meanness. Salvation is a
personal, living, vital union with a living Lord. Now the fourth
mark of this other gospel, there are three of them, and I'll hurry. This other gospel, and you've
heard it, you hear it every day, they use blood, they use cross,
they use Jesus, that's another Jesus, they use Holy Spirit,
it's another spirit, they use heaven, they use hell, it's another
gospel. Because they deny the condition
of man by birth, by practice, by choice, by the fall. And they deny that the sinner
deserves the wrath of God. They deny the mercy of God being
in the hands of God. And they place this matter of
salvation on the realm of so-called morality. And every
church has its own standards, so who's going to know how moral
to get or what? This other gospel, now watch
this fourth thing, this other gospel preaches Jesus Christ
and the fact that he died on the cross and he shed his blood.
But they preach his death as an example and not as a substitute. They preach his death as an example
and not as a sacrifice and a sin offering. And that's what gave
birth to the general atonement. And that's what gave birth to
this statement. Sinner, God's done all he can
do. That's up to you. You ever heard
that? God's done all he can do. God
loved you. And God sent his son to Calvary to bear your sins
and to die for you, and God sent his preacher to preach to you,
and mothers prayed for you, and daddies prayed for you, and people
witnessed to you, and that's up to you. That's up to you. That sounds pretty, but it's
not so. If God's done all he can do, and I'm still not saved,
I'm a goner. If even God can't save me, I'm
in bad shape. And you are too. If God's done
all He can do. Now you just think of a man using
a statement like, God's done all God can do. God can do anything. Where is the limit on God's ability? Think of this, think that over.
Think of the foolishness that comes from the pulpit. God has
done all He can do. Where is the limit to God's ability? God created a world out of nothing. Can't save a boy, can't save
a man or a woman. He's done all he can do. I want
to ask you some questions. Now, will you be honest? Will
you think this over? Let me ask you some questions
about the death of Christ. And you think this through now,
don't give me this little old silly easy believism you've been
listening to all your life. You answer these questions from
the Word of God. First of all, when Jesus Christ
died on the cross, did he die to make salvation possible or dead certain? Which? Which was it? He said over here
in John 10, I am the Good Shepherd. The Good
Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. I am the Good Shepherd. I know my sheep, and am known
of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even
so know I the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep. And I give them eternal life,
and they shall never perish. and neither shall any man pluck
them out of my hand." Now which was it when he died? Was salvation
made possible or dead certain? Why dead certain? You know that.
Secondly, when Christ died, did he actually redeem me to God
or did he make it possible for me to come to God and get redemption? When he died on the cross, did
he actually Did he actually, literally, completely redeem
me to God, redeem my soul? Or did he just make it possible
that later on, when I did something, I could be redeemed? Listen to
this verse in Revelation. And they sung a new song in heaven,
and they said, Thou art worthy to open the book, for thou hast
thou was slain, and thou hast redeemed us to God by thy blood."
It doesn't say he redeemed us to God by his blood and by our
works, by his blood and by our profession, by his blood and
by our church membership, by his blood and by some... just
by his blood. And Paul said in Ephesians, we
are redeemed by the cross. Now here's the next question.
When Christ died on the cross, Did He actually take our sins
in His body on the tree? Did He actually? Is that what
He did? Or did He just die for sin as
sin, just as a word, sin? Did He actually take our sin,
or did He just die for sin as sin? Turn to 1 Peter chapter
2, let's see what the Bible says. In 1 Peter 2, verse 24, listen
to this, "...who his own self bare our sins in his own body
on the tree, that we, being now dead to sins, should live unto righteousness,
by whose stripes you were healed." He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was laid on Him, and by His stripes we can be healed if we'll meet
certain conditions. That's not what it says. It never
says that in the Bible. It says you were healed by His
stripes you were healed. Now were you healed by His stripes,
plus your church membership, plus your baptism, plus your
good works, or were you healed by His stripes? I want to know
what He did on that cross. Now here's the fourth question.
When he died, turn to Romans 5, when he died, when Jesus Christ
died on the cross, did he actually reconcile us unto God? Now we were enemies, separated
from God by our sins. Did he actually reconcile us
to God, or did he lay the groundwork for our cooperation with God
at a later date? It says in Romans 5, verse 10,
when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death
of His Son. If language can mean anything,
does it mean anything? When we were enemies, we were
reconciled to God, how? By the death of His Son. His
death redeemed us. His death reconciled us. His death cleansed us. His death
healed us. Now here's the next question.
Does the blood of Jesus Christ actually cleanse us from sin,
or is it an offer to be cleansed? I'll turn to 1 John. Let's see. 1 John. Does His blood actually
cleanse us, or is it just an offer? Or is it just an offer? Verse 7. If we walk in the light
as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another,
and the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us. The blood cleanseth us, not the
water, the blood. Not works, not the law, the blood. Now then, let me ask you this
question. Now you think, are there people in hell tonight? whose sins Christ bore on that
cross. You say yes, then what's to keep
you from going to hell? You say he bore your sins. Yeah,
but he saved me, but he saved them too. He died for their sins too. You
say he died for everybody's sins. There are people in hell in for
whom he died. Did he bore their sins? He redeemed
them by his blood. He cleansed them by his blood.
He reconciled them to God. They still went to hell. What's
going to keep you out of hell? Yeah, but I'm going to keep faithful.
Are you now? Then you're going to hell by
your faithfulness, not by the cross. And when you get to heaven,
don't you sing unto him who loved us and washed us from our sins
in his own blood, because there's folks down there that can say
the same thing. He loved them. And he washed
them from their sins, and he is good, that's what they tell
me. But they didn't make it to glory. You see, if we boil this
thing down and face facts, this false gospel is heresy, damnable
heresy, that makes the death of Christ a farce. and makes
the death of Christ a miscarriage of God's justice, and makes the
death of Christ insufficient to save a flea. Christ Jesus
couldn't keep a flea out of hell. That's what you're saying. Now
let me ask you the last question. If there are people in hell for
whom he died, if Christ actually, if Christ actually was tried
and found guilty, numbered with the transgressors, and took my
sins, and was executed for my sins on the cross, can the justice
of God still try and execute me for the same sins? Huh? Now you think of that. Can the justice of God drag me
into after he's tried his son and executed his son on the cross
for my sin. He bore my sins in his body on
the cross. That's what you say. And then
you tell me God's going to haul me into the judgment hall and
charge me with the same sins for which Christ died and execute
me for the same offenses? In Romans chapter 8, verse 1,
and here's our confidence, Romans 8, verse 1, listen to it. Here's our confidence. There
is therefore now no judgment to them who inquire. None.
Henry Mahan
About Henry Mahan

Henry T. Mahan was born in Birmingham, Alabama in August 1926. He joined the United States Navy in 1944 and served as a signalman on an L.S.T. in the Pacific during World War II. In 1946, he married his wife Doris, and the Lord blessed them with four children.

At the age of 21, he entered the pastoral ministry and gained broad experience as a pastor, teacher, conference speaker, and evangelist. In 1950, through the preaching of evangelist Rolfe Barnard, God was pleased to establish Henry in sovereign free grace teaching. At that time, he was serving as an assistant pastor at Pollard Baptist Church (off of Blackburn ave.) in Ashland, Kentucky.

In 1955, Thirteenth Street Baptist Church was formed in Ashland, Kentucky, and Henry was called to be its pastor. He faithfully served that congregation for more than 50 years, continuing in the same message throughout his ministry. His preaching was centered on the Lord Jesus Christ and Him crucified, in full accord with the Scriptures. He consistently proclaimed God’s sovereign purpose in salvation and the glory of Christ in redeeming sinners through His blood and righteousness.

Henry T. Mahan also traveled widely, preaching in conferences and churches across the United States and beyond. His ministry was marked by a clear and unwavering emphasis on Christ, not the preacher, but the One preached. Those who heard him recognized that his sermons honored the Savior and exalted the name of the Lord Jesus Christ above all.

Henry T. Mahan served as pastor and teacher of Thirteenth Street Baptist Church in Ashland, Kentucky for over half a century. His life and ministry were devoted to proclaiming the sovereign grace of God and directing sinners to the finished work of Christ. He entered into the presence of the Lord in 2019, leaving behind a lasting testimony to the gospel he faithfully preached.

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