In the following 13 minute video, Paul Washer’s description of the man of God is meant to encourage and to direct young Christians who desire to serve God.
A list of video highlights follows the video:
Video highlights:
- The old preachers that loved God saw Christ everywhere in the Old Testament: the skins given to Adam and Eve; the ark; the ram in the thicket that took the place of Isaac; [the Passover in Egypt, the blood on the doorposts]; the tabernacle and sacrifices; the Seed of Abraham; the prophet that would be greater than Moses…
- Paul Washer needs a mighty God that will wrestle him to the ground and sanctify him in spite of his fleshly tendencies
- One who plans to serve God as a missionary or pastor MUST be born again; be broken by afflictions and trials from God that he might testify about repentance; believe, that he might testify of faith; know the Spirit’s filling that he might testify of Him; know submission to the Spirit for the power to serve God; that Christ is risen and is Savior to testify of that; have known the sufficient grace of God to overcome his own doubts and sins; know the loss of his burden of sin
- One who plans to serve God MUST know forgiveness; must have known countless failures; have experienced terrifying revelations of self; known bone crushing discipline; bending; breaking; repentance; restoration
- Christ is the only expected person in history; He is the context of history
- Preachers cannot be spin doctors; they must preach the message given to them by God in His word and cry out for grace to do so as did Brainard and Edwards
If you have read any of the Beatitude Life posts, then you might more easily notice that the points Washer preached assumed: self-observation; self-examination; owning one’s sins, repenting of them; abiding in God’s means of grace; spiritual warfare; overcoming of sin after many failings; the faith that God gives so one might persevere in his walk with God and more. Foundational to that list is self-observation and honesty about one’s own sins. The Beatitude Life posts indicate that this is the necessary beginning without which the rest will not occur.
Listen for the above points in the following 3 minute video wherein Washer encourages young Christians to live for eternity:
In closing, I have to say that Washer’s messages are Biblical. They are the fruit of a live lived for God.
When I first heard him preach, I knew that he had more of the Spirit’s power in his words than almost any other preacher I’d heard. If you abide in God’s word, then you will likely come to the same perspective.
If you’re a young Christian who wants to serve God, then start abiding in God’s appointed means of grace (see, categories, Christian Walk, God’s Appointed Means of Grace) and God may grow you in the above ways.