Welcome to Blog and May Blog from DougWills.com. This audio is brought to you by Canon Press.

Before we get started, I want to recommend a book to you, Pastor Wilson's Against the Church.

And against the Church, he takes a hammer to some of our very favorite graven images.

And surprise, surprise, we've set up display cases for most of them in our churches.

Litergy, tradition, systematics, infant baptism, and that crafty old bale doctrine.

Alongside a critique of philosophical assumptions about human nature, dualism and grace,

Doug stresses the unavoidable and absolute necessity of individual hearts being born again.

He concludes by laying out the case for the Church.

If we want to see reformation across our country, it starts with the household of God always.

Get Pastor Wilson's Against the Church at CanonPress.com.

That little lizard's self inside, May 3rd, 2021.

Introduction.

I want you to work with me on a thought experiment, and it is a thought experiment with two constituent parts.

Wade rightly, this leads naturally to a consideration of the real gospel permeated throughout with real grace.

The first thing is that with this imaginary humanity that I'm about to construct in the second part,

the heart of man is absolutely unchanged.

The fall still happened, sin is still sin, and people are still people.

Human nature stands unaffected by what I'm about to suggest.

The second part of this is where I mess around with stuff.

What do I mean?

In this thought experiment of mine, I change all circumstances so that everything about human existence is virtually level.

Not entirely level mind you, but virtually level.

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