Rev Langerak uses the Bible to teach unbelief
Rev. N. Langerak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlSqcdDe6k8 Lecture: The State of Theology – Colorado, April 8, 2022
Following these questions: ‘how does the loss of the law/gospel distinction affect the gospel?’, he states in his answer:
C. 1hr min 47:40, “all your doing, that’s the law”
C. 1 hr min 48:25, “The gospel is, ‘don’t do anything’; do nothing. Believe. … The gospel is, ‘you must become an unbeliever’. You must become an unbeliever, you must become ungodly, you must become a non-doer. That’s the gospel. The doer is not blessed.”
That seems contradictory; ‘the gospel is believe’ then in the same breath ‘the gospel is become an unbeliever’; or ‘do nothing’ and then ‘become’.
For someone who is fighting the ‘must’ of scripture, that’s a lot of ‘musts’ right there in one sentence.
Unbelievers more genuine?
Now, unbelievers naturally teach their children unbelief out of their own unbelief. But, what true pastor preaches unbelief? Further, what ‘christian’ parent uses the Bible to teach unbelief?
But then Langerak adds to the gospel
He says at 1:50:11 “the gospel is: Christ and do nothing”.
Langerak is adding to the gospel, he is just adding something different than what the Arminian adds. And, by the way, how do you know if you are doing enough ‘nothing’? Or, if you are ‘un-believing’ enough?
Now, obviously we do nothing in our justification. Even NL admits several times in this lecture that the RPC and PRC both teach this truth. That has never been the issue, not even for NL. But, according to the baptism form and the Lord’s Supper form, God gives us our responsibility; our ‘part in the covenant’. Langerak even affirms this as well. But this part in God’s covenant is what Andy and NJL unfairly label as ‘Arminian conditions’ when the PRC teaches it. And, only when the PRC preaches it, not when they do.
Also, isn’t it clever how Langerak deconstructs the scripture’s Truth by teaching ‘do not keep the law, become an unbeliever’ and then reconstructs his truth of ‘do nothing, just rest in your eternal justification’?
Andy basically says ‘sin that grace may abound’
Andy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dvWygbX4m4&t=3950s Doctrine Class on Canon 5.5 4/13/2022
C. 1 hour, min 05:50. “Let us become bold, almost to the point of being rash with regard to this matter of your experience of preservation, your experience of comfort. There is no comfort without sin. There is no comfort and assurance of preservation without sin. Let’s put it this way, where there is sin, the grace of preservation abounds. The more you sin, the more the grace of preservation abounds“.
He continues, “If you don’t sin, you don’t need the grace of preservation. You don’t need it. You don’t need any grace. If you sin a little, you need only a little of the grace of preservation. If all you do is sin, then all you need is grace. You believe that? I do. I believe that with all my heart. That’s the truth of the gospel. It’s the truth of Romans 5. Where sin abounded, grace, much more abounded. That’s the only place that grace abounded where sin abounded. Grace doesn’t abound where there is no sin.”
First of all, reckless, shock-valued language might get taken up for what he perhaps meant to say. But then again, it might get taken up exactly the way he said it, regardless of what he might have meant. That is why the reformers were so careful; after all, words have meaning.
Secondly, the tiny qualifier tacked on at the end has a hard time clearing up what he actually just said.
It is also patently false to teach that we do not need grace except because we sin. Even Adam in perfection needed God’s grace in the Garden. We need God’s grace every minute, not just for salvation from sin; but also for our physical and spiritual sustainment and preservation.
So, the teaching of Andy’s sermon is that grace is present because of sin, our sin. He raises the magnitude of man’s sin. For Andy, grace depends on our sin.
But, the scriptures teach that grace reigns because of God’s everlasting love toward us through Jesus Christ and not because of our sin. But, sin does not bring grace, Christ does; Andy displaces Christ.
Finally, I hope you find the highlighting helpful.
Post script
This just came to my attention this morning.
Rev Langerak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLJSBsVflOM The Judgement of Troublers Oct 2, pm service.
C 1:18:54 Langerak claims special revelation from God? Twice in a breath Langerak claims that in his conscience, “I heard from my God ‘you have to start a school’. And that word wasn’t a word that came to me as a club; that word came to me as the living desire of my heart, as one whom God had incorporated me and my children in the covenant, whom he had given a place in his church. So that I was a member of a family. And God said ‘as a family, as a church family, educate your children together’.”
Although it is not unusual these days to have someone say, ‘God told me to start a business’, or ‘God told me to sell my house’; this is not the way God works. In the New Testament, the Spirit leads by the scriptures and the preaching.
Because of that truth, it raises new concerns when a preacher dares to say ‘God told me’ from his pulpit, with the authority that that pulpit has. Especially when we understand the authority of a preacher who says ‘thus saith the Lord’ and brings Christ’s efficacious Word.
