Women in Ministry

Audio Message:

(This audio sermon, based on audience questions, is posted on our website with the kind permission of Muskoka Bible Centre.

A document that is mentioned in this audio and is the basis of Dr. Radmacher’s answers, can be found here: The Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.

Dr. Earl Radmacher was a president of Bible seminaries (Western Seminary, Grace Seminary of the Northwest, Rocky Mountain Bible College and Seminary), author, and Bible teacher in churches and conference ministries. He also served as the general editor of Thomas Nelson’s NKJV Study Bible. This message was originally recorded at Muskoka Baptist Conference on July 16, 1992, in the morning chapel service. Dr. Radmacher is now at home with the Lord.

This is the only sermon we have from Dr. Radmacher in our collection at present.

But, there is an interesting (and good but unusual) sermon topic presented by him at the 1990 pastor’s conference at Moody Bible Institute that we’ll link to here also.

It’s entitled, “How to Lose Your Salvation”. It’s not that he is preaching about how someone is heading to heaven and then isn’t – that wouldn’t be Biblical truth and we wouldn’t be promoting a sermon like that! Rather his message brings in the fact that, when “salvation” is talked about in the Bible, there are more times that it is actually referring to God saving us from sin and temptation in the present tense (i.e. in sanctification) than referring to the “eternal life” aspect.

If we aren’t moldable to the Lord’s will in our lives and eager to know Him more, we will lose or miss out on the salvation that He provides for us to stay away from sin and its hold on us in this present life.

By understanding what the words “save, saving, saves, saved, salvation” mean in Scripture, often passages that seem puzzling to us, immediately can be cleared up by recognizing what kind of deliverance is being intended to be understood in its context, instead of just assuming that those words always mean “eternal life” for getting saved from sin’s punishment and going to heaven.

Dr. Radmacher also talks about a book about future rewards in heaven for Christians, a very rare topic to be written on but was, by Dr. Theodore Epp entitled, “Present Labor and Future Rewards: The Believer, His Sin, Conduct, and Rewards.” (We have that one on our bookshelf passed down from family; my grandpa loved listening to radio programs by Dr. Epp.)