Henry Allen Ironside

He did it all.

Harry Ironside one time had held a tent revival in another town.

He'd been there night after night.

He'd given an invitation for people to come forward to accept Christ, and one man had a tug-of-war.

Good for him.

And, and then I started building my library, and at 18, I was reading Spurgeon, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, G. Campbell Morgan, Harry Ironside.

Good for you, man.

You know, so I got going with some really good books.

But then one thing that I do, and I've done this for years, before I preach any passage, there are a couple of commentaries that I use after And they're very popular level commentaries, but after I've done all my study, they don't contribute to my study, but they contribute to how to present some of these things.

I will look at Harry Ironside.

who is often very good at presentation, and I will look at Wiersbe, who is a genius when it comes to presentation.

They're not giving me interpretation, but often I will find something there that will help me in knowing how to communicate this or that truth.

But wait, there's more.

Like the commercial always says, right? This is a commentary by Harry Ironside, great Bible scholar and teacher.

He's gone home to be with the Lord by now, but he has a great, great insight on this, what's going on across the world.

He says, linked with this central mystery were countless lesser mysteries, the hidden meaning of which was known only to the initiates.

I read this story.

Harry Ironside, great Bible teacher, commentator, he's with the Lord now.

He used to tell a story about a friend of his by the name of George.

And George was a man who struggled with his temper.

And every so often, George would just kind of flip his lid and somebody would say something or do something and he'd just kind of fly off the handle.

But Harry Ironside told how George could always be set right by somebody coming up to him and asking him a simple question.

And that question was, George, is this the old you or the new you? And he said that George would actually, at the sound of that question, be brought quickly to tears.

He was a man of soft heart and he would say, it's the old me.

The Spirit of God takes this treasure of the gospel and puts it into jars of clay.

So Harry Ironside will say this, it's hard for us to realize, but it's true.

That God can do far more with a broken man than with a man who seems strong in his own strength and power.

And so he permits trouble to come upon his people and even his chosen vessels in order that they may be humble and broken in spirit before him.

Here are a list of famous dispensationalists.

Isaac Watts, John Nelson Darby, C.I. Schofield, E.W. Bullinger, Louis Sperry Schaefer, Miles Stanford, Pat Robertson, John Hagee, Henry Ironsides, Charles Caldwell Ryrie, Tim LaHaye of the Left Behind series, Jerry Jenkins of the Left Behind series, Dwight Moody and John MacArthur.

And so it's cool because you can, now I gave you all those names and your homework.

And now let's look at the other side, which is conventional, right? Conventionalist is what we would call You know, more me, you know.

I found a lovely quote by one of my favorite authors from years gone by.

Harry Ironside wrote, "Creation is God's first poem, but salvation is his second poem.

And you and I, who are saved, we're the ones who constitute the syllables in God's great poem of redemption.

We are his workmanship, and therefore he is given all the credit, for he has accomplished it through his Son." Isn't that beautiful? So there is some nice poetry that we need to pay attention to, and it's us.