Payday
Someday: And Other Sermons by Robert Greene
Lee, Timothy and Denise George, Editors
How
can a
pastor who preached the same sermon over 1200 times
less than half a century ago be all but forgotten
by the present generation? We have few answers to
that question but it is indeed a loss to this generation
of preachers to not even know who R. G. Lee was.
This
volume in the George's Baptist Classics series offers
a good cross section of sermons from the pen of the
former pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis,
TN. Of course, Payday
Someday leads the way in this book. Lee preached
this sermon over 1200 times first at a Wednesday night
prayer meeting and then before senators and kings.
No one has ever recounted the downfall of Ahab and
Jezebel better than Lee did in this fine sermon.
The
Word of God - Not Broken and Not Bound presents
Lee's view of the authority of Scripture. There is
nothing dated about Lee's observations concerning
those who seek to deny the reliability and authority
of the Bible.
The
Tongue of the Human Body is classic R.G. Lee.
While his style seems of a time more akin to Spurgeon
that the 20th Century, Lee was master of weaving a
kind of poetry into every sermon he preached.
God
in History reminds us of the sovereignty of God
in the affairs of man. God is involved in every aspect
of history. It is His Story. This sermon displays
the depth and breadth of knowledge Lee had concerning
world history and affairs.
This
Critical Hour is a fitting way to close out this
series of sermons. Above all R.G. Lee had a passion
for a lost world. He fervently reminds us of our calling
to carry the Gospel to all men, everywhere.
R.G.
Lee once said that he never knew if he should duck
or pucker when he met someone on the street. He was
convinced that good preaching never leaves people
undecided. He preached for decision. Maybe we could
use a little more of Lee in all of us.
Payday
Someday: And Other Sermons
by Robert Greene Lee, Timothy and Denise George, Editors
(Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1995) hardback,
280 pages.
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In
all, Lee preached "Payday
- Someday" 1,275 times ... narrative preaching
at its best. (p. 11)
Yes
the judgments of
God often have heels and travel slowly. But they always
have iron hands and crush completely. (p.
24)
God
is in this Book. His
thoughts, His feelings, His heart are here. His anger
blazes from its pages of power. His love trembles in
its tones. His lamentations sigh and sob in its sentences.
His power and wisdom throb in the whole of it. (p.
55)
Sin,
the darkest
saddest fact in God's universe. Tragedy back of every
tragedy! SIN is folly, disorder, devastation, death.
Sin is an opiate of the will, a frenzy in the imagination.
a madness in the brain, a poison in the heart, is the
intolerable burden of a would that is destined to lie
forever, a black darkness that invests man's whole moral
being - the sum of all terror, all horror, all cruelty.
(p. 101).
A
Christian who
has nothing possesses all things. Creatures may abandon
him; but His God will never leave nor forsake him. Friends
may die; but the Lord liveth ... He stands upon the
ashes of a universe, and exclaims, I have lost nothing!
Yea, he has gained "new heavens and a new earth,
wherein dwelleth the righteous!(p. 232).
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