Do You Truly Know The Lord? | Paul Washer

Listen to this episode from Expositorium: Pulpit Titans on Spotify. Passages: 2 Corinthians 5, Philippians 3Paul Washer stands in the pulpit with grave tenderness, opening the Scriptures to press a critical question: Do you truly know the Lord? Or do you merely stand near holy things while remaining unchanged?In his sermon, Washer refuses to assume conversion, calling his listeners to examine the motives of their lives, the direction of their loves, and the reality of a God-wrought new creation. With the fear of the Lord and the love of Christ as his fuel, Washer pleads for worship that rises from the Spirit, a boasting that rests in Christ alone, and a repentance that is more than ceremony, instead pleading for an inner renovation proved in life. He warns of the peculiar danger of gospel familiarity without conversion and then sketches the marks of genuine grace: transformed desires, Spirit-helped adoration, glorying in Christ rather than the flesh, and a holy separation that is love-driven rather than rule-driven. He points to the Thessalonian pattern—gospel power felt, imitation of godly examples, joy amid affliction, and a life worth exporting as the fruit of true faith, and he calls believers to advance in holiness, while urging the unconverted to flee to Christ’s mercy without delay..It is a weighty, clarifying sermon - reverent, fearless, and full of Christ, that leaves hearers either comforted in grace or convicted to seek the Lord while He may be found.