MZ/IB Archive - Truth Series - Is Salvation Free or Isn't It?

This production begins with a phone call from Elmer Fudd, but don't let that trick you into thinking that this is not one of the most profoundly important presentations from Paris/Zender that you could hear. In fact, it is. For here, indeed, are words of eonian life. Here, indeed, the debilitating yet common confusion between what Christ accomplished on the cross and what part human cooperation plays in the salvation "transaction", is clearly expressed and undoubtedly solved.

Here is the ultimate consideration in all of life because, depending on one's assessment of the divine vs. the human aspect of salvation, one is either in or out of the body of Christ. God set it up this way. God wanted there to be a dividing line between eonian life and eonian death—and here it is. If anyone now bristles in disagreement over this last statement, please watch and re-asses.

This audio was recorded in the spring of 1995 at a hotel conference room in Melbourne, Florida. I had forgotten about this presentation, having not listened to it in over 20 years. When I head Elmer Fudd phone in during the in-studio introduction, I thought to myself, "Oh boy, this will be a lot of fun." I had forgotten the import of the subject matter. As the tape then goes to Melbourne for the live conference audio, the comedic intro fades to the background in light of teaching so substantive that the nearly two-thousand years of false teaching predating it succumbs to blast after blast of Scriptural eruptions/proofs.

Thanks again to Rodney Paris who plucked this audio cassette out of obscurity, digitized it, and set it to engaging video and didactic text frames. The passage of 27 years cannot and did not dull this testimony to truth. The truth of God is timeless. The word of eonian life is just as powerful and able to bring hearers to a realization of truth today as it was in the day of Paul. Only the spokesman has changed.

I commend this presentation to you, the body of Christ. I thank God for it. May God cause His Word to go forth and do its work. Why should He stop now?

From the edge of the bottom of the Floridan peninsula,

—Martin
Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com