Category: Uncle Buddy - IRONSTRIKES

Uncle Buddy: Concerning Eternal Security

12/1/2018

Beloved, don’t you forget that when the eternal security man is telling you that nothing can separate you from God, that Old Bud said if your religion won’t keep you out of sin in this world, it will not keep you out of hell in the world to come. There is nothing can put you in heaven but holiness. And as far as I have been able to see, the eternal security man takes no stock in holiness. Ridicule and scorn are his complete stock. What a pity!

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson (Kindle Locations 4620-4623). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.

Uncle Buddy: The Modern Church in 1942

11/17/2018

The American church as an institution is so great that it makes one stagger to think of its greatness. There are two hundred different denominations. There are nearly two hundred thousand local churches, with almost an equal number of ministers. There is a church membership of about 46,000,000, and there is scarcely any way to tell the real value of the church property.

And yet this great institution is drifting with the tide of worldliness. As an institution, the church has very largely substituted church membership for the new birth and has substituted the activities of the church for the gifts of the blessed Holy Ghost. All that is left is a salvation without regeneration, and a Christianity without Christ. It is perfectly natural for such an institution to lead God to the back door and bow Him out of existence. God is not needed any longer to help run that kind of a church.

Many times we find that the type of Christianity now found in the churches is simply human enthusiasm. This naturally leads the members to take the fire out of hell, for they see no need of eternal punishment, and to take the gold out of heaven, for they no longer need golden streets. They then make heaven a condition and not a locality. If heaven is only a condition, then where will our saints go when they die? Can a saint go to a condition?

Some of the churches have substituted man’s wisdom for God’s revelation and according to them we no longer have an inspired Bible. It is not needed in a man-made church. They have removed the blood from the atonement, for according to them, man can redeem himself with his own good works and his own great wisdom and powers of learning. The deity and eternal Sonship of the Lord Jesus Christ also have been taken away, and so today we often find the Son of God is only a “nice, respectable gentleman,” and in many respects does not equal the scholars of the present day.

Beloved brother and sister, the Book says, “How can two walk together except they be agreed?” Now, we don’t have to agree on who is to be President or who is to run for Congress, or who is to be county attorney. These things don’t enter into the wonderful statement from the blessed old Book.

The Scripture refers to saints and sinners, for we read again the wonderful statement that the “friendship of the world is enmity to God,” and “He that is a friend to the world is the enemy of God.” And in still another place we read, “You cannot serve God and mammon,” or in other words, God and the devil.

To make it just a little plainer, we cannot be worldly and righteous at the same time.
When Christ comes in, the devil moves out.

If you finally decide that you would rather have the devil in your heart and life, then Christ must go, for we “cannot serve two masters.” We will “hold to the one and despise the other, or else we will hate the one and love the other.”

You ask, “Why do the Nazarenes preach holiness as a second work of grace?” This is the answer: Holiness is the only theory that we ever heard preached which ever got anyone into the experience of grace.

All other theories allow the carnal mind to remain in you until you die. The second blessing theory proposes to get rid of the “old man” before death. See Mark 8:22,23,24, 25; James 1:8; James 4:8; Genesis 19:17; Romans 5:8,9,10,11, and Hebrews 13:12,13.

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson (Kindle Locations 4436-4460). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.

Uncle Buddy: Worldly Christians?

8/12/2018

Beloved, sometimes we are accused of preaching that a man can get so much grace that he could not sin if he wanted to. But we do not preach anything like that and never did, and I never heard of anyone else preaching that kind of doctrine. We do teach a doctrine that sounds a good deal like the above. Here is our teaching and the teaching of the Bible, and the teaching of all orthodox Christians: “A man can get so much grace that he doesn’t have to sin and doesn’t want to sin.” Do you see the difference? Well, the difference is as great as the distance is from here to the man in the moon.

To teach that a man could not sin if he wanted to is unscriptural and unreasonable, for we all know that if a person wants to sin, he can sin. But it is scriptural and reasonable to teach that a man can have so much of the grace of God in his heart that he has no desire to sin. The beauty of the thing is that he doesn’t have to sin if he doesn’t want to. If a man had to sin whether he wanted to or not, that would make the devil a success and would make God a failure. If the devil could put something in your heart that God couldn’t take out, then the devil would be more powerful than God. In that case, there would be no person on earth who could be saved, for if God cannot undo in you what the devil has done in you, you would be a lost soul and doomed above ground.

Thank God, the blood of Jesus Christ, God’s blessed Son, can cleanse from all sin and can purify your heart, making you a holy and clean soul. You can get so much grace that you don’t want to sin and don’t have to. That is beautiful and glorious, and a truth as big as the mountains and as everlasting as God himself.

If the American church members were as afraid of sin as they are of holiness, every one of them would go sweeping through the gates, washed in the blood of the Lamb, to join the blessed blood-washed army on the shores of eternal deliverance.

Worldly church members? Millions of them. Worldly Christians? Not one on the face of the globe! The least religion that a man can have to have any at all is the new birth, and the Book says that “whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin,” and if that is so, and thank God it is, then the new birth stops the sin business.

A worldly woman in the church, out for the evening, drives in a fine auto with a pug-nosed bulldog in her lap, a cigarette in her mouth, a chain around her neck, a few dog collars around her arms, and the devil’s stirrups in her ears, and her mouth painted red. Gentlemen, that woman looks to me like she needs a lot of changing.

Here is a beautiful lesson by Dr. A. O. Hendricks on Acts 11:26.

The characteristics of a real Christian are:
1. He is a child in relationship.
2. He is a disciple in knowledge a learner sitting at the feet of Jesus.
3. He is a friend in fellowship a friend is one who knows all about you and loves you still.
4. He is a saint in character.
5. He is a soldier in conflict.
6. He is a pilgrim in progress never camping two nights in the same place.
7. He is a missionary in spirit reaching out to the whole world.
8. He is an heir in prospects the prospects of a Christian are glorious.

The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson (Kindle Location 4634-4660). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.

Uncle Buddy: The Living Law of Moses

7/22/2018

Moses, the Hebrew baby boy, born in a mud hut in Egypt, was the son of a little mother who, at the time of Moses’ birth, was a slave. The devil saw in that baby something which so enraged him that he took possession of Pharaoh, causing him to lay a plot whereby the baby would be drowned. But God was not pleased with Pharaoh’s plan, so He got busy and laid a plan Himself. God made Pharaoh take that baby boy, Moses, and feed, clothe and educate him. He made him teach that boy all of the wisdom of the Egyptians.

After forty years of schooling, God sent Moses to the backside of the mountains and deserts to herd four-legged sheep for his father-in-law. After forty years herding the sheep of his wife’s father, Moses met God at a burning bush. After that day and until his death, Moses herded two-legged sheep for his heavenly Father. After spending forty years in the sheep herding business, Moses was sent by God back to old Pharaoh’s country. Here God had another plan all made. He had Moses drown that old king. Then God had Moses write the laws, not only for the Egyptians, but, if you please, sir, a collection of laws that was to be the foundation of all the laws ever to be written by mortal man in any age of the world.

The laws of Moses are for every nation and kindred and tongue and people, and the best proof on earth that the laws of Moses were inspired is the fact that every atheist and agnostic and skeptic and infidel who has ever lived since the laws of Moses were written has hated them with a perfect hatred. They all have said, “Down with the laws of Moses and up with our laws.” But I am glad to say that their laws died in the same generation in which they themselves lived. Yet, after thirty-five hundred years of hard and bitter attacks on Moses’ laws, the laws are still God’s standard by which a lost world is governed. When Jesus came on the scene and met the devil in the three greatest battles ever fought, He knocked the devil out three times with the laws of Moses.

Some years back, right in the nation where I have been preaching the gospel of Christ for sixty-one years, a great American infidel arose and came to the front challenging the laws of Moses. For twenty-five years this brilliant gentleman went up and down the country like a roaring lion, seeking whom he might devour. From the people he collected five hundred dollars a night so he could show them the mistakes and blunders of Moses. That was after Moses had been in heaven for thirty-five hundred years. And, thank the Lord for this one fact, that after that infidel gentleman had been dead for only twenty-five years, no man could go up and down the nation and collect off of the people even fifteen cents a night to lecture about the mistakes he made. This shows the greatness of Moses.

You can’t really make a comparison between Moses and the infidel gentleman. They simply won’t compare. It is like comparing the Atlantic Ocean to the little pond in your barnyard. In your pond are raised mosquitoes, while in the Atlantic Ocean whales are raised. No comparison there, men. You just have to smile and give in. The laws of Moses are as unmovable as the Rocky Mountains — they have come to stay. The laws of the skeptic are like molehills that can be moved any day in the week or can be plowed under and never heard tell of again. Thank God for something that abides!

St. Paul, referring to Moses and the prophets, said, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.” For all this we say, “Amen,” and “Glory to Jesus,” for we have something to stand on which the unbelievers can’t shake.

If every American citizen were to live according to the laws of Moses, we would have empty jails and the banks would be as safe open as they now are when they are locked and bolted and guarded. Here in our country, one-half of the people are making iron safes to keep their money in, while the other half are sitting up at night to see how to blow them open. It is man against man and gun against gun. The jails are full, and it makes no difference how heinous a crime a man commits, there is always a lawyer who will defend him and plead for him as though he were pleading for the life of the best citizen in the nation. And nine times out of ten the laws that we have made in our countries are defeated and fail to accomplish the good for which they were intended. Help us, Lord!

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson (Kindle Locations 4537-4569). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.

Uncle Buddy: Some Impossibilities

7/15/2018

It is impossible for pride and humility to live under the same skin. It is impossible for you to be a teacher if you are unwilling to be taught. It is impossible for you to be a leader if you are not willing to be led. It is impossible for you to be a commander if you are not willing to obey. It is impossible for a man to climb Zion’s hill carrying a load of conceit. It is impossible for a man to be any better on the outside than he is on the inside. It is impossible for a man to walk straight if he lives a crooked life. It is impossible for a man to succeed in life if he spends his spare time sitting on a goods box and chewing Star Navy, talking about how the government ought to be run. It is impossible for a man to be a booster as long as he is a boaster. It is impossible for a man with a level head, a clean heart, a big soul, a good experience and a loving disposition to fail. It is also impossible for man to fail who has been cleaned up and cleaned out and filled up and sent out.

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson (Kindle Locations 4529-4535). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.

Uncle Buddy: Why the Beard Was Still Black

7/8/2018

A few years ago, in a city where I was preaching, an old lady came down the aisle to speak to me. “Brother Bud,” she began, “you are the strangest looking person I have ever seen.” “Why is that?” I asked. “Well,” she replied, “your hair is gray and your beard is black. How can that be?” “Why, sister, that is no trouble to explain,” I replied. “When I was born I had hair all over my head. I didn’t have any beard until I was seventeen years old. Don’t you see that my hair is seventeen years older than my beard? That many years from now my beard will be just as gray as my hair is today.” She looked up and smiled. “Well, who would have thought it?” she said.

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson (Kindle Locations 4523-4528). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.

Uncle Buddy: Why the Cow Licked Her Calf Through the Fence

7/1/2018

One night I heard my calf bawling. Going out to see what the matter was, I found my cow had licked her calf through the crack of the fence. As far as I could understand cow-talk, she had notified the calf that if he did not lie down, she would lick him again. One night in preaching I referred to this. A brother in the congregation got awfully interested. After service he came down and asked me why a cow licked her calf through a crack in the fence. He said he would give me five dollars if I could tell him how that is. “Get your money ready,” I replied, “for I know.” Then I went on and told him that the reason a cow licks her calf through the crack in the fence is because she is on one side of the fence and the calf is on the other.

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson (Kindle Locations 4514-4519). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.

Uncle Buddy: God is Greater Than the Devil

6/9/2018

I want my readers to see how much greater God is than the devil is. God can take a man who is as crooked as the roundhouse, give him one touch, and make him as straight as a gun barrel. But let the devil take a straight man, and if the man will yield himself completely to the devil’s power, he can make him too crooked to sleep in the roundhouse. The devil has the power to make a man crooked, but it takes God to make a man straight.

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson (Kindle Locations 4497-4500). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.

Uncle Buddy: The Modern Church in 1947

6/3/2018

The American church as an institution is so great that it makes one stagger to think of its greatness. There are two hundred different denominations. There are nearly two hundred thousand local churches, with almost an equal number of ministers. There is a church membership of about 46,000,000, and there is scarcely any way to tell the real value of the church property. And yet this great institution is drifting with the tide of worldliness.

As an institution, the church has very largely substituted church membership for the new birth and has substituted the activities of the church for the gifts of the blessed Holy Ghost. All that is left is a salvation without regeneration, and a Christianity without Christ. It is perfectly natural for such an institution to lead God to the back door and bow Him out of existence. God is not needed any longer to help run that kind of a church.

Many times we find that the type of Christianity now found in the churches is simply human enthusiasm. This naturally leads the members to take the fire out of hell, for they see no need of eternal punishment, and to take the gold out of heaven, for they no longer need golden streets. They then make heaven a condition and not a locality. If heaven is only a condition, then where will our saints go when they die? Can a saint go to a condition?

Some of the churches have substituted man’s wisdom for God’s revelation and according to them we no longer have an inspired Bible. It is not needed in a man-made church. They have removed the blood from the atonement, for according to them, man can redeem himself with his own good works and his own great wisdom and powers of learning. The deity and eternal Sonship of the Lord Jesus Christ also have been taken away, and so today we often find the Son of God is only a “nice, respectable gentleman,” and in many respects does not equal the scholars of the present day.

Beloved brother and sister, the Book says, “How can two walk together except they be agreed?” Now, we don’t have to agree on who is to be President or who is to run for Congress, or who is to be county attorney. These things don’t enter into the wonderful statement from the blessed old Book. The Scripture refers to saints and sinners, for we read again the wonderful statement that the “friendship of the world is enmity to God,” and “He that is a friend to the world is the enemy of God.” And in still another place we read, “You cannot serve God and mammon,” or in other words, God and the devil.

To make it just a little plainer, we cannot be worldly and righteous at the same time. When Christ comes in, the devil moves out. If you finally decide that you would rather have the devil in your heart and life, then Christ must go, for we “cannot serve two masters.” We will “hold to the one and despise the other, or else we will hate the one and love the other.”

You ask, “Why do the Nazarenes preach holiness as a second work of grace?” This is the answer: Holiness is the only theory that we ever heard preached which ever got anyone into the experience of grace. All other theories allow the carnal mind to remain in you until you die. The second blessing theory proposes to get rid of the “old man” before death. See Mark 8:22,23,24, 25; James 1:8; James 4:8; Genesis 19:17; Romans 5:8,9,10,11, and Hebrews 13:12,13.

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson (Kindle Locations 4436-4460). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.

Uncle Buddy: The Moth-Eaten Garment (part 1)

5/20/2018

We want to talk with you awhile about the moth-eaten garment. I had preached many years before I gave any thought at all to the many passages of scripture on the moth-eaten garment, and I am indebted to an old friend of mine, Dr. MacCammon, who gave me light on many of these peculiar passages concerning the moth and the moth-eaten garment.

Our readers will remember that in reading the Holy Book we very  frequently run across the word "moth" or "moth-eaten garment."

One remarkable passage is found in Isa. 50:9, "Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up." The Bible has much to say concerning the moth, and we very frequently hear the peculiar expression "a moth-eaten garment." That expression is a very familiar one in the reading of God's Word.

We next notice, in Job 4:19, Job speaks of our bodies as "houses of clay ... which are crushed before the moth."  In speaking of those that have suffered severe judgments, Job also says they are "as a garment  that is moth eaten" (13:28). To further illustrate man's folly in providing earthly things, or in building up his fortunes by methods of injustice, Job also says, "He buildeth his house as a moth," to set forth God's judgment against the priest and the people and the princes of Israel for their manifold sins (27:18).

We find the little prophet Hosea comes to the platform and sets forth his warning. Here is his peculiar statement: "Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness" (5:12); but in the margin it says, "as a worm."

The Apostle James, in threatening the rich men says, "Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten" (5:2). This seems to unite two strange facts, corruption and moth-eaten garments. My judgment is it would be the black, dark, subtle things that are hidden in the  hearts of men that crave this world more than they crave righteousness and holiness.

Now we notice that Jesus comes at this place and refers to the little moth. If the reader will turn to that wonderful Sermon on the Mount, Christ says to us, "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal (Matt. 6:19-20)." Then He adds this wonderful statement: "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

The reader will notice here the strange similarity between a thief and a moth. Jesus seems to put the little moth along side of the thief. I suppose that He is revealing to you the fact that the thief will come uninvited, unsolicited, and, in fact, undesired, and pilfer your home, and carry away your most valuable treasures. It would be common for a thief to carry away your best fur coat and flannel wear and woolen blankets, and all the household goods that are so valuable. Just so with the little moth. He also will come uninvited and unsolicited and undesired, and enter into the house without your knowledge and simply make havoc of the best things on the plantation.

The reader will remember how in our first text quoted, Isa. 50:9, the prophet there compares the wicked to moth-eaten clothes, and tells us they will all wax old as a moth-eaten garment, and that the moth will eat them up. So we see the wicked will finally be consumed and be as worthless as a moth-eaten garment.

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson. Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.