Dr. Peter S. Ruckman's salvation theology vs Robert Breaker 1950s-1990s p.3

Dr. Peter S. Ruckman's salvation theology always held the sinner's prayer/a prayer asking God to save you, as a vocal requirement for salvation. Robert Breaker says that's a work.

November 6, 2025 | 01:05:17)

(Video clip: Panel discussion with Robert Breaker)

Joseph Gonzalez: Who is to confess with their mouth that the Lord is Jesus, or Jesus is

Lord? Wouldn't that be Israel?

Robert Breaker: Right.

Joseph Gonzalez: So when I read Romans 10, I see Jews asking Paul, "Hey, what about

Israel?" And he says, "Well, if a guy is is a Jew and he has confessed that

Jesus is his Lord, that Jesus is his Messiah..."

Robert Breaker: Right.

Joseph Gonzalez: "...and if he believes that God hath raised him from the dead, well,

then he can be saved."

Robert Breaker: Correct.

Joseph Gonzalez: So if he believes in who and what, then he'll be saved.

Robert Breaker: Right. I don't think he's telling you you have to do both, and

that you have to say it with the mouth or you're not saved. If he's saying you

have to believe from your heart in something and say it with your mouth at the

same time, then that would be a faith plus works gospel. Right. And that would

nullify what Jesus did, because it's not just what he did, it's what you say.

Joseph Gonzalez: Mhm.

Robert Breaker: Which would be a work.

As of the recording, they didn’t start.

[Peter Ruckman — Cassette 169c (Continued)]

Peter Ruckman:

...somebody somewhere—I'm not going to make any charges—somebody somewhere said,

"We'll back you up. We'll help you out." And listen, when those Cuban tanks and

artillery came in, the United States didn't help them out. And they lost their

shirts.

You know what we tried to do in that thing? We tried to pretend that we weren't

for the guerrillas and we weren't for Castro, see? We were neutral. And when you

play it neutral, people, you lose your shirt. And when you play it neutral in

spiritual matters, you lose your soul.

You want to sit back there and say, "Well, now, I'm not going to get out of that

seat in that invitation. I'm not going to tell anybody I'm saved. I'm not going

to confess Christ. But uh, but I believe in Him. Don't get me wrong, preacher. I

know I'm for the good Lord, you know, a kind of a boost. That's right down the

middle."

You know what you ought to do? You ought to get out of your seat. You ought to

get right down there, call upon His name for salvation. You ought to stand on it

there and say, "Folks, I'm coming to trust Christ." Go right out that door, and

let every man that breathes the face of this earth that you meet know that

you're His and He's yours.

Let's stand. Let's stand and sing Just As I Am without one plea, but that Thy

blood was shed for me and that Thou bidst me come to Thee. O Lamb of God, I

come.

I want to give an invitation here this morning to any unsaved man or woman that

has never received God's Son as your Savior to come in this invitation. Meet me

at the front, by your coming, take Christ as yours today, just as I am.

[Congregation sings "Just As I Am" until 18:46]

All right, let's sing one more stanza before we close. Let's sing Where He Leads

Me I Will Follow, and uh, we got two young men saved this morning. Another young

man here, brother McGraw, led to Christ yesterday down the street, come and

confess the Lord this morning. And let's sing one more stanza, Where He Leads Me

I Will Follow, and at this time the doors of the church are open, if any of you

like to become members of the Brent Baptist Church, feel free to come in the

invitation while we sing. Sing just the chorus, Where He Leads Me I Will Follow,

just the chorus.

[Congregation sings chorus until 20:25]

Amen. Bless God. All right, I guess we'll close here. I hate to close here, it's

getting late, but uh, I guess we'll close. We have about five come this morning,

joined the church, and two of them saved, one of them confessing the Lord.

And people, I'll tell you, I think if you bring out some folks tonight, I think

you will see the Lord work again. I really do. Now, I don't say that because of

the message, but I—it's been my uh, been my observation around here that when a

when the plan of salvation is presented clearly, and you folks are right, and

you're praying, people get saved. They get saved.

The Song of Solomon series commentary takes across multiple dates.

However, all of these dates are in 1969.

Part 8 and Part 13 give the explicit dates. Part 2 just gives the year.

[Peter Ruckman — The Book of Song of Solomon, Part 2, 1969]

Peter Ruckman:

Now, I'll tell you, brother, if you if you can find any more pig meat out in

Africa, why, ask Brother Melton to show you where it is. And here's a Now,

here's something. Here's a beauty. Here's the morning newspaper out here. And

uh, whoever took that, composed that page has a real sense of value, brother.

Uh, he's got the little girls that are going to revel. Uh, the word is revelling

in the King James Bible, the good old King James Bible in 1969.

Dr. Ruckman identifies the year as 1969.

He does this later in the series in the videos.

[Peter Ruckman — The Book of Song of Solomon, Part 8]

Peter Ruckman:

I would say the 14th of March. What is today? 16th? Well, my birthday was two

days ago.

Peter Ruckman is reading the prophecies of a psychic (amazing criswell) to mock

him.

In doing this, he once again establishes the current date is March 16, 1969

again.

He questions if Easter week was two or three weeks. Three weeks from March 16 is

April 6th, 1969.

[Peter Ruckman — Part 8 (Continued)]

Peter Ruckman:

And this demon of greed will not stop at the humiliation of women. He will enter

the house of God with the torch and his saber and will remove the name of God

from the books and from the tongues that dare to speak it. Then after a space

of 13 years, he'll be overthrown. The period of this rule is 1975 to 1988.

He's 20 years off again.

Then the folk rock suicide, 1969. "I predict that America's most folk rock

singer will commit suicide during Easter week, 1969." So look forward to that

one. When is Easter week? About two weeks? Three weeks?

[Peter Ruckman — The Book of Song of Solomon, Part 13]

Peter Ruckman:

Somebody gave me this thing here last night, thought you might like to see. This

is a University of West Florida paper uh called the Voyager, I guess. It's going

somewhere, I don't know where they're going. And uh, this thing here is uh Talk

about a little juke joint they set up out by the University of West Florida.

Um, it says, "Two young men began with a vacant bar just outside the UWF gate,

and with the application of a little paint and elbow grease, Bob Hagen and Carl

Carnley coffeehouse opened April the 4th. Uh, it was called The Establishment.

The opening coincided with the first anniversary of the assassination of the

Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr., strangely moving experience. You can

imagine such a thing."

[Text Cards]

“Gave me this yesterday”

The juke bar opened on April 4th, 1969. The Voyager had to print it out and

write it after that.

The man who gave it to Ruckman had to then get it.

April 6th, 1969 was a sunday.

[Wikipedia: April 6, 1969 (Sunday)]

Whether or not it took place in April 6th, 1969.

It took place in April, 1969.

[Peter Ruckman — The Book of Song of Solomon, Part 2 (Continued)]

Peter Ruckman:

...Lord cut him off there. Lord cut him off there and let 10 years go by. 10

years go by, the boy gets 30 years old, 30 years old, he's somewhere, maybe he's

over near Vietnam someplace, offshore battery and in come the shells, down goes

the ship, people out in the water, sharks getting them, boat boy screaming, "God

help me! God help me! God help me!"

The Holy Spirit says, "Remember that piece of paper?" You know? "Never mind the

piece of paper, Lord, these sharks!" [laughter] "Lord, never mind the sharks,

nothing, that piece of paper!" [laughter]

And the fellow says, "All right, all right, I believe, get me out of this," you

know, and hauls up on the beach, you know. And hauls up on the beach and goes

off in the bushes someplace and gets down and says, "God be merciful to me, a

sinner, and save my soul, and save me for Christ's sake, for God's sake save

me," you know. And the Lord saves him.

And comes back to the States. He comes back to the States, goes back to the

Catholic Church and things don't feel quite right. He goes back to the Catholic

Church a couple of times, come back out, can't find what he's looking for, kind

of mess around, mess around, goes in a hotel room, sits down, you know, and

thinks about it, reaches over and pulls open the desk, there's a Gideon Bible

right in that desk. Fellow closes the desk, goes downstairs and gets him a

drink. See? Lord just cut him off. He'll get to heaven, but nothing to show for

it.

[Peter Ruckman — Part 2 (Continued)]

Peter Ruckman:

And so that uh that Negro in Acts chapter 8, that old boy is saved by grace

through faith. And when he's saved by grace through faith, the Holy Spirit's

already there, comes into him. The organism, the body of Christ, is being

formed, and he goes into it. He gets baptized in water after he's saved, not

before. His salvation has nothing to do with his baptism, and that's the first

man in the Bible converted just like you've been converted.

Didn't Didn't Philip say to him, "If you believe with all your heart?" Acts

chapter 8, verse 37-38. I know that's out of the ASV, but the ASV isn't nothing

but a telephone book anyway, it wouldn't fool you there. And didn't he say, "If

you believe with all your heart?" Well, Paul says, "If thou shalt confess with

thy mouth, and believe in thine heart that God raised Him from the dead, thou

shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; with the

mouth confession is made unto salvation."

[Peter Ruckman — Part 2 (Continued)]

Peter Ruckman:

Uh Jesus' name is like ointment that's been in a bottle and that had to be

busted before it could get out to fill the room. "Draw me," she says, "we will

run after thee." And in this Ginsberg interpretation, it's uh a girl praying for

the shepherd lover to come and get her. And uh then she says, "The king has

brought me into his chambers," uh which means according to the first story, the

king has taken this uh young lady and brought her into the palace, and tried to

give her presents and gifts and everything, to win her affections, but then she

says, "We will be glad and rejoice in thee," referring to her real lover, "we

will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee."

Well, I don't know, we'll make it Christ. "Draw me." All right, if you're

unsaved, there's the prayer you ought to pray: "Draw me." For John says, "No man

can come to the Father unless uh the Father draws him." And that means to pull

like a magnet. Uh John chapter John chapter 6, verse 44 says, "No man can come

to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him: and I will raise him up at

the last day." That's the force of a magnet that uh pulls or draws. And the idea

is you can't come to Christ unless the Holy Spirit draws you to Christ.

Well, if you don't Fellow said, "Well, I'm not one of the elect. The Holy Spirit

has never drawn me." Well, you ought to pray it. You ought to go and get down on

your knees, say, "Now, Lord, I can't come to You unless uh the Father draw me,

so draw me." There's no excuse for not being elect. Anybody can be elect. Fellow

says, "How about one of the elect?" Well, that's for dopes. If anybody can get

elected, just ask the Father to draw you. Oh, that's what she says, "Draw me."

That's the pull. "Uh we will run after thee, we."

From “Dr Ruckman, Romans Study, 6 & 7”

[Peter Ruckman — Romans Study, 1969–1974]

Peter Ruckman:

One of our missionaries went to Ethiopia and came back to the States, and when

his children came back to the States, they got off the boat, and coming down the

gangplank, they saw a nun for the first time. And they said to the missionary

father, "What are those, witch doctors?"

Now, there's something for you. While one of our missionaries over in Africa

said that he saw a Catholic priest talk with a man one time out there, and the

man said, "I'm your father." And the African said, "You not my father. You

white, me black." [chuckles]

Well, now you won't find the editors of Life and Look magazine with that much

sense. Don't you underestimate the heathen. America has done that too many times

in places like Vietnam. They're smarter than you think they are.

Haile Selassie said to a priest who was complaining about the preaching of the

gospel in Ethiopia, a Coptic state church priest, he said when the man got

through, the man said, "Your Majesty, these people are going out here and

setting up independent Baptist churches and they're teaching people the Bible."

And Haile Selassie said, "You go and do the same."

[Screen text overlay: Richard Nixon 1969–1974]

Well, now Haile Selassie has more sense than President Nixon. You see? You want

to get your game laid out straight before you start to play.

[Peter Ruckman — Romans Study 16–17]

Peter Ruckman:

Verse 17, "But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have

obeyed from the heart..." Notice that. And review especially our comments on

what it means to obey the gospel and to obey the faith. These comments of course

were made back in Romans chapter 1 at verse 5, and we compared them with

chapter 10, verse 16.

And notice in all these cases, salvation is not a mental assent to the truths of

the gospel. It is not repenting like Judas, believing like Pharaoh, confessing

like Simon the sorcerer, and being baptized like Judas Iscariot. It's obeying

from the heart. And where a man doesn't believe in the heart, Romans 10:9

and 10, and obey from the heart, Romans 6:16, he may be just as theologically

straight as a gun barrel, and just as empty or just as dirty.

Out of the heart are the issues of life. And all these things like Catholic

catechism and uh Church of Christ uh Bible teaching and gospel meeting are

nothing but an abstract, cold presentation of isolated texts taken out of the

context to which the person gives their mental assent. It means absolutely

nothing. Here the believer has obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which

was delivered you.

Now, the Campbellite talks about the doctrine and the form of doctrine and keeps

talking about, "He became the author of them that obey Him," and all this, you

know, this all this typical uh wresting of Scripture to your own destruction,

and blind leading of the blind to fall in the pit. And yet when we speak a form

of doctrine in the passage, it's connected with a belief and obedience from the

heart.

Let's put it over the plate waist-high where you can get a hold of it. A man

that repents, confesses, believes, and is baptized will go to hell every time,

and he knows it. And that's why he says you can lose it, because he don't have

it.

You say, "What do you mean talking that way?" Well, I'll tell you what I mean.

I'm going to show you how to disobey the gospel and how to obey it. First of

all, I'm going to show you how to disobey it.

Man says, "You believe in the virgin birth?"

"I do."

"You believe in the resurrection?"

"I do."

"You believe in the blood atonement?"

"I do."

"You believe the Bible's the Word of God?"

"I do."

"You believe Christ's coming back?"

"I do."

All right, I've accepted a form of doctrine, right?

"Do you believe in one God?"

"I believe."

"You believe Christ is Son of God?"

"I believe."

"You believe He died for sinners?"

"I believe."

All right, I've believed.

"Do you repent?"

"Yes, I repent."

"You sorry for your sins?"

"Yes, I'm sorry for my sins."

"Are you turning from your sins?"

"Yes, I'm turning from my sins."

"Are you forsaking your sins?"

"I'm forsaking my sins."

Okay, I've repented.

"Do you confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God?"

"Yes, I confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. I've confessed."

All right, if that's true, come down here and get baptized for the remission of

sin in the name of the Lord Jesus, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy

Ghost. So I go down, go in the baptismal pool, go under and come up, die and

burn in the lake of fire forever with the rest of the folks that taught me that

nonsense. Do you follow that?

You see, a form of doctrine is like a form of godliness. If it isn't from the

heart and is powerless, there's nothing to it. The Bible is filled with men like

Pharaoh, Balaam, and Judas, who repented, believed, and confessed all over the

place, and it landed them right straight in hell. This matter has to come from

the heart.

I'll illustrate.

"Do you believe you're a sinner?"

"Yes."

"You believe you're going to hell?"

"Yes."

"You believe your righteousness can't save you?"

"Yes."

"Do you believe that Jesus died for you?"

"Yes."

"Will you trust Him as your Savior?"

"Yes."

"Will you do it right now?"

"Yes."

And then I do it.

Now, do you know what that is? That's obeying the gospel. And that's obeying a

form of doctrine from the heart. And you can stand on the ground floor of the

Empire State Building till you're blue in the face talking about what you

believe about the elevator, but if you don't get in it, you ain't going up.

To prevent anyone from thinking that's what Breaker believes, I will take a

brief detour to show three clips from him.

Breaker believes any requirement is a work.

Ruckman just said if you don't act (get in), you go to hell.

[Robert Breaker — June 9th, 2017]

Robert Breaker:

...there are people out there that try to turn confession into a work, and tell

you you're saved by a work that you do. And basically, they're trying to get you

to do something, and then they proclaim you saved because you did something with

your mouth. All right?

[Robert Breaker — Sep 20, 2021]

Robert Breaker:

But a lot of folks claim to be Christians, and they don't care if they do. So,

this guy's like, "Where's Romans 10:9 and 10?" Oh, well, let's look at

Romans 10:9 and 10, cuz all that does is prove what I'm telling you. [laughs]

Romans 10:9 and 10 says right here, "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth

the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from

the dead, thou shalt be saved." Okay? "For with the heart man believeth unto

righteousness..." That's imputed righteousness. "...and with the mouth

confession is made unto salvation."

He takes confession unto salvation, and he says the mouth is what saves you,

because it says unto salvation. He reads that and he goes, "When you get saved

is when you confess with your mouth." Might as well go join the Catholic Church

then. Sounds like you'd make a great Jesuit, cuz you're trying to get people to

do confession.

[Robert Breaker — May 2, 2015]

Robert Breaker:

Now, there are people that take these two verses, they completely cast out the

part that says believe in your heart, which by the way is mentioned twice, and

they say that confession is essential for salvation because you have to confess

with the mouth the Lord Jesus. And they say the actual act of confessing the

Lord Jesus with your mouth is what saves you.

And they say that when it says mouth confession is made unto salvation, they say

that that confession is for salvation, and that confession is what literally

makes you saved. Is that true? Does confession save you? That almost sounds like

a a Catholic doctrine. Well, there's a church, a big church in Rome that teaches

confession, and they say you have to go to a priest and confess your sins to a

priest, and then the priest says, "I absolve you," or whatever.

But wait a minute, what does the Bible say about a man absolving sin? Even the

Pharisees said, "Who can forgive sins but God?" So confession, that that sounds

like a Catholic doctrine. Who Who is this going around telling people to be

saved you have to say something with the mouth, and the mouth saves you? Why, it

almost sounds like like a Jesuit or something, doesn't it? Like a Catholic that

would teach something like that. But there are many people in Christianity today

that tell you the mouth saves you, and they use these verses to prove it.

It doesn't say by asking or praying or begging or saying, "God, oh Jesus," with

the mouth, does He come and save you. There's some faith involved. You say,

"Well, my faith is in my confession." What? You're trusting That would be

trusting in something you did. That would be trusting in your works. That would

be damnation, not salvation.

[Peter Ruckman — Romans Commentary, 1969–1974]

Peter Ruckman:

The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart, that is the word of

faith. You see it? Verse 17, "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by

the word of God." You may review our remarks from chapter 1 when we spoke of

these matters, and Romans 16, verse 26, where the obedience is the obedience of

faith.

The word is nigh thee, near thee. It's right on your lips, it's right in your

heart. It's present, you have access to it. You don't have to go anywhere, you

don't have to study anything, you don't have to learn anything, there's nothing

to attain. It is the word of faith which we preach.

And here it comes: the simplest, clearest presentation of salvation found

anywhere in either Testament. Two conditions. If. If thou shalt confess with thy

mouth the Lord Jesus. Number two: And shalt believe in thine heart that God hath

raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. No ifs, ands, buts about it.

And notice the heart is not changed. The heart believes on Christ in its regular

condition. There is no—no overpowering of the sinner by the irresistible grace

of God, which transforms against his will into a new creature so he can receive

Christ and all that Calvinistic baloney. It's saying that an unsaved man is in a

natural condition and he's told, if you believe something in your heart, confess

it with your mouth, God'll give you the new birth, God'll save you, and impute

to you righteousness, and justify you.

[Peter Ruckman — Romans Commentary (Continued)]

Peter Ruckman:

Verse 10, "For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness..." Works are not

a point at issue. "...with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." You see

how insane some men get when they're trying to prove a lie? "This is the work of

God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent." That's God's work, not yours.

You see that business? You don't classify that with getting baptized and holding

out to the end and doing all this junk. Belief's a matter of the heart. Now,

it's a work only in the sense in in that's what God wants you to do. In that

sense it's the work of God. But it's not like works. Good night, man!

All right, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. Out of the heart

are the issues of life. Out of the heart of man proceeds all these things, Jesus

says, and lists 13 evils. Then if you believe something in your heart, it should

bear fruit in your mouth. Your mouth should confess what your heart believes.

Notice the belief is in the heart, not in the head. And this reinforces the

truth of Romans chapter 6, verse 17, that said, "You have obeyed from the heart

that form of doctrine delivered unto you."

It's not enough to repent, confess, believe, and be baptized. That's just one of

the different ways you go to hell, there's all kinds of ways. It's a matter of

something in the heart by faith. Notice the obedience is by faith. 16, "They

have not all obeyed the gospel." For Isaiah said, "Lord, who hath believed our

report?" In other words, to obey the gospel is to believe the gospel, and you

believe from the heart. And we made comment on this earlier when we talked about

believing in vain. And you might review those remarks we made, and we made them

in connection with uh Romans chapter 6, verse 17.

All right, believe, confess. That's the long and short of it. With the heart man

believeth unto righteousness. You can talk all day about a man believing an

elevator will take him up, but he needs to get into it. You speak of a man

having nerve, or having guts, or having backbone, so you understand perfectly

what God means when He says, "Believe in your heart."

A man told a friend of mine, he was a skeptic, this man, he told a friend of

mine, he said, "Your heart's just an organ, it can't believe." And my friend

said, "Well, it may be an organ, but every time it hears the name of Jesus, it

plays 'Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.'" You

understand what God means when He says heart, don't put on airs.

"For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth

confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture saith, Whosoever believeth

on Him shall not be ashamed." It's just that simple. You say, "That's all there

is to it?" That's all there is to it. You say, "Well, anybody can—" No, they

don't. It says believe in your heart, your affections, what you love. That is,

you come to Christ as a sinner, and you lay hold of Him with your heart as your

only hope, your only God, your only Savior, and you confess Him as Lord.

L-O-R-D.

It isn't a matter of just believing some abstract doctrine about salvation. It's

nothing just as simple as repenting, confessing, believing, being baptized, like

the water dogs say. It's a matter of laying hold with the heart of a person who

is living and risen, who died for you on the cross, and confessing Him as Lord,

Jehovah, Jesus, Jehovah saves, God manifest in the flesh dying to save you from

your sins. And if you haven't done that, you haven't obeyed the gospel no matter

what else you've done.

"For the Scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed." Not

believe about Him, not even believe in Him: believe on Him. Place your

confidence, and hope, and reliance on Him. Notice, "Whosoever believeth on Him."

He's a person. The Bible says, "Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall

save His people from their sins." It's a person you believe on, not a thing.

Things can't save, not even good things. You're saved by a person. Notice it is

Jesus, not just, you know, the "Good Lord," or the "Sky Pilot," or the "Man

Upstairs," and all that mess.

"Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference

between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that

call upon Him." For, summing it up, "For whosoever..." Is that big enough? Why,

that covers anybody. Whosoever, not just the elect. "Whosoever shall call upon

the name of the Lord shall be saved." What's His name? His name's Jesus.

"Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."

And that's what makes a panic in hell and a celebration in heaven, when an old

sinner comes stumbling in off the hot pavements of hell and puts his bleeding

feet down there on Beulah Land and kneels at the feet of the Savior and says,

"God be merciful to me, a sinner, and save my poor, wretched soul for Jesus'

sake." That'll do it. "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be

saved."

[Peter Ruckman — Audio Cassette 6a: "How Shall you Escape the Damnation", 1969–1974]

Peter Ruckman:

Now listen. If God had imperfections in Him, I could get along, cuz I got them

in me. And if God was a sinner like Buddha, and Muhammad, and Lao Tzu, and Mao

Tse, and President Nixon...

Best men that ever lived couldn't keep themselves out of hell. Someday you'll be

down there, some of you. I don't know I don't know where you are, I don't know

what I'm looking at when I stand up here. I don't know who I'm talking to. Um, I

Most of you I know, and I feel sure you're a child of God, you've been born

again. Some of you I don't know, I don't know whether you are or not. In the

final analysis, only God knows, only you know, and only the devil knows.

But I sure hope I'm not looking at somebody right now that's going to be down

there someday saying, "Oh, God! Oh, God! Oh, God! Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God!"

Why don't you get a good prayer going right now and say, "God, be merciful to

me, a sinner, and save my soul for Jesus' sake"?

You know, when you get reduced to praying, you know how it comes down? The last

prayer you get is, "Oh, my God." And then you get rid of the personal part. You

get, "Oh, God." And then you become an atheist, you say, "Oh." That's the

degeneration of a thing. And you know something, that's the progression in real

prayer. When you really get up against it, you'll find these petitions begin to

stop, and the gaps between them get longer and longer. You Christians notice

that? You Christians that really pray?

I want it to be noted that Dr. Ruckman is talking about the blood of Jesus

Christ in the first few clips. And yet, later on, he talks about having to

confess as a requirement for salvation.

Dr. Ruckman himself did not think that the blood and confession were mutually

exclusive concepts.

[Peter Ruckman — Audio Cassette 2a: "Most Precious Thing in the World", 1969]

Peter Ruckman:

When he says that, uh he's not saying a light thing or a thing to be taken

lightly. I believe that that blood is precious, and as far as I'm concerned, uh

to me, it is the most precious thing in this world, and there's nothing like it.

Now, wouldn't it be strange I mean, you just stop and think about this: here up

in 1970 practically, couple of months, the blood of Jesus Christ is precious to

me because it blots out sin. Now listen, if it redeems and justifies and blots

out sin, don't you know, don't you know that to me it's precious?

Let me ask you this: what would I give in exchange for something that would

redeem me, and cleanse me, and blot out my sins? Now, I'm asking you, what would

I take in exchange for that? I wouldn't take anything in exchange for it.

Simon Peter says, "You're redeemed not with corruptible corruptible things, such

as silver and gold, received by the vain tradition uh of your fathers, but by

the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without spot and without blemish." It

not only blots out sin, but it draws us nigh.

The Bible says, uh "Having boldness therefore, it to we can draw nigh to God by

Him." Uh He has taken away the the partition between us and taken it out of the

way, and you that were far off or sometimes afar off are made nigh, made near,

by the blood of Jesus Christ. The blood of Jesus Christ draws me near to God, so

I don't have to go through a bunch of bellboys, and car hops, and chamberlains,

and vice presidents, and secretaries, and desk attendants, and all that kind of

business to get to God. Listen, if I want to get God, I don't have to go through

a big long rigmarole, because the blood has drawn me near to God. If I want to

pray to God right now, I wouldn't have to get in the mood for it.

Oh, so, Lord, bless the message and do what I can't do and save somebody here

tonight for Jesus' sake. Amen.

It's It's right up there. Right up there. Oh, bless chalk, I might make a

mistake and bust microphone, keep it on. Slide it there. How'd you know I'm

knocking somebody's door and say, "Dear Father Confessor, will you please get me

an audience with the Father, Son, the Holy Spirit through Mary?" I don't have to

do that kind of business. If I want to get to God, I can get to God just like

that, brother, just like that.