Plain Speaking

For the sake of Niceness™, some prefer to call a wolf - our timberland canine cousin, but it's still a wolf. If someone doesn't warn the flock, the result is dead sheep.

Here's an example of plain speaking, maybe too plain for some, from the Prince of Preachers:

When we believe in Christ by faith we receive our justification. As the merit of His blood takes away our sin so the merit of His obedience is imputed to us for righteousness. We are considered, as soon as we believe, as though the works of Christ were our works. God looks upon us as though that perfect obedience, of which I have just now spoken, had been performed by ourselves—as though our hands had been busy at the loom, as though the fabric and the stuff which have been worked up into the fine linen which is the righteousness of the saints, had been grown in our own fields.

God considers us as though we were Christ—looks upon us as though His life had been our life—and accepts, blesses and rewards us as though all that He did had been done by us, His believing people. Accordingly, if you will turn to the thirty-third chapter of this same Prophet Jeremiah and look at the sixteenth verse, you will see it written, “This is the name wherewith she shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” I know that Socinus in his day used to call this an execrable, detestable and licentious doctrine—probably it was because he was an execrable, detestable and licentious man.

From Sermon 395 The Lord Our Righteousness, June 2, 1861 by C. H. Spurgeon