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This is the audio from Seminar Session “When God Gives His Word – Understanding the Promises of God Contained in the Biblical Covenants” with speaker Richard Mayhue.

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This is the audio from General Session VIII with speaker Steve Lawson.

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This is the audio from General Session V – Keynote Q&A with John MacArthur, Phil Johnson, Al Mohler, Steve Lawson, and Tom Pennington

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This is the audio from Seminar Session “Generations of Grace – Defining a Biblical Philosophy of Children’s Ministry” with speakers Mark White and Rich Harasick.

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So you’re looking for a description/overview of this sermon? Well, I can tell you it’s Paul Washer, and it’s Paul Washer in all his Paul Washery (just made that up – feel free to use it) preaching style. I can also tell you that you should listen to this sermon, and after you finish listening to it, head to our Sermonize Us facebook page and leave YOUR overview and thoughts on the sermon.

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“Combine Omniscience with Immutability – You have an all-wise God whose plan is to make you like his Son. That plan does not change even though circumstances in your life do change. In his perfect wisdom, He knows exactly what is best for you to bring that plan to completion. His message is “TRUST ME”!

and

“All fulfilled prophecy is a testimony to God’s omniscience combined with His sovereignty and power”.

Introduction

• Knowing God must be a priority

o It affects our worship
o It affects our witness
o It affects our walk

“So necessary to the church is a lofty concept of God, that when that concept in any measure declines, the church with her worship and moral standards decline with it. The first step down for any church is taken when it surrenders its high opinion of God.” – AW Tozer

John 17:3 “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent”

Ephesians 1:17 “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him”

Colossians 1:10 “so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God”

II Peter 3:18 “but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity Amen”

• Knowing God has a purpose

o What does it mean to “know” God?

Salvation is just the beginning. To grow our closeness to Him is to love what He loves, hate what He hates and value what He values.

o How does knowing God translate into life?
Jeremiah 9: 23-24 ”Thus says the LORD, ” Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; (24) but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD”.
Boasting in the Lord’s loving kindness, justice and righteousness, not in our wisdom, might or riches, delights the Lord.

• Knowing God has great potential

Daniel 11:32 “By smooth words he will turn to godlessness those who act wickedly toward the covenant, but the people who know their God will display strength and take action.”

Exodus 33:13 “Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight Consider too, that this nation is Your people.”

Exodus 33:18 “Then Moses said, “I pray You, show me Your glory!”

Psalm 27:4 “One thing I have asked from the LORD, that I shall seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the LORD and to meditate in His temple.”

Psalm 42:1-2 “As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So my soul pants for You, O God.
(2) My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;
When shall I come and appear before God?”

Psalm 63:1-2 “O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly;
My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You,
In a dry and weary land where there is no water.
(2) Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and Your glory.”
Philippians 3:8-14 “More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,
(9) and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,
(10) that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;
(11) in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead
(12) Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.
(13) Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,
(14) I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
• Knowing God is possible

John 1:14 “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

We know God through Christ His Son. God knows us and He is constantly looking at us and loves us despite all our imperfections.

from Sermon Audio
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Matt B says this “Dr Lawson’a reasoning is excellent! We preach the gospel because in it’s exclusivity is the eternal mercies of God, and outside of it’s exclusivity is the wrath of God.”

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People don’t like the idea of hell so they want a Christianity without a hell. We don’t like the idea of judgement so we have Christianity without sin…. And so on, and so on, and so on.

You think you’ve just removed a small problem by removing the resurrection.

Seven problems if the resurrection is taken away.

1. If no resurrection from the dead then even Christ has not been raised. But he just demonstrated that Christ has been raised.
2. Preaching is vain. If Christ has not been raised then our preaching is vain and our faith is vain. Some people pick the supernatural parts of the gospel out while trying say our Christian faith is good because of the good things we do. It is all useless if the resurrection is false.
3. Faith is vain. So much for those who say you can have a viable Christianity without the resurrection. However, there is no gospel without the resurrection so faith is meaningless.
4. I’m a liar. We are even found to be misrepresenting God because we testify that God raised Christ whom He did not raise. If there is no such thing as resurrection God was just called a liar. Not only a liar, but a blaspheming liar. If you believe there is no resurrection, I’m a liar for preaching the resurrection.
5. If Christ is not raised then your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. If Christ has not been raised there is no justification. There is no penal substitutionary atonement. If Christ has not been raised then He was a sinner and we are all still in our sins. There is no hope for sinners. God will crush you. Justice cries out for it. For God not to consume you would not be fair.
6. Those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
7. We of all people are most to be pitied because we have hoped in the greatest lie ever perpetrated.”

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from thegenevapush.com

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“Mohler began by describing the current landscape of the American church—we need a recovery of understanding the Scriptures in their totality. He expounded Jesus’ dialogue with the Pharisees in John 5 with specific application for us. The Pharisees’ rejection of Jesus was a refusal to recognize God’s witness of him. The takeaway for us is important: one can study the Scriptures extensively and not get it.” ~ Description from SermonIndex

from thegospelcoalition.org.

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• because Jesus won for me, I’m free to lose
• because Jesus was strong for me, I’m free to be weak
• because Jesus succeeded for me, I’m free to fail

Here’s great one liner from the interview that really really says a lot – “My identity is so anchored in who Christ was for me, and not what I need to become, that it actually takes the burden off of my shoulders to pretend that I’m something that I’m not.”

From  Covenant Seminary’s Youtube Channel
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• Deep soul satisfaction in the promise of a Christ filled future
• Freedom from self-protecting fear
• Fruit of fearless love no matter the cost

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from www.ccef.org

How do we understand what the Bible says to the drama of a particular moment in a person’s life?

Because every Christian is called to counsel we should seek more on how to make the Bible real to people while at the same time make the people real to us.

from www.ccef.org

from 9marks.org

from redeemer.com

from desiringgod.org

from Southeastern Seminary

from capitolhillbaptist.org

From reformedcast.com

JR Vassar addresses these issues in this message entitled “Freedom from the Fear of Man”.

From www.thevillagechurch.net

“I spend way too much time thinking about me and what I need to do and far too little time thinking about Jesus and what he has already done. And what I’ve discovered, ironically, is that the more time I focus on my need to get better, the worse I actually become.”

From thevillagechurch.net

Steve speaks from Jonah about bringing God’s message with God’s method.

A great sermon from the Family Firmly Planted conference at Mt Morris Community Church

from mmccchurch.org

from Mt. Morris Community Church

from gracetn.org

From sermonaudio.com

from wscal.edu

from t4g.org

from www.crpc.org

from Mt Morris Community Church

Here’s Paul’s summary:
“Are you sure you worship the God of the Bible? You may be worshiping an idol – listen to find out why. Jack Hughes presents the most comprehensive sermon on theodicy ever preached.”

from www.calvarybiblechurch.org

from www.trinitybiblechurch.org

from www.trinitybiblechurch.org

from www.trinitybiblechurch.org

from sermonaudio.com

from solidfoodmedia.com

from solidfoodmedia.com

from solidfoodmedia.com

from solidfoodmedia.com

from solidfoodmedia.com

• How did you become a Mormon?
• How were you converted to Christ?
• Is Mormonism a cult?
• Can a Christian vote for Mitt Romney?
• What are the changes in and challenges to Mormonism?
• How should we evangelize Mormons? Should we invite them into our homes?

Through Zondervan, Latayne has just published a new and updated edition of The Mormon Mirage. You can also catch up with her at her blog Latayne.com.

from The Connected Kingdom Podcast

from www.matthiasmedia.com

from www.matthiasmedia.com

from www.trinityportland.com

from www.desiringgod.org

Be sure to checkout Part 1 as well
from www.mmccchurch.org

When Isaiah discovers who God is he pronounces an oracle of doom on himself—a curse. The first time he saw what God is was the first time he saw who he was. He saw that he had a dirty mouth and that his dirtiness was epidemic, pandemic.”

from www.desiringgod.org

from resolved.org

1. The agitators are influential leaders
2. Their complaint is believable
3. There is always a deeper agenda

from www.swordandtrowel.org

Be sure to checkout the outline that goes with this lesson.

from scottsdalebible.com

Be sure to checkout the outline that goes with this lesson.

from scottsdalebible.com

” Q&A panel, moderated by Pastor Justin Holcomb, that took place in Orlando this year, in which Pastors Mark Driscoll, RC Sproul, Tullian Tchividjian, and Matt Chandler field questions about the four distinctives of the new movement in Christianity, and the relation between the law and the gospel”

from www.desiringgod.org

from sermonaudio.com

Be sure to checkout the outlines for Session 1 and Session 2. Also a list of books for parents to read and books for parents to read with their children.

from calvarybiblechurch.org

from calvarybiblechurch.org

from calvarybiblechurch.org

from calvarybiblechurch.org

from sermonindex.net

Mike [Fabarez] gives the most clear exposition on this text that I have ever heard. The Conflict of the Two Natures. Is the the Apostle Paul presenting a struggling Christian or a non Christian in Romans 7:14-25?

from www.compasschurch.org