August 8, 2017 Show with Dr. Paul D. Tripp on “Sex in a Broken World: How Christ Redeems What Sin Distorts” PLUS Mike Gaydosh on “More Literary Treasures Unearthed” AND Mark Chanski on “Be Joyful! (1 Thess. 5:16) Better than Weed or Xanax”

The Gospel of Christ Redeeming What Sin Distorts

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Lake City, Florida and the rest of humanity living on the planet earth who are listening via live streaming at ironsharpensironradio .com. This is Chris Arns and your host of Iron Sharpens Iron wishing you all a happy Tuesday on this eighth day of August 2017 and I'm so delighted to have as a first-time guest for the first half hour Dr. Paul D. Tripp.

I've known about Dr. Tripp for many years, nearly as long as I have been a born-again believer in Jesus Christ. I first met him in the 1980s at a bible conference that was conducted at what was then known as Calvary Baptist Church of Amityville, Long Island, New York now known as Grace Reform Baptist Church of Long Island, New York and I have seen Paul from time to time at different conferences and gatherings and I know his brother Ted Tripp very well.

In fact many of you have heard my interviews with his brother Ted Tripp and his sister-in-law Margie but I am so delighted to have Paul on for the very first time and today we are going to be discussing a book that is yet to be released but will be out in the near future titled Sex and a Broken World How Christ Redeems What Sin Distorts and it's my honor and privilege to welcome you for the very first time to Iron Sharpens Iron, Dr. Paul D. Tripp.

It's great to be with you. And in studio with me is my co-host the Reverend Buzz Taylor. Well once again and if anybody would like to join us on the air our email address is chrisarnsen at gmail .com c-h-r-i-s-a-r-n-z-e-n at gmail .com and please give us your first name your city and state and your country of residence unless you're writing about a personal and private matter which is obvious that that very well could be the case with a subject like this we'll grant your desire to remain anonymous if that if that's the case but if it's not about a personal matter please give us at least your first name city and state and country of residence and Paul D. Tripp is a pastor author conference speaker and president of Paul Tripp Ministries.

Why don't you briefly tell us exactly what you do with Paul Tripp Ministries.

Well basically my ministry is speaking and writing. I'm sure it does and we'll be giving.

That contact information a little later for anybody wanting to get into touch with Paul Tripp Ministries. But a lot has been written about sex even in the christian realm and even in the the evangelical realm and even in the conservative reformed and calvinist world.

Why did you write sex in a broken world that you what did you feel was missing that was already.

Available in print? Well I think no more. And we all know those of us who are bible-believing.

Christians we all know that the secular world especially the liberal element of it gets a lot about sex wrong. Not not to say that there aren't even atheists out there that are living monogamous monogamous moral lives they're happily married many of them they don't cheat on their wives but but by and large uh the uh the ideology about sex that the secular world has is typically completely wrong if not unbiblical anti-biblical and anti-christian.

But uh what is it uh that the.

Church is getting wrong about sex. We have a listener in mastic beach long island new york.

Tyler who says do many christians look down on sex as a bad thing when god created it to be.

Enjoyed in a marriage between a man and a woman because he designed me. Yeah. Isn't it not a sin even to deprive your marital partner your spouse of this pleasure. Now uh you have a chapter in your.

Book uh titled so why do we do. The things we do. I think it's an excellent question. Why do we. Well and i would assume you would agree that um taking that uh in heart issue even further. Even if somebody is monogamous and even if somebody is faithful to their spouse they can be selfish in regard to this area.

Can they not. Perhaps they are trying to force their wives to do things that their wives are very uncomfortable doing. Perhaps those things aren't even uh appropriate to do but if you could comment on the way that we could even be.

Sinful in our marriage beds by even when we're faithful sure now is sex in christian marriage.

Always intended for procreation. I mean obviously you have senior saints where it's an impossibility to procreate or it would take a miracle that like it happened with abraham and sarah. But uh.

Is this for a young couple even to be always the primary goal. Well i want to touch on some of the.

Things that you alluded to. Uh moments ago. Uh first of all perhaps if you could explain further about.

Sex as an act of worship. I would we have a listener all the way in slovenia joe who says.

Thank you brothers chris and paul for boldly addressing the most relevant topics in such tasteful and godly ways. What would be your advice about how a christian married couple could be intentional about enriching their sexual attraction and intimacy with each other other through scriptural study on the topic.

I guess he means other than through scriptural.

Study on the topic and joe and slovenia's second part of his question is what and how.

Would scripture teach us as we study the bible about a healthy and god-honoring sexual togetherness.

Well thank you joe and keep spreading the word about iron sharpens iron radio in slovenia and beyond. Uh is sex about obedience as well. Sure this is. Well it's interesting that you asked that.

Because we have an anonymous listener in new york and we tend to get this question every time that we discuss marriage or sex or anything like that the anonymous listener asks are there any boundaries in the marriage bed as long as the only one that you are having sexual intimacy with is your spouse.

And i'm assuming that you would think that uh areas uh i mean this is a bizarre and kinky world that we're living in. And in fact bizarre and kinky things have been going on for millennia. But uh you have people that may want to do things that may cause bodily harm might even cause serious harm even if it's mutual.

Wouldn't you think that something like that would be uh prohibited.

From a marriage bed uh an anonymous listener in south central pennsylvania who asks is it wrong.

To ever force even your wife to be involved in appropriate marital behavior if she has been.

As she has been depriving you of this act force i'm willing to be. I don't know if you remember.

Harold camping dr trip but i can. Well i could. I could still remember vividly him counseling women that would call into his program who would say that they are not uh willing to participate in sexual relations with their husbands until they repented of ongoing adulterous activities including with prostitutes and mr camping would chide them telling them that it is their duty to have sex with their husbands even if they contract aids and die.

They should never be depriving their husbands of sexual relations even if they know they are continuing in an unrepentant promiscuous sexual.

Activity. What is your response to that kind of a situation. Well i mean obedience obedient. So going back to that same question though some might think that in order to be.

Obedient to god they the wife still has to remain actively sexual with her husband even though he refuses to repent of this ongoing uh extramarital activity. Are you saying that that would be inappropriate for a wife to withdraw for a season and awaiting repentance from her husband.

Well if i was giving the whole lot of questions i understand. Yeah very wise. Well if you could.

Conclude the program this went by like a bullet as i knew it would because usually my interviews are an hour or two hours but uh if you could conclude with a summary of what you most want etched in the hearts and minds of our listeners in regard to sex in a broken world well i think.

Well i want to thank you so much for being our guest today dr trip and i hope you come back soon again and come back often. And for anybody who wants to get a hold of this book which is not yet in print they can go to crossway .org crossway .org to stay in touch about sex in a broken world how christ redeems what sin distorts.

You can also go to paultrip .com and trip is spelt with two p's. That's two p's as in peter. Paultrip .com. Paultrip .com. Thank you so much brother. And we uh as i said we look forward to your return and your frequent return to iron trip and zion radio.

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Of iron sharpens iron radio. Welcome back and we're going to be talking more about solid ground christian books in just a moment. But one thing i forgot to mention during my half hour interview with dr paul trip is that he is one of many speakers at the upcoming g3 conference in atlanta georgia uh january 18th through the 20th to be precise 2018.

Uh. So if you want more information about the g3 conference where paul trip and many other speakers will be on the roster go to g3conference .com g3conference .com. And the theme uh next year is knowing god a biblical understanding of discipleship and we'll be giving you more details about that uh midway through today's program.

But it's my honor and privilege now to welcome back one of my dearest friends my first pastor after being born from above by the grace and mercy of god. And now uh ever since it's relaunching uh one of my key sponsors of iron sharpens iron radio it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to iron sharpens iron.

Mike gaydosh. Thanks chris. Good to be on with you again. It's great to have you back on and in studio with me again is my co-host the reverend buzz taylor.

Hello again. Hey how are you. Just great things. Good to have you back. Well i understand. Uh mike.

That you are relocating from alabama to florida and because of that you are having an enormous.

Sale. There at solid ground christian books we are. We are in the process of packing up all of our belongings and getting ready to head to port. Saint will be about 25 minutes from the ocean about a half hour north.

We're already five minutes north. We've had many people have been asked the other day. I've made the mistake of sending out a notice saying that closing is on the 18th and i meant the closing of the house not the closing of the business and so i had somebody panicked and said i didn't realize you're closing.

I said no. I said no no no. I said we're closing on the house and the solid ground continue to serve. What we're trying to do is try to lighten the load as much as to close down shop at least as far as shipping some.

Uh we've. We've been able to sell a large number uh many years ago and uh it's a i'm reluctant to even sell this last set but right now it's uh it's a time for us to part with it. Many people are asking a thousand dollars for these sets because they're now so real.

Well uh perhaps another good thing for you.

To talk about at least briefly is a description of solid ground christian books. Because as they may have told you uh something quite remarkable has been occurring over the last couple of months. There seems to be a dam that has busted wide open and i'm hearing from new listeners uh to iron sharpens iron radio uh that i've never heard from before.

Who have never submitted questions before who i don't know who they are. They're coming from all over the world. Very encouraging uh. Emails uh emails from pastors. I received an email that a missionary in eastern europe was brought brought into the doctrines of sovereign grace and he attributed uh this conversion if you will or this enlightenment in his uh mind uh and understanding of the of the doctrines of grace.

To in part at least iron sharpens iron radio uh so uh there might be a number of people who don't even know anything about solid ground christian books so why don't you tell our listeners about that.

Well solid ground began in 2001 when my wife and i relocated to birmingham alabama. I had begun public uh when i was pastoring in long island back in 1990. The first book that we published at calvary press was thoughts for young men jc ryle.

And that has gone through many many different printings and we have sold the beginning that caused me to see the value of bringing back into print for many many years. Another very popular book that we brought back and gave a new cover and and a new life to is and uh that one has probably the third.

And at the end of his ministry he wrote a volume three dealing with uh both sinners and saints dealing with the unconverted as well as struggling and various variety of other things acquired reading at southern seminary for many years.

The hundreds and apology and evangelism that that is the southern baptist theological seminary in louisville kentucky where al moeller is the president. Correct. That's correct. And men like tom nettles and others uh tom has recently retired from his full professorship.

Yes. But he uh he and many others were to get that book. And yeah hulse arrow hulse just went home to be.

With the lord. And um i had the privilege of having lunch with richard denham at your design. Uh you weren't around or something when he was visiting long island and you asked me to take him out to dinner.

Actually not lunch it was dinner. I can still remember that very vividly. And also of course i i remember vividly the the wonderful time that uh our congregation had when errol hulls uh visited the states and preached at what was then calvary baptist church of amityville.

Yeah and i got to.

Spend 10 days with uh he was a remarkable man. Earl blackburn. David vaughn the missionary to france. David was discovered. And we have one. Of course he had john sampson. Yes. Sam. Election. And recently an rc sproul wrote a very warm and glowing commendation for that.

He really did. It was very encouraging to john and to me. Letter. That's the only way he does it. That's the rc sproul doesn't use a computer. Well that's. It's a precious thing. Words that he received for his small book.

Uh the five solas. And you've also recently had kurt. Yes uh has recently done. Was that what you spoke with him about the other day. Uh. Yes the heritage of the gospel heritage. Gospel heritage of georgia baptists.

And uh he has received some good feedback from that volume. As well as he and brandon receiving some attack. Obvious. Calvary with one man on the. Thank him for the beginning of the georgia. And uh the face of the.

Uh the argument that's used against the. Rooted in the. And tell us i won't go back over that because you already. You already spent a.

Couple tell us about the ron gleason book on the second amendment. Well ron is uh has written the.

Book. And i think that um you know we're still working on that. It's probably summer but with me in the midst of this fall. Well that's gonna be right around the corner. And buzz wants you to tell him the title of that book.

The title. What was that book. Oh i i knew you were going to ask moment. The author is ron gleason and you were co-hosting with me when we had ron on the program. That's right. So actually you should be.

You know i'm not sure it looks like here is. Oh yeah i've.

Had him on the program. I did. I did his very first interview ever. He's told me really yeah wow.

Let's see we we have here much research. I have read some of the works in his bibliography his research and recommend this book as i hope that you amen. By the way you got to get make you got.

To make sure that a lot of our brethren uh who even view doctrine nearly identical identically to the way we do uh you got to get some of our brethren in the uk to read this book because obviously the second amendment doesn't really apply to them but the attitude towards it does.

And there are many of our brethren in the uk who really are vehemently opposed to the christians here in the states who have this passion to defend the second amendment.

It's very unusual to me. Yeah. Yeah. Well he gave one to me. Well that we will not share. Had to do with a shipment of.

We do have a listener in mechanicsburg pennsylvania gordy who has a question for you. Any possibility of publishing samuel rutherford's work an examination of arminianism. Yeah there's.

Always a possibility whatever we can get our hands on for me. If i can get my hands on it we can do it if you're if gordy is able to point me in the direction where i can see it somewhere online google books or what.

Oh i know owen has done something familiar with. That's exactly the way he typed his email so i have no idea. Okay so what what did he say. The title was again uh samuel.

Rutherford's examination of arminianism. I believe i already clicked out of the question but it was.

Something like that examination of arminianism by roth. You tell him you tell him to just send me a an email mike mike .sgcb at gmail .com and see what. Great. Well i'm always open i'm always open to doing things like that.

The memoirs of buzz would be a my experience my experience with chris arnson. Yeah. Well at least i know three people who would buy. My mother would buy one too i'm sure. Well she was the one i was counting on.

I guarantee you she wouldn't read it either. But anyway we've got to close now if you could summarize what you most want our audience to.

Remember today well to remember that jesus christ in life and in death everything that we do every everything that we publish his glory and guide people with books amen. Well uh as all of you have.

Been hearing every day sometimes multiple times a day during iron sharpens iron radio uh you can find out more about uh solid ground christian books at solid-ground-books .com solid-ground-books .com.

Mike adash thank you so much for not only being a sponsor of iron sharpens iron radio but for being a lifelong friend. And i look forward to many years god willing of friendship between the two of.

Us god bless you too brother. Look i look forward to seeing you at g3. Lord willing amen. I'm looking.

Forward to that too. Take care buzz you bet. Thanks. And and coming up we have our final guest today. We have uh uh the pastor of harbor reform baptist church in holland michigan mark chansky who's going to be joining us on the subject of joy.

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And we are discussing be joyful from first thessalonians 5 16 better than weed or xanax. And it's my pleasure and honor to welcome you back to iron sharpens iron radio pastor mark chansky.

Hi chris always a pleasure to be at iron sharpens iron and that's uh always a pleasure to hear that.

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