March 6, 2023 Show with Scott T. Brown on “The Chief End of Man: Glorifying God in Your Body, Your Family & Your Church”

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Good afternoon, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, 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 Arnzen, your host of Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, wishing you all a happy Monday on this sixth day of March 2023.

Before I announce our guest today and introduce him to you, I just have a couple of very important announcements to make. First of all, mark your calendars for tomorrow. I'm very excited to have back on the program, after a very long absence, Ray Comfort.

Ray is going to be discussing his brand new book, So Many Lions, So Few Daniels, Living Without Compromise in a World in Need of Truth. And Ray has been an individual, perhaps lately at least, more than any other individual where people have approached me either by email, text, social media, or other forms of communication and asked me, when are you going to have Ray Comfort back on your show?

And well, thanks be to God, tomorrow is that day, Tuesday, March 7th, 4 to 6 p .m. Eastern, and we hope that you join us for that interview with Ray and have questions ready for him as well. Also, if you are a man in ministry leadership, and I emphasize the word man because I know in this day and age there are many women who are inappropriately identifying themselves as leaders over men in the church and in parachurch organizations, and there are churches and parachurch organizations rising these women up to those positions.

So I have to make it a point to say this is for men only. It's the next Iron Sharpens Iron radio pastor's luncheon, absolutely free of charge. On Thursday, April 13th, 2023, from 11 a .m. to 2 p .m. at Church of the Living Christ in Loisville, Pennsylvania, not only is the event free, not only will you be fed food for free, and not only will you be fed spiritually for free, but everyone who attends this luncheon, going back all the way to the 1990s, leaves with a heavy sack of free brand new books specifically selected by me from major Christian publishers all over the United States and the United Kingdom who have been doing this for Iron Sharpens Iron radio, and even before Iron Sharpens Iron radio because I started the pastor's luncheons when I was just an account executive for a Christian radio station before I had my own show.

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And I would love to get you registered for these free events. Now I would love to introduce to you our guest today, for the first time ever, he is appearing on Iron Trip and Zion Radio, Scott T. Brown, who is the President of Church and Family Life and Pastor of Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

We are addressing the theme, The Chief End of Man, Glorifying God in Your Body, Your Family, and Your Church, and we're also going to be announcing two major events where Scott is featured as a speaker.

The first one is the Chief End of Man Conference, and the second is the 2023 G3 National Conference, and we'll be giving you more details about those events shortly, but it's my honor and privilege to welcome you, for the very first time ever, to Iron Trip and Zion Radio, Scott T. Brown.

Chris, thank you so much, it's such a delight to be on your program, and what a joy.

Amen, well the joy is equally shared by me, and I'm sure our listeners, and I'm sure it will be shared by even the listeners that don't know you as they continue to hear our discussion today, and, well first of all, tell our listeners about Church and Family Life, where you are President.

Yeah, Church and Family Life seeks to proclaim the sufficiency of Scripture for Church and.

Family Life.

So, when we talk about these two institutions, we would say that these are the pivotal institutions that our Lord created for the spread of the gospel, for the equipping of a rising generation, for preparing children by bringing the gospel to them, you know, when they sit in their house, when they walk by the way, when they lie down, and when they rise up.

So, we focus on those two institutions that God created, and that Scripture is sufficient for the church, Scripture is sufficient for the family. That's our message.

Well, praise God for that, and you are having a conference titled, The Chief End of Man, and tell us more about that conference that's coming up.

Right, this is our national conference. It's May 4th through 6th in Ridgecrest, North Carolina, and, you know, The Chief End of Man is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. It's just such a pivotal principle.

We're really excited about it. Some of my favorite preachers are coming to preach, and I'm really just thankful. We have—it's an unusual conference in this sense. Whole families come. Lots of singles come.

In fact, we had a singles pre-conference just before it on May 3rd and 4th there in the same location, but we have lots of single young people who come to our conference. But at the same time, families are there listening to the preaching.

It's a preaching conference. And so we bring, you know, some of my favorite preachers in the world to come and preach there, guys like Joel Beeky and Paul Washer and Scott Anial and Josh Bice and others.

We have a network of churches of about 600 churches, and so we have the pastors from our network churches also come and preach this conference.

Yes, and I have interviewed many of the 14 men on your speaking roster. That's a very large roster, including—. I've Beeky on the In the

No kidding?

Oh, yeah.

Back in the 1990s, the original—.

Oh, wow.

The original denomination that he was in, the Netherlands Reform Church, did not believe in using radio. So when I approached him for the first time, he reluctantly had to decline after meeting with the leaders of that denomination because they did not believe in using radio.

They believed it was too Arminian to use radio. So when he left that denomination and was one of the formers of the Heritage Netherlands Reform Church, he quickly took me up on my offer, was one of the five weekly speakers for a nightly program I created called The Voice of Sovereign Grace, and then later he got the Gospel Trumpet, his denomination's own radio program on that station where I worked, the BMCA, an affiliate of Salem Media, which is the largest Christian radio network in the world.

But I've also had Paul Washer, Jeff Johnson, Scott Aniel, and Josh Bice, and others that are on your roster on the show, and I look forward to getting as many of those folks back on before your May conference.

Maybe we could give it some more publicity.

That would be great.

Okay, so first of all, let me make sure our listeners have the URL for your ministry and the conference, churchandfamilylife .com, churchandfamilylife .com. And if you click on events, you will see the information about the conference this May, 4th through the 6th.

Now tell us about Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

Hey, can I just say one more thing about Joe Beakey and our conference? You brought him up. He's a treasure. At our conference, he's going to give a message. It is the chief end of man when you're a child.

He's going to speak to the children. I just can't wait. Paul Washer is going to speak, really, to young adults and just specifically speak of the season of life, Joe Beakey for children and then Paul Washer for young adults.

So I'm really excited about this laser beam focus these guys are going to have. Well, anyway, our church, Hope Baptist Church, is a 1689 church. It was founded about 17 years ago here in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

I love this church. The people at this church are very precious. They're very responsive. One of the things that has astonished me over the years about our church is we have a Wednesday night prayer meeting, and it's full.

It's always been full. Almost everybody comes. I'm just so thankful for that. It's a praying church. We do expository preaching there, of course. I'm just finishing the book of Revelation. I've been there for about two and a half years.

Anyway, it's a delightful place. It's my favorite place to preach. They know me. They understand me and are very kind to me. So that's Hope Baptist Church.

Great. And if anybody wants to find out more about this wonderful church, go to HopeBaptistChurch .info. HopeBaptistChurch .info. Last but not least, the 2023 G3 National Conference is coming up. I am so thrilled about it.

I've been going to every G3 conference annually going back at least eight years now, I believe. And I have an exhibitor's booth there for Iron Trip and Zion Radio every time I attend. And I am so excited about this lineup as well, which is also huge.

Voti Baucom, Stephen Lawson, Phil Johnson, my friend Dr. James R. White of Alpha Omega Ministries, Mike Riccardi, Justin Peters, Ken Ham. I think this is the first time Ken has spoken at a G3 conference.

Owen Strand, Josh Bice, who is the founder of G3 Ministries. James Coates, the pastor and teacher up in Canada who was arrested for simply having worship services open to the public during the so-called pandemic known as the coronavirus.

My friends Virgil Walker and Daryl Bernard Harrison, who are co-hosts of the Just Thinking podcast. And I believe I already mentioned our guest today, Scott Brown is on the lineup. The theme is the sovereignty of God, and it's going to be held September 21st through the 23rd.

Do you know yet what subheading your message or messages will be underneath that main theme of the sovereignty of God?

Yes, I've been given an assignment to preach about teaching your children the sovereignty of God, and I can't wait to give that message. And by the way, Chris, you may not remember this, but the first time I met you was at.

G3.

Yeah, I can see you at your booth, and we had a brief conversation. But isn't this such a marvelous conference?

Oh, yeah. My favorite.

These brothers, they're shaking. You know, they're really shaking. I think they're shaking evangelicalism. But what I love about these brothers who preach is they really do believe Scripture is sufficient.

Amen.

And they're bold, and they're clear. And I'm just so delighted that they're doing it, and that I can even come and play a small part.

Amen. Well, if anybody wants more information about this conference, the G3 National Conference, which is held September 21st through the 23rd, that's a Thursday through Saturday, in Atlanta, Georgia, go to g3men .org, g3men .org, and you'll be hearing more details during the commercials that they air during this broadcast every single day.

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Well, we have a custom on Iron Trip and Zion Radio, whenever we have a first-time guest, Scott, and that is, we have that guest give a summary of their salvation testimony, including any kind of religious atmosphere they may have been raised in, and how our Sovereign Lord rose up providential circumstances in their lives that led them to Himself and saved them.

And so let's hear your story.

Oh, thank you so much. I'm so thankful for the Lord Jesus and His mercy on me. I was a young teenager in Southern California. I grew up in Southern California, there in the Orange County area. And our family, my father's father, my grandfather was a Methodist minister.

He was a liberal Methodist minister. But so my family ended up in a Methodist church. It was a liberal Methodist church in Fullerton, California. And it was, but my father became dissatisfied with what was going on there.

This was the Vietnam War era. You know, young men were going to war. The pastors were literally telling the young men to sleep with as many women as they could before they went to Vietnam in case they died.

Wow.

You know, I was in the junior high group, and our junior high Sunday school class, we would analyze Bob Dylan songs. So not a lot of Bible, a lot of liberalism. But my dad, my dad took us out of that church, and he took us to a Bible preaching church.

At the same time, my dad was teaching school there in Fullerton with a man who was a Christian. And this man invited our family to come study the Gospel of John in his house. So we would just read the Gospel of John.

You know, I was very young, and I remember those times. And then, you know, God was really working in my life during that time. And then, you know what it was like? God was sort of pulling in a rope slowly.

I don't know exactly when I was saved. I was saved in some season of time, you know, in my early teens. And it just occurred to me, Lord, I'm here. I don't want to go any other way. And then I was in high school, and there was a big revival going on on my high school campus.

Actually, Bill Bright wrote about it in one of his books called Come Change the World. The drug revolution was rolling really hard there in Orange County. And, you know, the effects of that on our high school campus were remarkable.

But at the same time, God sent missionaries from Campus Crusade for Christ on my high school campus. And they were evangelizing. And there was a tremendous harvest there. At the same time, what people call the Jesus Movement was launching.

And thousands of young people were being saved in Southern California. I'm pretty sure it was the greatest revival that the United States has seen since the Great Awakening. Everywhere you would go, people were arguing about Jesus.

It was such a remarkable time. And I know there was a recent movie, The Jesus Revolution. I've seen it. And it just brought back so many memories. I was in all those places that are in that film. At Calvary Chapel, the little building they were in, and then in the end, the baptisms at Pirate's Cove.

I was there. I saw all that stuff. And it was just such a remarkable time. I left Southern California about 30 years ago. But Southern California is the place of my salvation. But what happened, my dad took us to a church where the pastor preached the Word of God.

He was an expository preacher. And he really took me under his wing. And I'm so thankful for that man. And he taught me. In fact, I was with him the other day. He's in his 90s. And I told him, I said, John, his name is John Tabe.

I said, John, everything I'm doing today has its roots in what you taught me.

Everything.

And so I'm just so grateful for that. And he encouraged me to go to seminary. I went to Talbot Seminary in La Mirada, California. I majored in history in college at Cal State Fullerton. And then I went to Talbot Seminary.

And there was a great harvest during that time in Southern California. And I was caught up in it. What a wonderful thing for me.

Well, praise God for that. And what were the circumstances involving you coming to discover and embrace Reformed theology?

Well, I kind of embraced a lot of Reformed theology and didn't know it. My pastor loved Jonathan Edwards. My pastor preached the sovereignty of God all the time. But there was a moment. I must have been 16 or 17.

He put a book in my hand called The Sovereignty of God by A .W. Pink. And I read that book. I read the first few chapters. Then I came to him and I said, this can't be true. God is not like this. He said, Scott, just keep reading.

Just keep reading. And by the time I got almost to the end of that book, I realized I didn't really know a God that was so sovereign. And since then, of course, that doctrine has been such a sweetness and such a help in every stage of my life.

And so I think that that was really the beginning. But it wasn't really until the mid -90s. I was part of planting a church here in Wake Forest. And I read a book by David Wells called God of the Wasteland.

And our church was very enmeshed in the seeker-sensitive movement. And I realized what I think I realized what was happening to the church as a result of really rejecting sound doctrine. And I ended up reading the Puritans.

And that was when things really became clear to me about Reformed theology. I think that was deepened during the mid and late -1990s for me.

I know of at least two pastors who trace their conversion over to belief in the doctrines of sovereign grace, a .k .a. Reformed theology, a .k .a. Calvinism, by reading A .W. Pink's book, The Sovereignty of God.

And on both of those occasions, the men first hated what they were reading. And on both of those occasions described how they threw the book across the room. And then later became overwhelmed with curiosity to go search for the book.

At one time, one of the men said, crawling underneath a bed filled with dust on the floor and searching through the dust bunnies to find the book. And they both came from the point of hating what Pink was saying to the point of loving and proclaiming and declaring what Pink was saying.

Whenever I visit an Arminian pastor and I glance over at his bookshelf and see things written by A .W. Pink there, I always grin and think to myself, oh, it won't be long now.

Right, right. I have given that book away so many times. When a young man or woman comes to me and says, what do I need to do to prepare for marriage? The first thing that comes to mind is you must read A .W. Pink so that you won't be wringing your hands for the rest of your life with your spouse and the things that happen to you.

It's one of the most helpful preparation tools for young people for marriage.

Amen. But we have to go to our first break right now. If you have a question for Pastor Scott T. Brown, our email address is chrisarnzen at gmail dot com. C-H-R-I-S-A-R-N-Z-E-N at gmail dot com.

Our theme is the chief end of man, glorifying God in your body, your family and your church. But we will, since Pastor Brown is a pastor, we will welcome other questions that involve pastoral counsel and advice.

Please give us your first name, city and state and country of residence. And if it is an anonymous question you intend to send, make sure it is a question that is personal and private. If it's not personal and private, please at least give us your first name, city and state and country of residence.

The email address again is chrisarnzen at gmail dot com. C-H-R-I-S-A-R-N-Z-E-N at gmail dot com. Don't go away. We're going to be right back with Scott T. Brown and the chief end of man, glorifying God in your body, your family and your church.

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Welcome back. This is Chris Arnson of Iron Sharp and Zion Radio. Our guest today, if you just tuned us in, is Scott T. Brown, President of the Church and Family Life and Pastor at Hope Baptist Church of Wake Forest, North Carolina.

We are discussing the Chief End of Man, glorifying God in your body, your family, and your church. We're also announcing and promoting the Chief End of Man Conference and the 2023 G3 National Conference.

And we'll remind you about those two important events later on. Pastor Brown, the Chief End of Man, obviously anybody who is Reformed will immediately recognize that phrase from the Shorter Catechism.

The first question of the Shorter Catechism, what is the Chief End of Man? And the answer is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. It seems that many of our Reformed folks, our fellow Reformed Christians, forget about the enjoying part.

But tell us about specifically what the phrase means, glorifying God.

Well, it's interesting. I was just recently reading Fisher's Catechism. And Fisher's Catechism talks about these two things in the same way that the Westminster does. But you talked about enjoying God.

And in Fisher's Catechism, the authors make it clear that man's true happiness comes in glorifying God. And man cannot be truly happy unless he is glorifying God. And so glorifying God and enjoying Him forever is really the essence of what it means to be a human being, to be made in the image of God and to function under God's government.

You know, God shows us how to live. He teaches us how to function in the world. And this question in the Catechism is so pivotal because it helps you to understand how to function in every part of your life, during every season of your life, in every circumstance, trial, difficulty in your life.

It's sort of the heart of the Christian life.

Amen. And specifically the body, one's own body. Tell us some ways in which we as Christians not only do glorify God with our bodies, but also, more importantly, why we must glorify God with our bodies.

I would start with the proposition that God gives us bodies that are eternal. Our physical bodies are eternal in nature. And the Bible makes it very clear that our bodies will be raised up on the last day.

And our bodies will be raised up either to eternal life or to eternal damnation. So what we do in the body determines everything about our eternity. God puts us in these vessels called bodies, and they are the ways that God glorifies himself in the world.

He does it through bodies. So the importance of the body cannot be underestimated. I think many Christians don't understand that God will raise up their body and it will be their body that will exist either in heaven or hell.

In hell to be tormented everlastingly, or in heaven to find the pleasures of God unending for all eternity. So I think I would start there. Why have you been given a body? And you've been given a body because it is the instrument that God has ordained for you to function in the world.

And there is a term that you will very often hear. Christians cite that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, if you could be more specific in detail about what exactly that means.