November 22, 2019 Show with Geoff Thomas on “How Can I Please God in Everything?”

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November 25, 2019

November 22, 2019 Rev. GEOFF THOMAS, who, beginning in 1965, served for over 50 years as pastor @ Alfred Place Baptist Church of Aberystwyth, Wales, will address: “HOW CAN I PLEASE GOD IN EVERYTHING?”

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01:19: This is Chris Arnzen, your host of Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, wishing you all a happy Friday on this 22nd day of November 2019.
01:27: And we are thrilled to have back for the second day in a row, Reverend Jeff Thomas, who, beginning in 1965, served for over 50 years as pastor at Alfred Place Baptist Church of Aberystwyth, Wales, and today we are going to be addressing his new booklet published by Reformation Heritage Books, How Can I Please God in Everything?
01:52: And this is a part of Reformation Heritage Books' Cultivating Biblical Godliness series.
01:58: And it's my honor and privilege and joy to welcome you back for the second day in a row, Reverend Jeff Thomas.
02:06: It's an honor to be with you, my dear friend. Amen. And for some reason, the clarity and crystal clearness of your phone connection is light years better than yesterday.
02:17: I don't know why. Well, I haven't been gargling anyway. Well, we did this yesterday, but there may be some who have tuned in to our interview for the first time and did not hear you yesterday.
02:33: Can you please let our listeners know something about Alfred Place Baptist Church of Aberystwyth, Wales, where you served for over 50 years as pastor?
02:41: Well, yeah, I was... My mother was a believer, my father, weaker, but all going to church.
02:50: I was saved in ordinary conversion, 1954, one
02:55: Sunday night. I knew that the Lord had loved me and given himself for me.
03:01: From that time, I sought Christian fellowship, read Christian books, went to university, and then went on to seminary at Westminster.
03:10: Graduated in 64 and 65. They called me to this university town, 20 ,000 people, 10 ,000 of whom are students, and went to the church there, and we began to reform and revive the work of God in that place.
03:31: And my three daughters loved it, my wife loved it, her only sister lived there, and we were very happy there for 50 years.
03:41: So then, you know, I was approaching 80, and it was time then for me to retire and to do other things.
03:52: And I married again when my first wife died, and I'm happily married to Barbara now, and we live in London, and we travel, and we're coming to New York in a month's time, and we're going to see you then.
04:13: We're looking forward to that. Yes, that's the Foundations Conference in New York City, Thursday and Friday, December 19th and 20th, and we will be giving you more details on that momentarily.
04:25: But it is such a providential blessing to hear of your second marriage, after your first wife went home to eternity with Christ.
04:34: This friend of yours, Barbara, has been a longtime friend, I understand, and she never married until she married you, which is quite remarkable.
04:43: It is remarkable, yes. I won't make any jokes about that. Well, if anybody is ever going to be either visiting
04:55: Aberystwyth Wells, or you have family, friends, and loved ones near there, the website for Alfred Place Baptist Church is alfredplacechurch .org
05:05: .uk, alfredplacechurch .org .uk. And I can tell, or perhaps
05:12: I'm wrong, but I'm fairly certain from your accent that you are not a native Welsh brother in Christ.
05:20: You are from England, aren't you, originally? No, but my three years in Philadelphia gave me a mid -Atlantic tinge to my accent.
05:31: Oh, so you are Welsh? Yes, I'm Welsh, and I speak Welsh and preach in Welsh, too, as I did at a ministers' conference in Ballach just a month ago, gave two messages in the old
05:44: Welsh language. And now, which Westminster seminary did you attend?
05:51: Oh, Philadelphia. Walt Chantry and I were students together there. Oh, the pastor of the church where I am now a member for 40 years before retiring.
06:02: Yes, I'm a member of Grace Baptist Church here in Carlisle. There we are, there we are. I love to preach there.
06:08: It's a lovely congregation to visit. And, yeah, I've known all your previous ministers.
06:15: Now, how did you get a British accent from going to seminary in the United States? Well, I think just trying to articulate and to communicate.
06:29: And I've been three times in America this year, and you need then to be able to speak lucidly and clearly that people in your great country can understand.
06:48: Okay, great. Well, the book that we are addressing today is
06:54: How Can I Please God in Everything? And it's an interesting title because the booklet is a very brief booklet.
07:00: How can you fit everything in there? Yes, quite so. Well, it came to me when
07:06: I was reading 2 Corinthians 5 and I came to verse 9.
07:13: So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it, alive or dead.
07:23: We make it our goal to please him. And that's what
07:29: I thought about. And, you know, Chris, you meet these summaries that just simplify and compress the
07:40: Christian message. For example, three things
07:46: I want to put on the epitaph, on my gravestone, under the reference to my wife who is there already, and there's a space, and I want nine words, three things to be said in that space.
08:04: Firstly, God created me. Secondly, sin ruined me.
08:11: Thirdly, grace restored me. And there it is. Amen.
08:16: A summary like that of the gospel, or, you know, there's
08:21: John Wesley, the sevenfold exhortation, the famous exhortation he gave to Christians about living the
08:31: Christian life. He said, do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, to all the people you can, at all the times you can, as long as ever you can.
08:55: And that's a brilliant summary again, isn't it, Chris, of how we should be pleasing
09:02: God in everything. Amen. And I'm going to give our listeners our e -mail address right now.
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09:33: I want to thank you so much from the very depths of my heart, Reverend Thomas, for the wonderful commendation that you wrote for Iron Trip and Zion Radio, which is now proudly adorning my website in the commendation section, along with your photograph.
09:49: And it's a commendation I will certainly treasure as one of my most valuable commendations
09:55: I have ever received, and so thorough and lengthy and just very heart -moving and so on.
10:05: I just really thank you, and I can't thank you enough. Well, it was spoken and written sincerely enough.
10:13: You have the grace to relax the people you invite to appear on this program, and you make it easy for us to speak about our
10:27: Savior to all who listen. Amen. Thank you so much. One of the things
10:33: I wanted to ask you about this booklet, How Can I Please God and Everything, although it is probably a minority view today in the 21st century because of, unfortunately, the sins of easy believism and cheap grace and licentious living by many who profess to be
10:57: Christians, even who are in the pulpit. And although this is not what
11:06: I'm going to say a dominant problem, as it may have been years ago, in fact it was without question quite a while ago, but there were churches, as you know, and they still exist, where legalism is so heavy that pleasing
11:23: God and everything to some people is an arduous and nightmarish and depressing journey where they are on a treadmill in their minds trying to please
11:36: God, and they are failing over and over again, and they feel as if God has abandoned them, or they feel that if they are not performing to maximum capacity,
11:47: God will abandon them. Can you give our listeners, especially those who are among the minority today who are underneath that error of thinking, to give them assurance that this is not what you are trying to promote in this booklet where you are trying to instill fear, although there is a need for a
12:12: God -fearing mindset in all of us, but at the same time we shouldn't be living in constant terror, constantly thinking that we are displeasing
12:22: God. If you could perhaps elaborate on what I just said. Well, you know the
12:28: Pauline approach and our Lord's approach to the
12:34: Christian life. There are two halves of it. There is firstly all that Jesus Christ has accomplished by his
12:45: Incarnation, by his righteous life, by making atonement for our sins, by becoming the
12:52: Lamb of God and dealing with our guilt, by propitiating the wrath of a sin -hating
13:00: God, by giving himself in our place, penally, as our substitute, to reconcile the
13:12: God who hates sin to people who drink sin like water. And he has done that as the infinite eternal one who has taken frail flesh and lived amongst us and died for us.
13:30: He has then paid the price, cleared the guilt and the shame, dealt with it.
13:40: And the consequences of that then, you know what Isaac Watts says, this love so amazing, so divine, it makes demands.
13:50: It demands my soul, my life, my all. I please God in everything then because of what he has done for me.
13:59: And so you have the letter to the Romans, 11 chapters, describing the glorious accomplishments of Jesus Christ.
14:08: And then you have chapter 12, Therefore, in the light of all this, what are we to do?
14:14: We present our bodies as living sacrifices to him, as our spiritual worship, as our reasonable service.
14:22: And then 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, those chapters are full of practical counsel, specifying the consequences of living with Christ, having illimitable access to an indwelling
14:42: Savior, so that we can say, I can do these things.
14:48: I can do all things through Christ, all that he demands of me. The Christian life is not hopelessly idealistic, so that we just admire it and think it's impossible to live like that.
15:02: No, we can do it. He can enable us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling, so that we can please
15:12: God in all the things that he wants. We can climb any mountain.
15:22: We can ford any river in flood. We can overcome any temptation.
15:28: We can carry any burden. We can do so because it is
15:34: I, but no longer I. Christ lives in me.
15:40: And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me, so that there's no excuse for us sinning, and no excuse for us to say, well, that's just impossible.
15:58: The Lord Jesus was an archetypal man, God's great definition of what a man is.
16:07: He was bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, but look how he lived, and we're told he left us an example that we should walk in his steps.
16:20: So we can do it. We can please God in everything.
16:25: And we do it then. He makes us willing. He gives us a desire.
16:32: He gives us grace to believe that though we, at the end of every day, we have to say,
16:40: I'm sorry, Lord, about today. I'm sorry that I was so foolish, that I hurt the people who love me the most.
16:48: I'm sorry. Please forgive me. We have to say that every day, and we believe where our sin abounds,
16:57: God's grace much more is abundant and forgives and picks us up seven times a day when we fall and helps us.
17:07: So there is no need for us to say, oh, I can't go on like this.
17:17: I can't live the Christian life. I sin too much. Of course we sin.
17:22: And as we go on in the Christian life, we realize more and more just how sinful we are.
17:28: But we, by the grace of God, find abundant pardon.
17:37: And marvelous mercy comes to us to help us and keep us day by day.
17:43: Amen. We have an anonymous listener. The anonymous listener asks,
17:49: I have Roman Catholic friends and family members, as well as those who are in extreme
17:56: Pentecostal churches, who tell me that the only way anyone will maintain an obedient life is if they are fearful of losing their salvation.
18:08: Because doing good works, if they not have some sort of merit behind them entering into heaven, they are useless and unnecessary.
18:19: Can you give me some advice on how to answer these friends and family members who believe that only the fear of losing your salvation will enable you to maintain good works throughout your life?
18:33: Well, it seems to me transparently clear in the
18:39: New Testament that someone that God has loved from all eternity, that he has given to his son,
18:47: Jesus Christ, to live for and die for, whom he prays for at God's right hand, that Jesus says, no man shall pluck them out of my hand.
19:04: That the apostle says, nothing can separate us from the love of God, which is in Jesus Christ, our
19:12: Lord. There's a golden chain of salvation that whom God foreknew, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son.
19:24: These things are transparently clear and affirmed again and again. Now, not all who make a profession, the parable of the sower makes that transparently clear.
19:39: There's some initial response, which is emotional and brief.
19:46: There is another response that is longer lasting, but it comes to an end.
19:54: The weeds, the cares of this world take us away from trusting in the
20:00: Lord. So not all who profess, not all who say,
20:05: Lord, Lord, are going to go to heaven. So I'm not saying one saved, always saved, but I'm saying all those into whose life a new birth has come, who've been given a new heart, who have been joined to Jesus Christ with bonds that nothing can break, that such will be kept by God.
20:35: And that means then we say, Lord, I made a mess of things.
20:43: I've been prodigal. I've gone off and I'm now eating the stuff that the pigs eat in a distant country.
20:51: But you're so loving a father, and you can forgive me. And we go and we say how sorry we are.
21:01: And we say to the people that we've heard, how sorry we are. And there is restoring grace to God.
21:10: And that comes from the confidence we have that what Jesus has said, that if he begins a good work in us, he will continue and perform that work until the day when we see him.
21:25: We have to trust him. And our encouragement then isn't that we go to hell, we can lose our salvation.
21:35: Our encouragement is that he will keep me fast because he loves me so much.
21:44: He will hold me tight in his arms, and he'll draw me back, and he'll lift me up, and he'll help me in the
21:54: Christian life. Amen. And just to clarify something,
22:01: I know that you said just moments ago that you do not like the phrase, or you didn't phrase it exactly as I am saying it now, but you dismissed the concept of once saved, always saved.
22:15: Now, I know that being a thoroughgoing Calvinist that you are, that you believe in perseverance and preservation of the saints, which is the name or title for the doctrine of the inability for a true
22:28: Christian to lose his or her salvation. We prefer that title because it's more descriptive and sufficient in what we believe about that issue.
22:40: But would you say that the reason why you and many other theologically reformed
22:45: Christians do not like the once saved, always saved title for this is because it gives the impression that once you think you're saved, you really are saved and always will be.
22:58: And that's where the problem comes in, is where people think they're saved very often because they've been told that by going forward at an invitation, at a crusade, or after a worship service.
23:11: But in reality, they're just as lost as they were before they started walking down that aisle.
23:17: Am I right? Is this your concern with that phrase, once saved, always saved? That is exactly it,
23:23: Chris. That sums up my concern about, once you've made a decision, you're all right.
23:32: That people are understanding it in that way. I walked the aisle, I raised my hand, the bishop put his hands on my head,
23:42: I took the wafer, I knelt down at the penitence bench, and because I did,
23:49: I did those things once on a day, some years ago, I'm all right.
23:55: I don't have to worry about anything else. The Bible says, work out your salvation with fear and trembling, because God is working in you.
24:07: It's like a lovely story, a lovely illustration, which
24:12: Peter Jeffery, who's been on this program, the late Peter Jeffery, had a wonderful facility with illustration.
24:19: And he talks about a drowning man, and how
24:24: God pulls him ashore, but the shore is a steep cliff, and Christ is at the top of the cliff, and he lets down a rope, and he ties that rope around this weak, drowning man's chest.
24:48: And he says to him, now you climb, and I will pull.
24:55: And that's what God says to every single Christian, from the time he delivers him from the fearful pit of guilt and shame, and the mirey clay, and sets their feet on the rock, now there's a journey.
25:11: There's a great mountain that we have to climb. There's a path that goes through giant despair's castle, and vanity fair, and fighting with Apollyon, and the swamp of doubt.
25:31: And he says, keep going now, keep going. As you keep going,
25:36: I'll be there. I'll be strengthening you. I'll be helping you. And it's that battle, it's that fight of faith, that seems to me to be totally ignored, if you've just said, well, if you've been saved, then it's all right forever.
25:52: It's all right forever if we keep day by day looking to him and saying, Lord, help me now.
25:59: Give me grace now. Help me in the broadcast. Help me to think clearly.
26:05: Help me with Barbara. Help me to show my love for my wife, and be more patient and sweet, and help me to be a good witness to Jesus Christ.
26:17: Help me to kill remaining sin. Help me to pray more than I do, and more earnestly.
26:23: Help me to be unashamed of the gospel, and to give a reason to anyone that asks me to be ready, to give a reason to anyone who asks me.
26:34: And it's that spirit of holy desire to please him that are the marks, then, of the person who's truly been saved by grace.
26:49: Amen. And when we come back from our very first break that we have to go to momentarily, I'd like you to give us some practical counsel on how a
26:59: Christian can better serve Christ and please Him in everything that we do every day.
27:06: And obviously, knowing that we are all sinners, this side of glory, and we will never completely successfully please
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33:58: Welcome back. This is Chris Arnzen. If you just tuned us in today, our guest for the full two hours, and this is the second day in a row that we have our dear brother
34:08: Jeff Thomas on the program. Jeff Thomas, who was until recent retirement pastor of Alfred Place Baptist Church of Aberystwyth, Wales, and for 50 years he served there, and very rarely do you ever hear of a pastor serving the same church for that many decades, and now he is blessing the body of Christ as an itinerant evangelist, a conference speaker, an author, and we are in such a state of joy to have him for two days in a row here on Iron Sharpens Iron Radio.
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35:01: And as I said before the break, Reverend Thomas, I asked you if you could please give us perhaps some practical counsel, advice on improving our walk with Christ, making it more pleasing to him, as is the theme of your booklet
35:18: How Can I Please God and Everything? Okay, I'd love to do that. Thank you for asking me.
35:24: There's nothing I'd rather talk about now than those things. Firstly, sit under the best ministry you can so that you're hearing the word of God preached and applied, correcting, instructing, encouraging you.
35:43: Read the best books. This publishing house,
35:50: Reformation Heritage Books, Bible Truth Books, excellent publishers.
35:56: Read the books they publish. I have to throw in there solid ground Christian books since they're a sponsor of the program,
36:01: Mike Adosh's ministry. You really need to do that, thank you. That's exactly it.
36:09: And keep the best company that you can. People who grow wise do so by mixing with wise people.
36:22: Then, secondly, consider often the four last things, death, judgment, heaven, and hell.
36:30: Consider them because they are before you. They are tomorrow, maybe literally tomorrow.
36:38: Our life goes by like a weaver's shutter, the Bible says, like a dream.
36:44: It's gone. When I was a little boy, eight years of age,
36:50: I would think 80 was just a huge span of time away.
36:56: I want to say to you, it's a moment. Thirdly, get the right of your life from the
37:06: Son of Righteousness, from Jesus Christ who said, I'm the light of the world.
37:11: I was speaking to my dear cousin. He's a carpenter. He's not a Christian, but I write to him and speak to him.
37:19: And I had a meeting on. I said, I've got to go now. I put my coat on. I've got to preach at half past seven.
37:26: Tonight, it was a Wednesday special meeting. And just as I was doing that, he said to me, what do you say to a man who says to you,
37:37: I've seen the light? What does it mean when he says to you, I've seen the light? Oh, why didn't he ask me that question an hour earlier?
37:45: I had a minute before I had to jump in the car and shoot off to preach.
37:52: I said to him, here's a man who has seen that Jesus Christ is the light of the world.
37:59: And the darkness that was in his mind, that was in his understanding has started to disappear as he understands who
38:07: God is, why the world is in this state it's in, how he can be changed, how he can be lifted up.
38:16: Get the light for your life from the light of the world. Fourthly, be willing to do without what
38:26: God is unwilling to give you or what he has been unwilling to give you so far.
38:33: You know, when we ask God for something, we believe as Christians, he either gives us what we ask for or he gives us something better.
38:47: So, be willing to do without what God has been unwilling to give you.
38:53: Fifthly, crucify your sins that have crucified your Savior.
38:58: Don't give them tidbits. Don't go to that website. Don't read that magazine.
39:06: Beware of those things. Rather, put them to death because they put to death you
39:13: Lord and Savior. Sixthly, bless God most of all.
39:20: Not your church, not your pastor, not your family, but say thank you
39:26: God at the end of every day because he's been the author of all the good things.
39:32: He's blessed you the most. Seventhly, don't be afraid of men. Ha! What are men?
39:40: They are shrimps. We are. They just live a little while and they die and they are weak, but our, our
39:50: King, the Son of Man, he is all -powerful. Amen. Eighth, keep closest to the choicest truths, the great truths.
40:01: Don't major in the minors. Don't be fussed about arguments about the millennium and the great tribulations that lie before us, difficult things, perplexing things.
40:16: Keep close to who God is, infinite, eternal, unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth and Jesus Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King, the
40:31: Holy Spirit, the Life -Giver, the Sanctifier. Keep close to those truths. Nine, know yourself.
40:39: And you know yourself by going to the Bible. It's a mirror and it shows us who we are.
40:47: Show me myself and show me my Savior, you say as you read the
40:52: Bible. Ten, do good in the world with the goods of this world.
40:58: Remember the three exaltations of John Wesley. Earn all you can.
41:04: Give all you can. Save all you can. Do good in the world with the goods of this world.
41:12: Eleven, improve the time. It's used only for a time.
41:20: This day will never be repeated. This year, how speedily it's gone by.
41:26: A new year will begin. Make your days count for Jesus.
41:32: Twelve, learn humility from Christ's humility. He was the infinite and eternal and all -glorious
41:41: God. And yet He spotted the stinking feet. And He got the jug of water and the towel and washed twenty full feet, shaming the men who it was too much for them to do that.
41:58: Thirteen, be a thorough Christian. This one thing I do, make your life count for Jesus Christ.
42:07: Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Fourteen, give God your heart in all you do.
42:16: Your leisure, your pursuits, your hobbies, the necessary work that you have to do in the home every day.
42:30: Give God your heart in all those things. Fifteen, use
42:35: God's means, but don't idolize them. Oh, thank God that you've got a mind.
42:42: Thank God that you're physically strong enough to do what you can. Thank God that you've got a brotherhood of men that you can go off with and have breakfast with and you think the word of them.
42:56: Don't make idols of them. Thank God for the means he's given to help you. Take nothing on trust but all on trial from men.
43:07: We've all been hurt by men. By men we regarded highly and thought they were godlike, that they let us down.
43:21: You be wise in your relationships with men.
43:28: Seventeen, take those reproofs best that you need the most. We all need exhortations about patience and about gentleness and kindness and forgiveness and all the humblings that God brings into our lives.
43:50: Take them. You need them. Eighteen, strive more for inward holiness than outward happiness.
44:00: So often our hearts break and then the one comfort
44:07: I get is that God can use these testings to make me wean me from the world and give me more and more anticipation for a better world, a new heavens and a new earth where righteousness dwells.
44:26: Strive for that inward peace. Nineteen, live in love.
44:32: Love is the greatest of all. You know in counseling when people are having a rough time in their marriages.
44:43: Oh, explain to them what love is and what God can do in shedding his love upon our hearts.
44:53: And don't love in word only, but love in deed. And finally, set out for God when you begin.
45:02: Set out saying, this one thing, I will set the
45:07: Lord at my right hand. Always he'll be there at my right hand. When I begin, I take my first steps with my
45:15: Savior and I hold on to him with God until the very end.
45:22: Every day when I get up, you know, John Stott would sit on the edge of his bed and he'd give his mind to God and he'd give his affections and he'd give his strength and he'd give his arms and his legs and he'd present his body and he'd give it to God.
45:38: And that's where we begin the day every day. And we hold on to God until the end.
45:47: So those would be some practical counsels I would give that would help us to please
45:55: God in everything. Wow. That would be a phenomenal poster, a really large poster to put, that list
46:04: I mean, to put even on your door, the inside of your door before you leave your home every day or even on your ceiling above your bed or somewhere in your prayer closet wherever you have a prayer closet.
46:18: That is an extraordinary list that everyone should live by. And we do have another anonymous listener who says, for the benefit of our gatherings over Thanksgiving, I was wondering what counsel you might provide on how we can maintain a godly, warm, loving and welcoming manner with our friends and loved ones with whom we will be gathering, but at the same time not appear as if we are approving of or accepting some of their absolutely abhorrent ideology that may even be so dark it's on the level of being satanic.
46:56: I am thinking of people in our family that may be zealous pro -abortion activists and things like that.
47:04: How can we maintain a warm, friendly and even irenic and joyful atmosphere in our homes when we may even involuntarily have discussions about these things?
47:19: Well, my brother, you have the same Heavenly Father that I have and you pull that out before Him and you say,
47:29: Lord, help me. Give me much wisdom. Give me much patience. Help me to be a natural human being and to take pleasure in the gifts of creation that you have so abundantly given to us.
47:52: A lovely meal and delight in family fun together.
47:57: A few games that we play together. The pleasure of companionship and you start with that and your eyes, although they are there looking at these friends around and seeing how they behave, your eyes are always kept on Jesus.
48:26: Keep your turn your eyes upon Jesus. That's what you do.
48:33: The one who died for you and rose for you and now is praying for you and he's saying,
48:41: Father, here's one of the children you gave me that I've saved and I'm looking after and he's got some problems at the present time, this day, the other day.
48:55: He's not where he would like to be and the conversation isn't always what pleases him.
49:01: Give him sweetness and grace, a forgiving spirit, a holy righteousness so that these men, when they would tell stories that are unseemly and cruel and thoughtless, that they are checked so that the atmosphere and the holy fun that you have with one another at such a lovely time as Thanksgiving, that that is maintained and they look forward to coming again.
49:37: We so rarely have a chance of meeting some relations and Thanksgiving is one of them and you don't want the reputation of a killjoy.
49:49: You also don't want the reputation of someone who is praising the virtues but practicing the vices.
50:02: We hate sin and we we ask
50:08: God to help us to be like Jesus to be as holy and as approachable and as loving and as zealous for the honor of God as He was.
50:25: The Lord help you and He will as He has so far.
50:53: Because he brought our dear brother up before. Our dear brother who is in eternity with Christ right now.
50:59: By Jeff Thomas and cvbbs .com
51:04: We'll ship that out to you at no cost to you or to IronTroopersIron and we thank
51:10: Reformation Heritage Books for providing us with these copies of this excellent booklet and I would like to ask you a couple of follow -up questions on that excellent question that our anonymous listener submitted and perhaps
51:26: I'll start with one and you can answer it when we come back from the break because we have to go to our midway station break but is it our duty as a
51:36: Christian if we are gathered with loved ones who are lost, is it our duty to be constantly rebuking them and correcting them for instance if they're peppering their conversation with a long stream of profanities perhaps is once perhaps enough to say could you please refrain from that kind of talk during the meal or should we say anything at all in that regard to act in their minds as if we are holier than thou but we'll have you answer that and my other question that I that came to my mind when reading the anonymous listener's question and we're going to our midway break right now and please folks remember this is a required longer break than normal that we have that is a requirement of the
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55:28: G3 conference together in Atlanta, Georgia, Thursday, January 16th through Saturday, January 18th, on a theme that is vitally important to all of us,
55:37: Worship Matters. I'll be on the speaking lineup with Eric Thomas, Joel Beeky, Paul Washer, Steve Lawson, Phil Johnson, Tom Askell, Voti Balcom, and the world -renowned preacher, teacher, and author,
55:48: John MacArthur. A fascinating new addition to the roster is Kosti Hinn, nephew of the notorious false teacher,
55:55: Benny Hinn. Kosti has repented of the word -faith heresies of his youth, and is now a Reformed Baptist pastor and cessationist in California.
56:04: Come join me and Chris Arnson at G3 2020, January 16th through the 18th in Atlanta by registering at g3conference .com
56:13: That's g3conference .com See you there! As host of Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, I frequently get requests from listeners for church recommendations.
56:40: A church I've been strongly recommending as far back as the 1980s is Grace Covenant Baptist Church in Flemington, New Jersey, pastored by Alan Dunn.
56:50: Grace Covenant Baptist Church believes it's God's prerogative to determine how He shall be worshipped and how
56:55: He shall be represented in the world. They believe churches need to turn to the Bible to discover what to include in worship, and how to worship
57:04: God in spirit and truth. Grace Covenant Baptist Church endeavors to maintain a
57:09: God -centered focus. Reading, preaching, and hearing the word of God, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, baptism, and communion are the scriptural elements of their corporate worship, performed with faith, joy, and sobriety.
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58:30: I believe this podcast needs to be heard far and wide. This is a day of great spiritual compromise, and yet God has raised
58:37: Chris up for just such a time. And knowing this, it's up to us as members of the Body of Christ to stand with such a ministry in prayer and in finances.
58:46: I'm pleased to do so, and would like to ask you to prayerfully consider joining me in supporting
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59:18: Sovereign God that while manning an exhibitors booth for Iron Sharpens Iron, a major Bible conference, I providentially met
59:24: Pastor Andrew Smith of Christ Reformed Community Church just south of Jacksonville, Florida, right off I -95 in St.
59:32: Johns County. Andrew is certainly the kind of pastor that is a perfect match for my radio show and has already proven to be an ideal guest.
59:41: Christ Reformed Community Church shares my conviction that God is both creator and sustainer of the universe.
59:48: He rules and reigns providentially over our lives. He directs not only the historical events of the world, but also the personal events of individuals.
59:58: I agree with Christ Reformed Community Church that the very purpose of the church is to make disciples, that we are tasked with the responsibility to evangelize locally, nationally, and globally, and that we are to equip the saints for the work of service.
01:00:12: Unlike the man -centered, seeker -sensitive movement, they do not gauge the success of biblical discipleship by how many people are in a church, but by the faithful ministry of God's Word and Gospel.
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01:04:47: It's such a joy to witness and experience fellowship with people of God, like the dear saints at Hope Reformed Baptist Church in Corham, who have an intensely passionate desire to continue digging deeper and deeper into the unfathomable riches of Christ in his
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01:11:56: God in everything, or how can I please God in everything, we have just a couple of announcements in regard to special events, and one of them includes an event where Brother Jeff Thomas will be preaching this
01:12:10: December, next month, Thursday and Friday, December 19th and 20th in Manhattan.
01:12:16: I am so excited to be once again sitting at the feet of this brother as he preaches as I intend to be there.
01:12:25: I've already registered for the Foundations Conference, and I just can't wait to be there, especially since it's being held in the heart of the
01:12:32: Christmas season, and I can't think of anywhere I'd rather be for at least a portion of the Christmas season than Manhattan, and this is only for men in ministry leadership.
01:12:43: So, if you are a man in ministry leadership, please register if you'd like to join me there,
01:12:49: December 19th and 20th in Manhattan for the Foundations Conference. The speakers include Stephen J.
01:12:54: Lawson, Paul Washer, as I said before, Rev. Jeff Thomas, Rev. Armin Tomasian, who is an unknown jewel.
01:13:02: He is known, I think, very well amongst those brethren in his own denomination where he serves as a pastor, the
01:13:10: Free Presbyterian Church of North America, but outside of those circles, I think he is relatively unknown, and he is absolutely extraordinary, and I think he's going to become a household name amongst
01:13:21: Reformed Christians in a much broader sense than his own denomination within the next decade.
01:13:28: He is just extraordinary. Richard Colwell, Jr. and Andrew Quigley are two men I'm looking forward to hear preach because I've never heard them preach before, and I'm assuming,
01:13:38: I think with an educated presumption, that they are also magnificent preachers because sermonaudio .com
01:13:45: selected them to speak at this conference, and they are very rightfully fussy and finicky, and they guard their pulpit very carefully when they have public events to represent who they are.
01:14:00: So I'm waiting, I'm expecting a huge blessing from those two brethren as well.
01:14:07: If you want to join me at the Foundations Conference, Thursday and Friday, December 19th and 20th in New York City, if you are a man in ministry leadership, the website is thefoundationsconference .com,
01:14:18: thefoundationsconference .com. Then also in January, from Thursday, January 16th through Saturday, January 18th,
01:14:26: I am going to be once again present at the G3 Conference, God willing. The G3 Conference, which stands for Gospel, Grace, and Glory, is one of the most monumental events that is held annually in Atlanta, Georgia at the
01:14:40: Georgia International Convention Center right near the Atlanta airport, just a couple of minutes by a rail service that they have that's actually connected to the conference hall to the
01:14:53: Atlanta airport. This is actually in College Park, Georgia, which is a suburb of Atlanta, and it is always just an extraordinary experience being there by the sheer size of the roster, the length of the roster, and the quality of the speakers on that roster.
01:15:12: The speakers include an absolutely mind -blowing list of men, including the aforementioned
01:15:19: Dr. Stephen J. Lawson, my friend of many years, Dr. James R. White of Alpha Omega Ministries, who is going to be, by the way folks,
01:15:27: God willing, my guest once again on Iron Trip and Zion Radio. He is going to be returning to this program on Wednesday, the 4th of December, so mark your calendars for James White on Iron Trip and Zion Radio.
01:15:43: I was so happy to hear him plug that interview on The Dividing Line yesterday. And Phil Johnson, the
01:15:51: Executive Director of Grace To You, the media ministry of John MacArthur. Phil Johnson has the dubious reputation for being my most frequently interviewed guest on Iron Trip and Zion Radio dating back to 2005.
01:16:06: Always a joy to interview Phil. Todd Friel of Wretched TV and Radio, whose ads you've been hearing on this program.
01:16:14: Derek Thomas, who I know is very well known by my guest today, Jeff Thomas.
01:16:20: Derek Thomas is one of the most extraordinary preachers and teachers alive today, and he is an author and a conference speaker and itinerant evangelist, and just a joy to hear preach.
01:16:34: We have my friend Dr. Tom Askell, who I've known for many years, the
01:16:39: Executive Director of Founders Ministries, the Calvinistic ministry in the Southern Baptist Convention.
01:16:45: He's also the pastor of Grace Baptist Church of Cape Coral, Florida, and there are friends of mine, personal friends, long -time personal friends who are members there.
01:16:58: And we have Stephen J. Nichols, the president of Reformation Bible College, the college founded by the late
01:17:04: R .C. Sproul of Ligonier Ministries. A man you've been hearing James White mention in his ads for the
01:17:11: G3 conference is Kosti Hinn. He is the nephew of the notorious charlatan and heretic
01:17:16: Benny Hinn, and Kosti doesn't mind me saying that because he says as much and more when he is seeking to expose all of the
01:17:25: Word of Faith heretics for the dangerous and deadly and damning doctrines that they deceive multitudes with in their sermons and books and so on, if you could even call them sermons.
01:17:40: And Kosti has renounced and repented of that Word of Faith heresy and is now a
01:17:46: Reformed Baptist pastor and a cessationist. And as you also have heard,
01:17:52: John MacArthur himself has been added to the lineup. So if you want to join me in Atlanta, Georgia, Thursday, January 16th through Saturday, January 18th at the
01:18:02: G3 conference, go to g3conference .com, g3conference .com. The subject this
01:18:07: January is worship matters, one of the most important issues that faces every
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01:21:25: That's also the email address where you can send in a question to Reverend Jeff Thomas on the theme that we are discussing today, the theme of his latest booklet by Reformation Heritage Books, How Can I Please God and Everything.
01:21:38: That's chrisarnsen at gmail .com. And Reverend Thomas, as I asked before the station break, could you please answer my question on how we may behave when we are visiting those whom we love, perhaps even especially if we are in their home, it's not our home where we can lay down the rules, and they are known for profanity, they perhaps may even be using the name of the
01:22:09: Lord in vain in their conversation with us, perhaps not even intentionally in order to be offensive to us, but that's just the way that they normally speak because they are unregenerate.
01:22:20: Are we to be constantly correcting them and saying stop saying that, please don't do that, or should we just remain silent at times,
01:22:28: I'm not saying that we should always remain silent when we are in the midst of that, but especially if we are in someone else's home during a holiday, how do we behave without acting as if we are approving of their sinful ways of speaking and so on?
01:22:46: Good, good, good. Well, now, you know there's no formula, is there?
01:22:58: I've thought about this so much, and I thought
01:23:04: I will say certain words if I'm confronted with blasphemy.
01:23:12: So two weeks ago I was walking down the sidewalk in London, and a man and a woman, an attractive couple around 40 years of age, came up and they were walking faster than me, they got right alongside of me, and she had said something that I didn't hear, and he said loudly, oh my
01:23:37: God. So I turned to him and looked at him in the face and he was grinning.
01:23:43: I said to him, do you know God? And he then lengthened his stride and walked on.
01:23:54: I think he'll be careful again in saying loudly, oh my
01:24:01: God, because of those words, I don't know what the repercussions are going to be in that man, and for that simple question that I asked him,
01:24:19: God will help you. And then there's a wonderful story of Hudson Taylor.
01:24:31: You know Hudson Taylor was the founder of Christianity and its spread in China.
01:24:40: He was the father of the modern extraordinary movement that just fills us all with such excitement of the spread of the
01:24:50: Gospel in China. And you know that it's not a trip on a boat or on a plane to a faraway place with a strange sounding name that makes a person a missionary, but a missionary starts by his concern for his family and his friends here in the
01:25:14: United States, in his hometown. Hudson Taylor, when he was 21, he was assisting a
01:25:22: London doctor by going to patients who were in their homes and ministering to them.
01:25:30: There was one man who had seen a gangrene with no hope of recovery. Every day he went to the home and dressed the stinking wound.
01:25:40: The man was a committed atheist. He would allow no one to speak to him about religion.
01:25:46: And when the local vicar called, he spat in his face. His temper was not under control.
01:25:53: He's a very violent man. How did Taylor react to this man? Well he certainly took this man's condition very seriously.
01:26:03: This is what he says. Upon first commencing to attend him, I prayed much about it, but for two or three days said nothing of a religious nature.
01:26:15: By special care in dressing his diseased limb, I was able considerably to lessen his sufferings, and he soon began to manifest appreciation of my services.
01:26:28: One day with a trembling heart, I took advantage of his grateful acknowledgements to tell him what was the spring of my action to speak of his solemn position and need of God's mercy through Christ.
01:26:43: It was evidently only a powerful effort of self -restraint that kept his lips closed.
01:26:50: He turned over in bed with his back to me and uttered no word. I couldn't get the poor man out of my mind.
01:26:58: And very often through each day, I pleaded with God by his spirit to save him ere he took him hence.
01:27:07: After dressing the wound and relieving the pain, I never failed to say a few words to him which
01:27:14: I hoped the Lord would bless. He always turned his back looking annoyed, never made any reply.
01:27:24: After continuing this for some time, my heart sunk. It seemed to me that I was not only doing no good, but perhaps really hardening him and increasing his guilt.
01:27:35: One day after dressing his limb and washing my hands, instead of returning to the bedside,
01:27:40: I went to the door and stood hesitating a moment with a thought in my mind.
01:27:47: Ephraim is joined to his idols. Let him alone. Looking at my patient,
01:27:54: I saw his surprise, as it was the first time since opening the subject that I had attempted to leave without saying a few words from my master.
01:28:04: I could bear it no longer. Bursting into tears, I crossed the room and said, My friend, whether you are here or whether you will forbear,
01:28:13: I must deliver my soul. And I went on to speak very earnestly, telling him how much
01:28:19: I wished he would let me pray with him, and to my unspeakable joy he did not turn away but replied,
01:28:26: If it will be a relief to you, do. I need scarcely say that falling on my knees,
01:28:32: I poured out my soul to God on his behalf. Then and there, I believe, the
01:28:38: Lord wrought a change in his soul. He was never afterwards unwilling to be spoken to and prayed with, and within a few days he definitely accepted
01:28:48: Christ as his Savior. Ah, the joy it was to me to see that man rejoicing in hope of the glory of God.
01:28:56: He told me that for forty years he had never darkened the door of a church, and that then, forty years ago, he had only entered a place of worship to be married, and couldn't be persuaded to go inside, even when his wife was buried.
01:29:10: Now, thank God, I had every reason to believe his sin -stained soul was washed, was sanctified, was justified in the name of the
01:29:18: Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. Often in my early work in China, when circumstances rendered me almost hopeless of success,
01:29:28: I thought of this month's conversion, and have been encouraged to persevere in speaking the word where the man would hear or would bear.
01:29:38: The now happy sufferer lived for some time after this change, and was never tired of bearing testimony to the grace of God.
01:29:49: Now, I think that's a wonderful incident, and that's why Hudson Taylor was the great soul winner and the father of modern evangelicalism that seen such fruit, because he was a man who persevered and cried to God that he would help him to bear witness to his
01:30:09: Savior. And, yeah, you have the same Savior, and you can find the same strength and wisdom in what to say, whether you just ask a man passing by you, a stranger, do you know
01:30:24: God? Or whether you can help him and serve him, and then say,
01:30:31: I must pray with you. And the man says, yes, if it helps you, pray with me.
01:30:37: Wow. Praise God. We have Johnny from Queens, New York, who asks,
01:30:45: Thank you, Pastor Jeff, for such warm, experienced, wise pastoral counsel that humbles us and draws our hearts and minds to Christ.
01:30:56: Christians struggle daily with remaining sin that threatens our assurance before God. It's difficult to bask in the joy of the
01:31:04: Lord while being aware of much remaining corruption. How can we rest in the finished work of Christ on our behalf and deal with our besetting sins without falling into a state of melancholy, depression, and doubt?
01:31:20: Much of today's modern counsel from sermons, books, and teaching videos sees the
01:31:26: Christian as a victim of circumstance, the world, and the devil. Victim of circumstance, the world, and the devil.
01:31:34: God is looked upon as a mighty, and I think that our listener may have left off the end of that question or statement.
01:31:49: God is looked upon as a mighty, and then it stopped. If you want to re -email us the rest of your question -slash -statement,
01:31:56: Johnny, that will be fine, but I think Jeff Thomas has enough to work with here.
01:32:02: How can we, as he asks, rest in the finished work of Christ on our behalf and deal with our besetting sins without falling into a state of melancholy, depression, and doubt?
01:32:15: Good, good. I was talking to a friend last week, and he said after church a couple of weeks ago, a man came on to him who'd been coming to church now for a month or two, and had professed faith in Christ, and he came with his burden.
01:32:36: How can I be a Christian, he said. How can I be a Christian when I sin so badly?
01:32:44: Oh dear, I feel I've never been saved at all. And so my friend said, right, let's meet after church.
01:32:52: I want us to look at Romans 8, verse 1. I want us to look at 1
01:33:00: John, and the last verses, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
01:33:09: We look at those verses together after the service. In other words, here was a man who was discovering the subtlety and the deceitfulness of sin in his heart.
01:33:27: Five minutes later, a young woman came on to him. She said, I see you were talking to my brother.
01:33:35: This is the first time I've ever been to church.
01:33:41: I just came to find out what it was that has accomplished so staggering a change in the life of my brother, and that's why
01:33:57: I came to hear you preach today. So isn't that interesting? Yeah.
01:34:03: She was his twin. She'd been in the womb with him. She knew him like no one else knew him.
01:34:11: Their lives had grown in parallel. He'd come to know the Lord, and he'd had a new sight of his sin.
01:34:20: She looked at him, and she saw transformation and joy and a new confidence in the relation of God with him as his child.
01:34:37: I think this brother who's just expressed his concern and knows something about, oh, what a battle with remaining sin it is in our lives, and it always will be.
01:34:56: It will be on our deathbed. We are saved through Christ alone.
01:35:04: What Jesus did on the cross and how God responded to it, those two things are the only things that matter, and how you feel and you pause and you doubt and you struggle and you give in to a sin that easily besets you, that is irrelevant.
01:35:26: You must look to Jesus Christ, and you must find in Him the complete and total answer to all your guilt and shame.
01:35:37: Well, excellent answer, Johnny, and I'm sure you are satisfied with that.
01:35:45: Try to remember to send us complete sentences and questions from now on. I don't know why your question or comment stopped in the mid -sentence, but thank you for contributing to today's show with your question.
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01:36:15: we'll be shipping that out to you as soon as possible after we get your full mailing address in Queens, New York.
01:36:23: We have, let's see here, we have Christopher in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, and Christopher says,
01:36:34: I don't know if you ever heard or encountered in the United Kingdom an
01:36:39: American phenomenon that was all the rave a few years ago, probably a longer time ago than a few years, but it was called the
01:36:51: What Would Jesus Do movement, where people were wearing bracelets and perhaps t -shirts and other articles of clothing that said,
01:37:00: What Would Jesus Do as a daily reminder to act in obedience to God. I know that a number of Reformed Christians would mock and belittle this concept, but I'm not sure why, and I'm wondering what your view is of this.
01:37:16: Yes, we read about it. I never saw it being practiced.
01:37:22: The rubber bands with those initial letters on it, I never saw anyone wearing them.
01:37:30: It appeared suddenly and caught on, and then it died.
01:37:38: Yes, it is a good question, but it's not the first question that you ask.
01:37:45: The first question the Christian asks is, What has
01:37:51: Jesus done? Amen. Has he accomplished all righteousness for us?
01:38:00: Has he made full atonement for our sins?
01:38:06: Are we sitting and resting in the work of Christ?
01:38:12: That's the great thing, to be looking to Jesus when
01:38:18: Satan oppresses us and troubles us, for us to say,
01:38:26: Ah, yes, but my faithful Savior died for me. My faithful Savior lives for me.
01:38:33: He whispers my worthless name in the ease of my
01:38:38: Father in heaven, and he says, Lord, bless that brother in Long Island.
01:38:45: Lord, bless that brother in New York. Strengthen and keep him. He's battling with sin at this time.
01:38:52: This is what Jesus is doing now for me in the light of what he has achieved upon the cross and by his righteous life.
01:39:03: He is now applying to me all the benefits of his grand salvation, and that's my hope, and that's my confidence.
01:39:11: Help me, Lord. Sometimes that's the only thing. When you're having a major operation and you're recovering, all you can say is,
01:39:20: Help me. Help me. And you're looking to that one whose only desire is to take us to himself that we'll be with him forevermore.
01:39:37: When we see him, we will be like him. He'll present us full of joy to the
01:39:44: Father. That's what Jesus will do because of what he has done, and then he's left us an example that we should be.
01:39:52: He is our childhood's pattern day by day. Like us, he grew. He was weak and helpless.
01:40:00: Tills and joys, like us, he knew, and he leads his children on to the place where he is called.
01:40:06: That's what we sing in the Christmas carol way in the manger, isn't it? That's how we're to live our lives, day by day, looking to him.
01:40:16: Amen. And we're going to our final break right now. If you'd like to join us on the air with a question of your own, please send in your question quickly because we're rapidly running out of time.
01:40:26: Our email address is chrisarnson at gmail .com, chrisarnson at gmail .com. Don't go away. We'll be back after these messages with more of Jeff Thomas, so don't go away.
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01:53:49: And just a reminder, folks, stay tuned after Iron Sharpen's Iron Radio is over for a sermon by my very dear friend
01:53:56: Pastor Joe Jakiewicz of Christ Bible Church in Dublin, California, who is heard preaching every day
01:54:03: Monday through Friday right after Iron Sharpen's Iron Radio is over. And we are now back with my friend and one of my favorite of all guests,
01:54:13: Jeff Thomas, and this is our concluding segment of our discussion on how can
01:54:19: I please God and everything. And if you could, Pastor Jeff, if you could just leave our listeners with what you most want etched in their hearts and minds about this topic before this program is over.
01:54:35: Good. This is just enormously important to not be against Christ.
01:54:49: If you're not for Him, you're against Him. And if you're for Him, then you please
01:54:56: Him in all things. And every Christian asks, how can I please the
01:55:01: Lord, whether I live or die? You know, in The Cost of Commitment, John White, he cites a letter written by an
01:55:08: American Marxist in Mexico City. He's breaking off an engagement with his fiancée.
01:55:15: And he says, we Marxists suffer many casualties. We're those who may shoot, hang, lynch, tower and feather, imprisoned, slander, fire from our jobs, whose lives people make miserable in every way possible.
01:55:31: We live in poverty. From what we earn, we turn over to the party every cent, which we don't absolutely need to live.
01:55:39: We communists have neither time nor money for concerts, nor for beautiful homes and new cars.
01:55:47: They call us fanatics. We are fanatics. Our lives are dominated by one supreme factor, the struggle for world communism.
01:55:55: We communists have a philosophy of life that money couldn't buy. We have a cause to fight for, a specific goal in life.
01:56:04: We lost our insignificant identities in the great river of humanity. And if our personal lives seem hard, or if our egos seem bruised through subordination to the party, we are amply rewarded in the thought that all of us, even though it be in a very small way, are contributing something new and better for humanity.
01:56:26: There's one thing about which I am completely in earnest, the communist cause.
01:56:32: It's my life, my business, my religion, my hobby, my sweetheart, my wife, my mistress, my meat and drink.
01:56:40: I work at it by day and dream of it by night. Its control over me grows greater with the passage of time.
01:56:47: And if I can't have a friend, a lover, or even a conversation without relating them to this power that animates and controls my life,
01:56:57: I measure people, books, ideas, and deeds according to the way they affect the communist cause and by their attitude to it.
01:57:05: I've already been in jail for my ideas, and if need be, I am ready to face death.
01:57:12: That's what he says. He is the man whose one goal in life is to serve the cause of Karl Marx.
01:57:20: And our goal is to please a savior who loved us, and loved us so much that he wouldn't end the infleshment and come down from the cross until he had paid the last penny of our great debt.
01:57:36: And now he loves us and keeps us, and we're going to a new heavens and a new earth, and we're going to be with him forevermore.
01:57:44: How can we not make our goal in life to please our savior in everything we do?
01:57:54: Amen. Amen. And folks, I want to remind you that this book that we have been discussing, published by Reformation Heritage Books, How Can I Please God and Everything, is available at heritagebooks .org,
01:58:10: heritagebooks .org. I would actually prefer that you purchase it from cvbbs .com, because both will benefit, heritagebooks .org
01:58:18: and cvbbs .com, will both benefit if you purchase them, these books, from cvbbs .com,
01:58:25: because obviously they have to purchase the books from heritagebooks .org. So please help keep our sponsors,
01:58:33: Cumberland Valley Bible Book Services, happy. Also, keep in mind that they have in stock the book that we discussed yesterday with Jeff Thomas, Brownlow North, The All -Around
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01:58:51: and type in G -E -O -F -F Thomas, that's G -E -O -F -F
01:58:57: Thomas, and you'll have all the books that Jeff Thomas has written, and if they are out of stock, they will order them.
01:59:03: I want to thank you so much, Jeff, for being my guest again, two days in a row. I look forward to your return to the program very soon, and very often in the future,
01:59:13: God willing. I'd be honored to do so. Well, thank you so much, and I want to thank everybody who listened today.
01:59:20: I hope you all have a very safe and blessed and happy and God -honoring weekend and Lord's Day, and I want you all to always remember for the rest of your lives that Jesus Christ is a far greater