2012 Shepherds Conference Update

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How do you get a fiery Greek preacher more fired up send them to the shepherds conference?
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Second year in a row. I got fired up again, but It was not because of but because of anything new
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My spiritual father when I was a young Christian used to tell me in your Christian life Do not always look for something new do not always look for a new experience or a new biblical truth
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Many times God wants to just deepen you and what you already know and that's what happened to me this past shepherds conference
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The one thing I took away was this The necessity and importance of preaching
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Jesus in every sermon the necessity and importance of preaching
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Jesus and every sermon Again, that wasn't something earth -shattering for me
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I was already committed to it, but it was something that God took and deepened it in me in a deeper way
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Granted it's when you're going through the Gospels or preaching through some of the great Christological passages in the epistles
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Preaching Jesus comes naturally, but if you're preaching maybe through an Old Testament passage or somewhere else
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You have to really work at drawing it out and really focusing on Christ.
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I Saw this as a major theme throughout all the messages Steve Lawson He preached on 1st
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Corinthians chapter 2 and in verse 2 of that passage Paul says I'm I have decided
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I have Determined I have resolved to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified and He went on Lawson did to quote
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Spurgeon two quotes from Spurgeon. I Take my text and make a beeline to the cross
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And Spurgeon also said as every road leads to London so every text leads to the cross then pastor
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MacArthur the first night when he opened up walked us through the gospel of Mark and how people over and over and over again were just astonished and amazed at this wondrous
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Jesus and Towards the end he concluded with this quote What's missing in today's pulpit is
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Jesus Al Mohler continued on this theme he preached from Colossians 128 our
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BBC verse as we see on our programs every Sunday where Paul said we proclaim
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Christ Tom Pennington continued on this when he preached through Ephesians 4 he highlighted that the goal of the church was unity in Devotion to Jesus and in likeness to Jesus And finally votey
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Baal Shem as he talked to the man about loving our wives as Christ loved the church He said it flows out of the gospel out of the fact that what
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Jesus did on the cross For us as Paul highlights in Ephesians chapters 1 to 3
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Last Sunday. I didn't have an opportunity to be at the inaugural two services because I was preaching down on the
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Cape So as a fresh reminder, I reread a section of a book that we received at last year's
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Shepherds Conference And in the book it talked about Preaching Jesus in the example he used was about preaching on Samson though.
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I wasn't preaching on Samson and the author quotes says Samson should indeed provoke our wonder but our wonder at Christ not
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Samson an Expositional sermon on judges 14 to 16 should be a gospel sermon not a sermon that could be preached in a synagogue or a mosque and Quote as I close
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I'm reminded of a group of Americans Who went to visit London and hear two great preachers
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Sunday morning? They went to hear Joseph Parker At the end of the message in the service one of the men said quote
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I must declare it must be said there is no doubt that Joseph Parker is the greatest preacher there ever was
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At night they went to the Metropolitan Tabernacle to hear Spurgeon After the message the same man said this
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I must declare it must be said There is no doubt that Jesus Christ is the greatest
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Savior there ever was. I Harriton de la genetis am
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Resolved to know nothing except Jesus Christ in him crucified
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Well, it's good to be back after the Shepherds Conference, but it was a wonderful time while we were out there when
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I Read the assignment to talk about something that impacted us at the Shepherds Conference The first thing that popped into my head was a high fever that left me in the hotel room nearly speaking in tongues
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But The Lord was good. I got to go through all the conferences the entire conference I didn't get sick till Saturday, and then
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I had great brothers taking care of me bringing me the all -important Jamba juice and It was a great time, and I'm thankful for those those men that checked up on me and took care of me
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But what impacted me most at the Shepherds Conference had to be Steve Lawson talking about Charles Spurgeon and what he was talking about Was how
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Spurgeon although a Calvinist believing in the sovereignty of God and God's sovereignty and election
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That he had an evangelistic zeal for the lost. He didn't just give the facts of the gospel and Just put them out there and say believe but he pleaded with people
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He wept for people and he commanded people on the authority of Scripture to turn and repent and follow the
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Lord Jesus Christ He had a passion for the lost that we should all have and that although not something new for me really you know the
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Lord really brought that out and and Deepened my understanding of that my thoughts on that and so it really left me leaving there resolved to in whatever
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I do whether it be youth ministry or Lost family members or people
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I run into on the street pleading with them to turn and follow Christ because we know if People don't repent and believe upon the only way the
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Lord has made to be saved that they are going to hell So it's an urgent thing and seeing
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Spurgeon and the way he Pleaded with people and tried to persuade people like Paul persuaded
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Was just something that really stuck with me and really impacted me at the Shepherds conference
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I just want to close by encouraging anybody who has never gone any men obviously to go to the
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Shepherds conference It's really a time where you'll be refilled. You'll be encouraged with the other men there and and preaching of God's Word and worshiping him in Song and it's just it's a wonderful time together and a wonderful time in God's Word So, um, thank you for listening to my update good evening
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I had always heard great things about the Shepherds conference Some of the notable quotes
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I've heard is it will change your life or it's like drinking from a fire hose I've had
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I've been invited to go previously in previous years by brother -in -laws on both sides of the family
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But this was the first year that I actually had the vacation time and the resources to go so I Was a little apprehensive at first because it it is designated for pastors and teachers
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I never really considered myself either one of those titles until I started thinking about more of my own involvement in ministry
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I work at a Catholic College where most of the co -workers are Catholic with a faith based on traditions
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I have shared the gospel with many but it never seemed to have much of an effect Recently, I'll admit my zeal for sharing
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The gospel with them has diminished. I understand that as a father and a husband.
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I am also a teacher As a family, we attend church Bible study The kids are very much involved with a wanna and I am always amazed at how much they absorb
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And have there's so much further along than I was at their age I Have such high expectations of them, but I realized that I wasn't holding myself to those same expectations
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Just like the zeal for the lost my diligence for biblical studies had diminished was minimal
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I needed a proverbial shot in the arm Something to get me going and I was really hoping the
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Shepherds Conference would do that I can assure you that I wasn't in the least disappointed My first seminar or one of the first seminars was presented by Alex Montoya About preaching with passion and preaching for change ironically or providentially
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That seminar highlighted the well -known Awana verse 2nd
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Timothy 2 15 do your best to present yourself to God as one approved a Worker who has no need to be ashamed rightly handling the word of truth
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We were encouraged to major on the major themes the things that God speaks about We should be teaching about the doctrines of the
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Bible and minoring in the things that are minor However in order to do that, we need to feed ourselves before attempting to feed others
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He used the quote we need to read to feed. I Found encouragement in the
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Q &A session with John MacArthur and Phil Johnson besides being amusing They were discussing how
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John prepares for preaching I was surprised to hear that that John sometimes finds it hard to as he put it get off the launch pad
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While studying God's Word. He also indicated that he is more energized by the time he gets to the end he referenced
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Proverbs 2 and Verse 4 kind of stuck out to me because it says if you seek wisdom like silver and search for it as for a hidden Treasure, then you will find the knowledge of God Bill Shannon also emphasized the importance of studying the word when he stated if you know and are trained in the
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Word of God Then you can counsel others We are to persist in the things that God has given us.
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God has given us his word and we are called to use it Bill also pointed out that those enslaved to sin
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Need to understand they are not dealing with a medical issue, but a moral issue I was also taught that you're unable to counsel anyone unless they are believers
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They need to understand that they need the Redeemer Jesus Christ and that they have exchanged the Living God for an idol
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We need to evangelize to them before we can help them overcome their enslavement to sin
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Scott Lawson gave a great reminder that we have a history of great preachers to learn from specifically the
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Prince of Preachers Charles Spurgeon He brought up a sermon entitled compel them to come
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Based on Luke 14 23 and he stated that it isn't enough to just present the gospel
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We need to persuade compel command Exhort reason entreat threatened weep and pray for the lost
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I can't see how you can do all of that unless you love them first as A result of the conference and the conviction of the word preached.
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I received that shot in the arm. I was looking for I'm compelled to get back into studying the Word of God more diligently
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My options for studying are great since they they gave us so many books along with the ones
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I purchased a new battle plan has been implemented at the Thayer household Where the television is off during the weeknights so we can read and study
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God's Word. I Also recognize that I need to persist in sharing the gospel, but with something a little bit more
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I need to pray for the lost and use what I learned from studying to persuade compel and even weep for the lost a repentant
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King David wrote Psalms 51 13 to 14 restore to me the joy of your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit
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Then I will teach transgressors your ways and sinners will return to you when I recognize
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But the Savior Jesus Christ has done for me and when we really analyze what it means to go to hell
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And what we have been saved from I am compelled to love others even more and to share the gospel
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My desire is to lead others to the cross out of gratitude for what Christ has done for me and to give
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God the glory Good evening
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This year was my first time at the Shepherds Conference and let me tell you it was an experience Of course,
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California in itself is an experience, but that's beside the point Well at the conference I was privileged to sit under some amazing teachers such as Al Mohler John MacArthur and Steve Lawson out of all of these the message that impacted me most was
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John MacArthur's message on the Holy Spirit MacArthur pointed out that they're out of the three members of the
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Trinity The Holy Spirit is most forgotten or most blasphemed Especially within the charismatic and Pentecostal movement when they add things to what the
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Holy Spirit does such as speaking in tongues They also blaspheme the Holy Spirit when they say there is no such thing as a certain assurance of salvation
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This takes away from the power of the Holy Spirit Now we all we have all heard it said that if we could would lose our salvation we could
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But that's not the case just look at Jude chapter 1 verse 24 Which reads now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you
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Blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy The Holy Spirit also oftentimes receives the least amount of praise out of the
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Godhead Can you think of a song or a book written about the Holy Spirit? Because I couldn't and that woke up within me a new interest for the rest of that message
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The Holy Spirit is very active in our lives. It is he who convicts us who regenerates us empowers us and sanctifies us
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Romans 8 26 or 27 says likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness for we do not know what to pray for as we
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But the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words and he who searches hearts knows
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What is the mind of the Spirit because the Spirit intercedes for the Saints according to the will of God?
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It is plain to see that from this passage that the Spirit intercedes for us More than that.
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He intercedes in accordance to the Father's will I Guess I knew this as a fact, but I never really chewed on it for very long
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I mean we have two members of the Trinity interceding for us every day God the
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Son who is sitting at the right hand of the Father and the God the Spirit interceding with divine groanings
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I just think that is awesome Because of all this I have resolved to give praise and honor to my true triune
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God God the Father who is sovereign over all creation and knows all things God the
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Son who came to this earth fully God and fully man to live a perfect life I couldn't live to die on the cross as my substitute taking the punishment for of my sins for me only to be raised three days later from the grave so that I might be raised with him and God the
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Spirit who is actively working in my life as one of two intercessors Interceding in accordance to the
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Father's will and who secures my salvation Sanctifying me until this final day of glory all glory honor and praise to my triune
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God without whom we couldn't and wouldn't Exist. Thank you. This year.
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I was blessed by being able to go to the Shepherds Conference. I Was encouraged to be with brothers in Christ and sit under the teaching of great preachers like John MacArthur Steve Lawson Al Mohler and Phil Johnson The reason
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I want to focus on a message about a man of it Although all these men gave encouraging convicting sermons
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Steve Lawson's message on Charles Spurgeon is the one I would like to focus on tonight The reason
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I want to focus on a message about a man is because I believe that Charles Spurgeon is exemplary in many ways especially in the area of evangelism
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Spurgeon preaches first sermon at 16 years old and was already shepherding his own church at 17
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Throughout his life Spurgeon hardly missed a chance to evangelize He preached the gospel to everyone even when he wasn't preaching a sermon
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What about you? Do you need to preach the God tell people about Jesus more I? Am motivated by the fact that lost people are running towards hell
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They need a Savior also, the Lord has given all Christians a command to evangelize it is the
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Great Commission Matthew 28 18 through 20 and Jesus came and said to them all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me
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Go therefore and make disciples of all nations baptizing him in the name of the Father and the
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Son and the Holy Spirit Teaching them to deserve all that I have commanded you and behold. I am with you always to the end of the age
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I think that every one of us struggles in the area of evangelism and we all need to be more like Spurgeon and obey the
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Word of God in this area Although we might not want to talk to someone how about how they can be delivered from eternal judgment
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God commands us to My desire is to be more concerned about pleasing and obeying
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God rather than worrying about what the world thinks of me Romans 10 14 to 17 says how then will they call on him in whom they have not believed and how are they to believe in him of whom they have
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Never heard and how are they to hear without someone preaching and how are they to preach unless they are sent as it is written?
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How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news? The day after the Shepherds Conference my dad uncle and I were on a plane to San Francisco They were sitting next to each other, but I sat next to an older woman
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I Started talking to her about her sin Jesus Christ being sent to live a perfect life die in the place of sinners and right be raised from the dead
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She asked me why we had been out in LA and I told her all about the Shepherds Conference and great church
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Grace Church at the end of the plane ride She thanked me for giving the gospel to her and told me that she was going to visit
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Grace Church next time She was in Los Angeles It was encouraging to have someone receive the gospel openly and not push against it
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For if I preach the gospel that gives me no ground for boasting for necessity is laid upon me
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Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel first Corinthians 9 16 I think Spurgeon put it well on the topic of evangelism in this quote if Sinners will be damned at least let them leap to hell over our bodies
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And if they will perish let them perish with our arms about their knees Imploring them to stay if hell must be filled at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions and let not one
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Go there unwarned and unprayed for We all need to be preaching the gospel day in day out to anyone who will and everyone who will listen
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We cannot do this on our own. So we need to be praying every day for strength to evangelize The Shepherds Conference was a time of encouragement conviction and fellowship with brothers in Christ.
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I Was privileged to be able to go this year, and I hope that I will go back soon I will end with another quote of Spurgeons if there existed only one man or woman who did not love the
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Savior and if that person lived among the wilds of Siberia and if it were necessary that all the millions of believers on the face of the earth should journey there and Every one of them plead with him to come to Jesus before he could be converted
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It would be well worth all the zeal labor and expense If we had to preach to thousands year after year and never rescued
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But one soul that one soul would be full reward for all our labor for a soul is of countless price
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As I sat in the living room of my parents by marriage.
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We were talking about the usual subjects Model airplanes the weather how my mom's health was doing and I began to think about how there were merely eternal souls wrapped in flesh of fallen humanity
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Currently inflamed With the desires of their heart and how this is merely a shadow of the uncontrollable flames of hell the wrath of our holy infinite
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God poured out for all eternity on them as They pay for their own sins
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My mind and my heart were burdened Yet my mouth remained shut Flash forward to the
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Shepherds Conference During the session by dr. Steve Lawson on Spurgeon He shared perhaps with the passion of Spurgeon the evangelistic heart and fervor of a defender of the good doctrines of grace
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With many of the men in this session. I started tearing at the thought of the urgency and the heart he had for winning souls
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The beauty of the gospel of Jesus Christ of my own lack of evangelistic heart
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When speaking of the urgency and the immediacy of making a decision Lawson quoted
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Spurgeon saying you say yes, but I should like to go home and pray My text does not say it will be the accepted time when you get home and pray
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It says now as I find you are now in this pew now
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Is the accepted time if you trust in Christ now, you will be accepted If now you are enabled to throw yourself simply into the hands of Christ now is the accepted time between God and you
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Later Lawson quoting Spurgeon again speaking of Spurgeon's heart for people to come to Christ Do you spurn it?
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Do you still refuse it then? I must change my tone in a minute. I Will not merely tell you the message and invite you as I do with all earnestness and sincere affection
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I Will go further Sinner in God's name. I command you to repent and believe
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Lawson later went on for some of you. This command will not be enough. So I shall plead with you to come to Christ For some of you this still will not be enough.
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I shall beg you For some of you this still will not be enough. I shall pray for you my plea with A flash forward to my father -in -law and I driving around looking for tools or looking at tools bonding
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And my plea with him to come to Christ started with an exposure of my heavy heart and worry for his final destination after death
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Telling him how his good works before a holy God only added to his condemnation How if he did not believe and trust in the perfection of Christ's life
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Lived on his behalf that the wrath of God's judgment Was poured out on Christ for his sins during the death of Christ The completeness of payment for his sins had been verified in the resurrection of Christ and as a necessary result repent and believe
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Repent from his current ways You will have to pay for his own sins in the eternal torment of hell where God's wrath will be poured out on him instead of Christ His response
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I made my decision To which I replied I beg and I plead that you reconsider for today is the day of salvation and tomorrow is not guaranteed and I shall now pray with a pleading towards God to change the will of a man who was blinded by Catholic doctrine
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It may have been tough to tell a person. I love to repent and believe lest he spend eternity in hell
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It is not the most difficult part It is far more difficult. My heart is even more burdened for the person
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I love to reject his maker May I never shut my mouth again in the proclamation of the glory of God's salvation
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May I always be able to give an answer for the hope that lies within me? May God Almighty use this frail feeble creature to save some of his elect
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May the burden for souls that lies within me overcome my shut mouth
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And may my tongue be loosened to show sinners their current fates and the beauty of the
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Savior the Lord Jesus Christ solely day of Gloria, I like the other men were
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Thrilled and excited to be able to go to the conference this year What is not to like?
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Let me tell you a couple of the reasons why it was special to me I got to spend six days with my son
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Scott It's not often the dad can spend as we get older that kind of time with his son.
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I Had lots of times when he was little, you know changing his diapers and chasing him around the house
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You know love for a son just keeps on going So this was a joyful time for me.
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I got to spend time with 14 other men I got to sit under some great preaching and teaching and music
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They even got time to spend. You've got some opportunity to spend time with our pastors in a different setting a more relaxed setting in Philippians chapter 2 verse 4 let each of you not only to his own interest, but also to the interest of others and Romans 15 to let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up I've been thinking a lot lately even before the conference about the value and leading and teaching others
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This was confirmed by one of the seminars. I went to at the conference. It was entitled exemplary spiritual leadership many of us have
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Ministries at BBC I was convicted by asking myself about discipleship training preparing and equip equipping other men for ministry
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Leading others to be involved in ministries What I have to say, of course applies to women that is women leading women
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Sometimes we refer to our ministries We are involved in as my ministry like I'm the minister of Visitation like I lead a men's breakfast fellowship like I have a part in the registration books and follow -up with our people
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These are not mine. They belong to the Lord They are for his church.
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His people is for the future and the growth of his church the building up You see the church
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BBC is not ours. It's not pastor Mike's. It's not pastor Steve's It belongs to God Others need to be brought along to take part in these ministries
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So I believe that what of a ministry that you each one of you is involved in you should be training and bringing others along So in your ministry find someone who will come alongside and train them.
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We need to be able to say with Paul Follow me Second Timothy 2 1 reads and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses
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In trust of faithful men who will be able to teach others also Look for reliable faithful men and women to bring along.
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This is nothing new at BBC pastor Mike has been doing this He said for 15 years
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Training men to preach and we have had the pleasure and the joy of listening to several of them preach
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So I say it's not original with me It is that I've been convicted of the need to be training other men for the work of ministry
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It isn't just the work of the pastor. It's a responsibility for each one of us Too often we hear even
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Christians say Why would anyone want to follow me? I'm such a sinner if you're one who says this you need to rethink about your relationship to the
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Lord and Then pray as believers in Christ we need a heart our hearts desire to be like Christ We belong to him
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If you're not living for him and like him, I want to encourage you to be on your knees and prayer
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I want to close with what a friend shared with me.
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He shared his testimony even yesterday he said once I was blind and now
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I see and And this as the case with me too once I was blind and Now I see
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I was greatly encouraged by the
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Shepherds conference in so many different ways and I can't even touch all the topics But the one I wanted to talk about was the faith of our fathers.
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There was a very interesting session by Nathan Wasn't I'm never gonna get his name last name, right? So you might as well just look it up on their website because I ain't gonna get it, right?
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The essential question that he answered in that session was do we have the same gospel as the early church
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Did they believe in justification by grace alone through faith in Christ alone? Do we believe the five souls what we believe today
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We remember the five souls by Scripture alone by faith alone by grace alone through Christ alone glory to God alone a
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Secondary aspect of the session was that he brought up. What does the Roman Catholic Church teach?
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What do they believe? Let's start at the Bible and go back and find out
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It'd be strange if we didn't start at the Bible because the authority scripture. That's what we believe So I have one scripture reference because there's so many on justification by faith
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Ephesians 8 no Ephesians 2 8 and 9 For by grace you have been saved through faith and this not of your own doing it is the gift of God Not a result of works so that no one may boast for we are his workmanship
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Created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them
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There are so many other verses that I could point to Romans Luke Galatians Titus We have to move on What about history
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This church history show us justification by faith to The book of Acts is a place where we see biblical truth and church in church history meet there are three aspects of The true gospel appear right here in Acts 13 and 14.
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We see the proclamation of the true gospel Wish I could read them all. I don't have time in Acts 15 verses 1 through 5 we hear of the perversion of the true gospel
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This is where the Judaizers tried to add works to the gospel And the preservation of the true gospel is in Acts 15 6 through 11
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This is the first Church Council. This is a Jerusalem Council, which happened around 49 or 50
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AD Where they said works no, it's justification by faith We look in the book of Galatians for Paul's personal insights on the
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Jerusalem Council, but I don't have time What about the fathers of church history did they believe in justification by grace alone through faith in Christ alone?
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Clement of Rome was a pastor of the church in Rome around 90 or 100 AD and he was a fourth pastor in Rome after Peter The Roman Catholic Church considers him a
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Pope. This is very interesting written in his epistle to the Corinthians in chapter 32 we see and We being called by his will in Christ.
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Jesus are not justified by ourselves Nor by our own wisdom or understanding or godliness or works
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Which we have wrought in holiness of heart, but by that faith through which from the very beginning
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Almighty God has justified all men to him be the glory forever and ever. Amen Origin said
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For God is just and therefore he could not justify the unjust Therefore he required the intervention of a propitiator
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So that by having faith in him those who could not be justified by their own works might be justified
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None of us are justified by our own works Hillary of portentia wages could not cannot be considered as a gift because they are due to work
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But God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith
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Ambrose had written Therefore let no one boast in his works because no one can be justified by his works
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But he who is just receives it as a gift because he is justified by the washing of redemption
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It is faith Therefore that delivers us by the blood of Christ because blessed is he whose sins are forgiven and to whom pardon is granted
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He had over 20 different quotes in this particular session amazing quotes from the far those of our faith
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He had 60 prepared but we had a little lunch we had to stop
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I Was so encouraged by this. I really want to learn more history What about church history because we study scripture.
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It's wonderful. I want to be encouraged implored there so badly Church history is amazing.
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It's replete With so many that truly see the true gospel declared.
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I Want to have a day where we get a bunch of guys together and we preach some of Spurgeon's messages
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I don't know when to have them. We're doing it Pastor Mike gave me six minutes.
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I love it Good evening This has been a good night. Hasn't it hearing all these men?
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It's been a blessing to me to hear and I've been blessed to hear and I've been blessed to be a part of this So it's pretty cool if I could just take a moment to To seize this opportunity to actually publicly thank pastor
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Mike and Steve and the other men That were at the Shepherds conference as pastor Mike said including the pastors
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We have 14 men from BBC Which I believe is the largest group to ever attend the Shepherds conference in in the history that we've been going
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Correct me if I'm wrong With Harry's friend and Ferdy's friend. We had 17 of us all staying at the same hotel
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Three minivans two cars all having to get to Grace Community Church at the same time on time
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And if I said if I asked him to meet at the the lobby at 715 they were there at 710 and so the week went so it was a
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Good bunch of men and thank you for that. And I was just a privilege and an honor
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To be with you guys that week also, just another quick note, this was the second time that I've attended the
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Shepherds conference and as Dave can attest to and pastor Mike. My son Josh was with me.
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And so we had three father -son Do duos on the trip very special time for from for me
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I've told all three of my sons that when they're seniors in high school They can do anything they want to do with dad a special trip
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Or event pretty much anything goes and Josh said he wanted to attend the Shepherds conference So, how does it dad say no to that?
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So what was the one thing that mostly impacted me from the Shepherds conference? I would have to say it was both the realization and reminder that as preachers we are to preach with power
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Passion and for a verdict in his second pastoral pistol to Timothy Paul wrote in chapter 3 verses 16 through chapter 4 to all
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Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching for reproof for correction and for training and righteousness
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That the man of God may be competent equipped for every good work I charge you and the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead and by his appearing in his kingdom preach the word
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Paul charges Timothy to preach We're not called to lecture
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We are called to preach to proclaim the gospel message and we are to do so with authority
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We are the mouthpiece of God expounding the great truths in the pages of Scripture thus saith the
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Lord And we to do so with power with passion and authority
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We preach with authority not in an egocentric manner as it was explained to us
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But with the steadfast confidence that comes from much time spent in prayer agonizing sometimes over the text preaching the sermon to ourselves first and Being convicted to the power of the
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Holy Spirit We've heard pastor Mike say it and I heard it said at the Shepherds Conference that To make the
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Bible boring when you preach is a great sin That's so true. After all we have the very oracles of God that contain the doctrines of grace
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That contain the gospel message Christ born of a virgin Living the perfect sinless life paying the penalty for your sin on the cross the substitute
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Paying that penalty and then conquering sin and death through his resurrection So that all who repent and believe on Christ Jesus would be saved eternal life in heaven based on the work of another
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Does that sound boring to you? Doesn't to me I mean when preachers preach they ought to do so with passion
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Alex Montoya in his seminar you heard it mentioned earlier that he did a seminar on passionate preaching.
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He defined passion as sanctified madness, I love that We also need to be as Montoya said in the pulpit gospel maniacs
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You heard Harry pastor Harry say about making Jesus the focal point in all of our sermons if we're to preach
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When we do that, we need to be gospel maniacs We need to preach for a verdict with an urgency of fervency
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Especially when it comes to the proclamation of the gospel and his second letter to the Corinthian Church chapter 5
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Verse 20 Paul said therefore we are ambassadors for Christ God making his appeal through us
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We implore you on behalf of Christ be reconciled to God Note the language
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Paul doesn't say we just we suggest or it might be a good idea
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No, we implore we plead we exhort You hear the sense of urgency
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I Believe it was Spurgeon who said it and one of the men quoted this early.
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I'll quote it again Said quote it's not enough to merely present the gospel. It's not enough to merely tell people about the gospel
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We must plead with them. We must persuade them. We must reason with them We must urge them and we must compel them to come in The same session that dr.
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Lawson spoke on Spurgeon. Dr. Lawson said quote Those of us who hold to reform truth risk becoming hyper
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Calvinist because we're too proud to beg We're too proud to beg for lost souls to be saved
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My resolve and my own preaching is to preach with more power with more passion and more fervency
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Especially in the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ Not that I would receive the attention but rather that the triune