Worship Service 4 - Harry Reeder

Worship Service 3 - Sean Lucas

Worship Service 2 - David Strain (2013)

Worship Service 1 - Douglas Kelly (2013)

Worship Service 5 - One Like No Other (Hebrews 1:13-14) - Reddit Andrews

Worship Service 4 - To Journey's End (Mark 14:32-42) - Dr. Derek Thomas

Worship Service 3 - The Missional Pastor: Our Call, Hindrances, Dangers and Help! - Elbert McGowan

Worship Service 2 - We Do Not Lose Heart: The Way of the Cross (2 Corinthians 4:7-15) - Sean Lucas

Worship Service 1 - Ezekiel 1 - Douglas Kelly

Worship Service 4: What Does Grace Do? - Sean Lucas

Worship Service 3: Adoption - Derek Thomas

Worship Service 1: Fruitfulness of Affliction - Hector Morrison

Sermon 3: Luke 8:26-29 - Carl Robbins

Sermon 2: John 17:24 - Derek Thomas

Sermon 1: Psalm 62 – Dr Douglas Kelly

“Wait on the Lord”

Titus 1:1; I Timothy 6:2-4 – “What is Theology For?” – Dr. Ligon Duncan

(I'll be updating as the sermon progress, refresh often)

Titus 1:1; I Timothy 6:2-4 – “What is Theology For?”
Dr. Ligon Duncan

Titus 1:1 - Paul, a servant [1] of God and a an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and b their knowledge of the truth, c which accords with godliness,

I Timothy 6:2-4 - Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are q brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. r Teach and urge these things. 3 If anyone s teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with t the sound [2] words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching u that accords with godliness, 4 v he is puffed up with conceit and w understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for x controversy and for y quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,

These represent an important theme in Paul’s teaching. The teaching which he and Timothy are to do. False teaching leads to vain speculations; does not benefit their well being. The true doctrine of God’s Word by the Spirit is productive in the life of the believer. As you expound the word of God always have the view of what that word is to produce in believers which is a “right apprehension of the 1 true God and His gospel and His grace and what it should produce = Piety, Proper understanding of God. Packer says, the Bible is about God and godliness. It is about doctrine and duty, ____?________, theology and living, God and godliness. The truth is unto godliness. In many circles today the application of the truth is held in great suspicion. Some believe that application is inappropriate. Paul’s words here and his practice makes it clear that it is the preacher’s duty to make His word applicable to the hearer.

In Titus 1:1 he says his service is for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth which accords with godliness. Your knowledge of the truth SHOULD produce godliness. “Sanctify them with Thy truth”. “Teach and urge these things.” Convey applicable, practical, profound truth! The purpose of truth, theology is the promotion of godliness, piety, reverance for God.

What is truth, what is theology for, how is it used and applied?
Theology exists in the interests of pastoral ministry. How do you pastor? “Believe in God, believe in Me.” Every doctrine has its application. Every truth has its practical aim and effect in the life of God’s people. What is the truth for? Biblical ignorance is so wide in the truth now that you cannot assume even, “What the truth is for”. Are you receiving complaints of your practical application? It could because you are not applying the word to them. They are asking, What is this truth for?

4 Passages on the Application of Theology
1. Romans 11:32-36 – (Refer to Derek Thomas’ talk on Romans 11 from Wednesday night) - 32 For God r has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all. 33 Oh, the depth of the riches and s wisdom and knowledge of God! t How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! 34 “For u who has known the mind of the Lord, or v who has been his counselor?” 35 “Or w who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” 36 For x from him and through him and to him are all things. y To him be glory forever. Amen.

“He consigned all to disobedience.” How do you get from vs. 32a to now the Doxology? Paul shows that by vs. 32b “That He may have mercy on all.” The mind blogging spine tiggling of Romans 11 is to serve the purpose of Displaying God’s Glory! All doctrine is about, is for GOD’s GLORY!

2. Doctrine is for our Assurance – John 15:15-16 - 15 u No longer do I call you servants, [1] for the servant [2] w does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for x all that I have heard from my Father y I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but z I chose you and appointed you that you should go and a bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that b whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. – Jesus is about to die and the thing which He teaches in the Upper Room is about Election, that He has chosen them and them not Him. Matthew tells us that they (the disciples) would abandon Him, not just Judas. Doctrine is for Assurance.

3. Marriage – truth is for marriage – Ephesians 5 – 25 g Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and h gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by i the washing of water j with the word, 27 so k that he might present the church to himself in splendor, l without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. [1] - Doctrine of Atonement. We contributed nothing to this marriage with Christ AND get all the benefits of this marriage. Paul draws us to this passage and points us to an ethical obligation of all husbands. Love her in the light of the doctrine of the atonement. WOW!!! Love her like Jesus loves her. The atonement. Men, don’t let what you’ve heard these 3 days go to waste. Come back to your families with more love, more intimacy, tell her how you learned about your Saviour and how that has made you want to learn how to love your wife more, how you want to hate your sins more, how you want to see God’s glory and have an everlasting zeal for Him. Doctrine is for marriage.

4. Joy – Truth/Theoloy/Doctrine is for Joy – Philippians 3:1-11 - Finally, my brothers, [1] k rejoice in the Lord. l To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you. 2 Look out for m the dogs, look out for n the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh. 3 For o we are the circumcision, p who worship q by the Spirit of God [2] and r glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh— 4 s though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5 t circumcised on the eighth day, u of the people of Israel, v of the tribe of Benjamin, u a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, w a Pharisee; 6 x as to zeal, y a persecutor of the church; z as to righteousness under the law, [3] blameless. 7 But a whatever gain I had, b I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of c the surpassing worth of d knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I e have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having f a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but g that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— 10 h that I may know him and i the power of his resurrection, and j may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 that by any means possible I may k attain the resurrection from the dead. – Rejoice in the Lord…. Then doctrine. The joy producing truth is what produced the remaining verses following “Rejoice in the Lord.” In our rejoicing, we should know why. The pastor should always have that “joy” to want to tell people why one should rejoice. He is saying in these passages why he can suffer with such joy and what brings him this joy, it is the truth, the doctrine, the theology. Why? Because of Christology! Justification! Glorification! All doctrine brings joy and points to joy! Rob your people of the joy, don’t bring the truth home.

Deuteronomy 23:3-6 “God Turns Curses Into Blessings” Audio

Audio Recording

Worship Service #1 Deuteronomy 23:3-6 “God Turns Curses Into Blessings” – Dr. Douglas Kelly

Deuteronomy 23:3-6 “God Turns Curses Into Blessings”

Dr. Douglas Kelly

(I'll be updating this as he is preaching. So keep refreshing)

How God turns curses into blessings for His people. The sinful world system hates those who shine with God’s holiness. (I John 3:13) Why would they hate you, see verse 3:12. Proverbs 29:27. If you shine at all you’re a stench to the nostrils of those “in the world”. II Tim 3:12.

Phil 4:4 says we are to rejoice in the Lord always.

3 points

1. Curses are sure to come to the people of God (vs. 4)
2. God turns curses into blessings for His people (vs. 5)
3. A curse we can not expect God to bless (Numbers 25 and 31)

One:
Curses are sure to come on to believers (Dt. 23:4). If the world hates you, you know it hated Jesus before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Do you notice when you are in “curses” that there has been a reason of “good” which brought you there. The curses of evil against you, Christian, are never a word of discouragement

Two:
God turns curses into blessings for His people. See it in Joseph, in Jesus, in yourself. Reading Numbers 23. Principle of God turning curses (Satan and his emissaries) into wonderful rich blessings. (Genesis 50 of Joseph). What you meant for evil, God meant it for God to save much people alive. Acts 4:23 – what they did was wicked… God brings the salvation of all the elect by the “wicked” act of those who crucified Jesus. God doing this type of work is always at work in the lives of His people. Psalm 121 – He that keepeth Israel neither slumber nor sleeps. Romans 12 teaches us that we are to never return curses for curses. God will do it right. The judgment is mine declares the Lord. Doctrine of Balaam or Counsel of Balaam can be found in Revelation 2:14 while also being found in Numbers 25 and 31. You cannot put curses of spiritual power on to believers. So if you cannot.

Three:
Numbers 25 and 31. There is a divine restraint against the evil one refraining them from doing a spiritual harm against you. We are to trust in Him who neither slumbers nor sleeps. But the danger of you corrupting yourself immorally is what you SHOULD be concerned with. The greatest danger is that “I myself, will allow myself, to become attracted to the pleasures of this world when I KNOW. When I allow this, I am allowing corruption to come into Christian leadership.”

This greatest curse is succumbing to moral impurity. Many ministers fall in this area. Have you been vigilant in one area and have let your guard down in another? The doctrine of Balaam exists to this day. Crafty old Balaam used the “eye-gate” which is very difficult for the man to resist (“The Lust of the Eyes”).

Statistics of pornography:
Blazing Grace –
April 6, 2007 70% of Christians admitted to struggling with pornography
December 2000 surveyed 5 Christian campuses to see how the next gen 48% admitted to porn use 67% intentionally viewed porn while on campus.

64% Christian leaders confirmed that they do struggle with pornography

$13.4 billion in 2006 revenues were bigger than the nfl, mbl, nba combined

77% visitors to adult sites are males and avg age 41 and income is $61k and are married


Pornography appears to be more of a problem for those in their 40-50’s of Christian men.

“I could pray with them. But I am sorry that I cannot give them back what they had lost” – Kelly

God CAN RESTORE what the locust have eaten. Just pray. Just pray that He would. Cast yourself on all the resources of the divine grace which you have access.

Sexual impurity is “within” the body. All other sins committed are outside the body. Isaiah says God is waiting to be gracious to you. Go to Him. John Knox wrote a 3-part exposition of Psalm 6 (READ IT). A Fortress of the Afflicted is what John Knox calls this. The only place you can go is go back to the Lord, even when the only place you do not “feel” you can go is back to the Lord.

What is the best way to be well guarded, well armed against the worst curse bringer of all, our fallen flesh manipulated by the evil powers of this world ? The best place to turn is the very thing that has been the focus of this conference is the Ordinary Means of Grace. Owens in Sin and Temptation is to not think about that sin which draws you to it. Rather Owen says is to heartily immerse yourself into the Ordinary Means of Grace (prayer, preaching, Lord’s Supper, Meditation, Zealous to the World). This is our best protection, b/c in the M.O.G. given to us by God we have relationship with Jesus and even in our weakness, the evil one MUST flee because of our accessing Christ and His table of grace. He that expects anything from Christ must attend to Him by the Means of Grace. It is in the M.O.G. it is when we meet Jesus Christ.

A Scriptural prayer from A. W. Pink mentions of David, start everyday with a prayer from Psalm 119:117 “Hold Thou me up and I will be safe”. The regularly weekly prayer meeting is essential to combat the fleshly desires. Those who say they have no time to attend the prayer meeting have really no excuses to not attend the prayer meeting. Do you wonder why you are so easily lured into the fleshly desires and temptations? Do you attend regularly, the weekly prayer meetings? Romans 7 Paul says even in His saved state that his flesh is weak. A ministry who does not pray is not armed to combat the world.

Closing:
The Means of Grace are God’s channels of accessing God’s power, HIS SUPERNATURAL POWER, that through these we are constantly meeting with the Keeper of Israel, the great Chief, the Cornerstone. He quotes Toplady at this time. See the hymn here.

Toplady and His Ministry

Wednesday's Schedule

Time	Activity
8:00-9:10	Breakfast and Fellowship
9:10 - 9:15	Devotional Reading 3
9:15 - 10:30	Seminar 3 – Emergent Calvinism -Does lightening strike twice? – David Robertson
10:30 - 10:55	Break
10:55 - 11:00	Logos Report – Kendall
11:00 - 11:05	Devotional Reading 4
11:05 - 12:15	Seminar 4 "Biblical, Historical, and Theological Case for Reformed Worship" – Terry Johnson
12:15 - 1:45	Break for Lunch and Fellowship
1:45 - 1:50	Devotional Reading 5
1:50 - 3:00	Q&A Roundtable – What in the world is the Missional Church? -- Jonathan Leeman
3:00 - 3:30	Church Planting Interviews and Reports (1) – Carl Robbins
3:30 - 6:00	Free Time – Rest, Recreation and Fellowship
6:00 - 6:55	Supper and Fellowship
6:55 - 7:00	Devotional Reading 6
7:00 - 8:30	Worship Service 2 – The Reverend Professor Derek W.H. Thomas, preaching Romans 11:33-36 “The Majesty of God"
8:30 - 8:35	Meditation, Repentance, Reflection, Rejoicing and Evening Fellowship and Rest

Tuesday's Schedule

Time	Activity
12:00 Noon	Check-in Begins and Brown Bag Lunch available in the Dining Hall
1:30 – 1:45	Welcome and Singing
1:45 – 2:45	Seminar 1 – Bavinck – Ron Gleason
2:45 – 3:15	Break
3:15 – 4:45	Seminar 2 – Systematic Theology and Pastoral Ministry – Ligon Duncan
4:45 – 5:00	Break
5:00 – 5:05	Devotional Reading 1
5:05 – 6:00	Introduction of Church Planters and Newly Attending Twin Lakes Fellows – Carl Robbins
6:00 – 6:05	Devotional Reading 2
6:05 – 7:25	Break for Supper and Fellowship
7:30 – 9:00	Worship Service 1 – The Reverend Professor Douglas F. Kelly, preaching “God Turns Curses Into Blessings” Deuteronomy 23:3-6
9:00 – 9:05	Meditation, Repentance, Reflection, Rejoicing and Evening Fellowship and Rest