Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from the Scriptures
Philippians 1.6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Category: Jesus
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Tom Nettles
Jim Elliff
With two trips to the airport today, one this morning and the other this afternoon, our conference speakers were on their way home after a truly rich weekend.Tom Nettles from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary opened the conference Friday night with a tribute to James Petigru Boyce. It was a study in a man’s faithfulness to God through the most imposing opposition, persevering until he at last established one of the nation’s truly important seminaries. The focus was on Boyce’s commitment to Calvinistic doctrine, and the need to rain men well to pass that on to the generations following. Informative and truly challenging. If you are struggling with despair in the face of huge odds, this presentation is for you.
Jim Elliff, President and founder of Christian Communicators World Wide – followed with the first of two parts in the life of George Muller. Dispelling the myths about Muller’s mysticism while demonstrating his Biblically rational faith all along, all of us began to desire such a prayer life as Mullers’, but chided ourselves for not possessing the courage to trust God quite that fully.
Saturday morning reconvened with Tom Nettles unpacking the life of Andrew Fuller, by putting the spotlight upon Fuller’s view of human depravity as the axis of his theological system. To see how Fuller did that and made it cross over into a foundation for God’s greater glory was a magnificent treat.
Jim Elliff gave us Muller part 2 with many pictures we had never seen before. In truth, without these, you simply cannot grasp the magnitude of the work. The sheer size of the buildings and the complex of the orphanage – housing 2000 orphans at a time – and this without ever making known his needs but to God in prayer. This was simply amazing.
After lunch, Dr. Nettles moved us to consider Jonathan Edwards and Edwards’ commitment to preaching. His thought and systems were all slaves to his desire to get the Gospel communicated in the best possible fashion to his hearers. This was a different approach, well worth our consideration.
Jim Elliff closed the conference with an exposition of Philippians 1 – setting our eyes on wanting lives like Paul’s – like Muller’s – where they become grand experiments in seeing how the reality of God’s existence can be modeled to the world by how we live. It was powerful, moving, convicting and exciting.
Sorry you couldn’t be with us, but CD’s (or cassettes) of any one session are $2.00, or a DVD for $5.00 Or, get the whole conference (all six sessions) for $10.00 on CD (or tape) or $20.00 for the DVD’s. If you want any – let me know!
Next April – It is Jerry Bridges, and Phil Johnson. Don’t miss it!
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings in Scripture
John 15.12-13 This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for His friends.
Eph. 2.4-7 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you have been saved – and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings in Scripture
Psalm 55.2 Attend to me, and answer me; I am restless in my complaint and I moan.
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings in Scripture
Heb. 13.8 – Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
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Walk in Wisdom - Gleanings in Scripture
Deut. 12.13-24 Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings atany place that you see, but at the place that the Lord will choose in
one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and
there you shall do all that I am commanding you. (more…)
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Walk in Wisdom - Gleanings in Scripture
Deut. 13.1-3 If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams
arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,
and the sign or winder that he tells you comes to
pass, and if he says, "Let us go after other gods,
which you have not known, and let us serve them,"
you shall not listen to the words of that prophet
or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God
is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord
your God with all your heart and with all your
soul.
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from the Scripture
John 10:34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from the Scripture
Proverbs 28.20 A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.
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Walk in Wisdom / Gleanings from Scripture
Eph. 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Adapted from Hart’s Hymns, No. 55 on Faith and Repentance.
Come dear Christians, sing the praises
Of your condescending God;
Come and hymn the holy Jesus
Who has washed us in His blood;
We are poor, weak and silly,
And to every evil prone;
Yet our Jesus loves us freely,
And receives us as His own.
Though we’re low in man’s opinion,
He has made us priests and kings,
Power, and glory, and dominion,
To the Lamb the sinner sings;
Leprous souls, unsound and filthy,
Come to Jesus in your sin:
Its the sick man, not the healthy
Needs His cleansing power within.
Hear the terms that never vary;
Come repent, and, come believe;
Both of these are necessary;
Both from Jesus we receive;
Would-be Christian! Rightly ponder
These in your impartial mind;
Let no man dare put asunder
What in wisdom Christ combined.
Please! Beware of wrongly thinking
God accepts you for your tears;
Are the shipwrecked saved by sinking?
Can the ruined rise by fears?
Hear! Beware of trust ungrounded,
Its imagined faith at best,
He cures no one but the wounded;
To the spent He gives His rest.
No big words from boastful talkers,
No dry doctrine will suffice:
Broken hearts, and humble walkers,
These are dear in Jesus’ eyes;
Tinkling sounds of disputation,
Naked knowledge, all are vain:
Every soul that gains salvation,
Must and shall be born again.
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