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If you missed it, Emilio has also preached on The Great Commission:

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“Look, if the preacher says God wants you to be happy, then multitudes of the people who want to be happy will flock to Jesus. “Jesus, make me happy.” If the preacher says, “If you’re sick, you’ve got a marriage problem, financial frustration, or loneliness, look to Jesus who will satisfy the desires of your heart.” Then all the people who are lonely and have bad marriages and don’t want to be lonely will come running to Jesus. Each conceives of the ultimate joy as personal satisfaction, right? The ultimate joy would be to be well. Or the ultimate joy would be to be happy. Or the ultimate joy would be to be married to the perfect man. Or the ultimate joy would be to have that house that I want so much. The ultimate joy would be to get a promotion.

Well if that’s what you offer people in the name of Jesus, you’ll fill up Houston Stadium and they’ll all come running in. They’ll sing all the songs and they’ll run to Jesus and Jesus, they hope, will give them all the things that will make them happy.

People who are saved aren’t looking for happy, they’re looking for holy. That’s what they’re looking for, big difference…big difference. They’re looking for holy. They want to escape the power and the penalty of their sin. That’s why Hebrews 12:14 says, “Follow holiness without which no man will see the Lord.” You don’t get there coming in the path of happy. You get there coming in the path of holy. Until people are compelled by their sin to seek a Savior and pursue righteousness, they don’t come to Christ truly…truly.

Christ met the penalty of the Law of God for us so that we could keep the Law of God by the power of the Holy Spirit in us. Christ met the penalty for us, the Spirit fulfills the Law in us.

When the sinner leaves the court of God, the court of God’s pure justice with a pardon for sin, he’s not finished with the law…he’s not finished with the law. Not at all. The moral Law of God runs right through the heart of the Kingdom…it runs right through the heart of every true Christian. The Moral Law of God is nowhere, listen, more at home than in the middle of the Kingdom of grace because God’s Law is a reflection of him and his will.

The Moral Law can’t make us holy. But God can enable us by regeneration in the presence of the Holy Spirit to progressively become holy and to fulfill the Law. This is a fact. If you’re a believer, you are in the process of this progressive sanctification.

What aids that? What enables that? Exposure to truth, right? Second Corinthians 3:18, “As you gaze at the glory of the Lord,” where do you see that? Where do you look and find the glory of God? Where is it revealed? Scripture. The more you gaze at that, the more you’re changed into His image from one level of glory to the next, to the next, to the next by the Holy Spirit. What tool does the Holy Spirit use to sanctify you? The Word, as you gaze at the Word and you see the majesty and glory of Christ and God and the Holy Spirit in the Word, the glory that’s revealed there, you literally are shaped into that image from one level of glory to another, ascending, ascending, that’s progressive sanctification and that’s the work of the Holy Spirit.

And what does it mean to be sanctified and separate from sin? It means to become obedient to the Law of God, obedient to the will of God, to do what pleases God and He’s revealed what pleases Him. Listen, Law obedience is not, cannot be the ground of our justification, but it is the fruit of our justification. And it is the evidence of our sanctification. Those who are justified are also sanctified under the influence of the Holy Spirit by whose power we now live and we can fulfill the divine Law and it’s not burdensome.

What did David say? “Oh how I love Your Law. Your Law is my delight.” Psalm 119, over and over, 175 times and then a final verse on his own admitted wretchedness. We love the Law. It’s our bent. It’s our desire. It’s our hunger. It’s what we want.”

Taken from the transcript of John MacArthur’s sermon on Romans 8:4-5 entitled, “The Law-Fulfilling Power of the Spirit”.

Dr. Bob Gonzales, Dean of Reformed Baptist Seminary, writes:

As we transitioned to a “new year,” many of us resolved to spend more quality time in the Scriptures. In light of this, I’d like to encourage… [you] to invest just twenty-minutes and watch the video below [based on James 1:16-27].

Pastor Greg Nichols, a professor of Systematic Theology for RBS, develops the theme of profiting from God’s word under the headings of hungering for, sitting humbly under, and walking in obedience to the word of God. From 1980 to 1988, Pastor Nichols gave this address to his seminary students at Trinity Ministerial Academy once a year. He was recently invited by Dr. Joel Beeke to deliver this exhortation to the students of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary at a weekly chapel service. May the Lord grant us all a greater love for and conformity to the teachings of his inspired Word!

Watch the video:

PRTS Chapel Series-Rev. Greg Nichols, November 16, 2011 from Puritan Reformed on Vimeo.

Or listen to the 20 minute sermon audio:

Pastor Jay recommended the following Q&A, which features Al Mohler addressing the following question at the Expositor’s Conference 2011:

• 1:52 – Given your experience in Southern Baptist life, has church autonomy been a determent or a benefit to us?
• 4:25 – What about churches with itching ears?
• 6:55 – How involved should a pastor be in current events?
• 11:09 – Since doctrinal precision is important, how do we determine which issues are more important than others?
• 15:45 – What are some things we should be educated on and guarded against with issues that are coming down the line?
• 24:10 – Why does God command all men, everywhere to repent, if they can’t apart from His grace and why does He make threats He knows He won’t carry out?
• 29:53 – How has it affected you when someone you discipled, who said they were Christians, turn away from the faith?
• 35:36 – What should I tell people who sit under Mark Driscoll on YouTube?
• 42:42 – How would you asses the state of the Southern Baptist Convention?
• 49:42 – What about movements that think you have to mimic the world to reach the lost?
• 53:43 – What is the Biblical response to being called a religion that is “cosmic child abuse” or a “slaughterhouse” religion (i.e. talking about the cross, blood, atonement, etc…)?
• 58:43 – What do you do to feed your soul and make sure it fits in your busy schedule?
• 1:08:08 – What did Paul mean in Titus 1:6 (1 Timothy 3:2-4) when he required elders to have faithful/believing children?1:13:18 What are the foundational issues between a credo (baptizing believers) and paedobaptist (baptizing infants)?

Pastor Jay suggested the following 5 minute video from Pastor Steve Lawson:

(HT: Reformed Baptist Fellowship)

During his intro, Pastor Jay recommended listening to Albert Martin and Sinclair Ferguson‘s sermons.

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The following video (40+ minutes) is from the recent Psalm 119 Conference in Keller, TX, sponsored by “Wretched,” featuring Todd (“Freakishly Tall”) Friel. Todd dragged me on stage to discuss the Elephant Room and other issues related to wall-building, biblical discernment, bad discernment ministries, shrill-and-sharp-tongued women who fancy themselves called to ministries of full-time criticism—and a few other interesting topics:

You may also listen or download this as an MP3:

The most recent sermon was “Loving Your Bride As Jesus Loved His” [Eph. 5:25-33] by Chris Matthews:

Two Friday’s ago we heard “Following & Identifying With Christ” [Mark 10:17-31] from Billy Leonhart:

You may also view/download this sermon as a PDF:

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If you were at The Psalm 119 Conference then you heard Todd Friel and Phil Johnson discuss the upcoming Elephant Room. For those aware of the issues, Pastor Jay suggested listening to an interview that No Compromise Radio recently did with Carl Trueman.

As Richard Barcellos put it, “ I really appreciate how [Carl Trueman] brings the issues to practical bearing for churches and individuals. Here is no theoretic theologian. Carl is a churchly theolgian and understands how these things impact ordinary pastors and their people.”

25 minute audio: Download audio file (download.php?filename=2011-10-16_live_10_12_11_carltruemanandtheeleph.mp3)