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Terry Enns writes “The audio from the recent “Pure Life Conference” hosted by Calvary Bible Church in Fort Worth has been posted.
This conference was designed to help men address sexual temptation and sin with biblical purity. Our own associate pastor, Keith Palmer taught the third session in this one-day seminar. The topics included:
Posted in Christian life, suffering, Uncategorized on May 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Having just preached through 1 Peter 1:6-9 on the purposes of trials and afflictions I found this to be an excellent reminder. We are not “removed from the arena of pain” but we are “upheld in the arena of pain.”
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As we get older physically, sometimes one of the first things to go is our short-term memory and then even our long-term memory. None of us want this to happen physically. But there’s something worse than losing your physical memory–it’s losing your spiritual memory. So repeatedly in Scripture we see exhortations to remember! One pastor has compiled these five things that God wants us never to forget:
Remember the day of your deliverance. Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you went out from Egypt, from the house of slavery; for by a powerful hand the LORD brought you out from this place” (Ex 13:3). “But thanks be to God that 1though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness” (Rom 6:17-18).
Remember God as the source of all good things, especially when you experience the abundance of His blessings. “Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today; otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived in them, and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies, then your heart will become 1proud and you will forget the LORD your God” (Deut 8:10-14). “Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow” (James 1:17).
Remember the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. “For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes” (1 Cor 11:26).
Remember fellow believers, in prayer, before the throne of God. “I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always offering prayer with joy in my every prayer for you all” (Phil 1:3-4).
Remember God’s calling and choosing you by His grace. “Therefore, I will always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them, and have been established in the truth which is present with you. I consider it right, as long as I am in this earthly dwelling, to stir you up by way of reminder, knowing that the laying aside of my earthly dwelling is imminent, as also our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me” (2 Pet 1:12-14).
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“Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.” – Proverbs 4:23
He who would keep his heart pure and holy must plant a sentinel at every avenue by which sin may find access there, guarding against none more than the “little” sins, as they are called. The man of God has his eyes to keep, and so Job said, “I have made a covenant with mine eyes”—, and his tongue, and hence the exhortation, “Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile”; —his ears as well, and hence the warning, “Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err”; —his feet, and hence David says, “I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep Thy word.” And since there is no gate of the five senses by which the enemy may not come in like a flood, unless the Spirit Lift up a standard against him, we have need to guard every port, and write over every portal, “Here there entereth nothing to hurt or to defile.”
~ Thomas Guthrie
