Steadfast in Truth: Embracing Joy and New Insights

hold fast the word unchanged and true be like those who in Luke 8:15 the good soil they held it fast they held fast in an honest and good heart and they bore fruit hold fast the word unchanged and true be like the lovers of the Gospel in 1 Corinthians 15 I would remind you Brothers of the Gospel I preached to you which you received and which you stand by which you are being saved if you hold it fast [00:01:06]

hold fast to the inherent word of God the Bible for the words of the Lord are pure words like silver refined in a furnace on the ground purified seven times scripture cannot be broken more to be desired are they than gold even much fine gold sweeter also than honey and drippings from the Honey Cone don't let it go hold fast to the precious infinitely valuable inherent word of God the Bible [00:03:11]

hold fast to reformed theology that is hold fast to the unchanged truth that our great salvation is a decisive work of God start to finish he chose you he predestined you he died for you he rose for you he bore your sins he took your condemnation he called you he caused your new birth he gave you saving Faith he forgave your sins he adopted you he guards you he sustains you he keeps you he sanctifies you he perfects you and he will bring you to God where there is fullness of joy and Pleasures forever more [00:04:03]

hold fast to the fullest glorification of God through the joy of God's people in God hold fast to Christian heathenism by whatever name hold fast to the serious joy that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him or as Paul put it once I will boast all the more gladly honos from which we get Hedonism gladly I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses in order that the power of Christ May rest on me [00:05:37]

hold fast the beauty of manhood and Womanhood biblically as God created them and orders them in complimentary relationships hold fast to marriage as a lifelong Covenant Union between a man and a woman with the man taking his cues from Christ as the head of his wife and the wife taking her cues from the faithful submissive loved Body of Christ the church whole fast to the burden that men must bear as those responsible for the p pastoral leadership of the church [00:06:43]

hold fast to them all Brian all the precious realities of the affirmation of Faith hold fast the word unchanged and true and in all your steady solid stable unflinching unchanging holding fast what is true let Insight joy and song be new oh sing to the Lord a new song sing to the Lord a new song sing to the Lord bless his name tell of his salvation from day to day declare his glory among the Nations His Marvelous Works among all the peoples [00:08:01]

now when David or the psalmist if it wasn't David I can't remember I don't think David is at at the head of this one when the psalmist said that he did not mean write a new Bible he did not mean find a new doctrine he didn't mean bow to a new Lord he didn't mean bless a new name he didn't mean tell a different salvation he didn't mean praise a novel Glory he didn't mean be amazed at a greatness that's never existed before he didn't mean that he meant hold fast the word unchanged and true and by all means let Insight joy and song be new [00:09:00]

you have a great faculty these men and women have amazingly gifted eyes to seek and find treasures in the Bible the word of God unchanged and true the word of God and the world of God is like an ocean of insight without any bottom and without any shore Inspire these teachers challenge them equip them pay them to see what is really there insights they may never have seen before and they then will train students to do the same [00:10:05]

not every scribe and these are worthy scribes who has been trained for the Kingdom of Heaven is like a master of a house who brings forth out of his treasure what is new and what is old Matthew 1352 all truth new insight let Insight joy and song be new let Joy be new weeping may t for the night Joy comes in the morning now we know here at Bethlehem that there is a serious joy that endures through the night sorrowful yet always rejoicing 2 Corinthians 6:10 [00:10:56]

Dawn is not Darkness dancing is not weeping birth is not death the joy of the bridegroom coming out of his chamber at Sunrise is not the same joy as the joy of an old man after 60 years of marriage standing by the grave of his wife they're all different all of them are different every Joy is different the mercies are new Every Morning the joys are new every morning and every evening birth and death know this Brian Savor this live this and pray this until education in serious joy in this school is new every morning [00:11:57]

if our president and our faculty and our students are finding new insights in the ocean of God's unchanging truth and if we are tasting New Joys every morning and evening evening we will sing new songs and we will sing old songs better than we ever have so I wrote a song that we're going to sing right now you're going to help me sing this song and we're going to sing it over Brian you don't have to sing you can sing if you want to but you're going to help me sing it's to the tune of um all people that on Earth Do Dwell [00:13:15]

that God's truth stands like His holy name no our nor beame ET Eternal absolute the same for ever one in some and name yet oh how new and fresh The Taste linger with him and make no haste through every line the sweet is Trac may we forever so be Grace come every scholar poet to keep pent truth and blissing view hold fast the word unchanged and true let inside joy and song be new [00:14:39]