Truth in Temptation: A Call to Holiness
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"With the advent of the video cassette recorder and the pervasive availability of pornographic material, ethical resistance is apparently crumbling among evangelicals. A recent survey of clergy, who as a group ranked significantly more conservative than the lay in matters of sexual ethics, indicated that 20% of the respondents, that is clergy, preachers, pastors, view pornographic matter at least once a month." [00:01:54]
"When you're watching, I presume, an x-rated video at home when the wife's away that you got from the nearby whatever store, you do not have a passion for truth. You don't. It's gone. You're in the gutter, and the whole biblical vision of a large-hearted, noble passion for the glory of God and the truth that God thinks about all things, that's as far away from your mind and heart at that moment as China." [00:03:12]
"Satan is in the blinding business, and what he loves to blind us to most is glory in truth in the gospel. The light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ is what unbelievers don't see. When you see it, you are mastered by it; you follow it." [00:07:00]
"The real problem, the root of all else, pressure from the depraved human mind which measures truth by its desires, not by God. We are the main problem, not Satan. Depraved hearts are the main problem in the world, not Satan. Satan has sway only where depravity holds sway, and where grace conquers, our depravity ceases to have a conquering foothold." [00:08:00]
"Preach the word, be ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths." [00:09:02]
"Truth is the consistency and agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God. I like that definition because you could define truth this way: truth is the accordance or the agreement of your ideas with reality. If you're out of touch with reality, you speak words and sentences that don't accord with what is; you're speaking falsehood." [00:20:19]
"It is not sufficient to say true things in order to be Christian education. You could speak total truth all day long in a class and have it not be Christian education because it's God-ignoring. And if God's ignored, he's belittled, and if he's belittled, you're in trouble. You're in big trouble if your life is devoted to belittling God." [00:21:21]
"Truth is the accordance of your life and your words with God's ideas about things. So to be indifferent to truth is to be indifferent to God, and therefore, as you can see, it's just simply a God issue for me to be truth-driven." [00:22:48]
"The pressure to say what people want to hear and maybe say it, I mean, avoid things that are needful that are going to be unappealed. I mean, my whole vision theologically, in a sense, with Desiring God and the pleasures of God and Christian Hedonism and the sentence 'God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him.'" [00:15:19]
"God is the truth, and I got a couple of texts for God the Father and several for the Spirit and the Son. What them if some did not believe? Their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it? May it never be. Rather, let God be found true though every man be found a liar." [00:18:44]
"Jesus said to him, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me.' Ephesians 4: 'But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard him and have been taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.'" [00:19:34]
"The spirit of modernity is very powerful in the church and is shaping the church in sometimes unconscious ways such that we don't realize that we're being carried away and might wake up and say, 'H, the message is gone.' So you're right to call me to account to acknowledge that we can't be so countercultural in our approach that people can't understand us." [00:13:26]
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"When you're watching, I presume, an x-rated video at home when the wife's away that you got from the nearby whatever store, you do not have a passion for truth. You don't. It's gone. You're in the gutter, and the whole biblical vision of a large-hearted, noble passion for the glory of God and the truth that God thinks about all things, that's as far away from your mind and heart at that moment as China." [00:03:12]
"Satan is in the blinding business, and what he loves to blind us to most is glory in truth in the gospel. The light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ is what unbelievers don't see. When you see it, you are mastered by it; you follow it." [00:07:00]
"The real problem, the root of all else, pressure from the depraved human mind which measures truth by its desires, not by God. We are the main problem, not Satan. Depraved hearts are the main problem in the world, not Satan. Satan has sway only where depravity holds sway, and where grace conquers, our depravity ceases to have a conquering foothold." [00:08:00]
"Preach the word, be ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths." [00:09:02]
"Truth is the consistency and agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God. I like that definition because you could define truth this way: truth is the accordance or the agreement of your ideas with reality. If you're out of touch with reality, you speak words and sentences that don't accord with what is; you're speaking falsehood." [00:20:19]
"It is not sufficient to say true things in order to be Christian education. You could speak total truth all day long in a class and have it not be Christian education because it's God-ignoring. And if God's ignored, he's belittled, and if he's belittled, you're in trouble. You're in big trouble if your life is devoted to belittling God." [00:21:21]
"Truth is the accordance of your life and your words with God's ideas about things. So to be indifferent to truth is to be indifferent to God, and therefore, as you can see, it's just simply a God issue for me to be truth-driven." [00:22:48]
"The pressure to say what people want to hear and maybe say it, I mean, avoid things that are needful that are going to be unappealed. I mean, my whole vision theologically, in a sense, with Desiring God and the pleasures of God and Christian Hedonism and the sentence 'God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him.'" [00:15:19]
"God is the truth, and I got a couple of texts for God the Father and several for the Spirit and the Son. What them if some did not believe? Their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it? May it never be. Rather, let God be found true though every man be found a liar." [00:18:44]
"Jesus said to him, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me.' Ephesians 4: 'But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard him and have been taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.'" [00:19:34]
"The spirit of modernity is very powerful in the church and is shaping the church in sometimes unconscious ways such that we don't realize that we're being carried away and might wake up and say, 'H, the message is gone.' So you're right to call me to account to acknowledge that we can't be so countercultural in our approach that people can't understand us." [00:13:26]
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