Video #2
Channel :- Desiring God
Published On :- 2013-Jan-30th
Added On :- 2019-July-8th Link
Commentary
Sinclair Ferguson
Best lessons from a lifetime of Pastoring
Relationship to Congregation
1st Timothy
Faith without a mask and a Good conscience
The end that is in view will always determine the beginning
If there is a goal in view, the beginning will be determined by that
Love
Love more important than gift
The only people that will gather around you for truth are those poorly taught in scripture or cranks, and they will gather around the notion that Truth is more important than Love
Jesus Loves his disciples
To his embryonic church he said “I have many things still to teach you, but you can not bear them“
Love understands the slowness and dimness of people
Paul to Timothy
Rebuke and Encourage–with great patience and careful instruction ( 2 Timothy 4:2 )
Relationship to Ministry ( Listening to the Word )
Strongest messages that go from us are the strongest that come to us
When we are preaching there is no one under the ministry of the Word more than us
Not that we masters of Scripture, but we are mastered by it
You are but the mailman here, If I am going to deal with anyone, I will have to deal with you
Under whose ministry do you sit? I sit under exactly the same ministry of the Word as you do
Relationship to God ( Live our Life in the Unity of Triunit Lord )
Book
Practice of the Presence of God – Brother Lawrence
Communion With God: Fellowship with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit – John Owens
Appropriations in Scripture, how one person takes the lead
Father in planning and sending
Son in coming and dying
The Spirit in being sent and applying
Fellowship in God via adoption
The Spirit comes and indwells to make a home for the Father and Son
J.D Greear
When the Strong Become Weak – Judges 14
Sampson was his own worst enemy
Impulsive
Compromise
What if the harm is not the act itself, but in driving God away
Not take the presence of God for granted
Unteachable
No one can speak into his life
An Isolated man will become to serve himself
Things that can grow in a secret garden always grow mutant ( David Powlison )
Those places that no man can speak into is the place that enemy is destroying us