Review of Entire Series

The point: Gird up the loins of your mind when you sit under the preaching of the word — do not be among those whose ears are merely tickled with sensational things.

Walking into a sumptuous seven-course meal at the fourth course — at least you want to smell what has gone before. Pictures the value of a review for newcomers.

is first of all to give a helpful introduction to those who are new amongst us. It would be unfair to break right in and not seek to give you a feel for where we have been in this series of studies and where we are going. It's as though you came in a very sumptuous seven-course meal at about the fourth course. At least you'd like to know and at least smell what had gone before, even if there wasn't time for you to sit down and eat it all.

4:15 - 4:42 Read in full sermon

The point: Gird up the loins of your mind when you sit under the preaching of the word — do not be among those whose ears are merely tickled with sensational things.

Spending ten minutes looking through three weeks of vacation photographs and, by recall and association, reliving days of intense pleasure — picturing how review can make past sermons live again.

crane more than just the elementary issues dealt with, but that in a sense God will help us to relive something of the glory of some of those hours when God was pleased to pull back the veil and give us a sight of our Redeemer that ravished our hearts. You may go on a three-week vacation to a very special spot a year later to You sit down and spend ten minutes looking through some of the photographs, and in the ten minutes you can, as it were, by recall and association, relive many days of intense pleasure. Well, I hope that will happen this morning for those of you who are with us. And then I...

6:07 - 6:59 Read in full sermon

The point: Let the nature of the God you worship determine the climate of your worship — awe and reverent fear, not casual familiarity.

The Jehovah's Witness sneering 'even a second grader can add — how can three be one?' — pictured as rationalism that misses the revealed mystery of the Trinity.

carnal, rationalistic mind of the poor, deluded Russellite who sneers with the knowing look and he says, ha, ha, ha, how can three be one? Even a little kid in the second grade can add up better than that. We do not seek to answer his rationalism with a rationalism of our own. We simply say, my friend, if God ever reveals himself to you, you'll know him to be what he is. One God who is Father, who is Son, who is

22:16 - 22:44 Read in full sermon

The point: Be humbled that your depth of need was so great that nothing less than the mystery of the Incarnation could answer it.

The old preachers' phrase 'there is a man in the glory' — Christ in His glorified humanity carries a reservoir of sympathy into heaven's presence itself.

And is. Not simply was. Is. As the old preachers used to say, there is a man in the glory. One God, one mediator between God and man. Himself man. Right now. Christ Jesus. We have a high priest who is touched with the feeling of our infirmities. He's carried that reservoir.

32:01 - 32:28 Read in full sermon

The point: When you are tempted, cry for help and remember Christ's succoring ministry gives strength to withstand, consolation in the trial, and seasonable deliverance from it.

Throwing a dime in a charity box as you walk past — that is helping, but it is not succor. Succor is help given in response to a cry from real need.

You see, it's not like the help you give when you walk by a store and there's a little box for the march of dimes and you throw a dime in. Now that's helping whatever causes are there, but that's not succor. Sucor has bound up in it the help that is given in response to a cry that comes out of a context of need. If you ever had any doubts as to why Jesus Christ has to be God to do His work as a priest, think of it.

39:52 - 40:19 Read in full sermon