What is the goal of this conference?
What is the goal?
The goal of our instruction is love.
The overarching aim that Paul gives
for sitting under sound teaching.
For coming aside to a place like this,
and hearing men open the Word of God to you,
is that you would be compelled
to greater and greater degrees
of love to God
and love to men.
That is the aim of this conference
because that is the aim
of the whole Christian life.
The whole Christian life can be summed up
in love to God and love to men.
I will also make you a light of the nations,
so that My salvation may reach
to the end of the earth.
It's too small for Christ just to be glorified
in one place.
He's worthy of more.
The more we find out about the Lord,
the more we grow in our own relationship
with the Lord and love for the Lord.
Our hearts ought to break when
we see people just living for vanity.
And when we know that there are places
where nobody worships Christ.
There's a longing in our hearts for far more.
No matter what kind of experience we've had,
in mighty preaching,
in glorious singing,
in times of prayer,
brethren, the truth is,
we're not present with Him.
And what we've had is just small
tips of an iceberg
that is so eternal
and will take us out into the ages to come.
I have been crucified with Christ
and I no longer live,
but Christ lives in me.
Knowing this, that our old self,
our old man,
the person that I used to be in Adam,
has been crucified with Him,
so that I'd no longer be a slave of sin.
The body of sin has been
rendered powerless, he said.
Loving the church
because the Lord Jesus Christ
loves the church.
The compromised, worldly,
Protestant Evangelical mess
of the professing church world,
is not to be equated with the
true church of Jesus Christ.
They're not the same thing.
His church
is a spiritual temple of living stones.
A chosen people.
A royal priesthood.
A holy nation.
The apple of His eye.
A people, the Bible says,
of His own possession.
Answer this honestly.
Do I love the church as Christ does?
Do I view the church as Christ does?
Do I live for her as Paul did?
If not, then we should not claim
to be Biblical Christians.
Because the church is at the center
and the heart of God's economy.
The goal of the conference is this,
and with this I close,
wherever God sends you
in the days and weeks to come,
regardless of context and position,
you will be found sacrificing your life
on the altar of love to God and to men.
That is the goal of our instruction.
That is the goal of this conference.
And that is the goal of the Christian life.