Love to God and Love to Men | 2013 Fellowship Conference

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.