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What is the goal of this conference?

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What is the goal?

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The goal of our instruction is love.

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The overarching aim that Paul gives

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for sitting under sound teaching.

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For coming aside to a place like this,

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and hearing men open 
the Word of God to you,

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is that you would be compelled

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to greater and greater degrees

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of love to God

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and love to men.

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That is the aim of this conference

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because that is the aim

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of the whole Christian life.

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The whole Christian life can be summed up

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in love to God and love to men.

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I will also make you a 
light of the nations,

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so that My 
salvation may reach

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to the end of the earth.

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It's too small for Christ 
just to be glorified

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in one place.

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He's worthy of more.

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The more we find out about the Lord,

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the more we grow 
in our own relationship

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with the Lord and love for the Lord.

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Our hearts ought to break when

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we see people just living for vanity.

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And when we know that there are places

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where nobody worships Christ.

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There's a longing in our 
hearts for far more.

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No matter what kind of 
experience we've had,

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in mighty preaching,

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in glorious singing,

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in times of prayer,

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brethren, the truth is,

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we're not present with Him.

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And what we've had is just small

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tips of an iceberg

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that is so eternal

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and will take us out 
into the ages to come.

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I have been crucified with Christ

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and I no longer live,

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but Christ lives in me.

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Knowing this, that our old self,

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our old man,

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the person that I used to be in Adam,

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has been crucified with Him,

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so that I'd no longer be a slave of sin.

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The body of sin has been

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rendered powerless, he said.

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Loving the church

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because the Lord Jesus Christ

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loves the church.

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The compromised, worldly,

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Protestant Evangelical mess

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of the professing church world,

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is not to be equated with the

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true church of Jesus Christ.

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They're not the same thing.

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His church

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is a spiritual temple of living stones.

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A chosen people.

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A royal priesthood.

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A holy nation.

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The apple of His eye.

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A people, the Bible says,

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of His own possession.

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Answer this honestly.

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Do I love the church as Christ does?

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Do I view the church as Christ does?

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Do I live for her as Paul did?

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If not, then we should not claim

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to be Biblical Christians.

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Because the church is at the center

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and the heart of God's economy.

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The goal of the conference is this,

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and with this I close,

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wherever God sends you

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in the days and weeks to come,

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regardless of context and position,

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you will be found sacrificing your life

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on the altar of love to God and to men.

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That is the goal of our instruction.

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That is the goal of this conference.

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And that is the goal 
of the Christian life.