Alison and I attended the Resolved Conference (www.resolved.org) in Palm Springs, CA June 12 - 16, 2009. It was a great conference where about 4000 people attended, with the majority of them being college age. The theme of the Conference was SIN.
I'd like to summarize each speakers sermon and I'll start with the 1st speaker of the conference, Rick Holland. Rick is a pastor at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, CA.
Session 1 - Rick Holland
Rick's topic for this sermon was that the Christian life is warfare. His main points were as follows:
-Spiritual life is warfare...the question is are you captive, called to fight or engaged in the fight?
-Christian life is warfare, it's a war against the flesh
-The enemy is you (me)
-How do we fight against ourselves?
-The more we are aware of our sin, the more we understand God's grace
-What is sin? Sin is anything that keeps us from perfect righteousness.
-What is sin the result of? It's not from our childhood, not from our family or friends - it comes from within us, by nature.
-3 rationales to fight against sin
1) Christian citizenship demands the fight
- we are sojourners, not of this world
2) Fleshly lusts provoke the fight
- our flesh wages war with our soul
- our fleshy lusts stay with us
- John Owen said that Satan has associates in our heart that knows our flesh and our weaknesses, we can choose to listen to them or we can take precautions to defeat them.
- John Owen said "Be killing sin, or it will be killing you"
3) Fruitful evangelism motivates the fight
- we must be serious about sin, in order to be effective in evangelism
He concluded by saying, "The greatest threat to my faith is me!"
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