2004 Issue 3 - RPCUS Family Conference 2004 - Counsel of Chalcedon

THE GOSPEL OF TRUTH
THE 2004 REFORMED FAMILY
BIBLE CONFERENCE
Over four hundred people attended the Second Annual
Reformed Family Bible Conference sponsored by the
RPCUS and the Trinity Presbyterian Church, Tazewell,
Virginia this past June. The Conference was held once
again at Bluefield College located in the beautiful mountain
town of Bluefield, Virginia. Besides those from the local and
surrounding community there were 248 registered conferees
from Virginia, West VIrginia. North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Illinois, Ohio, Oklahoma,
Alabama, Texas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, and
Ecuador. This year's theme was THE GOSPEL OF
TRUTH. Follm..ving is a brief introduction to messages
given by the speakers at the conference. At the end you will
find how you can order audio/video copies of the messages.
DOUG PHILLIPS, President of Vision Forum
.Ministries. gave two lectures, "Six day 24 hour Creation"
and I'The Biblical Teaching of Interposition," two
subjects Christians desperately need to be aware of today.
The biggest problem we face today in the battle of
evolution and creation, Phillips proclaimed, is not from
evolutionists; it's not from universities; it's not from the
world. The biggest problem we face today, he asserted, is
from within the proclaimed, professing church of Jesus
Christ. Churches are so concerned about accommodating
the thinking of the world that they are sacrificing the
most fundamental, most basic truth of Scripture upon
which every major doctrine we hold dear emanates,
creation in six literal 24 hour days. The most important
debate and battle, Phillips said, is whether there was
death before Adam. Every single creation compromise
rests on the idea that there was death before Adam.
In His second message, Doug addressed the "Doctrine
of Interposition." This, he said, is the number one
political issue of the year and even of the decade. This is
a doctrine that most people have never heard of and most
likely will never hear of in their churches.
What is the doctrine of "Interposition"? Black's Law
Dictionary defines the doctrine of Interpositionas "The
doctrine that a state in the exercise of its sovereignty may
reject a mandate of the federal government deemed to be
unconstitutional or to exceed the powers delegated to the
federal government." This is the doctrine which allows
states to say ('I'm sony you've exceeded your power and
what Y0!l have done is unconstitutional." This doctrine
is based on the lOth Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States, reserving to the states the powers not
delegated to the federal government. There would be no
United States of America today, Phillips said, without
the Doctrine of Interposition, a doctrine which has
been acknowledged and held for centuries, based on the
principle of checks and balances and that God, not man,
nor kings, is sovereign.
This issue as it has arisen today, particularly in the case
of the former State Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy
Moore of the State of Alabama, asks the question (lCan
the State acknowledge God?" and "What is the meaning
of the rule oflaw?" Upon your view of the rule oflaw
rests the future of untold hundreds of millions of babies,
said Phillips.
Teaching Elder JOE MORECRAFT preached three
sermons on "The Gospel of Truth for Family, Church,
and State," the first of which is printed in this issue. The
other two will be published in forthcoming issues.
Pastor WAYNE ROGERS spoke on "The Book of
Proverbs - The Gospel of Truth for Everyday Living."
Solomon, 'the primary author of the Proverbs, Pastor Rogers
preached, was not only a type of Christ, but was also a
type of man created in the image of God and of Christians
recreated in the image of God. Like Solomon, he said, we are
Kings and Queens of creation. As kings and queens, we, like
Solomon, need God's wisdom to rule and govern ourselves,
our families, and our society". God's wisdom comes from
His inspired and infallible Word. The fear of God and trust
in His sufficient and authoritative Word is the beginning
of wisdom and knowledge, Provo 1 :7, 5:5-6. The Book of
Proverbs stands as a reminder that man is· a king to rule
God's created world, that he is to live in terms of God's holy,
righteous, just, and good law-wisdom, and that in order to be
successful he must fear and trust the Lord.
PASTOR JEFF BLACK addressed the subject of
"The Crucial Importance of Parents Teaohing Children
History." Pastor Black suggested that we are suffering
from a case of national Alzheimer's. We are historically
illiterate. We have lost our memories. We have become
confused and don't know where we are or ought to be or
how to get to where we ought to be, if we knew where
that was! Most Christians today think that the major
attack on Christians comes from science. Black submitted
that the primary threat is not science but Parents
have a moral, spiritual duty to teach history to their
. children he argued. Pastor Black showed from Biblical
example how historical ignorance leads to confusion.
History, he asserted, is necessary to the preparation of
one's heart for serving the Lord. One studies history,
he said, with this goal in mind, Psalm 78:8: to engender
in the student of history confidence in God. Without a
knowledge of history we are disarmed and our children
will not be sharp arrows.
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PASTOR BRIAN SCHWERTLEY taught on "Self-
control in an Age of Dissipation." This subject is
important, II said Schwertley, "because as Christians we
are called to a life of self-control, discipline, godliness
or sanctification in a very ungodly, dissolute, hedonistic
culture. If we do not maintain holiness,
or discipline as defined by Scripture alone, then in
our private, family. business and church lives we will
go backward and not fOIV/ard. We will not preserve
and transform culture but rather he transformed by it
(i.e., syncretism). We will not he instruments of godly
dominion but instruments of decay, ethical scattering,
moral chaos or dissolution. This message is not only
available from the conference but is in print on Pastor
Schwertley's website, www.reformedonline.org.
PASTOR PAUL McDADE spoke on "Secular Psychology
VS. the Gospel of Truth." The opening lines of Satan's attack
recorded in Gen. 3, "Yea hath God indeed said," vs.I, is the
introduction of ambiguity on the part of the creature as to
objective truth and absolute authori1y. This Satanic attack
still going today. McDade recommended the work of
Dean Gotcher & Institute for Authori1y Research (JAR)
who argues that what is happening to our society today
by the social psychologists is the movement from moral
absolutes to moral subjectivism and consensus building.
This Transfonnational Social Psychology is permeating
our society today in academia, civil government, and even
in business, and because it is so deadly, McDade asserts,
. it behooves us to be aware of it. Like Satan himself, it rp.ay
appear as an angel of light but in the end under its tongue is
the poison of asps.
In private business this process is taught and used
for example in TQM (Total Quali1y Management).
Educationally, the government program that won't
die is OBE (Outcome Based Education). In Civil
Government the military has it's version, TQL (Total
Quali1y" Leadership). You've perhaps also heard of Values
Clarification; Mastery Learning; Higher Order Thinking
Skills; Group Dynamics; Dilemma Questions, Lifelong
Learning, or Reaching your Potential. In each of these
programs, there is a process of behavior change that is built
in. Soine of the leading features in the process are as follows:
1) There is desire to create an adaptabili1y to change.
This means that in terms of morals and ethics you must be
vacillating. There are no moral absolutes & you must not
insist on them in social settings.
2) To this end the psychologists have studied language,
euphemisms, designed to create moral change: homophobia,
reproductive rights,   etc.
3) The goal is to move you from a facts based position,
reduce it to an opinion, then to feelings, and finally an
arbitrary relative position that is an expression of yourself.
"Is Abortion wrong? Well, I think. ... , I feel like it is ..... , It is
wrong for some people ..... /I
4) The greatest good is tIm's, social harmony .... so that we can
build a massive empire on earth. We can do
this with diverse and conflicting ethical systems. Synthesis
is the aim, with everyone willing to compromise their own
ethics.
5) The process can be summed up with this phrase: "We
dialogue to consensus, over social issues, in a facilitated
meeting, with a diverse group. " Consensus is only valuable if
everyone has moved from their position (thesis).
McDade said that his college students know that anytime
there is a group project, the Christian will be put in with
the homosexual and radical feminist and Buddhist. The
assignment will be over a social or moral issue, and. the grade
will be a group grade. Here the diversity malces your ethics
impossible, on a democratic basis. You either stand as a
mar1yr or else compromise. And it is designed that way.
This process of Social change that we see all around us has
been purposefully designed it is no accident. And if we are
going to stand against it, we will have to be self-conscious
about it. How do we get out of this? Repentance & Faith!
"Quit your compromise." said McDade. "God. is more
important than the group. Truth can not be compromised
for the sake of the group. We must stand with Jesus: 'It is
written.'"
PASTOR DON CROWE - The Covenanters:
Men Who Lived the Gospel of Truth. Pastor Crowe
called us, in the words of 1 Chron.16:15, to "Remember
His covenant forever." Remembering is a very important
part of our worship and service to God, he said. Vlhat
happens if we don't remember? It makes you easy prey
for deception because you don't remember your heritage,
your roots. There is a kind of "Tumbleweed" theology
today, Crowe pointed out. The definition of a tumbleweed
is "A plant that breaks away from it's roots and is driven
along by the wind." That's the way people are who are
not rooted in the faith, the Reformed faith.
The Covenanters of Scotland were a people who
stoodl When the winds of false doctrine blew,
when the fires of persecution raged, and when it
was all over there they were, standing, even unto
death. The (mly place the Covenanters would
move would be into the windl They had their
roots deeply in the Word of God, who loved the
Lord Jesus Christ, and were faithful in keeping
that testimony unto the end.
PASTOR WILLIAM F ARR - Missionary to
Ecuador, who was home of furlough, updated us on
his labors. William has been a missionary in Ecuador
for 55 years. This was only his third visit home in those
35 years! Because Spanish has become his "native"
language it's difficult for him to speak in English now.
He ministers to the whdle spectrum of ages there. He
teaches 140 students 1"-7" graders in a school, 60 High
Schoolers, and 77 seminary students ranging from age
18 to 84. William and his wife Mercy, an Ecuadorian,
lives and works in a valley between Quito, the capitol
city, located in the mountains, where 80% of missionaries
are stationed, and Guayaquil, the largest citr, on the
coast. William says that where he lives you "See bananas,
eat bananas, and grow bananaS!" Learn more about
his conversion, call to the mission field, ministIy, and
Ecuador from the recorded message. A video is also
available of one of Pastor Morecraft's visits to the field.
The conference meSS<Lges may be obtained in
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Doug Phillips-6 Day 24 Hour Creation and
Consequences of its Abandonment
Pastor Joe Morecraft-The Gospel of Truth
for the Family
Pastor Jeff Black-The Crucial Importance
of Parents Teaching Our Children History
Pastor Wayne Rogers-Proverbs:God
Counseling Me
Pastor Paul McDade-Social Psychology at
War With the Gospel of Truth
Doug Phillips-The Biblical Teaching of
Interposition
Pastor Joe Morecraft-The Gospel of Truth
for the Church
Pastor Don Crowe-Coventanters:lVlen Who
Lived the Gospel of Truth
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THE GOSPEL OF TRUTH
FOR THE FAMILY
I. The Mother and Father as Mediators
of the Gospel of Grace and Truth Under
Christ
A. THE UNIQUE MEDIATORSHIP OF JESUS
CHRIST
Paul declared to Timothy: There is one God,
and one mediator also between God and
men, the man ChristJesus ... - I Timothy 2:5.
Hebrews 12:24 refers to Jesus as the mediator
of a new covenant. ..
Jesus Christ was sent to earth by God the
Father to bestow God's unmerited grace upon
sinners, saving us from our sins; and to reveal
God's truth to mankind, giving us true insights
in to the character and will of God and the
nature of life in this universe so we can live
for our Creator's glory. Therefore, when Paul
says that this is a faithful saying and worthy of
all acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners, he was speaking of this
redemption and revelation. For this reason
John says of Him: And the Word became
flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His
glory, glory as of the only begotten from the
Father, full of grace and truth. -- For of His
fullness we have all received, and grace upon
grace. For the law was given through Moses;
grace and truth were realized through Iesus
Christ.- John 1: 14, 17
"Grace" is God's undeserved favor by which
sinners are saved from sin's consequences and
power and accepted with God as His children,
Ephesians 2:8,9; and His saving power by
which we are enabled to live for His glory, I
Corinthians 15:10. "Truth" is the revelation
of the character and will of God in inerrant
propositional form in the Bible and in the life
and ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ, who
is the Living Word of God, John 1: If. By
means of the written Word the Spirit brings
us true knowledge of the Living Word, the
embodiment of the truth of God. As Jesus
said: I am the way, the TRUTH, and the life;
no one comes to the Father but by Me.- John