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USER COMMENTS BY “ THOMAS SULLIVAN ”
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Sermon6/6/13 9:28 PM
Thomas Sullivan | Jenison, MI  Contact via emailFind all comments by Thomas Sullivan
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Women Deacons
Sean E. Harris
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“ Interesting Discussion ”
I have found the discussion intriguing. I was waiting to see, since the two chapters that lay out the qualifications for an elder, 1 Tim. 3, and Titus 1 speak of him being "the husband of one wife," how the texts will be handled by the female antagonist. I found it interesting that one cries FOUL because 15,000 S.A. speakers have never preached on Huldah. I suppose they haven't preached on Segub in 1 Chron. 2:22 either, so I guess the prejudice works both ways. I think a more important question is how it is that 15,000 speakers who have studied Greek and Hebrew and many graduated from many fine seminaries also fail to see that women are called to be pastors. If I am outnumbered by that many scholars, it would at least, I suppose, make me wonder if my darling doctrine might be wrong. (2)Jesus and God are equal, yet the incarnate God was in a subordinate role as mediator, and if He had not assumed that role, we would all be lost in our sins. There is much more to say on this, but in the case of Pastors Harris and Sturms, who I love dearly and keep being edified by, why preach to the choir? To another, I despair of making a convincing argument anyway. I fear the mind is already made up. T M S puritanaudiobooks.com

Sermon6/3/13 6:07 AM
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“ Pressing Into The Kingdom ”
The pastor of this sermon was one of the professors of the Log College. This is important because there were a lot of associations with Princeton Seminary and the later professors of Princeton no longer taught the emphasis of this sermon. This sermon is amazing because of how similar it is to the teaching of Edwards. See Gerstner's teaching on the same. http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=1129071323110 Even the Wikipedia article on the Log College tries to distance that pastoral training building with Princeton Seminary. But consider, Archibald Alexander - the first professor of Princeton - 1812, collected and published this book of sermons AS WELL AS the history of the Log College. The history revision, in our day, can be explained because modern historians question whether there was a real "Great Awakening" and more importantly have distanced themselves from the teaching of this sermon. But this is the pure puritan doctrine. See John Owen on "The Means of Regeneration" Volume 4 in His work on the Holy Spirit. Or the second sermon by William Greenhill Volume 1, the Puritan Sermons Morning Exercises at Cripplegate.

Sermon5/24/13 9:01 PM
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Are you an Adulterer?
Kurt Smith
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“ Thankful for honest preaching. ”
It is almost inconceivable that sermons like this go without comments. Having just finished the book, Fundamentalist Seduction, I would rather tremble at good warning on the 7th commandment than become hardened at this point. A former pastor I knew preached the most powerful sermon I ever heard on this subject, then plunged headlong into this sin. I kept his copy of John Owen's "Sin and Temptation" when I sold his library after he left the ministry. I kept it as a warning to me. His notes were in the margin. The man who preached at my wedding defected from the faith because of adultery. As Alleine wrote, "(An Alarm to the Unconverted) "oh be scrupulously careful here, your soul depends upon." false converts desire salvation from suffering—but they do not desire to be saved from sinning. They would have their souls saved—but still would have their lusts. They would be content to have some of their sins destroyed—but they cannot leave the lap of Delilah, or divorce the beloved Herodias. They cannot be cruel to the right eye or right hand." I am a mailman. I have to see inappropriate catalogs daily. I depend on sermons like this to make sure the fire is doused at all times.

Sermon5/23/13 9:14 PM
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“ Ryle and Whitefield, a good combination ”
I am always looking for good books for my kindle - cheap. This one was actually free on Amazon. As I read it, I felt I had to narrate it as well. So now it is a free audio-book as well. But I can't generate interest in good books. Either church history appeals to SermonAudio listeners, or it doesn't. But if it does, I recommend looking up Curt Daniel's History of Calvinism and all Joe Morecraft's history lectures here as well. What a gold mine. T M S www.puritanaudiobooks.com

Sermon5/19/13 5:04 PM
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#19 – SermonAudio.com
Steven Lee
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“ Thanks Steven ”
This interview deserves further comment. Steve, you are an example to me of how little you draw attention to yourself, but desire to get good preaching in the hands of others. I remember making duplicate tapes, as many as 300 a year, with just a dual cassette player and handing out messages of my favorite authors one by one. Even this message SID=63003183934, I remember having made many cassettes of and once flinging one through the open window of a car that the owner was obviously a charismatic who was in a store getting groceries, and I landed it on her seat. But Steve is also an example of using his skill to serve the Lord. I can relate. I was trained in computers in 1987-1988, and first got on line in 1991. Even when I only had a service called Prodigy, it gave me a chance to meet Christians and send tapes out. By the time SermonAudio started, I had my own website on the history of the church for four years. I didn't even take notice much in those days, because the selections here were so few. But when I saw the names Jim Savastio, Albert Martin, and Alan Cairns, then it got my attention. When my own narrations were accessed 100 times in a month per sermon, that was a big month. Now I can have 300 downloads of a Spurgeon sermon in a day, and Steve has done us a great service

Sermon5/19/13 4:53 PM
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#19 – SermonAudio.com
Steven Lee
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“ Sermon Audio History ”
I wasn't aware of this interview until I was searching for reformed podcasts from my IPOD. I suppose I am one of those people that has been addicted to SermonAudio from the beginning, I continually find myself intrigued by how this all started. I know where Steve is coming from when he mentions real audio. I was the first person to ever put an Albert Martin sermon on a website using Real Audio in the days when I had to upgrade my hard drive to one gig and split the sermon in two to have any hope of uploading it before the 56k or less baud connection dropped my input. In those days all I had was Pentium 60mhz computer and a real desire to make it work. I think about the history of leaving comments here. I was the second person ever to leave a comment on a Paul Washer sermon when he was, for the most part, completely unknown here. But my most satisfactory contribution was in putting pressure on churches and brothers to broadcast here, James White and Phoenix Reformed Baptist, I.B.S.J. and Sugel Michelen, George McDearmon. Even though I may have close to 500 narrations myself on SermonAudio, it is not the opportunity to promote my narrations as to alert persons to great names like Stephen Charnock, William Gurnall, Joseph Alleine and more that Christ's name may be lifted up high!

Sermon5/15/13 7:47 PM
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“ Terrible even by Edwards's standards ”
This sermon is about 25 minutes longer than the famous sermon "sinners." Often Edwards is excused by his biographers because some people only know him as the preacher of hell-fire. (Ralph Turnbull, J Edwards the Preacher, 1958)But there is no escaping that this doctrine received a priority with Edwards maybe unequaled in no other author. He wrote that if he represented the truth as WORSE than it in fact is, he is very much to be blamed, but if he only held forth more light, the reality was infinitely more dreadful than he could represent it. The picture of a brick-kiln alone in this sermon gives an idea so awful it is almost overwhelming if in any proper degree duly comprehended. But he builds layer upon layer of an awful reality that no one in this life can meditate on with any degree of complacency, only with terror. 2 Cor. 5:11 The wicked who hear it must either be convicted or enraged, it would be impossible to be indifferent.

Sermon5/5/13 9:44 PM
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“ Interesting Title ”
Since Pastor Nutter is one of my dearest pastor friends whose preaching I have sat under a time or two, I will just have to follow this series, but I don't know why. If you were Urian Oakes 1631 – July 25, 1681 of whom it was said that the hour glass was turned over in a single sermon four times, then I think falling off the wall while listening is justifiable. That would take some surviving. (Sabbath in Puritan New England, Alice M Earle, Page 79)

Sermon5/2/13 6:04 AM
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“ Puritan Wit ”
Yesterday I was listening to a narration from Alleine's Alarm to the Unconverted. What a book from someone who never saw his 37th b-day. He wrote, "If the irrational and inanimate creatures had speech and reason, they would cry out under it, as a bondage insufferable, to be abused by the ungodly, contrary to their natures and the ends which the great Creator made them for. It is a saying of an eminent divine, 'The liquor that the drunkard drinks, if it had reason, like a man, to know how shamefully it is abused, would groan in the barrel against him, it would groan in the cup against him, groan in his throat, in his stomach against him; it would fly in his face, if it could speak. And if God should open the mouths of His creatures, as He did the mouth of Balaam's donkey, the proud man's garment on his back would groan against him. There is not a creature, if it had reason to know how it is abused until a man is converted—but would groan against him. The land would groan to bear him, the air would groan to give him breath, their houses would groan to lodge them, their beds would groan to ease them, their food to nourish them, their clothes to cover them, and the creature would groan to give them any help and comfort, so long as they live in sin against God.'"

Sermon4/23/13 5:20 PM
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“ Great Sermon! ”
Thanks Pastor Thompson for this. I passed your b-day wishes on to A N Martin. I am thankful you talked about this subject. One subject that is even more controversial is the whole idea of a "music ministry." I have owned the albums of Steve Green, Shai Lynne and others. I am edified by them. But I am still troubled when we say that this is the "ministry" God has given them. Is it a church office? Are they under oversight? I am just not sure I can imagine such a person in front of the church followed by the preaching of Gilbert Tennant, or Samuel Davies. I would be willing to be corrected, but it appears more pragmatic than Scriptural. By the way, this is the first message I have ever heard from you. I have known of the church there since James White visited in 2008.

Sermon4/23/13 5:13 PM
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“ Interesting Topic ”
This is a great topic for discussion. Next to my postal route is a Drive-In church. The services are heard by tuning in on a radio frequency. Their web site is actually here. www.driveinchurch.org Richard Baxter wrote in 1656, "Being thus acquainted with all the flock, we must afterward take heed to them. One would imagine that every reasonable man would be satisfied of this, and that it would need no further proof. Doth not a careful shepherd look after every individual sheep? and a good schoolmaster after every individual scholar? and a good physician after every particular patient? and a good commander after every individual soldier? Why then should not the shepherds, the teachers, the physicians, the guides of the churches of Christ, take heed to every individual member of their charge?"

Sermon4/8/13 7:54 PM
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“ Charity Series ”
This narration is a continuation of the book already commenced on SermonAudio, SID=102072056182: SID=102072057110: SID=102072057501 I have just discovered the 2 volume set of the sermons of Jonathan Edwards Jr. 1745-1801 I look forward to narrating some of those sermons in the future. T M S. www.puritanaudiobooks.com Thanks once again for the diligent labors of S W R B. Historical note: it has been pointed out that Edwards famous "Sinners" sermon was not the great sermon in his own congregation that it was in Enfield CT. But revival came to his congregation during the preaching of these sermons on 1 Cor. 13

Sermon4/2/13 7:35 PM
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Vessels Fitted for Destruction
Sean E. Harris
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“ Romans 9:22 A hypothetical What If? ”
At the end of this discussion Pastor Sturms hinted against leaving comments to try to untangle this paradox, [especially not from a Grand Rapids mailman :)}and Sean "don't tell us to read some author." Well, you dear brothers are provocative. I won't tell you to read authors, I will just say that no solid Roman commentary holds the What If as a hypothetical. Not Haldane, or Hodge: Lloyd- Jones, John Murray, John Brown, thought Paul was speaking hypothetically. VS 20 says, who art thou that repliest, and verse 22 says WHAT IF God, or SO what if God? He is God, He has sovereignty over - not just clay, but guilty clay. It is a continuation of the previous rebuke in vs. 20. The 1689 confession answers the rest of the perplexity. By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestinated, or foreordained to eternal life through Jesus Christ, to the praise of his glorious grace; others being left to act in their sin to their just condemnation, to the praise of his glorious justice. ( 1 Timothy 5:21; Matthew 25:34; Ephesians 1:5, 6; Romans 9:22, 23; Jude 4 ) 4.______These angels and men thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or

Sermon3/23/13 10:30 PM
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“ A lot to think about. ”
This interview was timely for me because just two days ago I downloaded Rosaria's book to my kindle and have almost finished it. One of the most important points for me to ponder was the way her pastor calmly and methodically brought light to her during their visits. I have a son that is very far out of the way and I have had to learn that even though I have narrated every Jonathan Edwards' deprecatory sermon in his two volume works, the communication of such sermons were long ago lost on my son and he was able to cast off their light, and other thundering messages. The last 3 months I have made some progress with him but it has been by spending hours with him and me alone, at restaurants, out picture taking, or other events. The doctrine of hell doesn't scare him but it did keep him from committing suicide more than once. But what does work is an approach where the people that reach him have to woo him. The result has not been accomplished yet, but Rosaria's story is helping me to make some sense of things. To re-evaluate some of our evangelism techniques and couple it with our Christian lives.

Sermon3/19/13 8:15 PM
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Umpire in the Heart
Pastor George McDearmon
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“ As good as it gets ”
Pastor McDearmon preached this particular sermon in our assembly - Grand Rapids - Sunday night. There was one word I used to sum up his three messages here. "authority." I don't know another active preacher that reminds me as much of our mutual friend, Albert Martin. {where the McDearmons are visiting as I type this}. It had the desired effect. We often don't talk a lot about sermons anymore after the delivery. Not so in this case. My wife and I needed and received the earnest warning and admonition. I can't make good preachers known. I can give others a heads up, but I don't have an explanation why the best communicators and preachers are still too unknown in our day. But maybe like A W Pink, their labors will follow after them. God has a way of keeping us from spiritual pride. T M S, Grand Rapids, MI www.puritanaudiobooks.com

Sermon3/2/13 7:40 PM
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“ This was convicting. ”
This was a humbling, self reflecting message to hear and I am thankful for it.

Sermon3/2/13 7:38 PM
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“ Solid and Excellent ”
There was so much that caused me to say "amen" over and over as I heard this. There was so much common sense brought to an issue that often has too much misguided zeal. King James Only-ism. But I also like the way Pastor Harris communicates in his teaching. I usually only listen to the news in focus material so I had not, until now, seen how gifted he is as a speaker. I really enjoy listening to you pastors.

Sermon3/2/13 7:33 PM
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“ Calvinism, Cornelius, and Theological Grids ”
Cornelius, if unconverted, could not properly be said to "fear God," because all such fear from an unregenerate heart would still consist in enmity against Him. Rom. 8:7 It would have no virtue, nor would God in anyway be obligated to notice it. (See Edwards' Freedom of the Will) It is more logical that he was "called out" by God by grace like Abraham was from Ur of the Chaldees. Acts 10 is the story of his gospel enlightenment, not his conversion. This isn't imposing our theological grid on the text, because we are being consistent with what the Bible says about all men in all ages. In an effort to render the doctrine more palatable, it is not helpful to confuse the matter by supposing Cornelius represents a unique case so we have to redefine the doctrines of man's innate inability and God's absolute sovereignty. The term pre-venient grace has no basis in Scripture. I just narrated a helpful sermon preached in 1755 on this subject. http://puritanaudiobooks.com/2013/02/03/john-blair---the-means-of-grace.aspx It explains that the means employed by the unregenerate are what God ORDINARILY blesses with salvation, but can never be the cause of it. P.S. I love to listen to you gentleman - Tom - a mailman in Grand Rapids, MI.

Sermon3/2/13 7:13 PM
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“ Calvinism, Cornelius, and conversion. ”
This was an interesting discussion, but I want to share some helpful comments not aiming to be hyper-critical. It is easier to just admit that Cornelius in Acts 10 was already converted but it pleased God to give him the special light of redemptive revelation in Christ. Pastor Sturms said that in a New Testament, Pauline sense Cornelius was not saved. But this is anachronistic language. Paul hadn't written anything yet, and Cornelius did not yet have redemptive revelation. Sean says that we take our theological grid and impose it on the text. My answer is that my theological grid as a fellow Reformed Baptist is the 1689 confession. If it is counter to my understanding of Acts 10, I am humble enough to suppose I may be misunderstanding the text. It is less problematic. Cornelius did not escape the effects of the Adamic Administration and therefore any inclination or holy affection cannot be prior to regeneration. Man by nature hates God, Romans 8:7, and is not subject to His law and lacks the moral ability to do so. So any volition towards God of any unregenerate man must be mercenary it could not possibly be virtuous let alone move God toward a "praying" man. That God blesses His own means that the sinner employs is pure mercy, and means are a way to that end, not the cause and e

Sermon2/20/13 5:57 PM
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“ 5 Minutes in Hell? ”
So many reflections while perusing this sermon. Even 5 minutes of what Edwards describes is over whelming. But the idea that he presses that makes the eternality of punishment unavoidable is a missing theme in most concepts of God in our day. That is, that God utterly hates the subjects of His wrath, and mercy and hatred are inconsistent with each other. So there is no hope that after billions of ages He will suppose the punishment is enough, because then He would have to at once love that which He now loathes. Since Dec. of 1985 I have narrated Edwards' sermons and it doesn't get any easier to come to grip with his language. He used all thought at his disposal to convey such an awful reality. He was a master of communicating this solemn teaching.
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