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THE GOSPEL:
The Sermon Notes from Pastor David Platt @ Church of Brook Hills on April 13, 2008. I plan over the next two months to really camp out in unraveling and unfolding the components and parts of the whole Gospel presentation as seen below. These sermon notes will basically work as an outline [...]

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            “History,” it was once proposed, “belongs to the intercessors.” And as one glances over the pages of both Biblical and ecclesiological history, the proposition rings true over and over and over. Perhaps no clearer example comes than in the person of Moses. The Israelites had just molded their golden calf [...]

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“As human beings we are naturally sinful and break Gods law continually. Whether it is hate we have harbored in our hearts or lust that stirs up within us, we do not love God like we should. We are not naturally righteous for scriptures say, ‘None is righteous not one, Nobody understands’ (Romans 3:11).
But if [...]

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A challenge to examine the life and work of Jonathan Edwards.
When suffering and death were felt, the hands of Christ were felt, and Jonathan and his family had way to experience and look at things that was not only coherent but comforting.
Jonathan did not do his studying and thinking about God with his head [...]

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What is the stage and background where we meet Jonathan Edwards?
On October 5, 1703 in East Windsor, Connecticut, Jonathan is born, two years after Yale College is established . He was born into a house full of girls. He had ten sisters and no brothers. It is surprising to find [...]

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Jonathan Edwards is my homeboy.

Who is Jonathan Edwards?
He was a man of intellectual brilliance and deep experiential longing. You might be confused if you are thinking of the recent presidential candidate Senator John Edwards from South Carolina, who was caught in affair while his wife has breast cancer than you are poorly [...]

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The words to a hymn ring in my head.
Jesus paid it all.
Do we really live like this?
On the cross, Christ said “It is finished.” We bring NOTHING to the table.
For HE paid it all.
We did nothing. Can never do anything.
Jesus paid it all.
And because HE paid it all we serve him out of [...]

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