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In this sermon, Pastor Otis declares that Christians must look to God alone for help, rather than trusting in themselves or other people. Only God can provide deliverance from trouble.

This sermon presents the biblical teaching that not being anxious is the result of trusting in God. We can either believe God's promises or doubt God's promises, but if we doubt God's promises we're not going to have peace.

Pastor Otis demonstrates that imprecatory prayer is valid for Christians today and is completely consistent with the command to love our enemies. In short, imprecatory prayer is asking God to prevent the evil intent of the wicked from being accomplished.

This sermon confronts the immoral direction of modern society with Biblical truth.

This sermon provides excellent Biblical teaching about the necessity and efficacy of intercessory prayer.

This is a very helpful and encouraging sermon. It is certainly worth listening to the entire message.

Thank you John for this convicting, and encouraging sermon. A well exposited sermon from God's Word and the many Biblical spplications were great !!!

An excellent example of how not to interpret Scripture. The dismissal of Scripture's clear command by appeal to an inward submission cannot be legitimized. Cultural relativism is refuted by the details of Paul's discussion. Read my book, "The Myth of Sexual Equality, Studies in Biblical Sex Roles and their Proper Expressions" for further explanation.

Pastor Otis: Thank you for your help in understanding The Federal Vision. I have e-mailed your web-site to the Elders of my church (i.e., Rockford Springs Community Church), a congregation of the OPC.

Dear John: I have enjoyed listening to your sermon tapes. They are insightful, and encouraging to me. I have also enjoyed reading Danger in the Camp.May God bless youWayne Fell

I was raised in a dispensational, pre-mil environment and was unaware of the many passages that point to an eschatology of victory. Your sermon is dynamite!

If only I would have known this conference was here in Grand Rapids and I could have attended and asked questions. Such as - what were the roots of the Federal Vision and Auburn Avenue Theology? It appears possibly they went astray starting with Mark Horne's critique of Greg Welty's paper on paedo-baptism. Horne indicated even then that persons could fall out of the covenant of grace. And yet his paper was called, "...an original contribution in the areas of Covenant Theology, election, perseverance, and soteriology. Original, YES, and it has gone downhill from there. That paper is online at http://www.reformed.org/sacramentology/index.html

I am glad these were added here. I listened to the first three today. It is interesting to trace the history of the way a few men have drifted in a short time. I mean like Steve Schissel and Mark Horne. Horne's pilgrimmage especially has intrigued me. The red flags were raised in my mind when he thought he rediscovered a great old theologian - John W. Nevin. But Princeton had warned about Nevin 150 years ago. Now Horne, Schissel and others are embracing Auburn Avenue Theology and the Federal Vision and N T Wright. The decline has been a warning to me. It has been even worse than I originally feared it would be.

Thanks, I appreciate the careful distinction between Biblical vs. non-Biblical slavery. Americans need to absorb this.Frederick Douglass noted: "... of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others." The complicity of so many otherwise godly men like Dabney in the "peculiar instituion" is indeed tragic and a reproach to the era.Ref: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Douglass/AutobiographyLet us take heed also, lest we fall. Every age has its besetting sins among Christians, it seems.

John Otis makes many good points on this MP3. John's book, _Danger In the Camp: An Analysis and Refutation of the Heresies of the Federal Vision_, mentioned on this MP3, is available on sermonaudio at http://www.sermonaudio.com/source_prodinfo.asp?PID=we112205111711. It is also sad to hear how far Steve Schlissel has fallen from the truth (and one other MP3 on sermonaudio, though I forget the title at the moment, even noted that Steve has already shared the "pulpit" in a friendly manner, at one conference, with Roman Catholics). Many more free online resources refuting the Federal Vision heresy may also be found at this sermonaudio blog:FREE: REFUTING DOUG WILSON, Steve Schlissel, Steve Wilkins, John Barach, the AUBURN AVENUE / FEDERAL VISION HERESIES, Norman Shepherd, N.T. Wright, Richard Gaffin, & DEFENDING THE REFORMATION VIEW ON JUSTIFICATIONhttp://www.sermonaudio.com/new_details3.asp?ID=7909