Fathers Day, 2023

1. Joshua 1:1-9, 3:7  God choosing a man to Lead
2. I will not leave you or forsake you (the promise)

• John 14:15-20, 
• The Helper will be with you forever
• I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you 

3. Be strong and courageous (the protection)
4. Meditate on this Book of the Law day and night (the message)
5. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go (the call)
6. Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. (We need God to exalt us before the people we lead, our wives and our kids, our co workers and our neighbors)

Jeremiah 1:6-8   3 stages of being a steward of God

1. The Calling (surrender to it)
2. The Message (depend on it)
3. The Protection (trust in it)

Exodus 4:10-12, 13-17 Qualifying the Called not Calling the Qualified

Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, I am slow of speech and tongue

1 Cor. 2:1-5

An Angel came to Mary

Luke 1:27-38, 

Joseph

Matt. 1:16- 25 (Part 1) Accepting Christ

1. Being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly
2. As he considered these thing, behold an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream
3. Do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit
4. She will bear a son and you shall call his name Jesus “for he will save his people from their sins”
5. When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord command him
6. He took his wife, but knew her not until she had given birth to a son
7. And he called His name Jesus

Luke 2:1-7 (Part 2) Leaving Home

1. In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered
2. This was the first registration when quirkiness was governor of Syria
3. And all went to be registered, each to his own town
4. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David to be registered with Mary
5. While they were they, the time came for her to give birth

Matt. 2:13-15 (Part 3) Retreat to Egypt

1. An angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said “Rise, take the child and His mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy Him. 
2. And he rose and took the child and His mother by night and departed to Egypt and remained there until the death of Herod

Matt. 2:19-23  (Part 4) Returning Home

1. When Herod died, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying “Rise, take the child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child’s life are dead”
2. And he rose and took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel
3. But when he heard that Archelus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there
4. Being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee, and he went and lived in a city called Nazareth
5. So that what was spoke by the prophets might be fulfilled that he would be called a Nazarene

John 12:27-28 The Heavenly Father

1. Now is my soul troubled
2. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour?
3. But for this purpose I have come to this hour.
4. Father, glorify your name
5. I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again 

Eph 5:22-33, Fatherly Advice

Know the position God has called you to

Love your wife 

And Love your Kids

1. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body
2. Husbands, love your wife’s, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
3. Husbands should love their wives as their own bodies, He who loves his wife loves himself, for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church
4. Let each one of you love his wife as himself
5. Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger
6. But bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord

Social Gospel and Seeker Friendly (Digital Age)

 Post Evangelism time frame

 

Surrendered and Dependent on Him

Deism to Emotionalism

Emotionalism to Civil Rights

Civil Rights to Liberalism

Liberalism to Fundamentalism

Fundamentalism to Evangelism

Evangelism to “Ashamed of the Gospel”

Ashamed of the Gospel to greatly confused

 

(Tower of Babel Gen. 11:1-9)(King Nebuchadnezzar)(Prodigal Son)

Love God, Love others,  

 

Evangelism

 1940 part 1, 

1970 part 2, full gospel, charismatic

 

Jonathan Edwards, (1703-1758)

George Whitefield, (1714-1770)

 

Charles Spurgeon,(1834-1892)

 

Dwight Moody (1837-1899) (revivalism, working in civil War with Union troops through YMCA, In Chicago built one of the major evangelical centers in the nation. Worked with singer “Ira Sankey” Started in 1858, Sunday School. Church Illinois Street Church in 1864, 

Billy Sunday (1862-1935)

Billy Graham, (1918-2018)

RC Sproul, (1939-2017)

 

4:08, Pentecostal (speaking in Tongues) vs Charismatic (signs and wonders)

70’s and 80’s

Chuck Smith, Jesus Revolution 

Pat Boone

Begins of what with evolve into modern Christian music

Baptizing in a swimming pool

 

Primitivism, desire to get back to it’s pure state, ACTS 2

Denominations have added to much to the core

Anybody can administrate communion and baptism

Hale Linsey, The great planet early

Billy Graham gave a blessing to them so church wouldn’t right them off

 

Jack Hyles, “Jesus had short hair”

 

Sexual revolution

Tight rigid lifestyle, rebell against fundamentalism 

 

Political wing

Jerry Falwell, Moral Majority

America as a Christian Nation

 

Abortion

Gay rights, 70’s

Pornography

Banning of prayer in public school

Teaching of evolution in school but not creation

 

Pat Robinson 

James Dobson

 

Militant Fundamentalists 

 

Carl Henry’s lead to get back in the cultural

 

RC Sproul (4:20)

1968-1974, founded Ligonier Valley Study Center

A place to get help with the tough answers

Not to run from the hard questions

“The shallow religious views of our time”

Every American was a Christian

Who is God?

James Montgomery Boyce

Same thing as Princetonions did

 

Council of 

Chicago Statement of Biblical inerrancy 

Agreed, signed name on 400 leaders 12 page statement, 

David Wells, No place for truth, whatever happen to evangelicals theology

1980, marketers, seeker theology

Fundamentalism

1910-1940

1. Pentecostal (holiness and power)
2. Dispensationalist (bad hermeneutic, care about SS and God’s Word)
3. Separate Militant (own culture, in this world but not of it)
4. Revivalist (all about evangelism not discipleship)
5. Confessional (all about discipleship not evangelism)

 

 

All fought the liberals on Bible inerrancy

They agreed on this, while in different ways

Liberalism

 1850-1900

 

Liberalism to fundamentalism(1910-1930)

 

(Liberalism is found in the half way covenant,

It is found in deism,

It is found in emotionalism of the 2nd Great Awakening

It is found in the enlightenment 

It is found in modernity

It is found in compromising the authority of Scripture

It is found in giving up the Gospel

It is found in giving up confession, creeds and doctrine

It is found in an overreaching attempt for unity at the cost of truth

It is found in trying to be so culturally relevant to the world that you become just like them)

Post Modern Era

 1945 to 1970 started

 

What is the post modern Era

 

Post-modernism is  a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture which are emerging from and reacting to post modernism

 

Postmodern period

Modernity

 

Post modern vs modern era

While modernism was based on idealism and reason, postmodernism was born of scepticism and suspicion of reason. It challenged the notion that there are universal certainties or truths.

 

5 characteristics of postmodernism

1. Embrace of randomness. Reject idea of absolute meaning and instead embrace randomness and disorder
2. Playfulness
3. Fragmentation
4. Metafiction
5. Intertextuality 

 

Postmodern from 1945 till now

 

Why is it called post modern?

Because it denies the existence of any ultimate principles, and it lacks the optimism of there being a scientific, philosophical, or religious truth which will explain everything for everybody-a characteristic of the so-called “modern” mind

 

Next is meta modernism 

 

What events led to postmodernism?

The end of World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Civil Rights movement

 

What do postmodernist believe?

Began in the last 1970s

Postmodernism is a philosophical movement that began in the late 1970’s. The postmodernist philosophy rejects traditional concepts of logic, objective truth, and human nature. Postmodernist believe that there are no universal truths or objective realities and all meaning is constructed by each individual

Modernism

 Modernism explicitly rejected the ideology of realism (started 1840) and made use of the works of the past by the employment of reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody.

Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking and  many modernists also rejected religious belief

 

What are the characteristics of modernism philosophy?

Focus on issues of knowledge, skepticism, justification.

Rationalism and Reliance on science. Individualism 

 

Individualism, experimentation, absurdity, symbolism, formalism

 

What was modernism rebelling against?

Started around 1900 to 1940. Rebelled against clear cut storytelling and formulaic verse from the 19th century

 

Main themes, confusion, isolation, and disillusionment

The Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment or the Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, with global influences and effects. (1685-1815)

 

The Enlightenment helped combat the excesses of the church, establish science as a source of knowledge, and defend human rights against tyranny. It also gave us modern schooling, medicine, republics, representative democracy.

 

Central to Enlightenment thought were the use and celebration of reason, the power by which humans understand the universe and improve their own condition. The goals of rational humanity were considered to be knowledge, freedom and happiness.

 

Ended with Napoleonic Wars in 1815.

 

3 major ideas, Reason, individualism, and skepticism 

(Ex. Voltaire, Montesquieu, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Condorcet)

 

A range of ideas centered on the value of human happiness, the pursuit of knowledge obtained by means of reason and the evidence of the sense and ideas such as natural law, liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.

 

The initial cause was the discovery of America

 

It stressed reason, logic, criticism, and freedom of thought over dogma, blind faith, and superstition

 

To understand the natural world and humankind’s place in it solely on the basis of reason

 

Marked by an emphasis on the scientific method and reduction along with increased questioning of religious orthodoxy 

 

Negative effects of the Enlightenment are

Destroyer of morality, the harbinger of selfish individualism, as a thief robbing human life of meaning, as being a form of cultural imperialism

 

Four American Enlightenment Thinkers are Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams

 

Enlightenment thinker were afraid of democracy because what would happen if a mob of uneducated people had the power to vote.

 

What is the Enlightenment religious, Buddhist and Hinduism

John Locke key thinker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke

 

Major events, the discovery of Planets made by Galileo in 1610, the publishing of Newton’s Natural Philosophy in 1687, the Declaration of Independence in 1776

 

Enlightenment thinkers wanted to improve human conditions on earth rather than concern themselves with religion and the afterlife. These thinkers valued reason, science, religious tolerance and what they called natural rights, (life, liberty and property)

 

What is the difference between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment?

The Renaissance was marked by a renewed interest in learning more about the ancient cultures of Greece and the Roman Empire.

 

The Enlightenment was a period following the Renaissance which led to heavy inflow of ideas that sought to better the condition of mankind 

 

What ended the enlightenment was the French Revolution (1789-1799)(10.5 years)

 

Two main ideas were, reason over superstitions and science over blind faith

Religious tolerance and the idea that individuals should be free from coercion in their personal lives and consciences

 

Why did the Enlightenment fail?

1. The ideas of the enlightenment were not economically feasible at the time
2. Many of those who supported the movement did so for their self-interest.
3. The enlightenment ideals were not politically viable for the leaders at the time

Universities

 

1. Havard, 9/8/1636, Cambridge, Ma
2. Yale, 10/9/1701, New Haven, CT.
3. Princeton, 10/22/1746, Elizabeth, NJ (2:56)
1. Charles Hodge, (1797-1878)@princeton 1851-1878
2. BB Warfield, (1851-1921)@ Princeton 1886-1902
3. Gresham Machen (1881-1937)@Princeton 1906-1929
4. Westminster, 1929, Glenside, Pennsylvania

 

Westminster Theological Seminary is a Protestant theological seminary in the Reformed theological tradition in Glenside, Pennsylvania.

 

It was founded by members of the faculty of Princeton Theological Seminary in 1929 after Princeton chose to take a liberal direction during the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy.

 

Founder J Gresham Machen

Wars and Amendments

 Wars

French Revolutionary War, (1789-1799)(10.5 years)(ended enlightenment)

American Revolutionary War, (1775-1783)(8 years)(ended French control, nation building)

Civil War, April 12, 1861 to May 13, 1865 (4 years)(ended slavery)

World War I, July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918 (4 years)(ended optimism of modernity)

The Great Depression, (1929 to 1939)(10 years)

World War II, September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 (6 years) silent years and baby boomers

Cold War, 1947-1991 (44 years) silent years, baby boomer, x gen, 

Vietnam War, November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975 (20 years)silent gen and baby boomer gen

 

Amendments

Slaves in America freed, Northern states in 1805

Abraham Lincoln won election 1860 to stop expansion of slavery

13th amendment, ratified 12/6/1865, prohibiting “slavery”

 

Black men right to vote, passed by Congress 2/26/1869, 

ratified 2/3/1870, 

the 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote

 

Women right to vote, Passed by Congress June 4, 1919 

and ratified on August 18, 1920. 

The 19th amendment . (Woodrow Wilson was President)

 

First Great Awakening (1730-1755)

American Revolution War,  1775-1783 (deism)

 

Second Great Awakening (1790-1840)

Civil War, 1861-1865

13th Amendment, 1865

15th Amendment, 1870

 

Third Great Awakening (1855-1930)

World War I, 1914-1918

19th Amendment, 1920

World War II, 1939-1945

 

Cold War, 1947-1991

Vietnam War 1955-1975

Fourth Great Awakening (1960-1980)

Generations (Era)(Age)

 Silent Generation 1928-1945(78-95)

Baby Boomers, 1946-1964 (59-77)

X Generation, 1965-80 (43-58)

Y Generation, 1981-1996 (27-42)

Z Generation, 1997-2012 (11-26)

Alpha Generation 2013-24 (0-10)

Theologies

 

1. Pietism, Moralism 
2. Biblism

Philosophers

Philosophers 

Rene’ Descartes, 1596-1650

 

John Locke, 1632-1704

Baruch Spinoza, 1632-1677

 

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646-1716

 

Voltaire, 1694-1778,

• French Enlightenment 
• Critical of Christianity especially of Roman Catholic Church and Slavery
• Advocate for freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state
• Like most enlightenment authors, he was a deist

 

David Hume, 1711-1776

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778

Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804

 

Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel, 1770-1831

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882

John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873

Soren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855

 

Karl Marx, 1818-1883

Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900

 

Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970

Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951

 

Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976

Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980