Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.

That's always going to be our choice.

Ray Ortlund wrote this.

It's a reminder of how our hearts can be divided.

He said it's like this.

I was on the student advisory committee to sit in on some of the faculty meetings, and I marveled at his way of managing these free spirits.

I watched Ray Ortlund lead his church with joy there in Pasadena in those crucial years.

I watched the way Virgil Olson functioned as the dean at Bethel and how his wife related to the faculty.

She got down on the floor in her house and barked like a dog one time.

The Spirit of God lives within us.

I love the way that Pastor Ray Ortlund has said so many times that there is inside of a Christian all the power that is needed to remake the universe through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Notice the verse does not say the Spirit is life because of your obedience.

It is because of the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ that we are alive on the inside.

Heath Lambert's wonderful book, Finally Free.

Ray Ortlund Jr. has a book called The Death of Porn.

Those are good.

I wrote a book called Mighty Men, which is more comprehensive about leading your family.

The flesh cannot please God, but even now in the Spirit, We can please the Father even when our obedience is imperfect.

Our founding pastor, Ray Ortlund, once wrote, do not think if I want to be an earnest Christian, and we all, we want to be earnest Christians.

We want to be serious about all that it means to follow Jesus.

Well, Ray says, do not think if we want to be an earnest Christian that I can't allow myself to enjoy the smile of God.

This is how the family operated.

Ray Ortlund, a writer and author, he wrote this.

You'll just listen.

I haven't got it on the screen for you.

This is why sound doctrine can never just stop up here at head knowledge because it always has implications for sound living.

Ray Ortlund, a pastor in America, he talks about how every church has two statements of faith.

One is the one that's written in the Constitution.

The other is the one that you experience when you walk in the door of the church.

Hmm

... ongoing, uh, father-son, uh, battle, right? Even with a, even with a decent legacy, right? Um, one of my favorite living theologians is Ray Ortlund.

Ray Ortlund talks about his dad in a way I've never heard any other man talk about his dad.

Now, his dad's been-

Hmm

That's something only God can do.

Ray Ortlund writes that, "When God rends the heavens and comes down upon His people, a divine power achieves what human effort at best fails to do.

And God's people thirst for the ministry of the Word and receive it with tender meltings of soul.

The grip of enslaving sin is broken.