Dave Rich continues exploring the believer's work in sanctification through five essential spiritual practices. Understanding God's fatherly discipline transforms trials from sorrowful experiences into opportunities for sanctification, yielding the peaceful fruit of righteousness. The believer's work in sanctification requires embracing various trials as necessary means God uses to refine faith and shape character. Believers participate in their sanctification through fasting, stewardship, and acting virtuously, training themselves in godliness as athletes train their bodies. This believer's work in sanctification is spirit-empowered yet demands intentional effort, as doing good leads to being good through trained behavioral dispositions that result in habitual moral goodness.

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Dave Rich examines essential elements of the believer's work in sanctification, demonstrating how Christians actively cooperate with God's transforming power. Understanding the believer's work in sanctification requires recognizing both divine sovereignty and human responsibility, as Philippians 2:12-13 reveals. This practical teaching explores six vital practices that cultivate holiness: Bible intake through reading and study, devoted prayer during temptation, meaningful fellowship with other believers, worshipful living that glorifies God, sacrificial service using spiritual gifts, and bold evangelism that proclaims the gospel. Each practice represents the believer's work in sanctification, developing Christlike character while depending on the Holy Spirit's enabling grace for lasting transformation.

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Dave Rich delivers a comprehensive examination of Christian ethics by exploring the biblical lists of virtues and vices found throughout Scripture. This message focuses on the attribute dimension of Christian ethics, demonstrating how virtues like faith, love, and the fear of God shape godly character while vices such as sexual immorality, selfish ambition, and jealousy must be actively resisted.

Rich emphasizes the inseparable connection between Christian ethics and sanctification, showing that both righteous deeds and godly character flow from the Holy Spirit's work in believers. The teaching reveals that pursuing Christian ethics requires understanding sanctification as God's ongoing work—never reaching perfection in this life, yet always moving toward Christlikeness. Dave challenges believers to recognize that cultivating biblical virtues and avoiding destructive vices is fundamentally the Spirit's work accomplished through surrendered, obedient effort. This comprehensive approach to Christian ethics demonstrates the centrality of the gospel in ethical living.

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The Fear of God stands as a foundational virtue in Christian ethics, appearing throughout Scripture as the beginning of wisdom and knowledge. Dave Rich examines this essential attribute in lesson 10 of his Christian ethics series, demonstrating how The Fear of God shapes believers' lives through faith, obedience, and trust.

This biblical virtue appears in over 300 verses commanding believers to fear God while rejecting the fear of man or circumstances. The Fear of God leads to life, produces humility, and turns believers away from evil. Rich explores the profound connection between this virtue and anxiety, showing that worry reveals misplaced fear and denigrates God's providence.

Therefore, believers must cultivate The Fear of God as the soul of wisdom, casting all anxiety on him who cares for them. This teaching illuminates how proper fear of God eliminates improper fear of everything else, grounding Christian living in eternal perspective rather than temporal concerns.

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Dave Rich explores love as a Christian virtue that pervades all moral decisions and relationships. This comprehensive virtue extends to believers and the lost, demonstrated through obedience, gratitude, and sacrificial service modeled after Christ's atoning love. Love as a Christian virtue means imitating God, who first loved us, fulfilling the law through neighbor love, and speaking truth lovingly. Paul declares that without love as a Christian virtue, even extraordinary spiritual gifts become meaningless, making it essential for Christian living.

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Dave Rich explores love as a Christian virtue flowing from God's eternal nature within the Trinity. This love extends from the Father's love for the Son before creation, and it reaches believers through union with Christ. Christian love toward God manifests primarily through obedience to His commandments and covenant loyalty. Love as a Christian virtue includes profound gratitude for redemption from spiritual slavery. The biblical word "yada" connects thanksgiving with worship, demonstrating how love as a Christian virtue expresses itself through constant thankfulness and joyful recognition of God's providence.

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Dave Rich examines faith as a Christian virtue rooted in knowledge, assent, and trust in God's promises. Beyond justifying faith that receives salvation through Christ's righteousness, believers cultivate faith as a Christian virtue throughout sanctification. This active faith demonstrates itself through obedient works, as illustrated by Abraham and Rahab. Without faith as a Christian virtue, pleasing God remains impossible, making this essential for Christian ethics and daily obedience.

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Jim Osman addresses pressing questions in a Q&A covering evangelical concerns and biblical faithfulness. Topics include The Gospel Coalition's theological drift, the modern deliverance ministry movement undermining Scripture's sufficiency, and the Seven Mountain Mandate infiltrating evangelicalism. Osman examines distinctions between essential and non-essential doctrines, female pastoral roles, biblical canon formation, and King James Only errors. He emphasizes that sufficiency of Scripture remains the central battle within evangelicalism today, as experiential theology displaces confidence in God's Word.

Questions Asked

• What is the current state of The Gospel Coalition?
• What do you think about Al Mohler, Mark Dever, and Ligon Duncan's return to Shepherd's Conference?
• What issues within evangelicalism today should we be on guard against, especially for our children?
• How do you have a conversation with an unbeliever about God's sovereignty and evangelism?
• How important is a church prayer chain?
• What is the Seven Mountain Mandate and its connection to Turning Point USA?
• Are you a Christian nationalist?
• What resources would you recommend about how we got our Bible and why certain books were included in the canon?
• What is your position on female pastors in the church?
• How do you argue with people who are King James Version (KJV) only?
• Are there different shades of false teachers, and what about believers who fall into sexual sin like Steve Lawson?
• What camp would Solomon fall into - believer or unbeliever?
• What's the difference between Paul's response to the Judaizers in Galatians versus those who preached the gospel with false motives in Philippians?

Dave Rich examines virtue ethics within Christian teaching, contrasting secular approaches with biblical principles. While godless virtue ethics lacks authority and struggles with practical guidance, Christian virtue ethics finds its foundation in God's character and Christ's perfect example. Scripture emphasizes moral excellence through passages such as 2 Peter 1:3-8, which call believers to cultivate virtues including knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, and love.

Virtue ethics complements deontological commands and teleological purposes in comprehensive Christian ethics. Believers imitate Christ as the perfect exemplar, bearing God's image through godly attributes that produce righteous actions, for a good tree bears good fruit.

Dave Rich examines the glory of God as the central purpose of Christian living in this lesson on Christian ethics. The glory of God represents the ultimate telos—the motivation and purpose—behind every ethical decision believers make. Throughout Scripture —from Psalm 86 to Revelation 4 —the glory of God emerges as the reason for creation and the believer's chief end. The Hebrew word kavod and the Greek word doxa reveal three distinct biblical meanings: God's inherent gloriousness, the glory due Him through praise, and the created brightness surrounding His revelation.

Believers cannot make God more glorious, yet they glorify Him by reflecting His character as image bearers. The glory of God manifests through twenty biblical activities, including living with purpose, confessing sins, praying expectantly, and proclaiming the gospel. Christian ethics remains both deontological—adhering to God's commands—and teleological—pursuing the glory of God as the ultimate purpose. Whether eating, drinking, or whatever believers do, all should aim toward the glory of God, fulfilling the Reformation principle of Soli Deo Gloria.

Dave Rich examines situationism, the ethical system popularized by Joseph Fletcher, which claims that love is the only moral absolute. Through careful biblical analysis, Rich demonstrates why situationism fails as a Christian ethic despite its appealing simplicity. Fletcher's system collapses ethical decision-making into a single principle: do whatever seems most loving in any situation. However, Rich reveals how situationism misunderstands divine commands, ignores the greatest commandment to love God first, and ultimately reduces to ethical egoism.

While love is indeed central to Christian ethics, it cannot stand alone without God's revealed law to define it. Rich shows how situationism prioritizes neighbor love while neglecting the primary command to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind.

Dave Rich examines the foundational ethical frameworks of deontology and teleology through a Christian lens. Deontology emphasizes rules-based ethics where acts conform to authoritative commands, while teleology focuses on purposes and intended results. Rich explores how secular systems like utilitarianism and ethical egoism attempt to establish moral authority apart from God, yet ultimately fail to answer the critical question: "Says who?"

The presentation demonstrates that Christian ethics incorporates elements of deontology and teleology but grounds both in God's personal authority revealed through Scripture. Believers are called not merely to follow rules or pursue favorable outcomes, but to obey God's commands while cultivating right motivations and godly character. Through examining various philosophical systems—from Kantian categorical imperatives to utilitarian calculus—Rich shows how every secular attempt to establish ethics without God collapses under the weight of its own inconsistency. True Christian ethics recognizes that God's commands carry inherent authority, that our purposes must align with His glory, and that developing Christ-like character matters eternally.

Dave Rich examines the fundamental question of what makes a thing good by contrasting voluntarism vs. essentialism through the lens of Scripture. The discussion addresses whether God wills something because it is good, or whether something is good because God wills it. Through careful theological analysis, Rich demonstrates that God's immutable nature resolves this dilemma—His will is eternal, unchanging, and defines goodness itself. The session then critiques noncognitive ethical systems like logical positivism, emotivism, and prescriptivism, exposing their self-contradictory foundations.

These secular philosophies attempt to deny objective moral truth by claiming ethical statements have no factual content. However, such systems collapse under scrutiny, revealing themselves as expressions of preference designed to suppress God's truth. Rich emphasizes that the debate between voluntarism and essentialism is resolved only through recognizing God's immutable character, while noncognitive approaches demonstrate the futility of ethics apart from divine revelation. The teaching underscores that all moral obligation resolves into conformity to God's will, as revealed in Scripture—our only reliable source for understanding what is truly good.

This introduction to Christian ethics explores the foundational principles of biblical morality. The lesson examines three categories of ethics: descriptive, normative, and meta-ethics, with particular focus on understanding how Christians should approach ethical questions. Christian ethics differs fundamentally from secular philosophy because believers possess Scripture as their authoritative source. The study demonstrates that ethical behavior flows from identity in Christ rather than mere rule-following. This introduction to Christian ethics establishes that truly good works require proper motivation, right purpose, and alignment with God's glory. Believers must understand that their moral capacity stems from union with Christ, making them capable of acts that please God. The lesson clarifies that while unbelievers may perform outwardly beneficial actions, these cannot be truly good without the right motivation and purpose centered on glorifying God. This comprehensive introduction to Christian ethics lays the groundwork for examining specific ethical issues through a biblical lens, emphasizing that all Christian conduct must flow from a heart transformed by faith and directed toward God's glory.

In this final installment on pretribulational rapture theology, David Forsyth examines Revelation 3:10 as the tenth reason supporting this eschatological position. The pretribulational rapture doctrine finds significant biblical support in Christ's promise to the Philadelphia church. When Jesus declared that He would keep faithful believers from the hour of testing that was coming upon the whole world, He established a pattern of deliverance applicable to all churches. The pretribulational rapture position understands this worldwide testing as the future tribulation period described throughout Scripture.

Through careful grammatical analysis of the Greek preposition "ek" (meaning "out of" or "away from"), the sermon demonstrates that Christ's promise indicates removal from the time period itself rather than mere protection through it. This pretribulational rapture understanding aligns with the doctrine of imminence and provides hope for faithful believers across all generations. The message emphasizes that faithfulness to Christ's word determines one's response to this promised deliverance, making the pretribulational rapture both a theological position and a call to steadfast obedience.

Darrell Harrison engages in a compelling Question and Answer session moderated by Jim Osman, addressing critical cultural and theological issues facing the church today. This discussion explores Islam's growing threat to Western civilization, the false narrative that Wokism is dead, and the dangerous infiltration of cultural Marxism into evangelical churches. Harrison challenges Christians to understand their enemies by studying Islamic history, Marxist ideology, and progressive political movements. 

Questions Include:

1. What has happened in your life since you were here in 2022? Bring us up to speed.
2. A couple of weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was assassinated. What are your thoughts on the sentiment that "if you go to church this Sunday and your church doesn't mention Charlie Kirk, find a new church"?
3. You talk about Islam being a threat to the church or to America today. You think it's the most significant threat we face? Why? How long has that been the case, and what started that?
4. Is there anything particular in American civil life in the last 50 years that you think has accelerated that drift? The election of any one specific person, for instance?
5. Wokism, DEI—it seems that with Trump 2.0, that is on the retreat. Do you agree with that assessment or not?
6. My last question: White guys like me are not allowed to say the word nigger or nigga. How do you suggest that we as Christians handle this so that we can get past this, get over this, get beyond it?
7. Some people say that the Crusades were evil. What's your response to that?
8. What resources can we use to educate ourselves on cultural Marxism and how it's infiltrating the church?

David Forsyth continues his examination of the pretribulational rapture doctrine, presenting five additional biblical reasons supporting this eschatological position. The pretribulational rapture view suggests that the tribulation period primarily serves Jewish purposes, preparing Israel to receive its Messiah and enter the new covenant. This perspective allows for mortal believers to populate the millennial kingdom and accounts for Christ's promise in John 14:1-3 to prepare a place for His followers.
Furthermore, the pretribulational rapture provides adequate time for the Bema seat judgment of the church while explaining the notable silence regarding the church in Revelation 6-19. Through careful examination of prophetic terminology and biblical passages, Forsyth builds a comprehensive case that the church will be delivered before the seven-year tribulation period begins, offering believers comfort and hope in Christ's imminent return.

David Forsyth presents compelling biblical evidence in support of a pretribulational rapture position. This comprehensive study examines why Scripture teaches that the church will be delivered from the wrath to come before the seven-year tribulation period begins. The pretribulational rapture doctrine preserves the biblical concept of imminence and provides genuine comfort to believers. Christians are not destined for God's eschatological wrath, and a careful examination reveals distinct differences between the Rapture and the Second Coming of Christ. This doctrinal position aligns with Kootenai Community Church's statement of faith and reflects careful exegesis of key biblical passages.

Simon Pranaitis explores the use of money for the glory of God in his conclusion to the fourteen-week "Proof of Work" series. In this final lesson, we explore how money is God’s good gift, designed to help us fulfill His purposes in our work and community. From Genesis to Revelation, Scripture reveals that money is neither evil nor ultimate, but a tool to be stewarded faithfully under God’s sovereignty. We address lingering questions about debt, tithing, and the role of gold and silver, showing how biblical principles guide our financial decisions. Above all, we are called to use money wisely and generously, doing all things to the glory of God.

Simon Pranaitis calls believers to be faithful stewards as he explores money's role throughout Revelation's prophetic timeline. Revelation teaches that money cannot protect anyone from God's judgment, yet it can be redeemed for His glory in the eternal kingdom. During tribulation, the wealthy find no refuge from divine wrath, while believers face economic persecution. However, faithful stewards can anticipate Christ's millennial kingdom where resurrected saints reign with perfect government and abundant prosperity.

The eternal kingdom reveals nations bringing treasures into New Jerusalem, demonstrating how faithful stewards participate in God's ultimate plan. This prophetic vision transforms how faithful stewards approach finances today in a world marked by both poverty and excess. Understanding this eternal perspective helps faithful stewards live with joyful anticipation, knowing God reigns forever and believers reign with Him in the coming kingdom where all things are restored according to His perfect design.