Reformation Hope Church Brookfield WI Dr Wayne Sedlak

Come learn what is the greatest danger to a Christian Constitutional Republic. How the blessing of immigration may also turn into a great curse. The Church, during the birth of our nation, taught immigrants the Word of God, bringing them into a fruitful well run civil government. And now? Why are we now slipping backwards into the slavish mentality of Idolatry?

Easter's Abiding Lesson... "What the Law Could Not Do"

"Pala" one of the most important words in scripture, a word that is comprehensive though it is deceptively hidden from view. A word that not only leaves Paul speechless but can be found in effect throughout the birth of our country. Come listen as we learn why it is important to not misunderstand this word "Pala". We need to follow the example of the Psalmist as he prays, "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Both Witherspoon and George Washington saw "Pala" and gave praise. Pharaoh rationalized "Pala" yet gave up.

"Existentialism" used by the "philosopher" to poison society, to move men away from God. They wrap this poison in a multitude of different and tempting packages. They preach self expression and experience over thinking, action over contemplating the revealed facts relating to God in His Word. They preach "no God no law", man has the freedom to do whatever he wants whenever he wants it. The "God is dead" movement in the 60's was just a taste of this poison. The poison of these pied pipers may be easily discerned when the light of the Word of God shows forth. Come hear how Psalm 119 teaches us to meditate and focus properly, how to walk safely in today's world and recognize the subtle attacks and snares of those who hate God and his Word, those pied pipers of poison. Hear of the sweetness and unity created among men everywhere who incline themselves to live in the freedom of the law of God. Psalm 119:45 "and I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts."

Stories get our attention: The YouTube video "United Breaks Guitars" by Dave Carroll, is a real-life story of how his guitar was broken during a trip on United Airlines in 2008. United Airlines after repeated requests for help, did nothing for Mr. Carroll until in July of 2009 he posted the video "United Breaks Guitars" at this time "United Breaks Guitars" has had over 13 million views and has been discussed in media world wide. One man's voice moved United Airlines from a position of complete indifference to contacting Mr. Carroll. How much more could a man do in the service of his Lord, when empowered and gifted from on high by the Holy Spirit. Listen how one can move men's hearts through a story. Listen how God, using stories, exhibits His fingerprints in the lives of men. Yet even with all this evidence hear how and why we are tempted to doubt. John 20:29 Jesus said to him, Thomas, because you have seen me, you have believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

Though the outward man be but flesh and blood God's presence in His work is something that the church must emphasize and God's people stand to say amen. We have lost the symbolism for the title of Covenant head. In our society today fatherhood, headship and manhood are most under attack. Manhood and headship take a beating even in the churches. Today if a woman stands up to defend the concept of headship they become vilified as if they committed some act of treason. Headship pictured in us is not for us to polish our own shiny badge. Headship, pictured in us, represents God himself and therefore it is attacked. The Lord's Day is a day set apart from all the rest of the days it is a day to sanctify your family in worship before God. It is a sanctification issue (Leviticus 19). Fathers and mothers are to sanctify their children, set them before the Lord. Anti Sabbatarianism, feminism, attacks upon inheritance, the courts are all issues that plague the Church since the beginning. Come join us as we learn how this is all wrapped around the issue of the triune God and headship.

Paradise: Communion and the Church Witness.

Prior to World War II a young economist named Ludwig von Mesis and a Handful of Free Market Economists labored mightily to convince the German people and the people of Austria concerning the fallacies and dangers of statism. They tried and tried and tried but it fell on deaf ears. He concluded that he was speaking to a generation that was determined to fling itself into slavery. He also found it in the churches and it embittered him. He saw nothing in the churches that did anything but propel the German State into the servitude that awaited them. Nothing he said or did could avail. That is how far gone they were in Nazi Germany. He said “I set out to be a reformer but only became the historian of decline”. Salvation in this world is based upon regeneration. Slaves cannot be legislated out of their bondage. Regeneration takes us out of the slave state, the slave mentality. Regeneration, the new birth changes the whole man, the whole woman. Unless the heart is changed there will be no real change in society. Abhor that which is evil cleave to that which is good, be kindly affectioned one toward another with brotherly love. In honor, preferring one another, not slothful in business, fervent in spirit when serving the Lord.

Envy is the disease of our society, of the west. It creates a fundamentally different kind of person. Envy is insidious, it’s motive is malice, the result is to destroy.

There has been a mark of the Sabbath keeping, the Lord’s Day Sabbath, in this country, extending back into the Common Law of England back down through the days of Alfred the Great (King of the West Saxons) that goes back to late 800’s. Alfred himself copied the Sabbath Law from earlier writs. The Lord’s Day Sabbath is a testimony that God will in fact bring rest, this gives us hope and hope indeed anchors the soul.

Envy causes us to take the means and the tricks necessary, what we deem to be necessary, to plunder our neighbor. “Mt 6:19-21 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” The Christian church needs to learn the lesson of putting Christ as its first treasure. Our hearts should be less confident in our own reasoning and more confident in God’s mercy as come before His throne.