Sunday's Bible Class August 29 Kings 113b: Turn and Trust

We all face problems. A few are as monumental as the case of Hezekiah facing the Assyrian invasion. Most are more mundane if not trivial.  But these smaller challenges frequently trip up our spiritual life more quickly than the monster ones.

1 Kings 19 begins to reveal the process whereby Hezekiah relies on the Divine Solution rather than the human solution. First, he had to humble himself, often a confusing term, but in this lesson we have clarification.  Then we have to turn. Turning is not a one shot decision. Turning includes confession and a focus shift. Hezekiah exemplifies this, and this becomes the foundation for several prayers from him. Here we will learn how prayer truly can change things.

Thursday's Bible Class August 26th - Hebrews 208C Pursuing Peace: Reconciliation, Foregiveness, Peace, and Love

Nothing is more difficult in some situations than genuine forgiveness, which includes forgetting the infraction. This requires biblical love, a fruit of the Spirit. The direction the Scriptures give us always points to understanding the cross where God provides unconditional forgiveness through the sacrifice of His Son. None of us have ever experienced an act of abuse, betrayal, or disloyalty to the degree God has from us. Therefore to understand how to forgive and have genuine reconciliation, we must first grasp God's whole plan of salvation: forgiveness, reconciliation, and peace.

Current Series Taught by Dr. Dean

After beginning the study of the book of Revelation in 2004, Dr. Dean completed that series on Tuesday August 17th with a summary of our study.  In September, he will announce the start of a new study for Tuesday nights.  The other two remaining series being taught at West Houston Bible Church are also approaching completion, so check our website for updated announcements of what Dr. Dean will be teaching next.  Currently still being taught:

2007 Kings: Sunday mornings at 10:30 a.m. This series began in November 2007 on Tuesday evening and moved to Sunday morning in March, 2009 due to the national crises. Currently we are in the center of the study (1 Kings 17-2 Kings 13). These chapters focus on the ministries of Elijah and Elisha during some of the most unstable and uncertain times in the history of Israel. Within 100 years of the glories of Israel under the reign of Solomon the nation had been ripped in two by civil war and the northern kingdom was dominated by the materialistic and sexually perverse fertility religion of Baal. Into this crisis the immutable word of God was proclaimed by these two magnificent prophets. Though these two men were great among Old Testament believers, they never had the resources every Church Age believer now has through our position in Christ, indwelling and filling of the Holy Spirit, and the completed canon of Scripture. However, through these chapters we can all learn how to face the economic, political, and military crises that have come upon the United States and the world in these dark days. This study will encourage you to stand strong in the Lord and the power of His might in tough times. In this series we are focusing on the faith rest drill, spiritual growth, facing the challenges of pagainism in our own thinking, our cultures, and solving these challenges with the eternal truths of God's Word. 

Psa. 118:8-9, It is better to trust in the LORD, Than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the LORD, Than to put confidence in princes.
Prov. 3:26, For the LORD will be your confidence, And will keep your foot from being caught.
Prov. 14:26, In the fear of the LORD there is strong confidence, And His children will have a place of refuge.

2005 Hebrews: Thursday evening at 8:00 p.m. Hebrews is one of the most significant epistles in the New Testament for understanding the present session ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ in His royal High Priesthood, and why that is so vital for the believer to understand for his daily spiritual life and motivation. The heart of the epistle is in chapters 7 through 10.

The classes on all three of the above current series are live streamed from this website, and are available for downloading in audio and video formats.

Tuesday's Bible Class August 17: Revelation 240 The END - Reviewing Revelation

I began the exposition of Revelation 9 May, 2004 as pastor of Preston City Bible Church, 240 lessons ago. 

In this study we have investigated the message and meaning of this disclosure to the apostle John by the resurrected, ascended, glorified Lord Jesus Christ. The message is one of judgment. All will be judged and EVIL will be finally and completely judged and confined to the Lake of Fire. All are held accountable. There is accountability for Christians, unbelievers, angels, demons, and Satan. But the message is also one of God's grace. In the Tribulation billions will die horribly, but also millions upon millions will be saved forever by the grace of God, not works.

The challenge is for each of us to live as if the Lord will return tomorrow and we will give an account of our lives.

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Attention Logos 3 Users

For those of you with Logos 3.0 (the notes transfer feature for 4.0 is not yet available)

Here is a wonderful present for all of you Bible students. A tremendous friend of DBM has used the transcripts from my Bible classes to create a massive note file for you Logos 3.0 PC users (the notes feature does not work in the Logos for Mac). If you download and insert this file into your My Documents/Libronix DLS/Annotations folder, then the next time you open Logos 3.0 to a Bible verse in a series I have taught then you will see some green, post-it, icons appear on any versified text (Bible, commentary, etc). When you put your cursor over those note files you can read what I taught on those verses. If you click on one, then the entire note file for all the verses will open, and you can navigate around those.

He also set up a different file that contains all of the doctrines I have taught (over 300) which you can load into your My Favorites folder in Logos 3.0. If you are like me, you may already have a large number of Favorites bookmarked so this may be a problem. Logos does not allow you to add favorites to your favorites folder in this manner. So if you put this into your My Documents/Libronix DLS/Favorites folder then it will replace what you have already marked. If you already have a lot of favorites marked, then you can place the Dr. Robert Dean Doctrines annotation file in the Annotations folder (My Documents/Libronix DLS/Annotations) and you can simply open it as a note file with all of the doctrines in alphabetical order.

If you do not have Logos 3.0, we have some disks at DBM we can send you. These disks are free. They were distributed by the ESV publishers and contain the Logos 3.0 program which is free and only one Bible, the ESV. But it will give you something. I do not know if you can still order basic packages from Logos in 3.0, you will need to call them to find out (www.logos.com).

For those with only Logos 4.0 you will unfortunately have to wait. The note transfer protocol will be released sometime in the next 4-6 weeks as part of the upgrade to Logos 4.0b. Until then you will just need to be patient.

If you are not familiar with Logos I suggest the Christian Leader's Library which I think is the most basic collection they offer. But remember, you can get the 3.0 at no charge by emailing staff@deanbible.org; but to get 4.0 you will need to order from Logos.

If you have questions about this please email staff@deanbible.org as the ladies in the office know nothing about its operation and I will need to answer those questions.

To download each file, right-click on the links below and select "Save Link as" or "Save target as" (depending on what browser you use). This will bring up a dialog where you can select where to save these files to on you drive.

Notes File
Doctrines File