Dennis Kinlaw Tape Descriptions
DK-128 through DK-146

DK-128 -- Blind to the Cross

This message on Mark 8 is built around the fact that Jesus’ disciples were blind to the cross. They knew the secret of his person but could not conceive of his mission.  Dr. Kinlaw believes it is as hard for believers to see the cross as it is for the world to see the personhood of the Messiah.  The world is going to reject him as the one way and we reject his way of redemption. 

There’s a difference between the believing and getting our soul saved and following him.  The disciples were willing to follow him, but not to Calvary.  It took the resurrection and Pentecost to get the believers to follow him to Calvary. And there’s no Pentecost without the Calvary.

DK-129 -- Ever Increasing River

Jesus said, If you believe in me, out of your inward parts will flow rivers of living water. Water that produces life, water that produces healing, water that cleanses so that where there has been death there can be life.  That ever increasing river is promised to everybody who is a temple.  Every person who has let Christ come in and fill his heart is a temple and that means if you know Christ, there can be that kind of current that flows from Him and that is a promise of what God will do.

Dr. Kinlaw shares some personal stories of people whose lives were forever changed because someone allowed God to start a stream in them.

DK-130 -- Unite My Heart

Dr. Kinlaw teaches that our business is to get God out of the distance and get Him right down in the middle of us and get us related to Him where we know Him and we are not talking about something abstract – we are talking about somebody we know.  And if we belong to Him and He belongs to us, we ought to walk through life differently than other people.  Nobody ever meets the one True God and gets to know Him but that he gets turned inside out.  And somebody else’s well being becomes more important than his own.

DK-131 -- Grace That Endures

In this message Dr. Kinlaw answer the question as to why Moses was not allowed into the promised land.  Do you know it is very easy when you find yourself in a problem of conflict or controversy or difference where there is a difference between us and other people where we find that our reputation is involved or maybe our appearance or our faith, our face – how we’re going to look. If circumstances are not exactly the way we want them, it’s very easy for us to begin to pity ourselves. Now I want to say if anybody in human history ever had deserved the right to self-pity, I think Moses did.  When you’ve got all these thousands of people grumbling about you and complaining, and it was not his problem. It was simply God’s. If anybody had a right to self-pity, I think Moses did. But it’s interesting God does not permit self-pity to be legitimated even in a Moses because you see when he begins to say, “poor me,” he automatically is incriminating the God whom he represents because it was God who put Moses in the leadership of these people.

DK-132 -- The Temptation of Jesus

In this message Dr. Kinlaw walks us through the three temptations that Jesus endured.  The  course of human history started in a paradise that now leads to a wilderness; remarkable metaphor for the world in which you and I now live. And God says, how can I turn it around?  And so he sent his son to go to the depths of the wilderness to retrace for you and me the path back so there can be a doorway into fellowship with him who is our life, our light, and our salvation.

DK-133 -- A Story Within a Story

He made us compatible enough that God could become one of us. The radicalness of that concept the world has never caught. He made us, and you’re not going to tell me that there are any surprises for God.  He knew what was going to happen before it ever started and I don’t think there was any question but that when He created Adam and Eve, He had Bethlehem in mind. And in Bethlehem, God Himself became a human person.  We are compatible enough that there is one place in existence where if you touched one person, you touched God. When you’ve touched Jesus Christ, you’ve touched God and human persons, and they’re compatible enough that they can be in one creature. And that’s what you have in the incarnation.

Now that’s the kind of intimacy that He wanted to have with His world. God said, “I looked for a person, and couldn’t find one.” And then He said, “When I couldn’t find one, I became one.” And so you get Bethlehem. You get the manger. You get Jesus, and you get another story started now. And that’s a story within the big story. And that’s the story that turns it all around.

DK-134 -- When the Messenger and Message Become One

I know a lot of people who say yes I know Christ and they’ll tell me when they were converted.  And their relationship with Christ is based on a past experience.  But Paul says there is supposed to be a continuing every moment relationship with Him that is more intimate and more real than any other relationship in human existence. The relationship is supposed to be intimate enough that ultimately there is an identification between us and Christ where He inhabits us and we inhabit Him.  There is an identification between the message I have to give and my own life and my own personhood so that I am tied up with the message that I have to offer. 

You know I believe the church today, the body of Christ, is hungering for that kind of message.  They don’t understand it, you can’t force it on anybody, you can’t pound it into people.  They’ve got to begin to see their own needs and say, “Is there greater freedom than I have known?”  And if we present it there are people who are hungering to be free.  And you and I know what the key is, it is to get in that triumphal procession that leads us to the end of us and to the beginning of Him and His fullness.

DK-135 -- This Call and Its Cost: A Cross

Everyone in Christian ministry and Christian witness needs to have the mind of Christ. Because if we don’t, when we get in the middle of it our witness won’t be the same as His and there will be two witnesses instead of one.  But if we let Him bring us to the place where His will has become ours and His mind controls ours, then we will find that any witness we have is identical with His.  And a world can see who Jesus Christ really is.  We must put our arms around His will for us and embrace it.  If you ask Him, He can do it. And out of it will come something redemptive.
 

DK-136 -- Our Calling:  Intimate Fellowship

Do you wonder what it really means to be the called of God?  To be called into the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ?  Understanding our call will determine how we live our life day to day and moment to moment.  Dr. Kinlaw explains that this was a paramount concern on Paul’s heart as he addressed the Corinthian church, and it is critical for us as believers to examine in our lives today. Then “…we can know the life that we live grows out of that personal relationship to Christ rather than any other single thing.”

DK-137 -- Submission

Key word “subject” or “submission.”   There is nothing in the Scripture to support the way the world reads this.   The woman is not to be a doormat, or an echo when her husband speaks.   We need  the teaching of Scripture on the relationship of husband,  wife,  marriage, and  family.

No verse comes alone.   It always comes in a paragraph, in a chapter and we must see the larger context.   Every person who is a believer is to be a part of the body of Christ and is part of the Bride of Christ.   There is the privilege of shifting gender roles when one comes to Christ.

The first call for submission is universal, not just to women.   It’s for everybody. The person filled with the Spirit, male or female, has quit living for self and is living for somebody else.   Perfect Love is what this whole process is all about.  I respond to His love.  There should be nobody in my existence that I desire more than Him.   He is the joy of my life.  Jesus  took a towel and washed  the feet of his disciples. “As I have done to you, so do ye to one another.   This is the story around the word “submit.”                

DK-138 -- Flesh vs. Spirit

Teaching from a number of scriptures, Galatians 4:21-31 being central to the discussion, Dr. Kinlaw illuminates this Biblical dialogue with reference to life lived in the Spirit and life lived in the flesh.  These are “…concepts that we need to understand if we are to walk in God’s way and if we are to please Him…”  Has your life been touched by the Spirit of God?  “…there is something permanent and enduring when the Spirit of God quickens. And that’s what we must seek and we must never settle for less.” 

DK-139 -- A Heart Where God and the World Meet

Do you have a heart for God?  Can one person make a difference?  God looked for one, and He was appalled that He couldn’t find one.  God looked for a person to stand in the gap. So he became one of us in our world.  He looks for you and me to follow Him, to give our life to Him.  The only fulfilled person is the person who has lost his life for something bigger than himself, and has learned to live for something greater than himself, one who has the calling of God to serve.  He has a heart where God and the world meet.

DK-140 -- God's Thinking and Our Thinking

If you know who He is, you’re a believer. But you can be a believer and know grace in your heart and know the forgiveness of sin and still have a heart that has duplicity in it.    Peter looked at Him, and it’s interesting that in one breath he said, “We know who You are.  You are the Christ.”  And in the next breath, Peter says, “Come here Lord,” and takes Him aside and says, “What You’re saying isn’t true.”  He rebukes the Christ because the Christ says, “I’m going to Jerusalem to suffer and to die.”  And Jesus turns and looks at him and says, “Peter, you don’t think like I think.  You think the way a man thinks.” 

Let Dr. Kinlaw walk us through the problems the disciples had (and we sometimes have today) in changing our thinking to the way God thinks instead of the way man thinks.

DK-141 -- A Change of Mind

How can I understand what God is doing in my life and the world around me?  What hinders me from experiencing the intimacy with Him I so desire?  How can I embrace my circumstances when “intellectual contradictions” prevail?  Join Dr Kinlaw as he masterfully unfolds several passages of Scripture and teaches us that a “change of Mind” is imperative to finding redemptive answers to our questions.
 

DK-142 -- Characteristics of The Mind of Christ 

Dr. Kinlaw leads us through the four characteristics of a person having the mind of Christ.  He reminds us that If we are going to have the mind of Christ, we are not going to look a new situation or even an old situation with the attitude of “what can I get out of it, what’s in it for me.”  You can count on it that there will always be a bit of the crucifixion of pride within us in public identification with the ultimate will of God.

The world needs for us to have the mind of Christ.  Because if we don’t, when we get in the middle of it our witness won’t be the same as His.  And there will be two witnesses instead of one.  But if we let Him bring us to the place where His will has become ours and His mind controls ours, then we will find that any witness we have is identical with His and a world can see who Jesus Christ really is.

DK-143 -- Abraham's Faith

Do you know there are moments when God may ask you to give up your life?    Not just your physical life, but your life, your career, all the things that our society says  determine who you are.    He may lay his hand on them.  God said to Abraham, Isaac is not your future, I AM YOUR FUTURE.   And Abraham said, if you are my future, then I can give you my son.

Now that is getting to the place where God feels that anything in your life belongs to him, because he claims you.  Now why did God test him?  God didn’t test him to be mean.   You know I used to think that what was happening here was that God said, I will find out whether he really loves me or not.  I will find out if he means what he said, and if his language represents the reality. I will test him. Check him out. I will find out whether he is real.   

I don’t think this test is for God at all. You know who the guy was who tested Abraham?   He is the one who knows everything that will ever happen, and he knew everything about Abraham already.  Do you know why I think he asked for Isaac?  I think he wanted Abraham to have the liberation of knowing himself that he loved God the way he ought to love God, and believe in God the way he ought to believe in God.

DK-144 -- Face to Face Encounters 

Every time you get a human being in a face-to-face encounter with God, you’ve got the potential for the redemption of the world.  Now God wants that kind of relationship.  Scripture says, “Enoch walked with God.”  We don’t know anything about the content of that in terms of religious activity or even ethical activity.  But what we do know is that it was a personal relationship. Enoch and the Lord would take walks together and in the evening the Lord would go home and the next morning the Lord would come back and they would take another walk together.  And then one day, at the end of the day, the Lord said, “Enoch this is so much fun I don’t want you to go home, I’ll take you home with me.”  And so the Lord took him.  Now that’s the Genesis picture of how we’re supposed to live. 

DK-145 -- The Process of Detachment

I’m convinced that the Christian walk is really a process of detachment.  Did you know that the Bible, and the church and religion are no substitutes for Him?  Genesis wants us to understand that.  That I have the privilege of knowing Him and possessing Him as my daily, moment by moment companion.  So you see it’s a personal relationship.  As we walk with Him He says, “I want you to detach, cut loose from that because if you keep attached to that, it will keep you from walking with me.” 

DK-146 -- When Darkness Turns to Light

Isn’t it interesting we use the word know to express the most intimate relationship between a husband and a wife. God wants to know us, and wants to know us intimately, personally and so he says, you need to walk with me.     Now if you understood what I am saying, there is a hardly a person anywhere who can’t look back in his own life, somewhere, where the witness was given and you chose not to see it, and so you found darkness and disillusionment and despair, but there were other days when the witness was there and you said, maybe I had better pay attention to that, and you did, and as you did a way began to open, and you noticed the darkness was turning to light, and then you found in the middle  of it, the Living God Himself.

Now of course, the catch is, he is the one who looks at us and says, ”Follow Me.”    What does he want me to follow him in, climbing the ladder?  No, making the descent.   And I am convinced that that is the heart of the holiness experience - when we get to the place where we are ready to follow him in total self sacrifice.   And when we do, the astounding thing is we find that we haven’t lost anything; we find then that we have gained everything that counts.