Dr. Kinlaw states we can’t understand redemption without a proper understanding of creation. We need to know about our fall from God before we can know about our return to God. As the second Adam, God became a man to show us what human beings should be like. We are to imitate Christ. The centrality of Jesus’ cross shows us the second Adam died to restore the image of God within us that had been marred by the sin of the first Adam.

DK-209 -- Three Crosses, Part 3
Galatians 1:1-3, Galatians 5: 24-26

Dr. Kinlaw reemphasizes the significance of the central cross, from which we derive our word "crucial." Through Christ’s cross God reversed the damage done by the first Adam’s sin. Such sin alienated people from God and placed them in conflict with one another. Our problem is not outside of us; it is inside of us. We selfishly try to organize the world around ourselves. Jesus showed us we find God when we renounce ourselves. We do not find our identity except in terms of another person.

Dr. Kinlaw links Paul’s statements about participation in the cross of Christ with Jesus’ statements about our need to participate in his cross. Jesus talked more about our participation in his cross than the benefits of it. For example, Jesus told us to deny ourselves and take up our cross (Matt. 16:24), whoever loses his life for Jesus will find it (Matt. 16:25), and a kernel of wheat must fall to the ground and die to produce many seeds (John 12:24). We have lost the sense of going where the need is because we focus more on the benefits of the cross than participation in the cross. Instead, we favor going where we can appear important. We need people who will go where the need is, who will participate in Christ’s cross. After all, Jesus went to an out of the way place called Jerusalem, far from the political and cultural centers of Rome and Greece. But first, we must participate in Christ’s cross, or as Paul wrote, walk by the Spirit instead of gratifying the desires of the flesh.

DK-210 -- Call to the People of God
Isaiah 40; 41; 52:1-12; 52:1-12

People were asleep to the things of God. The church was weak and helpless and in need of redemption. It had lost its spiritual splendor and adorned itself in material splendor. The Jews' physical circumcision did not bring them to the place where they could love God with their entire mind, heart, soul, and strength. They were as defiled as their neighbors were. But God promises to bring the church to restoration.

The word "evangelist" comes from these passages in Isaiah. The evangelist speaks to the Church. God has departed from his people. This is a picture of some denominations that look for loopholes to condone sin. But God can and will redeem the backslidden church today. God's call must begin in us through Christ and come to the Church. When the Church repents, God will touch the world.

Dr. Kinlaw asks how the Church can experience revival. Holiness assumes an important role. When we hunger for God, God can take what he wants and we are content. God can also give us what he wants. He can put this hunger within us and we can respond through surrender and faith. The greatest need in the world is for the Church to be the people of God: a holy nation and kingdom of priests.

Five Statements of Holiness

Dr. Kinlaw states when we articulate holiness, we must express reality through our language in understandable concepts. Christ died to do more for us than most of us think he did. Dr. Kinlaw lists five principles of holiness doctrine.

1. We must be confronted with the almost unimaginable depths of our self-serving sinfulness.
2. Christ came to address the self-serving depths of our sinfulness in his cross and resurrection.
3. We must come to the place where we hate in ourselves the sin that nailed Jesus to the cross. Christ died to get it out of us.
4. We can never be godly in ourselves.
5. God has the power through the Holy Spirit to maintain that gift of cleansing as we continually seek Christ.

Salvation is not an abstract thing or an impersonal it, it is a relationship with God himself.

DK-211 -- Prayer, Are you Pregnant?

Women are uniquely designed to bear the fetus of a new human being. “Show me one person and I know there are two more”, Kinlaw notes. All believers are designed to bear the burden God carries for people. God asked Himself in Genesis 18:17, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?” as he prepared to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham  interposed himself on their behalf. God cares mightily and He calls His people to help him carry His burden for His children. Warning: This message will change the way you think about prayer.

DK-212 and Video-277 -- It’s Safe to Trust Him
Joshua 1

Dr. Kinlaw states we are so familiar with Geneses through Exodus that we miss its main character and radical aspect. God worked throughout its pages to select one nation to gain a small piece of turf in his world to use as a foothold to win the world back to himself.

Dr. Kinlaw examines how Joshua and Caleb came to faith. They, like Israel, knew God had spoken to Moses in a burning bush and had begun an ongoing relationship with him. They saw the change in Moses and how God had confronted Pharaoh. They had seen the plagues against Egypt and witnessed how God demanded Pharaoh either either release his firstborn son or suffer the death of his and all firstborn sons of Egypt. This reference in Deuteronomy is God’s first use of the Father-Son relationship. Israel, as his firstborn, would receive twice the inheritance but had the responsibility to care for other family members. God wanted other children, a reference to his concern to save the entire world.

This is the Great Commission. God is the ultimate absolute. Jesus sent his followers to lead other people to himself. He still does so today. Is it still safe to trust him, both for salvation and for his call to send us out to bring other people to him…and ultimately into his family.

DK-213 and Video-278 -- King of Priests
Exodus 19:5-6

Dr. Kinlaw introduces an important principle of Scripture interpretation: we need to understand the part by the whole, not the whole by the part. All Scripture informs one passage, one passage does not determine the meaning of all Scripture. A second, related principle: we understand what came before the cross by the cross, and we understand what came after the cross by the cross.

God’s hardening of Pharaoh’s heart is an example of these principles. Why did he harden Pharaoh’s heart? The answer is found in John 17:1-3, that God may save the world. Some Egyptians left with the Israelites because their hears had been softened by the Holy Spirit. Wesley used the word Prevenient Grace to describe the person and work of the Holy Spirit.

DK-214 -- Ministers’ Conference, Part 1
Creeds

Dr. Kinlaw asks why it is impossible to say the Apostles’ Creed without mentioning Mary, the mother of Jesus, or Pontius Pilate, a cheap second-rate Roman governor. His answer: Christianity is a historical faith htat has its roots in time and space. The key to our faith is Jesus. He refers to Bishop Fulton Sheen, who stated the eternal truth of God’s story runs through history. The key to the future is to find the center of that line of faith. Dr. Kinlaw also states the Apostles’ Creed is primarily a story of persons and events and secondarily a document of timeless eternal truths. When Jesus was asked for the definition of truth, he replied, "I am truth."

From these two points Dr. Kinlaw analyzes current events. He concludes we are at a hinge-point in human history that includes changes in the political, technological, and ecumenical fields. He defines ecumenical as a oneness of the church faith where traditions and denominations talk with one another, as opposed to an institutional unity. Dr. Kinlaw cites the Pope’s decision 1946 to allow Catholic scholars to go beyond the Latin Vulgate to the Greek and Hebrew original texts of Scripture. Such study has resulted in the realization that "penance," something you do, was a mistranslation of
"metanoia," a change of mind. Dr. Kinlaw also cites further progress made by Protestants, Roman Catholics, and Eastern Orthodox traditions and their understanding of Scripture as a result of more open communication and cooperation with one another. Dr. Kinlaw lists several Protestant theologians who have made radical conclusions about scriptural truth despite the teachings of their faith traditions. Dr. Kinlaw examines the ontological argument for the Trinity that states God's triuneness is the way to get to the being of God. He concludes that we have a new paradigm in which we can place Christian perfection instead of tacking it on to existing paradigms.

DK-215 -- Minister's Conference, Part 2

Dr. Kinlaw continues his discussion of the Trinity, especially the relationship between its members. He states theologians describe the relationship of the members of the godhead as ontological or consubstantial. Our relationship to God is metaphorical. Our relationship is not the same, but is similar. Dr. Kinlaw states the main character in the Gospels is the Father. Jesus never comes alone. He stated if anyone had seen him, they had seen the Father, if they had met him, they had met the Father, and if they had listened to him they had listened to the Father. Jesus was not self-originating, he was the only-begotten Son of the Father. He was not self-sustaining, life was not in him but drawn from the Father. He was not self-explaining, but only explained by the Father. He was not self-fulfilling, but his fulfillment was based on completing his Father’s will.  The key to Jesus’ victory over sin was his not his deity, but the Holy Spirit within him. Jesus gave that same Spirit to us so that we could live like him. Dr. Kinlaw asks his listeners what this concept does to their understanding of holiness. Theologians state the being and act of God are the same. In other words, who God is and what he does are inseparable. Dr. Kinlaw states one reason he believes in entire sanctification is that God wants to put the being and the act together within us. Dr. Kinlaw contrasts human self-autonomy with God’s creation of us after his image. We find fulfillment in one another when we reflect God’s image, which God longs to give us through the new birth. Suddenly we are more concerned about someone else than ourselves. Dr. Kinlaw emphasizes the necessity of correct doctrine. He states if our concept of God is wrong then the more religious we become the more dangerous we are to others and ourselves. God wants to get rid of our self-interest. People who say it is impossible to live above sin have a different paradigm that prevents them from living above self-interest. Dr. Kinlaw challenges us to draw our life from the Father through an intimate relationship. God wants to remove our self-interest, place his very life within us, and unite our new identify with ethical conduct.

DK-216 -- The Church as the Body of Christ, The Trinity Lectures 1

Dr. Kinlaw examines the writings and life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor who was killed by the Nazis shortly before the end of WW II because he opposed them. Dr. Kinlaw states that theology and practice inform the mind of the church when it is at its best. He gives examples of how theology has misinformed Christian ethics.

Unfortunately, the church too often reflects our culture's values. Dr. Kinlaw states it is impossible for someone born and bred on American television to think 80 % of the concepts of Scripture without some radical work done on them. This is another reason why the doctrine of the Trinity is so important. The persons of the Trinity are incomplete in themselves. That is why Jesus could do nothing without the Father. The Body of Christ is wed to the Trinity. Every person is part of a web of relationships. Sin breaks these relationships, but a part of every person longs to return to these relationships. This inter-relationship of people affects marriages and evangelism. Dr. Kinlaw proposes every person's conversion originated within the heart of someone else. (In a second, short message on the back of this tape Dr. Kinlaw reviews his previous message. He discusses what makes a person a person and the need to differentiate between a person and an individual.)

DK-217 -- The Church as the Body of Christ, The Trinity Lectures 2

Dr. Kinlaw explores details of the Body of Christ, including its nature as a living body as opposed to an institutional body; its spiritual nature as opposed to a fleshly nature; and its relationship to Christ as the source of its life.

Dr. Kinlaw shares several lessons from these characteristics. We are never alone but live in a web of human relationships. When somebody touches one person, they affect an entire web of relationships. Only Jesus makes us one with God and other people. He is our mediator, our rock. This truth runs counter to the individualism found in America.

DK-218 -- The Church as the Body of Christ, The Trinity Lectures 3

Dr. Kinlaw continues his exploration of the Trinity to better understand the Church. The main lesson: real work of deliverance begins when we take another person into our heart. Amy Carmichel serves as a classic example. She had been an unsuccessful missionary to Japan. When she went to India she felt a burden for the orphan temple girls whose fathers had died and whose mothers had been burned on the funeral piers. She began to save the girls from temple prostitution, but the Hindus became upset and prevailed upon the British missionary society to pressure her to stop. Amy tried to stop, but was unable to get the girls out of her heart. After a temple keeper refused her offer to care for the girls, Amy returned to her room and told the Lord she had tried. She saw the Lord weeping under a tree. He told her, "I know it is not your problem. It’s my problem. I’m just looking for somebody who will bear it with me." Amy Carmichel saved hundreds and hundreds of girls from temple prostitution and made them productive members of society.

Dr. Kinlaw wonders if the possibility of every person’s redemption lies in the heart of someone else. Christ is the supreme example. Our salvation does not lie within us, but in Christ. He became the mediator between God and us. God began this pattern in Jesus and extends it through his body, the Church. The implication for evangelism for the Church lies in the fact that the Church is the social unit through whom the redemptive power of God spreads out to the world.

The body of Christ must bear the marks of Christ. What are the marks? They are a profound, self-sacrificing concern deep within the human spirit. And since the only way for Christ to save us was to give himself for our sins, God cannot possibly use us to save someone else if we do not give ourselves for them.

DK-220 -- The Church As The Body of Christ
Isaiah 45:15

“The Church As The Body of Christ” is a sermon expressing that God is in control.  Many times we may feel God has hidden Himself.  The fact is if you will look for God you will find Him.  The passage from Isaiah 45:15 addresses Cyrus who was a symbol of the false gods of the earth, yet God used Cyrus and He was the source and secret of Cyrus’ supremacy.  God chose to bestow upon Cyrus a title of honor although he did not acknowledge Him.  God is in control.  The question Dr. Kinlaw leaves us with is - “Are you looking?”                

DK-221 -- The Church As The Body of Christ
Revelation 19

“The Church As The Body of Christ” is calling us to kneel at Jesus’ feet and say that we invite you to come.  As Jesus bears in His body the mark of His commitment to us, Dr. Kinlaw is encouraging those he is preaching to to say to the Lord I want to crown you and for you to help my life bear the marks of my commitment as you bear the marks of your commitment to me.  The palms of Jesus are scarred with His love for you and for me.  In scripture Jesus is called the Lamb Slain from the Foundations of the World 30 times.  The lasts words Jesus speaks in His Word are, “I, Jesus, speak unto you,” representing He will save.  The final scene of Jesus in His Word is His arms outstretched saying will you come.  Dr. Kinlaw concludes in his message through an altar call: will you come, Lord, as I kneel at your feet.

DK-222 -- Intimacy with God Series -- How Far Will God Go
John 12

“How Far Will God Go” brings us to the universal principle that no life can be fruitful being self-centered. Dr. Kinlaw impresses upon us to see the way God gave Himself to us: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son…,” (John 3:16).  Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it will abide alone.  If God hadn’t sacrificed Himself He would have lived eternity without your fellowship.  How far will God go to reach you and me?  The donkey upon which Jesus sat represents humility and service.  Jesus said He came to serve and to give His life as a ransom to many.  Jesus put Himself in a vulnerable position; He put Himself in a position that could easily be rejected and He knew it.  Could your life be more fruitful if you were to live sacrificially?  And this is just what Jesus asks of us: pick up your cross and follow me.  He didn’t say go do what I tell you to do; He says follow me.  If you hit rock bottom you will find Jesus has been there before you.  The key to this message is self-sacrifice.          

DK-224 -- Drawing Near To God
Psalm 86

“Drawing Near To God” brings us to how we can praise God in all things and how our hearts can be united.  David’s prayer is to walk in God’s truth and for his heart to be united so that with his whole heart he can thank the Lord.  Dr. Kinlaw touches on the uniqueness of prayer and why David seeks God in the first place.  Because David’s life is sought after and he has no one to trust, he turns to God who is the only one who can help him.  What drives David to prayer is his problem.  Dr. Kinlaw shares how our problems become insignificant when we come face to face with God.  David has even forgotten about the ones that are after him, when he comes face to face with God, rather seeing the greatness of God and eventually seeing his own inadequacy.  Through his own inadequacy David finds his heart longing for more and crying out for more.  The key note upon which Dr. Kinlaw leaves this message is in regards to this very phrase: crying out for something more. 

DK-225 -- Chronicle of Grace - Part 1
Luke 2:21

“Chronicle of Grace” is understanding Chronicles as an historical perspective, which Dr. Kinlaw addresses and expounds upon.  Understanding Chronicles as a historical perspective helps us understand what God is after—the whole world.  In Luke chapter two, verse 21 Simeon has seen what God is after which Dr. Kinlaw preaches about—that universal character of God wanting to be directly in the middle of our lives.  Because Simeon noticed Mary and Joseph and their baby and the type of people that they are, poor and not very well off, everything in human history points to Jesus associating himself with everyone.  The philosophy of history is explained in terms of the fact that God wants to live in the middle of his people and wants them to worship Him.  The purpose of human history is to get us in an intimate association and fellowship with Christ.     

DK-226 -- Chronicle of Grace - Part II
II Chronicles 16:7

“Chronicle of Grace” Part II exclaims God is at work inside us.  Dr. Kinlaw simply teaches the inappropriateness of having a wandering heart toward Christ.  But God’s grace can fix our heart so that it doesn’t wander.  The message encourages a transformation of the heart to be Shalom (at peace and complete).      

DK-227 -- The Bible and Conflict
Psalm 119

“The Bible And Conflict” states the Lord is the prime factor in the Bible.  Dr. Kinlaw teaches that the only way to get to Jesus is to go the same way the Son went—low.  The secret is to be brought low.  When we are brought low we learn where the power is.  When we learn where the power comes from, we find ourselves at a disadvantage for through our weaknesses we lack so many things.  Being brought low allows God to teach us many things and to know His secrets.   

DK-228 -- The Bible And Conflict - Part 2
Psalm 119 9^th strophe verse 65-72

 “The Bible And Conflict” - Part 2 is a continued message from Part 1 that discusses how a man can still sing through his troubles.  The message is about learning to be content through any circumstances, rejoicing through them, not letting the outside determine how you feel on the inside, and finding victory under any circumstances because “one can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.”  Dr. Kinlaw teaches that humility is the character God never forgets and is the center of finding peace, being able to see God’s goodness all of the time and rejoicing through any circumstances.     

DK-229 -- Asbury Summer Assembly 1996
Bible Study #1
Genesis 12:1

The message Dr. Kinlaw delivers is a message the Lord spoke to Abram in Genesis Chapter 12, verse1: “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.”  Dr. Kinlaw teaches that the only hope for those who don’t know the way is for Christians to go Jesus’ way making the step and paying the price of difference.  It is good that Christians are different because it gives us the opportunity to see and to know God through those willing to be different and pay the price of difference.  Dr. Kinlaw teaches that a Christian’s role is to stand between a God who wants to redeem a world and a world without redemption who needs it.  The character of the church is far more important than anything else.     

DK-231 -- Asbury Summer Assembly 1996
Bible Study #3
Isaiah 52

The recurring theme in this message is that when Christians are what they are supposed to be the world will see Christ.  Dr. Kinlaw delivers a message teaching the steps of how to be holy like Christ.  The message talks about God’s people learning how to be holy and the importance of a prayer life.  A prayer life allows one to stay closely connected to God.  After these steps are lived the next step is learning that living for Jesus is not judgment but deliverance.  When these concepts are lived out in a pure heart-a vessel that is clean and submitted to God- the world begins to hear Jesus.   

DK-232 -- Asbury Summer Assembly 1996
Bible Study #4
Revelation 22

Dr. Kinlaw teaches from Revelations 22 that the bride of Christ is part of her husband’s work.  When we work with Christ there is a potential for the redemption of the world.  People are a special treasure to God because all of His purposes are tied up with them.  He has no other design except through His Body to redeem the world.  Dr. Kinlaw encourages Christians to go and allow God to do a work through them.  God is with His children and He will do His work, for the bride is part of her husband’s work.  God chooses and has made His bride His only design and plan to bring redemption to the world.       

DK-233 -- Bible Study on Ezekiel - Part 1

In this message, Dr. Kinlaw is speaking to a group of young people asking them to pay attention to his words and to the book of Ezekiel carefully.  Looking at Ezekiel we get the key to God’s answers for despair for His people through Ezekiel—his visions.  Dr. Kinlaw speaks about visions and that visions are how we will make it to the end.  He says he doubts we will ever stand in our society unless our vision gets clear.  “It’s going to be our vision of God that determines whether we stand and whether we stand steadily and fruitfully and profitably for Christ or whether we falter like everybody else.”        

DK-234 -- Bible Study on Ezekiel - Part 2

Dr. Kinlaw is speaking about Ezekiel and that his visions kept Israel from perishing.  He was a man who’d seen God and he became a messenger for God to save Israel.  If we stick with Jesus we will find His hand will come upon us over matters that seem impossible and we will be able to do it because God is with us.  Dr. Kinlaw breaks matters down about being different and the great conflict that Christians face—being different. 

DK-235 -- Bible Study on Ezekiel - Part 3

The vision of Ezekiel is what saved Israel.  Dr. Kinlaw impresses on his listeners the need to know Christ just as Ezekiel came to know Christ through his visions.  His message instills in his listeners the access Christians have to God because of what He gave to Ezekiel through visions.  Christians don’t have to ask to have a vision of God for the vision of God is recorded in Ezekiel for us and if we read Ezekiel’s visions of God, God reveals Himself to us through His Word.

DK-236 -- He Speaks
John 1:1

 All things were made by God.  In Him was life and the life was the light of men.  Christians are not to escape this world; Christians are the light that the dark world around them needs. God put everything under Christians’ feet because Christians are made to be rulers over the works of His hands just as Adam was the one who named all of the creatures of the earth and was given dominion to do so.  Adam spoke into creation—God expects Christians to speak into creation.  God gave Christians the power of the spoken word through the Holy Ghost therefore Christians are made to have dominion over the earth through the power of Jesus.  Dr. Kinlaw’s message concludes with the question “Are you living where God speaks to you?”  God has spoken, He promises, He remembers, and He visits.  When He visits there is potential for a lost world to know Jesus Christ. 

DK-237 -- The Power of Sacrifice
Philippians 2

“The Power of Sacrifice” is a message addressing the selflessness of Christ.  The selflessness of Christ is also the message Christians are to be toward others.  Christians are to place others first just as Jesus did. Dr. Kinlaw’s message to Christians is to be totally selfless.