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- Description:
- There was no formal introduction for G. Avery Lee, but he was pastor of St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, Louisiana, and focused his ministry on college/seminary campuses. He made dedicated commitments to bettering race relations and served as Chairman of the Christian Life Commission from 1961-62. He continues his sermon from February 9, 1966, focusing on God’s release for the captives, taken from John 8:31-38, citing various examples of freedom from captivity (00:00-20:37). He then answers the question “What kind of freedom does the world desire?” with a brief summary. Firstly, they want a political freedom from political tyranny (20:38-21:05). Secondly, they want an economic freedom to be self-sustaining and independent (21:06-22:23). Thirdly, they desire educational freedom from ignorance due to little opportunity (22:24-22:51). Fourthly, they desire a medical freedom to alleviate unnecessary suffering, pain, and disease (22:52-23:33). The most basic freedom that they need, however, is spiritual freedom from natural hedonism (23:34-27:31). Lee says spiritual freedom is fundamental to all others and is on the basis of deliverance from other areas of life and forgiveness of sin, man’s greatest bondage (27:32-36:00).
- Subject:
- Freedom
- Creator:
- Lee, G. Avery and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Owner:
- archives@sebts.edu
- Location:
- Wake Forest (N.C.)
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2026
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2026
- Date Created:
- 1966-02-10
- Resource Type:
- Text and Audio
- Identifier:
- SEBTS_Chapel_G_Avery_Lee-1966-02-10
- Description:
- Jerry L. Niswonger was the pastor of Zebulon Baptist Church in Zebulon, NC. The service begins with music from 0:00-0:58. There is a word of prayer from 1:00-3:31. There is an announcement given and an introduction to the speaker from 3:43-5:15. Rev. Niswonger speaks from 5:20-22:26. Niswonger notes that Jesus takes us as we are and changes us to become better. He shares that a relationship with Christ comes with community with others.
- Creator:
- Niswonger, Jerry L. and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Owner:
- archives@sebts.edu
- Location:
- Wake Forest (N.C.)
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2026
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2026
- Date Created:
- 1964-03-06
- Resource Type:
- Audio
- Identifier:
- SEBTS_Chapel_Jerry_L_Niswonger_1964-03-06
- Description:
- The service begins with the reading of various Scriptures (00:00-00:35) and prayer (00:36-02:10). An introduction is given for Dr. Pope Alexander Duncan, the speaker, according to his character and scholarly background, and his message title is “What We May Learn from the Anabaptists.” He was Professor of Church History at SEBTS (02:11-05:02). He begins his time with three presuppositions: Anabaptists as a whole were noble, sincere Christians (05:03-07:34), Baptists find a certain spiritual kinship with the Anabaptists (07:35-08:22), and Baptists are not Anabaptists (08:23-09:17). He then makes two observations, namely that we can be most discerning about that which we can objectify, and the Anabaptists provide a group from which we can learn much objectively (09:18-11:27). The main discussion of the lecture focuses on what the Anabaptists can teach us, such as: the church is a pure and free community subject to pride and fragmentation apart from unity in Christ (11:28-19:51); church discipline should be enforced in every local assembly without invoking the arm of the state for the purpose of restoring 1st-century Christianity as opposed to reforming from the Roman Catholic Church (19:52-28:35); their devotion and consecration enabled them to rejoice even in suffering and in martyrdom, and they set their eyes on the chiliastic (thousand-year) return and reign of Christ (28:36-40:06); negatively, their stubbornness to relax certain non-essential Biblical convictions caused divisions between them and the world as well as among themselves (40:07-45:47); they taught the value of lay-leadership and the danger of uneducated and unstable leadership (45:48-46:34); and finally, they warn us of the danger of Biblicism (46:35-52:10). The service ends in prayer (52:11-52:29).
- Subject:
- Anabaptists
- Creator:
- Duncan, Pope A. (Pope Alexander), 1920-2003 and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Owner:
- archives@sebts.edu
- Location:
- Wake Forest (N.C.)
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2026
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2026
- Date Created:
- 1962-01-18
- Resource Type:
- Audio
- Identifier:
- SEBTS_Convocation_Pope_Alexander_Duncan_1962-01-18
