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ALL HE WANTS IS YOU
ALL HE WANTS IS YOU
NO ONE ELSE WILL DO
NOT JUST A PARTHE WANTS ALL OF
Y0UR HEARTALL HE WANTS IS
ALL OF YOUALL HE WANTS IS
YOU.
ALL HE WANTS IS ME
UN-RE-SERV-ED-LYNOT JUST AS PARTHE WANTS ALL OF
MY HEARTALL HE WANTS IS
ALL OF MEALL HE WANTS IS
ME
WOW!
WHEN IS IT RIGHT NOT TO BE NICE?
Evangelical Manifesto
Oz Ginness wrote a book several years ago called “A Call to Civility”
He felt nobody listened…. So he organized an Evangelical Manifesto… got famous Evangelicals to work on it for three years… and in May 2008 released it with big fanfare from Washington DC.
It was “light” on what Evangelicals believe … and “Heavy” on being civil in society.
Civility
The Manifesto encourages Evangelical preachers to not be “confrontive” ... But gracious and civil as they address national concerns… (like abortion, gay marriages, euthanasia, et al)/
He purpose seems to desire “Evangelicals” to separate from “Fundamentalists” (who take the scripture literally). Note: Many “extreme” liberal theologians signed on to the Manifesto.
The Manifesto was received by most as a big thud/dud.
Quote by Phil Johnson
“one of the greatest dangers of the political activism of the so-called “religious right” is this: It fosters a tendency to make enemies out of people who are supposed to be our mission-field, even while we’re forming political alliances with Pharisees and false teachers.”
When in DOUBT“WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?”
TO A SEARCHING SOUL: KIND, GRACIOUS, LOVING, CARING….
TO FALSE TEACHERS/LEADERS … (e.g. PHARISEES, SCRIBES, SADDUCEES)
CONFRONTIVE
JESUS CONFRONTATION WITH THE PHARISEES, SCRIBES, AND SADDUCEES
INTENSITY
YEARS OF MINISTRY
LETS READ THE PASSAGE TO STUDY THIS MORNING
GALATIANS 2: 11-14
WOW!
WHEN IS IT RIGHT NOT TO BE NICE?
BACKGROUND
AFTER THE STONING OF STEPHEN (AND MANY OTHERS) … ACTS 7 LARGE QUANTITY OF BELIEVERS LEFT JERUSALEM
FOR ALEXANDERIA ANTIOCH ROME
ANTIOCH
REVIEW (2 wks ago)
Gal 2: 9 “AND WHEN JAMES, CEPHAS (PETER) AND JOHN WHO SEEMED TO BE PILLARS PRECEIVED THE GRACE THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN TO ME (Paul) …..”
PETER AND JOHN WERE A____________THREE “JAMES” IN SCRIPTUREACCORDING TO ACTS 12:2 JAMES (THE BROTHER
OF JOHN … ) WAS THE FIRST APOSTLE TO BE MARTYRED (A.D. 46)
GALATIANS WAS WRITTEN ABOUT A.D. 50WHO IS THIS JAMES … WHO WAS A PILLAR?
JAMES
OLDEST ½ BROTHER OF JESUS (Gal. 1:19) AFTER RESURRECTION, JESUS APPEARED TO HIM (1
Cor. 15:7) HE WAS LEADER OF JERUSALEM CHURCH (ALWAYS
MENTIONED FIRST in LISTINGS) plus GAVE SUMMARY JUDGEMENT AT FIRST CHURCH COUNCIL AFTER ….PETER, PAUL & BARNABUS HAD SPOKEN (Acts 15:12-21)
TRADITION INDICATES THAT PETER AND JOHN APPOINTED JAMES
WROTE EPISTLE/LETTER OF “JAMES” TO THE “DISPERSED” .. PROBABLY THINKING OF MAJOR CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES AT ALEXANDERIA, ANTIOCH, AND ROME
REMEMBER: THERE ARE 3 GROUPS IN THIS WORLD
JEWS
CHURCH
GENTILES
SATAN’S STRATEGY
GET “JEWS” IN the CHURCH TO LIVE LIKE “JEWS” (I.E. BACK UNDER THE CEREMONIAL LAWS)
GET THE “GENTILES” IN THE CHURCH TO GO BACK AND LIVE LIKE “GENTILES” I.E. 2 PETER 2:13 “…THEY COUNT IT PLEASURE TO
REVEL IN THE DAYTIME. THEY ARE BLOTS AND BLEMISHES, REVELING IN THEIR DECEPTIONS, WHILE THEY FEAST WITH YOU. They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed…….” et al
SATAN’S PURPOSE
CONFUSE/DESTROY THE DOCTRINE OF THE GOSPEL…
AS “HE SOWS FALSE DOCTRINE” … HE MASKERADES AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT… (read 2 Cor. 11:13-15) .. Acts 20: 29-30 I.E. EATING SEPARATELY SEEMS LIKE SUCH A LITTLE
THING Satan used the Phar./et al to attack Christ
SHOULD IT BE CONFRONTED?J. MacArthur’s latest book (pg 70)
SEEMS LIKE SUCH A SIMPLE THINGWHICH TABLE YOU EAT ATGENTILE TABLE JEWISH TABLE
In Paul’s Eyes
Peter was attacking the gospel of GRACE by his behavior
Actually it was a case of what Peter was NOT doing
Remember, after Peters experience at Simon’s house in Joppa, Peter had begun eating (fellowshipping) with Gentile Christians (Peter understood the PLAN OF GOD FOR THE CHURCH)
SATAN STILL AT IT -- movies
Indoctrination…The Twilight Saga
(Remember Satan and the Demons appear as angels of light)In these movies witches and goblins and
war wolfs… are young attractive individualsIn Australia, young people are secretly forming covens….
God’s WORD tells us to strongly avoid
Paul Calls Peter to Rememberwhat James taught
“Faith without works is dead”…. i.e. genuine faith will ALWAYS result in life changing behavior.
(you say that you believe the gospel… so do the demons … they know it better than you, the difference is …. They have made no commitment to the truth (TO TRUSTING WHAT GOD SAID) … so they are eternally lost.)
(or saying it another way, your actions with let people know what you really believe… no behavioral change, YOUR faith IS NOT GENUINE)
Paul Spoke Directly to Peter in Front of All
Why? It was not just Peter that was not putting their faith to proper behavior … it was the whole JEWISH PORTION OF THE Antioch Church….
DID THE ANTIOCH CHURCH CHANGE?DID THE ANTIOCH CHURCH UNDERSTAND
THAT “IN CHRIST”, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JEW AND GENTILE… ALL ARE ONE?
Change in ANTIOCH BEHAVIOR
FIRST PLACE MENTIONED IN ACTS (11:19-20) WHERE JEWISH CHRISTIANS PREACHED THE GOSPEL TO GENTILES
NOT ONLY WAS THE CHURCH AT ANTIOCH, THE FIRST RECORD IN SCRIPTURE TO BRING JEWISH AND GENTILE CHRISTIANS TOGETHER IN WORSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP, BUT AS FAR AS IS KNOWN, IT WAS THE FIRST CHURCH TO SEND MISSIONARIES TO PREACH SPECIFICALLY TO GENTILES (ACTS 13:1-3)
FIRST CALLED “CHRISTIANS” AT ANTIOCH .. THEIR BEHAVIOR SHOWED
RESULT
CONTENDING FOR “THE FAITH” PROBABLY CAUSED GREAT “OFFENSE” … BUT THE END RESULT WAS AWESOME…. (ESPECIALLY SINCE MOST OF US HERE IN THIS ROOM ARE GENTILES).
THIS GOSPEL WAS BELIEVED BY MANY… AND PASSED DOWN GENERATION-TO-GENERATION TO YOU AND ME.
HOME CHURCH
PRAISE GOD FOR PAUL
CONTENDED FOR THE TRUTH… BY HIS LIFE (BEHAVIOR) AND WORDS … THO COST SOMETIMES VERY HIGH IT COST JESUS CHRIST HIS LIFE IT COST TEN OF THE APOSTLES THEIR LIVES
FRANCIS OF ASSISI: “PREACH THE GOSPEL ALL OF THE TIME, IF NECESSARY, USE WORDS”
So what?
WHEN IS IT RIGHT TO CONFRONT? PEOPLE WHO ACTIVELY TEACH SERIOUS ERROR –
ESPECIALLY DOCTRINES THAT CORRUPT VITAL GOSPEL TRUTH (2 JOHN 7-11)
DISCERNMENT IS EVERY CHRISTIANS DUTY: “TEST ALL THINGS, HOLD FAST WHAT IS GOOD. ABSTAIN FROM EVERY FORM OF EVIL”.. (I THESS 5:21-22)
JUDGE WITH RIGHTEOUS JUDGEMENT (John7: 24)
`JESUS FINAL WORD TO THE CHURCHES…. REVELATION 1-3
The silencing of false teachers was still one of our Lord’s primary concerns… even from HIS throne in heaven. HE addressed seven churches. ONLY two of the churches (Smyrna and Philadelphia), were commended for their faithfulness without any qualification or hint of rebuke. All five other churches received various measures of rebuke, based on how corrupt, unfaithful or spiritually lethargic they were.
A prominent theme in practically all Jesus messages to those seven churches is the issue of how they responded to false teachers and rank heretics in their midst.
Whether we like it or not
FINALLY 1st QUOTE FROM SPURGEON
Sermon on September 7, 1867“the Christian serves his Lord simply out of
gratitude, he has no salvation to gain, no heaven to lose… now out of love to the God who chose him, and who gave so great a price for his redemption, he desires to lay out himself entirely in his Master’s service… The child of God works (changed behavior) not for life, but from life, he does not work to be saved, he works because he is saved.”
Another Quote
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AMEN
AMEN