Prayer Service 10-25-23
Sermon • Submitted • Presented
0 ratings
· 2 viewsNotes
Transcript
Opening Prayer.
Supplications First.
Paul Teasdale: In Hospice Care
Amber (Shalimar’s friend): Heart Trouble
Layce’s Dad and Brother (Hugh and Travis)
Ongoing Health Needs: Luke Walters, Mark Hill, Danny Williams, Gale Jenkins, Sonya Picon, Makenna Cook, Ty Benton, Hope Sanders, Allen Garver, Randy Young.
Those affected by wars in Israel and Ukraine
Wisdom, Fear of the Lord for our leaders
Protection of the “innocent”
Repentance for the nations!
Five Solas
Five Solas
Remember this summary from Steve Lawson
In time, the message of the Reformers became encapsulated in five slogans known as the solas of the Reformation:
sola Scriptura (“Scripture alone”), solus Christus (“Christ alone”), sola gratia (“grace alone”), sola fide (“faith alone”), and soli Deo gloria (“the glory of God alone”).
The first of these, sola Scriptura, was the defining benchmark of the movement. - Steve Lawson
Sola Scriptura
Sola Scriptura
When it comes to religious authority...
…you basically have 3 options
1.) The Authority of Scripture as Ultimate
Sola Scriptura
2.) The Interpretive Authority of that Scripture by the church
De facto Sola Ecclessia
3.) The authority of human reason.
James Montgomery Boice explains the Reformed position:
“The Bible alone is our ultimate authority—not the pope, not the church, not the traditions of the church or church councils, still less personal intimations or subjective feelings, but Scripture only.” — JMB
Always been the way for God’s people:
Deuteronomy 4:2 (ESV)
2 You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.
Deuteronomy 12:32 (ESV)
32 “Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.
(Next verse was about a false prophet...
…who leads astray from the Word)
I think we made it to the NT:
-Remember acts 17.
Acts 17:10–11 (ESV)
10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue.
11 Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
The Apostles (who did have Revelatory authority)...
…commending the practice of Sola Scriptura!
1 Corinthians 4:1–2 (ESV)
1 This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
2 Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
Faithful to what?
1 Corinthians 4:6 (ESV)
6 I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.
The antidote to sectarian division...
…it the primacy of the Word of God.
Galatians 1:8–9 (ESV)
8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.
9 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
2 Corinthians 11:3–4 (ESV)
3 But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
4 For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
Jude 3 (ESV)
3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
-We have a clear...
Refutation of Sola Ecclessia...
Affirmation of Sola Scriptura, in...
Mark 7:5–13 (ESV)
5 And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?”
6 And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “ ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
7 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
8 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”
9 And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!
10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’
11 But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban” ’ (that is, given to God)—
12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,
13 thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
So, wherein does the ULTIMATE authority lie?
In the Word of God Alone.
Introduction to Justification
Introduction to Justification
Solus Christus (Christ alone)
Sola Gratia (Grace alone)
Sola Fide (Faith alone)
Doctrines of sin and salvation
Sproul explains the need for reformation:
The reigning theology of the day had minimized sin to sins, making the issue one of quantity.
The prescription then would be to store up merits (graces) alongside of demerits (sins).
The stain of original sin was believed to be removed by the sacrament of infant baptism.
Then sins committed through life could be dealt with through the sacrament of penance, by obtaining indulgences, and by being purified after death in purgatory.
It was precisely the abuse of indulgences in the early 1500s that led Luther to pick up his mallet in protest.
As Luther continued reading Scripture, especially Romans, he learned that our problem far outpaces sins in the quantity.
We are sinners at the root (radix in Latin).
No matter how “saintly” we might act, we can never overcome our utter unrighteousness in the sight of a holy and righteous God.
Sin is both quantitative (a matter of sins I commit) and qualitative (I am a sinner at the root). — Sproul
He goes on:
As Luther continued to read Paul, he also learned that grace is not quantitative either. It, too, is qualitative.
The key text for Luther is Rom. 3:21–26, which teaches that the righteousness that God demands of us is one that we cannot muster.
Rather, it is the righteousness that Christ accomplished for us through his active and passive obedience in his life and in his death on the cross.
Luther liked to call it an “alien righteousness” because it is apart from us and comes to us through Christ alone.
We cannot earn it; it is precisely because this righteousness comes through Christ alone that we receive it only by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone — Sproul
Let’s look at Luther’s text:
21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—
22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
A great summary of these truths is in:
1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Prayer of Adoration
Prayer of Adoration