Teaching: The Truth We Hold Onto

A Disciple-Making Mindset Pt. 2 - Making Disciples

1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Matthew 28:19-20

Thesis: When someone gets saved, after we have gone and baptized, and they have been baptized, we teach them to stand on the Gospel, study the Scriptures, and serve in God’s grace.

Introduction

Why are we to teach them? (Jesus command? Why give the command? Why would He be concerned about us sharing with other about having a relationship with Him if He didn’t want one?)

What’s the basis for teaching (what is our motivation/motivational source? Love or logic?)

As we make disciples, we teach them IN love (in all we teach, we teach in love) and we teach them TO love (teach them to live out the love of Christ)

[Story Pastor Robby shared this morning of video of guy coming back to Christ through the man sharing with him about Jesus’ love for Him]

What do we teach?

The Gospel and how to hold fast to it (the fullness of the Gospel is seen throughout the whole story of the Bible)…

How do we teach?

By using the Scriptures…

Why do we teach?

Because God, like Paul and the other apostles, has been gracious to us and we are who we are because God has done what He did

There are three truths we are to teach… (“Teach them to…”)

Stand On The Gospel (v. 1-4)

Romans 1:16 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.”

The process of how the Gospel goes forth

Preached, recieved, saved, stand

“stand” - maintain, establish (Logos)

“vain” - without reason; with no result; for no purpose (Logos)

“first importance”

Paul also received the Gospel

We too first received

Paul lays out the Gospel

Application:

This is the very first thing we teach a disciple to do, make their foundation the Gospel. They’ve done that in salvation so we make sure they know it and are able to communicate it.

How do you know you know something? Can you communicate it to someone else (sharing…)

Study The Scriptures (v. 3-8)

Psalm 119:160 “The sum of Your word is truth, And every one of Your righteous ordinances is everlasting.”

“according to the Scriptures”

We teach them the Bible

Is. 53; Ps. 22

Paul lays out the appearances of Jesus, giving validity to the Scriptures fulfillment of OT prophecies

“untimely born” - not with Christ during His earthly ministry

Application:

We teach them to study the Scriptures because that is how they grow in their knowledge of God (love over logic)… (They will learn eventually…)

Serve In God’s Grace (v. 9-11)

1 Peter 4:10–11 “As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”

We are only able to serve and labor for Jesus because of His grace

Paul considers himself unworthy to be called an apostle, but he is one because of the grace of God

Paul knows his past but he is not defined by it…

The grace of God

“I am what I am” - Paul’s identity, where he is now compared to where he was is only because of God’s grace

The Bible Knowledge Commentary 15:10

“his past was simply a backdrop on which to display the grace of God” - John Walvoord and Roy Zuck

“labor”

The Bible Knowledge Commentary 15:10

He had worked harder than any of the other apostles, as he traveled more, suffered more opposition, wrote more New Testament epistles, and founded more churches. Yet Paul knew and ministered with the recognition that it was not his power but God’s (2:4–5) which produced results (3:6).

Paul attributes all of it to the grace of God

Without God’s grace, where would we be…?

What matters is that someone proclaimed and someone believed…

Application:

We serve in the grace of God because its the only way we can serve… (no grace = no service [maybe in appearance but not in the spirit]

Conclusion

What do we teach?

The Gospel and how to hold fast to it (the fullness of the Gospel is seen throughout the whole story of the Bible)…

How do we teach?

By using the Scriptures…

Why do we teach?

Because God, like Paul and the other apostles, has been gracious to us and we are who we are because God has done what He did

Making disciples involves sharing as we go, baptizing when a disciple is made, and teaching them to obey God’s commands entirely.

Announcements:

2 more STRIVE’s

Dinner next week (off for Thanksgiving)

Building and loading shoeboxes

Packing Party - Sat. at 10am in the gym

Loading them up Sunday in church trailer after LG

Proud Christian t-shirt signup (1 week)

Signup posted on Social Media

Walk Through Bethlehem (Dec. 17)

4 Shepherds

Set up team Tuesday night (Dec. 16

Dinner provided

5:30pm

Tear Down Team