What Now!--Part Four--5/9/2021
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Introduction:
1. Week one, Lets work like we have never worked before because people need help.
2. Week two, we need to be prepared.
3. Week three, how to implement a state of preparedness in the church.
A. We must be willing to use what we have prepared to do.
4. This week we continue with how to implement a state of preparedness in the church.
A. We must be willing to help our fellow Christians prepare.
1. Being willing is a choice that is freely made.
A. Christ choose to be willing to do the Fathers will.
42 saying, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.”
B. He could have chose not to do the Fathers will.
52 But Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. 53 Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels?
2. Being willing is a state of mind that leads to action.
A. God sent His son with a purpose.
4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
B. Jesus’ willingness led Him to action upon God’s purpose.
5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
C. Jesus’ willingness fulfilled the work God gave Him to do.
4 I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do.
B. Now, How do we help our brothers and sisters in Christ prepare for eternity.
1. We encourage them.
2. We set an example for them.
3. We stir them up.
Body:
1. We encourage them.
A. Encouragement comes in two forms.
14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all.
1. Positive
2. Negative
B. Examples of positive forms of encouragement would be...
1. Comforting the fainthearted (1 Thess. 5:14).
12 Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,
A. This is done with the intent to heal.
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
2. Upholding the week (1 Thess. 5:14).
1 We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
3. Being patient with all (1 Thess. 5:14).
16 However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all longsuffering, as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life.
C. Encouraging sin is not a positive form of encouragement.
8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
D. Examples of negative forms of encouragement would be...
1. Warning those who are unruly (1 Thess. 5:14).
16 But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness. 17 And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort, 18 who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past; and they overthrow the faith of some.
A. God is not the author of confusion.
33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
2. Rebuking false doctrine.
3 As I urged you when I went into Macedonia—remain in Ephesus that you may charge some that they teach no other doctrine, 4 nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than godly edification which is in faith.
3. Reproving, rebuking and correcting sin.
16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. 1 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
4. Turning back a brother or sister that has wondered away from the truth.
19 Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, 20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.
2. We set an example for them.
12 Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
A. The next four verses explain how to be the example in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith and in purity.
1. We are shown in verse thirteen how to be an example in word.
13 Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
13 Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching.
2. We are shown in verses fourteen and sixteen how to be an example in conduct and in spirit.
14 Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.
16 Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
3. We are shown in verses fifteen how to be an example in faith.
15 Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all.
4. We are shown in verse sixteen how to be an example in love.
16 Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
3. We stir them up.
22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. 26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
A. In order to stir one another up we must...
1. As Christians draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith.
22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
2. As Christians hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering.
23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
3. As Christians not forsake the assembling of ourselves together.
25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
4. As Christians exhort one another, and so much more as you see the Day approaching.
25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
5. As Christians never sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth.
26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
Conclusion:
1. If we will encourage them both...
A. Negatively
B. And, Positively
2. If we will set the example for them...
A. In word
B. In conduct
C. In love
D. In spirit
E. In faith
F. and in purity.
3. And if we will stir them up to love and good works by.
A. Drawing near with a true heart in full assurance of faith.
B. Holding fast the confession of our hope without wavering.
C. Not forsake the assembling of ourselves together.
D. Exhorting one another, and so much more as you see the Day approaching.
E. never sinning willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth.
4. Then we will help our brothers and sisters in Christ prepare for eternity with God.