What Now!--Part Seven--7/4/2021
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Introduction:
1. In week one, lets work like we have never worked before because people need help.
2. In week two, we need to be prepared.
3. In three through seven we started talking about how to implement a state of preparedness in the church.
A. Week three, we must be willing to use what we have prepared to do.
B. Week four, we must be willing to help our fellow Christians prepare.
C. Weeks 5,6,7 we must be willing to help non-Christians understand their need to be prepared.
C . In weeks 5,6,7, we talked about the first step in in helping a non-Christian understand their need to be prepared which is recognizing a non-christian this is accomplished by knowing how to recognize a christian.
2. In week 8, we started talking about the second step in helping a non-Christian understand their need to be prepared which is—as Christians we must recognize the non-Christian (Or lost individual).
A. Last week, Recognizing sound doctrine and compare their doctrine to the word of God.
B. This we will discuss recognizing inappropriate life styles and comparing them to the Word of God.
4. I want to make it plain before I start that I am not telling anyone to tell anyone that they are going to hell.
A. That is not the intent of this sermon.
1. The only intent of this sermon is to recognize and try to help.
Body:
1. Recognizing inappropriate life styles and comparing them to the Word of God.
A. Living in fornication.
1. Fornication is a real problem in the world.
A. People believe that they have to live with someone before they get married so that they can get to know them but this is a sinful life style.
4 Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
B. The bible say to flee sexual immorality.
18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
1. The KJV say fornication.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
C. The bible say to not keep company with a brother who is a fornicator.
11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person. 12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”
1. The great thing is that this does not mean sexually immoral people of the world.
9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
B. Alternative life styles.
1. This is a real problem in many different ways as well.
A. Tolerance of sin is becoming a real problem.
14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?
B. There is only one life style in this context that is biblically correct.
1. Marriage between a man and a woman.
5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?
2. Paul told the the church at Ephesus he was speaking concerning Christ and the Church.
31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
3. Denominationalism.
A. This is a real problem because the very word itself denotes something that is contrary to the doctrine of Christ.
9 Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; 11 for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.
1. A denomination is a part of something bigger.
2. In the religious world it means a subgroup of specific religion such as...
A. Lutheran
B. Methodist
C. Baptist
3. All of these groups make Christianity divided and this is contrary to doctrine of Christ.
A. Four times in one prayer Jesus prays for unity between believers.
11 Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.
21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.
23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
B. Paul would plead with the church at Corinth to listen to Jesus’ prayer and be perfectly joined together.
10 Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
1. This is not the only place that Paul would plead for unity or oneness.
A. To the church at Philippi Paul would record.
1 Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, 2 fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
B. To the Church at Rome Paul would record.
16 Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion.
C. Paul would remind Corinth of this concept in the 2 Corinthians.
11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Become complete. Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
D. Peter would tell the pilgrims of the Dispersion.
8 Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous;
Conclusion:
1. I want to reiterate the fact that I am not telling anyone to tell anyone they are going to hell.
A. The point of this lesson is to recognize the lost so that they can be shown the love of God.
B. It is the point of this lesson to encourage members of the church to love their neighbor.
C. It is the point of this lesson to help Christian recognize sin for what sin is—death.
D. It is the point of this lesson to help lead people to the only life style that is worth living that of being a Christian.
2. I want to conclude this lesson with a passage about what God our Savior desires for all men.
1 Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.