HOW DO YOU GET INTO THE ONE BODY, THE CHURCH
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Who established the church?
Who established the church?
Who built the church? Mt. 16:18
who purchased the church? Acts 20:28
Who’s church is it? Mt. 16:18
Who is head over the church? Eph. 5:23
What’s the foundation that the church is built on? Mt. 16:18
When was the church established? day of Pentecost when power came from on high Acts 1 & 2
What did the Lord call the church?
What did the apostles call the church?
How many churches are there?
How many churches are there?
“I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
Note: Jesus does not say churches, he says he will build his church (singular).
Note: again that he calls it “my church”
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
Christ loves his church and he gave himself up for His church?
There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling;
one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.
what is this one body that he speaks about?
And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church,
which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body.
According to scripture who is Jesus going to save? If Jesus is going to save the body, and the body is the church; then in order to be saved you must be in the church.
Acts 2:47 (NASB95)
praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved.
The Lord added to what?
The Lord added who?
Who are the saved?
So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls.
Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?”
Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
the recieved the word, repented and they were baptized. It’s the saved who are added to the church.
How are we saved?
HEAR
HEAR
How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher?
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his household, and many of the Corinthians when they heard were believing and being baptized.
BELIEVE
BELIEVE
“He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.
They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
“Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”
REPENT
REPENT
Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
“Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,
“Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;
but kept declaring both to those of Damascus first, and also at Jerusalem and then throughout all the region of Judea, and even to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds appropriate to repentance.
“I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
“Or do you suppose that those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them were worse culprits than all the men who live in Jerusalem?
“I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”
CONFESS
CONFESS
Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture he preached Jesus to him.
As they went along the road they came to some water; and the eunuch said, “Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?”
And Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” And he answered and said, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”
And he ordered the chariot to stop; and they both went down into the water, Philip as well as the eunuch, and he baptized him.
for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
BAPTIZED
BAPTIZED
buried
Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
In Water
As they went along the road they came to some water; and the eunuch said, “Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?”
And Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” And he answered and said, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”
And he ordered the chariot to stop; and they both went down into the water, Philip as well as the eunuch, and he baptized him.
When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; and the eunuch no longer saw him, but went on his way rejoicing.
“Surely no one can refuse the water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?”
And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay on for a few days.
to wash away sins
‘Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.’
Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you—not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling;
Now a Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures.
This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, being acquainted only with the baptism of John;
and he began to speak out boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
And when he wanted to go across to Achaia, the brethren encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him; and when he had arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace,
for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.
It happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper country and came to Ephesus, and found some disciples.
He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said to him, “No, we have not even heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”
And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” And they said, “Into John’s baptism.”
Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”
When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking with tongues and prophesying.
There were in all about twelve men.
How do we get in to the church, Who is in the church?
How do we get in to the church, Who is in the church?