What Is The Fear Of God

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What Is The Fear Of God?
Tremble
Trust
Submit
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Liberal What is it?

• not literal or strict LOOSE BROAD-MINDED
  especially not bound by authoritarianism,
  orthodoxy, or traditional forms(M-Webster
  Online Dictionary)
• Liberalism takes a loose construction on law, to
  provide the highest level of freedom.

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Liberalism Minimizes

• Absolute TruthJn. 831-32
• Need For ObedienceMt. 721 Jn. 1514
• Reality of Sin1 Jn. 34

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Liberalism Maximizes

• SelfJudges 2125
• Feelings1 Kings 1233
• RationalizationMatt. 197-9

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Postmodern Truth

• Truth is relative, not fixed or absolute
  subjective, not objective.
• Truth is not discovered ? but constructed.
• One can never know something without question.
• What is true for one person may not be true for
  another.

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Postmodern Truth

• One so-called truth is as valid as another.
• Individuals and cultures construct truths that
  work for them.
• In postmodernism spin is everything. Truth is
  not knowable, at least not absolutely knowable.

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2 Timothy 42-4
preach the WORD be ready in season and out of
season reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great
patience and instruction. For the time will come
when they will not endure SOUND DOCTRINE but
wanting to have their ears tickled, they will
accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance
to their own desires, and will turn away their
ears from the truth and will turn aside to
myths. 
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Bible Hermeneutics
1 Pet. 411 If anyone speaks, let him speak as
the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him
do it as with the ability which God supplies,
that in all things God may be glorified through
Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the
dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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Bible Hermeneutics
1 Cor. 46 Now these things, brethren, I have
figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for
your sakes, so that in us you may learn not to
exceed what is written, so that no one of you
will become arrogant in behalf of one against
the other.
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Bible Hermeneutics
1 Tim. 63-4 If anyone advocates a different
doctrine and does not agree with sound words,
those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the
doctrine conforming to godliness, he is
conceited and understands nothing.
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A New Hermeneutic
Is the activity or methodology under
contemplation consistent with the person and
work of Jesus Christ? If we do this, will the
people who see it think we reveal Christ? Will
we be doing what people would expect to see
Christ doing in this situation? (Rubel
Shelly Randall J. Harris, The Second
Incarnation, p. 19)
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A New Hermeneutic
This principle has broad consequences for
ecclesiology. It says, for example, that the
church need not have either explicit mandate or
permission for everything it wishes to do. The
church may confidently ground its activities of
compassion and service in the character of its
head. (Ibid., p. 29)
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APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY

• THE FOUNDATION OF RESTORATION THINKING

1 Pet. 411 If anyone speaks, let him speak as
the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him
do it as with the ability which God supplies,
that in all things God may be glorified through
Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the
dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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The Apostolic Commission

• Acts 11-2 The first account I composed,
  Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and
  teach, until the day when He was taken up to
  heaven, after He had by the Holy Spirit given
  orders to the apostles whom He had chosen.

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Apostolic Credentials

• a?p?st????
• ap-os-tol-os
• A delegate specifically an ambassador of the
  Gospel officially a commissioner of Christ
  (apostle), (with miraculous powers) - apostle,
  messenger, he that is sent.

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The Importance of Pauls Apostolic Credentials

• 1 Cor. 91 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle?
  Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my
  work in the Lord?

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The Importance of Pauls Apostolic Credentials
2 Cor. 1211-12 I have become a fool in
boasting you have compelled me. For I ought to
have been commended by you for in nothing was I
behind the most eminent apostles, though I am
nothing. Truly the signs of an apostle were
accomplished among you with all perseverance, in
signs and wonders and mighty deeds.
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The Importance of Pauls Apostolic Credentials
2 Cor. 1113 For such are false apostles,
deceitful workers, transforming themselves into
apostles of Christ.
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APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY

• 1. THE APOSTLES HAD THE AUTHORITY TO SPEAK FOR GOD

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The Order of Revelation

• Eph. 33-5 how that by revelation He made
  known to me the mystery (as I have briefly
  written already, by which, when you read, you may
  understand my knowledge in the mystery of
  Christ), which in other ages was not made known
  to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed
  by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets

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The Order of Revelation

• Heb. 21-4 Therefore we must give the more
  earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we
  drift away. For if the word spoken through angels
  proved steadfast, and every transgression and
  disobedience received a just reward, how shall we
  escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which
  at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and
  was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, God
  also bearing witness both with signs and wonders,
  with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy
  Spirit, according to His own will?

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The Order of Revelation

• 2 Pet. 31-2 Beloved, I now write to you this
  second epistle (in both of which I stir up your
  pure minds by way of reminder), that you may be
  mindful of the words which were spoken before by
  the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us,
  the apostles of the Lord and Savior.

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APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY

• 1. THE APOSTLES HAD THE AUTHORITY TO SPEAK FOR
  GOD
• 2. THE APOSTOLIC TEACHING WAS FOLLOWED

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Apostles Bound Gods Will

• Matt. 1618-19 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. I
  will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven
  and whatever you bind on earth shall have been
  bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth
  shall have been loosed in heaven.

Matt. 1818 Truly I say to you, whatever you
bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven
and whatever you loose on earth shall have been
loosed in heaven.
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Apostles Revealed The Gospel

• Acts 237-42 Now when they heard this, they
  were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the
  rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what
  shall we do? Then Peter said to them, Repent,
  and let every one of you be baptized in the name
  of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and
  you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
  Then those who gladly received his word were
  baptized and that day about three thousand souls
  were added to them. And they continued
  steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and
  fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in
  prayers.

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APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY

• 1. THE APOSTLES HAD THE AUTHORITY TO SPEAK FOR
  GOD
• 2. THE APOSTOLIC TEACHING WAS FOLLOWED
• 3. CHURCHES WERE SET IN ORDER BY APOSTOLIC
  AUTHORITY

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Apostolic Foundationof the Church

• Eph. 219-20 Now, therefore, you are no longer
  strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens
  with the saints and members of the household of
  God, having been built on the foundation of the
  apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being
  the chief cornerstone.

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Setting the Churches in Order

• Tit. 11-3 Paul, a bondservant of God and an
  apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith
  of Gods elect and the acknowledgment of the
  truth which accords with godliness, in hope of
  eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised
  before time began, but has in due time manifested
  His word through preaching, which was committed
  to me according to the commandment of God our
  Savior. For this reason I left you in Crete,
  that you should set in order the things that are
  lacking.

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Setting the Churches in Order

• 1 Tim. 314-15 These things I write to you,
  though I hope to come to you shortly but if I am
  delayed, I write so that you may know how you
  ought to conduct yourself in the house of God,
  which is the church of the living God, the pillar
  and ground of the truth.

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APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY

• 1. THE APOSTLES HAD THE AUTHORITY TO SPEAK FOR
  GOD
• 2. THE APOSTOLIC TEACHING WAS FOLLOWED
• 3. CHURCHES WERE SET IN ORDER BY APOSTOLIC
  AUTHORITY
• 4. GOD INTENDED THAT APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY BE
  FOLLOWED BY SUCCEEDING GENRATIONS

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The Continuing Significance of Apostolic Authority

• 2 Tim. 22 And the things that you have heard
  from me among many witnesses, commit these to
  faithful men who will be able to teach others
  also.

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The Continuing Significance of Apostolic Authority

• Jude 117-19 But you, beloved, remember the
  words which were spoken before by the apostles of
  our Lord Jesus Christ how they told you that
  there would be mockers in the last time who would
  walk according to their own ungodly lusts. These
  are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not
  having the Spirit.

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The Continuing Significance of Apostolic Authority

• 2 Tim. 113 Hold fast the pattern of sound
  words which you have heard from me, in faith and
  love which are in Christ Jesus.

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The Continuing Significance of Apostolic Authority

• 1Tim. 63-4 If anyone advocates a different
  doctrine and does not agree with sound words,
  those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the
  doctrine conforming to godliness, he is
  conceited and understands nothing.

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APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY

• 1. THE APOSTLES HAD THE AUTHORITY TO SPEAK FOR
  GOD
• 2. THE APOSTOLIC TEACHING WAS FOLLOWED
• 3. CHURCHES WERE SET IN ORDER BY APOSTOLIC
  AUTHORITY
• 4. GOD INTENDED THAT APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY BE
  FOLLOWED
• 5. FIRST CENTURY CHRISTIANS UNDERSTOOD APOSTOLIC
  AUTHORITY

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I Clement (circa 95 AD)

• 1Clem 71-2 - These things, dearly beloved, we
  write, not only as admonishing you, but also as
  putting ourselves in remembrance. For we are in
  the same lists, and the same contest awaits us.
  Wherefore let us forsake idle and vain thoughts
  and let us conform to the glorious and venerable
  rule which hath been handed down to us and let
  us see what is good and what is pleasant and what
  is acceptable in the sight of Him that made us.

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I Clement (circa 95 AD)

• 1Clem. 421-2 The Apostles received the Gospel
  for us from the Lord Jesus Christ Jesus Christ
  was sent forth from God. So then Christ is from
  God, and the Apostles are from Christ. Both
  therefore came of the will of God in the
  appointed order.

THE FORMATION OF THE CANON WAS BASED ON AN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY
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APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY

• 1. THE APOSTLES HAD THE AUTHORITY TO SPEAK FOR
  GOD
• 2. THE APOSTOLIC TEACHING WAS FOLLOWED
• 3. CHURCHES WERE SET IN ORDER BY APOSTOLIC
  AUTHORITY
• 4. GOD INTENDED THAT APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY BE
  FOLLOWED
• 5. FIRST CENTURY CHRISTIANS UNDERSTOOD APOSTOLIC
  AUTHORITY
• 6. THE APOSTLES TAUGHT THE SAME THINGS IN ALL THE
  CHURCHES

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I Cor. 417 For this reason I have sent
Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful
son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways
in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.
UNIFORMITY IN N. T. CHURCHES FOLLOWING APOSTOLIC
INTENT
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I Cor. 717 But as God has distributed to each
one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him
walk. And so I ordain in all the churches.
UNIFORMITY IN N. T. CHURCHES FOLLOWING APOSTOLIC
INTENT
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I Cor. 161 Now concerning the collection for
the saints, as I have given orders to the
churches of Galatia, so you must do also
UNIFORMITY IN N. T. CHURCHES FOLLOWING APOSTOLIC
INTENT
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I Cor. 1116 But if any man seem to be
contentious, we have no such custom, neither the
churches of God.
UNIFORMITY IN N. T. CHURCHES FOLLOWING APOSTOLIC
INTENT
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APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY

• 1. THE APOSTLES HAD THE AUTHORITY TO SPEAK FOR
  GOD
• 2. THE APOSTOLIC TEACHING WAS FOLLOWED
• 3. CHURCHES WERE SET IN ORDER BY APOSTOLIC
  AUTHORITY
• 4. GOD INTENDED THAT APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY BE
  FOLLOWED
• 5. FIRST CENTURY CHRISTIANS UNDERSTOOD APOSTOLIC
  AUTHORITY
• 6. THE APOSTLES TAUGHT THE SAME THINGS IN ALL THE
  CHURCHES
• 7. WE ASK QUESTIONS AND LOOK FOR APOSTOLIC ANSWERS

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A New Testament Church

• An organization Phil. 11 Acts 1423 I Tim.
  31ff Titus 15ff.
• An Assembly Heb. 1025 I Cor. 1115
• Taught Acts 207 I Cor. 1415
• Prayed Acts 125 I Cor. 1419
• Sang Eph. 519 Col. 316
• Lords Supper on 1st Day Acts 207 I Cor.
  1120
• Gave on 1st Day I Cor. 161,2 Acts 244-45
• Treasury Acts 51-4
• Relieved Needy Saints Acts 434-35 1129-30
  I Cor. 161
• Supported Preaching 2 Cor. 118 Phil. 415-16
• Disciplined Unruly Members I Cor. 51-5

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Have You Obeyed The Gospel?
Hear the Gospel (Rom. 1017) Believe that Jesus
is the Son of God (Acts 837) Repent of Your
Sins (Acts 238) Confess that Jesus is the Son
of God (Acts 837) Be Baptized for Forgiveness
of Sins (Acts 238) Live Faithfully until You
Die (Rev. 210)
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