The Cross of Christ is Our Foundation

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The Cross of Christ is Our Foundation

• Why is it that we do not use instruments of music
  in our worship?

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The Cross of Christ is Our Foundation

• Why is it that we do not use instruments of music
  in our worship?
• The foundation of all we do is the cross of
  Christ. (Gal 220)

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The Cross of Christ is Our Foundation

• Galatians 220 (NKJV) - I have been crucified
  with Christ it is no longer I who live, but
  Christ lives in me and the life which I now live
  in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God,
  who loved me and gave Himself for me.

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The Cross of Christ is Our Foundation

• When you have personally been crucified then
  whenever you hear of the cross of Christ it is
  significant.

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The Cross of Christ is Our Foundation

• When you have personally been crucified then
  whenever you hear of the cross of Christ it is
  significant.
• There are many within churches who have never
  been crucified and, as a result, are not
  Christians and have no understanding or real
  Christianity. (Gal 614)

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The Cross of Christ is Our Foundation

• Galatians 614 (NKJV)- But God forbid that I
  should boast except in the cross of our Lord
  Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been
  crucified to me, and I to the world.

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The Cross of Christ is Our Foundation

• The stand of the cross will not be popular with
  other religious views. (Gal 612)

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The Cross of Christ is Our Foundation

• Galatians 612 (NKJV) - As many as desire to make
  a good showing in the flesh, these would compel
  you to be circumcised, only that they may not
  suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

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The Cross of Christ is Our Foundation

• The cross will bring clarity between the will of
  Christ and the desires of worldly religion.

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The Cross of Christ is Our Foundation

• The crucified man will stand where the worldly
  Christian will seek a place to
  hide for the sake of peace and unity.

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The Cross of Christ is Our Foundation

• The crucified man will stand where the worldly
  Christian will seek a place to
  hide for the sake of peace and unity.
• I beg you to be crucified! You will be surprised
  where it will lead you.

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The Cross of Christ is Our Foundation

• The crucified man will stand where the worldly
  Christian will seek a place to
  hide for the sake of peace and unity.
• I beg you to be crucified! You will be surprised
  where it will lead you.
• The question of our worship to God is clearly a
  cross issue. Finding fellowship
  with God and knowing His will is entirely defined
  by the Cross.

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• God has always used the word covenant to
  describe all relationships to Him.

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• God has always used the word covenant to
  describe all relationships to Him.
• diatheke - 1) a disposition, arrangement, of any
  sort, which one wishes to be valid, the last
  disposition which one makes of his earthly
  possessions after his death, a testament or will
  2) a compact, a covenant, a testament 2a)
  God's covenant with Noah, etc.

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• Why was a covenant so significant to Noah? (Gen
  618)

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• Genesis 618 (NKJV) - But I will establish My
  covenant with you and you shall go into the
  arkyou, your sons, your wife, and your sons
  wives with you.

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• God has always required a shedding of blood in
  order for a relationship to exist with
  Him. (Heb 918, 22-23)

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• Hebrews 918 (NKJV) - Therefore not even the
  first covenant was dedicated without blood.

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• Hebrews 922-23 (NKJV) - And according to the law
  almost all things are purified with blood, and
  without shedding of blood there is no
  remission.23 Therefore it was necessary that the
  copies of the things in the heavens should be
  purified with these, but the heavenly things
  themselves with better sacrifices than these.

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• As the Jews has a covenant that defined their
  relationship with God, we as Christians have a
  better covenant based upon the blood shed at the
  cross of Christ. (Heb 86)

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• Hebrews 86 (NKJV) - But now He has obtained a
  more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also
  Mediator of a better covenant, which was
  established on better promises.

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• Did you remember the blood of the covenant when
  you partook of the Lords supper? (Mt
  2628-29 1 Cor 1124-25)

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• Matthew 2628-29 (NKJV) - For this is My blood of
  the new covenant, which is shed for many for the
  remission of sins. 29 But I say to you, I will
  not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on
  until that day when I drink it new with you in My
  Fathers kingdom.

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• 1 Corinthians 1124-25 (NKJV) - and when He had
  given thanks, He broke it and said, Take, eat
  this is My body which is broken for you do this
  in remembrance of Me. 25 In the same manner He
  also took the cup after supper, saying, This cup
  is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as
  often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• The covenant is extensive and complete. Both the
  shedding of Christs blood and the
  delivery of the covenant was a once for all
  event. (Heb 926-28)

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• Hebrews 926-28 (NKJV) - He then would have had
  to suffer often since the foundation of the
  world but now, once at the end of the ages, He
  has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of
  Himself. 27And as it is appointed for men to die
  once, but after this the judgment,

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• 28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of
  many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will
  appear a second time, apart from sin, for
  salvation.

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• How many of you would fall for one that claimed
  that a new sacrifice for our sins needs to be
  made?

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• How many of you would fall for one that claimed
  that a new sacrifice for our sins needs to be
  made?
• There are three things in this verse that are
  once for all, that is, they will never
  be repeated or added to.

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• The delivery of the covenant was also a once for
  all event. (Jude 3)

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• Jude 3 (NKJV) - Beloved, while I was very
  diligent to write to you concerning our common
  salvation, I found it necessary to write to you
  exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith
  which was once for all delivered to the saints.

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• It is in this body of truth, the faith, that
  will obey the Lord. (Acts 67)

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• Acts 67 (NKJV) - Then the word of God spread,
  and the number of the disciples multiplied
  greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the
  priests were obedient to the faith.

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The Covenant of Jesus Christ was dedicated at the
cross

• What about those who contend for an ongoing
  delivery of Gods will?

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The Cross of Christ demands that we abide in His
covenant alone

• God has clearly revealed the place and time where
  the old covenant ended. (Col 214-17)

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The Cross of Christ demands that we abide in His
covenant alone

• Colossians 214-17 (NKJV) - having wiped out the
  handwriting of requirements that was against us,
  which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out
  of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15
  Having disarmed principalities and powers, He
  made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over
  them in it.

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The Cross of Christ demands that we abide in His
covenant alone

• 16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink,
  or regarding a festival or a new moon or
  sabbaths, 17which are a shadow of things to come,
  but the substance is of Christ.

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The Cross of Christ demands that we abide in His
covenant alone

• This plainly shows the scope of a covenant.
  Worship and service are central issues to a
  relationship with God.

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The Cross of Christ demands that we abide in His
covenant alone

• This plainly shows the scope of a covenant.
  Worship and service are central issues to a
  relationship with God.
• As the Old Covenant was removed at the cross, the
  New covenant was now in force. (Heb 916-17)

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The Cross of Christ demands that we abide in His
covenant alone

• Hebrews 916-17 (NKJV) - For where there is a
  testament, there must also of necessity be the
  death of the testator. 17 For a testament is in
  force after men are dead, since it has no power
  at all while the testator lives.

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The Cross of Christ demands that we abide in His
covenant alone

• Without this knowledge we would have great
  confusion as we read the Bible.

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The Cross of Christ demands that we abide in His
covenant alone

• Without this knowledge we would have great
  confusion as we read the Bible.
• Our eternal salvation depends upon out
  understanding this distinction. (Gal 51-4)

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The Cross of Christ demands that we abide in His
covenant alone

• Galatians 51-4 (NKJV) - Stand fast therefore in
  the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and
  do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
  2 Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become
  circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. 3
  And I testify again to every man who becomes
  circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole
  law.

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The Cross of Christ demands that we abide in His
covenant alone

• 4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who
  attempt to be justified by law you have fallen
  from grace.

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The Cross of Christ demands that we abide in His
covenant alone

• Many Jewish Christians gave into pressure and
  tried to force Gentile Christians to be
  circumcised according the Old Covenant.

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The Cross of Christ demands that we abide in His
covenant alone

• Many Jewish Christians gave into pressure and
  tried to force Gentile Christians to be
  circumcised according the Old Covenant.
• This was not a matter of traditions or
  conveniences, but the Cross of Christ
  itself! (Gal 511)

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The Cross of Christ demands that we abide in His
covenant alone

• Galatians 511 (NKJV) - And I, brethren, if I
  still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer
  persecution? Then the offense of the cross has
  ceased.

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The Cross of Christ demands that we abide in His
covenant alone

• How many religious practices are based upon the
  Old Covenant alone?

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The Cross of Christ demands that we abide in His
covenant alone

• Where in the New Covenant do we read of tithing,
  a separate priesthood (clergy), the burning of
  incense, or the use of instruments of music in
  praise to God?

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• How should we approach the Lords Supper? (Mt
  2626-28)

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• Matthew 2626-28 (NKJV) - And as they were
  eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it,
  and gave it to the disciples and said, Take,
  eat this is My body. 27Then He took the cup,
  and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying,
  Drink from it, all of you. 28 For this is My
  blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many
  for the remission of sins.

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• We must remember the reason for why we eat.

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• We must remember the reason for why we eat.
• Does the outward form matter? Suppose we
  substituted hamburger and coke for
  the fruit of the vine and bread?

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• We must remember the reason for why we eat.
• Does the outward form matter? Suppose we
  substituted hamburger and coke for
  the fruit of the vine and bread?
• Do we change the instructions of the covenant
  because of human wisdom or
  convenience?

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• Could we use bread and fruit of the vine but
  add some peanut butter to it?

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• Could we use bread and fruit of the vine but
  add some peanut butter to it?
• How should we praise God in our worship?

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• Could we use bread and fruit of the vine but
  add some peanut butter to it?
• How should we praise God in our worship?
• Under the Old Covenant God gave specific
  instructions that included both vocal
  and instrumental music. (2 Chron 2925-26)

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• 2 Chronicles 2925-26 (NKJV) - And he stationed
  the Levites in the house of the Lord with
  cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with
  harps, according to the commandment of David, of
  Gad the kings seer, and of Nathan the prophet
  for thus was the commandment of the Lord by His
  prophets. 26 The Levites stood with the
  instruments of David, and the priests with the
  trumpets.

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• Why not simply look at every verse in the New
  Covenant and see what God wants?
  

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• Vocal Music ? Instrumental Music?
• Matthew 2630 (NKJV) - And when they had sung a
  hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• Vocal Music ? Instrumental Music?
• Acts 1625 (NKJV) - But at midnight Paul and
  Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and
  the prisoners were listening to them.

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• Vocal Music ? Instrumental Music?
• Romans 159 (NKJV) - and that the Gentiles might
  glorify God for His mercy, as it is written For
  this reason I will confess to You among the
  Gentiles, And sing to Your name.

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• Vocal Music ? Instrumental Music?
• 1 Corinthians 1415 (NKJV) - What is the
  conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and
  I will also pray with the understanding. I will
  sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with
  the understanding.

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• Vocal Music ? Instrumental Music?
• Ephesians 519 (NKJV) - speaking to one another
  in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing
  and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• Vocal Music ? Instrumental Music?
• Colossians 316 (NKJV) - Let the word of Christ
  dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and
  admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and
  spiritual songs, singing with grace in your
  hearts to the Lord.

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• Vocal Music ? Instrumental Music?
• Hebrews 212 (NKJV) - saying I will declare
  Your name to My brethren In the midst of the
  assembly I will sing praise to You.

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• Vocal Music ? Instrumental Music?
• Hebrews 1315 (NKJV) - Therefore by Him let us
  continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God,
  that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to
  His name.

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• Vocal Music ? Instrumental Music?
• James 513 (NKJV) - Is anyone among you
  suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let
  him sing psalms.

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• These questions are made much simpler when seen
  in the shadow of the cross.

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What does the Cross of Christ teach us about
worship?

• These questions are made much simpler when seen
  in the shadow of the cross.

71
These questions are made much simpler when seen
in the shadow of the cross.

• Is the blood of the New Covenant sufficient for
  you? (Heb 1320-21)

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These questions are made much simpler when seen
in the shadow of the cross.

• Hebrews 1320-21 (NKJV) - Now may the God of
  peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the
  dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through
  the blood of the everlasting covenant, 21 make
  you complete in every good work to do His will,
  working in you what is well pleasing in His
  sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory
  forever and ever. Amen.

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These questions are made much simpler when seen
in the shadow of the cross.

• The people who submit to the Great Shepard will
  be very different from the world.

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These questions are made much simpler when seen
in the shadow of the cross.

• The people who submit to the Great Shepard will
  be very different from the world.
• Are you ashamed of the Cross or boldly carrying
  it? (Gal 612, 14)

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These questions are made much simpler when seen
in the shadow of the cross.

• Galatians 612 (NKJV) - As many as desire to make
  a good showing in the flesh, these would compel
  you to be circumcised, only that they may not
  suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

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These questions are made much simpler when seen
in the shadow of the cross.

• Galatians 614 (NKJV) - But God forbid that I
  should boast except in the cross of our Lord
  Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been
  crucified to me, and I to the world.