The Sponsoring Church

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The Sponsoring Church
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When God Is Specific

• Sing Psalms, Hymns Spiritual Songs Did Not
  Say Play Them - Eph. 519 Col. 316
• Noah to Make an Ark of Gopher Wood Not Some
  Other Kind of Wood Genesis 614
• Abraham to Offer Isaac as a Burnt Offering Not
  Some Other Family Member Genesis 222 (NOTE
  Abraham could not offer an animal until the 1st
  order was revoked and a 2nd order was given by
  the One authorized to do it.)

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When God Is Specific

• Passover Sacrifice of Exodus 1215
• A Lamb Not a Heifer
• First Year Not Second or Third
• A Male Not a Female
• Without Blemish Not With Blemish
• On The 14th Day Not Some Other Day

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When God Is Specific

• 3Do not eat any detestable thing. 4These are the
  animals you may eat the ox, the sheep, the goat,
  5the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild
  goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain
  sheep. 6You may eat any animal that has a split
  hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.
  7However, of those that chew the cud or that have
  a split hoof completely divided you may not eat
  the camel, the rabbit or the coney. Although they
  chew the cud, they do not have a split hoof they
  are ceremonially unclean for you. 8The pig is
  also unclean although it has a split hoof, it
  does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their
  meat or touch their carcasses (Deut. 143-8).

DIVINE AUTHORITY
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Church

• Defined
• Used In The General Sense To Designate All The
  Saved
• Matthew 1618 Eph. 44 122-23
• Used Of A Local Congregation
• Matthew 1815-18 1 Cor. 12 1 Thess. 11

• What Is A Local Church
• Local Government
• Local Treasury
• Local Discipline
• A Collective Unit That Worships
• A Collective Unit That Fellowships

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Matthew 1815-17

• 15 "If your brother sins, go and show him his
  fault in private if he listens to you, you have
  won your brother.
• 16 "But if he does not listen to you, take one
  or two more with you, so that BY THE MOUTH OF TWO
  OR THREE WITNESSES EVERY FACT MAY BE CONFIRMED.
• 17 "If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to
  the church and if he refuses to listen even to
  the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a
  tax collector.

One Man Is Not The Church
Two Men Are Not The Church
Here We Find The Church
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The Lord Provides That A Local Church

• Assemble ? Heb. 1025 1 Cor. 1423
• Have Recognized Members ? Acts 923 1 Cor. 1423
• Have Common Oversight ? Acts 1423 Titus 15
• Have A Treasury ? 1 Cor. 161-2 Phil. 415-16
• Function As A Unit
• Group Participation ? Acts 125 Eph. 519
• Through A Representative ? Acts 63

• The Local Church is Not
• Just A Plurality Of Christians, Or
• Just Christians Assembled Matt. 1815-16

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The ChurchUniversal Local

• People, NOT Congregations, are added to the
  universal church by the Lord Acts 247
• Individuals, NOT Congregations, Make up
  Jesus vineyard John 1516
• One may be a member of the universal church while
  not being a member of any local church. Acts
  835-39 2216 926,27

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The ChurchUniversal Local

• What God does to the universal church he does to
  the Christian.
• Purchased Acts 3028 1 Cor. 619,20
• Loved Eph. 525 Gal. 220
• Only the saved are added to the universal
  church, but there are some who are lost in local
  churches. 1 John 218-19 Matthew 1324-30
• Satan cannot prevail against the universal
  church, but he can and does against the local
  church Rev. 212-17

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Bible Baptism

• A Pattern For Baptism
• Subjects Penitent Believers Mark 1616 Acts
  238
• Design For The Remission of Sins Acts 238 1
  Pet. 321
• Examples Acts 238-41 812-13 36ff 1048
  1114 1614ff 188 1 Cor. 611 Acts 2216

Examples show that baptism to the penitent
believer is for the remission of sins!

• Violation of the Pattern
• Baptize Infants, For the dead, ETC
• Baptism for any other Purpose

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Church To Church Contribution

• A Pattern for Church to Church Contribution
• Subjects Needy church or saints Rom. 1526
• Design For equality or relief 2 Cor. 814
• Examples Acts 1127 Rom. 1525-27 1 Cor.
  161-3 2 Cor 8,9

• Violation of the Pattern
• Contributions to an able church
• Contribution for any other purpose

Examples show that contributions from one church
to another were for relief of hardship or to
maintain equality!
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The Sponsoring Church Vs. The Bible