1 Timothy 3:15

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1 Timothy 315

• 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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The Pillar And Ground Of The Truth

• Foundation
• Support

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1 Corinthians 310-13

• According to the grace of God given to me, like a
  skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and
  someone else is building upon it. Let each one
  take care how he builds upon it. 11 For no one
  can lay a foundation other than that which is
  laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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1 Corinthians 310-13

• Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold,
  silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw 13
  each ones work will become manifest, for the Day
  will disclose it, because it will be revealed by
  fire, and the fire will test what sort of work
  each one has done.

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2 Peter 15-11

• For this very reason, make every effort to
  supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue
  with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with
  self-control, and self-control with
  steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,
  7 and godliness with brotherly affection,

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2 Peter 15-11

• and brotherly affection with love. 8 For if
  these qualities are yours and are increasing,
  they keep you from being ineffective or
  unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus
  Christ. 9 For whoever lacks these qualities is
  so nearsighted that he is blind,

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2 Peter 15-11

• having forgotten that he was cleansed from his
  former sins. 10 Therefore, brothers, be all
  the more diligent to make your calling and
  election sure, for if you practice these
  qualities you will never fall.

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2 Peter 15-11

• For in this way there will be richly provided for
  you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our
  Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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The Pillar And Ground Of The Truth

• The Basis Of Faith
• 1 John 54 For everyone who has been born of God
  overcomes the world. And this is the victory that
  has overcome the world our faith.

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Pillar And Ground Of Truth

• The Deity Of Christ
• Matthew 120-23
• Matthew 316-17
• John 2030-31

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Matthew 120-23

• But as he considered these things, behold, an
  angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream,
  saying, Joseph, son of David, do not fear to
  take Mary as your wife, for that which is
  conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21
  She will bear a son,

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Matthew 120-23

• and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will
  save his people from their sins. 22 All this
  took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by
  the prophet 23 Behold, the virgin shall
  conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his
  name Immanuel (which means, God with us).

13
Matthew 316-17

• And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went
  up from the water, and behold, the heavens were
  opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God
  descending like a dove and coming to rest on him
  17 and behold, a voice from heaven said, This
  is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

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John 2030-31

• Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of
  the disciples, which are not written in this
  book 31 but these are written so that you may
  believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
  and that by believing you may have life in his
  name.

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Pillar And Ground Of Truth

• The Resurrection Of Christ
• Luke 241-8
• 1 Corinthians 151-5a

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Luke 241-8

• But on the first day of the week, at early dawn,
  they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had
  prepared. 2 And they found the stone rolled
  away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in
  they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

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Luke 241-8

• While they were perplexed about this, behold, two
  men stood by them in dazzling apparel. 5 And
  as they were frightened and bowed their faces to
  the ground, the men said to them, Why do you
  seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not
  here, but has risen.

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Luke 241-8

• Remember how he told you, while he was still in
  Galilee, 7 that the Son of Man must be
  delivered into the hands of sinful men and be
  crucified and on the third day rise. 8 And
  they remembered his words,

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1 Corinthians 151-5a

• Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I
  preached to you, which you received, in which you
  stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if
  you hold fast to the word I preached to you
  unless you believed in vain.

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1 Corinthians 151-5a

• For I delivered to you as of first importance
  what I also received that Christ died for our
  sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that
  he was buried, that he was raised on the third
  day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and
  that he appeared to men

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Pillar And Ground Of Truth

• The Salvation In Christ
• 2 Timothy 210

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2 Timothy 210

• Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the
  elect, that they also may obtain the salvation
  that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

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Pillar And Ground Of Truth

• The Salvation In Christ
• 2 Timothy 210
• Faith John 824
• Repentance Acts 1730-31
• Confession Romans 109-10
• Baptism Mark 1615-16

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Faith John 824

• I told you that you would die in your sins, for
  unless you believe that I am he you will die in
  your sins.

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Repentance Acts 1730-31

• The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he
  commands all people everywhere to repent, 31
  because he has fixed a day on which he will judge
  the world in righteousness by a man whom he has
  appointed and of this he has given assurance to
  all by raising him from the dead.

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Confession Romans 109-10

• that if you confess with your mouth the Lord
  Jesus and believe in your heart that God has
  raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For
  with the heart one believes unto righteousness,
  and with the mouth confession is made unto
  salvation.

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Baptism Mark 1615-16

• And he said to them, Go into all the world and
  proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. 16
  Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved,
  but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

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Pillar And Ground Of Truth

• Faithful Unto Death
• Revelation 210

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Revelation 210

• Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold,
  the devil is about to throw some of you into
  prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days
  you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto
  death, and I will give you the crown of life.

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Pillar And Ground Of Truth

• Faithful Unto Death
• Revelation 210
• Issues That Make A Difference
• Creation
• Genesis 11-5
• Colossians 115-16

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Genesis 11-5

• In the beginning, God created the heavens and the
  earth. 2 The earth was without form and void,
  and darkness was over the face of the deep. And
  the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of
  the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be
  light, and there was light.

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Genesis 11-5

• And God saw that the light was good. And God
  separated the light from the darkness. 5 God
  called the light Day, and the darkness he called
  Night. And there was evening and there was
  morning, the first day.

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Colossians 115-16

• He is the image of the invisible God, the
  firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all
  things were created, in heaven and on earth,
  visible and invisible, whether thrones or
  dominions or rulers or authoritiesall things
  were created through him and for him.

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Pillar And Ground Of Truth

• Faithful Unto Death
• Revelation 210
• Issues That Make A Difference
• Divorce and Remarriage
• Matthew 531-32
• Matthew 193-9

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Matthew 531-32

• It was also said, Whoever divorces his wife,
  let him give her a certificate of divorce. 32
  But I say to you that everyone who divorces his
  wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality,
  makes her commit adultery. And whoever marries a
  divorced woman commits adultery.

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Matthew 193-9

• And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by
  asking, Is it lawful to divorce ones wife for
  any cause? 4 He answered, Have you not read
  that he who created them from the beginning made
  them male and female, 5 and said,

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Matthew 193-9

• Therefore a man shall leave his father and his
  mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall
  become one flesh? 6 So they are no longer two
  but one flesh. What therefore God has joined
  together, let not man separate.

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Matthew 193-9

• They said to him, Why then did Moses command one
  to give a certificate of divorce and to send her
  away? 8 He said to them, Because of your
  hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce
  your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
  

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Matthew 193-9

• And I say to you whoever divorces his wife,
  except for sexual immorality, and marries
  another, commits adultery.

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Pillar And Ground Of Truth

• Issues That Make A Difference
• Work of the Church
• Evangelism
• Edification
• Internal Benevolence

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Pillar And Ground Of Truth

• The Work of the Church
• Evangelism Preach the Gospel to the World
• Edification Build Up The House of the Lord
• Internal Benevolence Stand in the Gap When
  Disasters Hit

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Internal Benevolence

• Acts 1127-30
• Now in these days prophets came down from
  Jerusalem to Antioch. 28 And one of them named
  Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that
  there would be a great famine over all the world
  (this took place in the days of Claudius).

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Internal Benevolence

• Acts 1127-30
• So the disciples determined, everyone according
  to his ability, to send relief to the brothers
  living in Judea. 30 And they did so, sending
  it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and
  Saul.

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Edification

• Ephesians 415-16
• Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to
  grow up in every way into him who is the head,
  into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and
  held together by every joint with which it is
  equipped, when each part is working properly,
  makes the body grow so that it builds itself up
  in love.

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Evangelism

• 1 Timothy 315
• 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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Evangelism

• Matthew 2818-20
• And Jesus came and said to them, All authority
  in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go
  therefore and make disciples of all nations,
  baptizing them in the name of the Father and of
  the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to
  observe all that I have commanded you. And
  behold, I am with you always, to the end of the
  age.

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Evangelism

• Acts 132-3
• While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting,
  the Holy Spirit said, Set apart for me Barnabas
  and Saul for the work to which I have called
  them. 3 Then after fasting and praying they
  laid their hands on them and sent them off.

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Pillar And Ground Of Truth

• Faithful Unto Death
• Revelation 210
• Issues That Make A Difference
• Worldliness
• 1 John 215-17
• 2 Peter 39-13

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1 John 215-17

• Do not love the world or the things in the world.
  If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father
  is not in him. 16 For all that is in the
  world the desires of the flesh and the desires
  of the eyes and pride in possessionsis not from
  the Father but is from the world. 17 And the
  world is passing away along with its desires, but
  whoever does the will of God abides forever.

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2 Peter 39-13

• The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as
  some count slowness, but is patient toward you,
  not wishing that any should perish, but that all
  should reach repentance. 10 But the day of the
  Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens
  will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly
  bodies will be burned up and dissolved,

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2 Peter 39-13

• and the earth and the works that are done on it
  will be burned up. 11 Since all these things
  are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people
  ought you to be in lives of holiness and
  godliness, 12 waiting for and hastening the
  coming of the day of God, because of which the
  heavens will be set on fire and dissolved,

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2 Peter 39-13

• and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!
  13 But according to his promise we are waiting
  for new heavens and a new earth in which
  righteousness dwells.

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The Pillar And Ground Of The Truth

• Where Do YOU Stand?