The Lords Church

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The Lords Church

• The pillar and ground of truth
• 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 Lords Church

• The pillar and ground of truth 1 Tim 315
• Jesus said He would build it
• Matthew 1618
• And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on
  this rock I will build My church, and the gates
  of Hades shall not prevail against it.

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The Lords Church

• The pillar and ground of truth 1 Tim 315
• Jesus said He would build it Matt 1618
• Paul wrote about it
• Ephesians 525
• Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also
  loved the church, and gave himself for it.

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The Lords Church

• The pillar and ground of truth 1 Tim 315
• Jesus said He would build it Matt 1618
• Paul wrote about it Ephesians 525-27
• Only one church
• Jesus prayed for unity John 1720-23

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• John 1720-23
• "I do not pray for these alone, but also for
  those who will believe in Me through their word
  "that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in
  Me, and I in You that they also may be one in
  Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.
  "And the glory which You gave Me I have given
  them, that they may be one just as We are one "I
  in them, and You in Me that they may be made
  perfect in one, and that the world may know that
  You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have
  loved Me.

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The Lords Church

• The pillar and ground of truth 1 Tim 315
• Jesus said He would build it Matt 1618
• Paul wrote about it Ephesians 525-27
• Only one church
• Jesus prayed for unity John 1720-23
• There is one body Ephesians 44-6

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• Ephesians 44-6
• There is one body and one Spirit, just as you
  were called in one hope of your calling one
  Lord, one faith, one baptism one God and Father
  of all, who is above all, and through all, and in
  you all.

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The Great Apostasy Foretold

• Paul wrote of it
• To Timothy departing from the faith 1
  Timothy 41-3

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• 1 Timothy 41-3
• Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter
  times some will depart from the faith, giving
  heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of
  demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their
  own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding
  to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods
  which God created to be received with
  thanksgiving by those who believe and know the
  truth.

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The Great Apostasy Foretold

• Paul wrote of it
• To Timothy departing from the faith 1
  Timothy 41-3
• To Timothy not enduring sound doctrine 2
  Timothy 41-4

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• 2 Timothy 41-4
• I charge you therefore before God and the Lord
  Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the
  dead at His appearing and His kingdom Preach the
  word! Be ready in season and out of season.
  Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering
  and teaching. For the time will come when they
  will not endure sound doctrine, but according to
  their own desires, because they have itching
  ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers
  and they will turn their ears away from the
  truth, and be turned aside to fables.

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The Great Apostasy Foretold

• Paul wrote of it
• To Timothy departing from the faith 1
  Timothy 41-3
• To Timothy not enduring sound doctrine 2
  Timothy 41-4
• To the Ephesian elders Acts 2027-31

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• Acts 2027-31
• "For I have not shunned to declare to you the
  whole counsel of God. "Therefore take heed to
  yourselves and to all the flock, among which the
  Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd
  the church of God which He purchased with His own
  blood.
• For I know this, that after my departure savage
  wolves will come in among you, not sparing the
  flock.
• "Also from among yourselves men will rise up,
  speaking perverse things, to draw away the
  disciples after themselves. "Therefore watch, and
  remember that for three years I did not cease to
  warn everyone night and day with tears.

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The Great Apostasy Foretold

• Paul wrote of it
• To Timothy departing from the faith 1
  Timothy 41-3
• To Timothy not enduring sound doctrine 2
  Timothy 41-4
• To the Ephesian elders Acts 2027-31
• Those at Thessalonica 1 Thess 21-4

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• 2 Thessalonians 21-4
• "Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord
  Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,
  we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or
  troubled, either by spirit or by word or by
  letter, as if from us, as though the day of
  Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any
  means for that Day will not come unless the
  falling away comes first, and the man of sin is
  revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and
  exalts himself above all that is called God or
  that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the
  temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

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The Great Apostasy Foretold

• Peter wrote of it
• 2 Peter 21-2
• But there were also false prophets among the
  people, even as there will be false teachers
  among you, who will secretly bring in destructive
  heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them,
  and bring on themselves swift destruction. And
  many will follow their destructive ways, because
  of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

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The Great Apostasy Foretold

• Peter wrote of it 2 Peter 21-2
• Jude warned against it Jude 3-4

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• Jude 3-4
• 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. For certain men
  have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked
  out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn
  the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the
  only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

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The Great Apostasy Foretold

• Peter wrote of it 2 Peter 21-2
• Jude warned against it Jude 3-4
• John warned of antichrists
  1 John 218-19

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• 1 John 218-19
• Little children, it is the last hour and as you
  have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even
  now many antichrists have come, by which we know
  that it is the last hour. They went out from us,
  but they were not of us for if they had been of
  us, they would have continued with us but they
  went out that they might be made manifest, that
  none of them were of us.

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The Great Apostasy Foretold

• Peter wrote of it 2 Peter 21-2
• Jude warned against it Jude 3-4
• John warned of antichrists
  1 John 218-19
• Jesus warns of the same thing Matt 715
• Beware of false prophets, who come to you in
  sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous
  wolves.

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The Great Apostasy Fulfilled

• A gradual process
• Reorganization to combat error led to central
  authority instead of autonomy
• Error taught as truth by individual leaders
• Evolution of the Roman Catholic church
• As well as other Orthodox churches
• And later Protestant denominations

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The Lords Church

• Continues
• Against the gates of Hades Matthew 1618
• Cannot be destroyed
  Daniel 244 Luke 132-33

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• Daniel 244
• And in the days of these kings the God of heaven
  will set up a kingdom which shall never be
  destroyed and the kingdom shall not be left to
  other people it shall break in pieces and
  consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand
  forever.
• Luke 132-33
• "He will be great, and will be called the Son of
  the Highest and the Lord God will give Him the
  throne of His father David. "And He will reign
  over the house of Jacob forever, and of His
  kingdom there will be no end."

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The Lords Church

• Continues
• Against the gates of Hades Matthew 1618
• Cannot be destroyed
  Daniel 244 Luke 132-33
• Faithful disciples constitute the church
• Incorruptible seed 1 Peter 122-25

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• 1 Peter 122-25
• Since you have purified your souls in obeying
  the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of
  the brethren, love one another fervently with a
  pure heart, having been born again, not of
  corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the
  word of God which lives and abides forever,
  because "All flesh is as grass, And all the glory
  of man as the flower of the grass. The grass
  withers, And its flower falls away, But the word
  of the LORD endures forever." Now this is the
  word which by the gospel was preached to you.

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The Lords Church

• Continues
• Against the gates of Hades Matthew 1618
• Cannot be destroyed
  Daniel 244 Luke 132-33
• Faithful disciples constitute the church
• Incorruptible seed 1 Peter 122-25
• The Lord adds to the church Acts 238-41,47

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• Acts 238-41, 47
• 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. "For the
  promise is to you and to your children, and to
  all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God
  will call." And with many other words he
  testified and exhorted them, saying, "Be saved
  from this perverse generation." Then those who
  gladly received his word were baptized and that
  day about three thousand souls were added to
  them.
• And the Lord added to the church daily those who
  were being saved.

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The Lords Church

• Continues
• Against the gates of Hades Matthew 1618
• Cannot be destroyed
  Daniel 244 Luke 132-33
• Faithful disciples constitute the church
• Incorruptible seed 1 Peter 122-25
• The Lord adds to the church Acts 238-41,47
• The Lord knows His own 2 Timothy 219

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• 2 Timothy 219
• Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands,
  having this seal "The Lord knows those who are
  His," and, "Let everyone who names the name of
  Christ depart from iniquity."

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The Antidote

• Take heed to yourself and those around you Acts
  2028
• "Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the
  flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you
  overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He
  purchased with His own blood.

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The Antidote

• Take heed to yourself and those around you Acts
  2028
• Be watchful Acts 2029-31
• For I know this, that after my departure savage
  wolves will come in among you, not sparing the
  flock. "Also from among yourselves men will rise
  up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the
  disciples after themselves. "Therefore watch, and
  remember that for three years I did not cease to
  warn everyone night and day with tears.

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The Antidote

• Take heed to yourself and those around you Acts
  2028
• Be watchful Acts 2029-31
• Look to Gods word for direction Acts
  2032
• "So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to
  the word of His grace, which is able to build you
  up and give you an inheritance among all those
  who are sanctified.