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1. There Is A God

• Atheists, agnostics, infidels are wrong. They
  appeal to
• Scripture
• Contradictions
• NT manuscripts are unreliable
• For Acts the confirmation of historicity is
  overwhelming . . . any attempt to reject its
  basic historicity even in matters of detail must
  now appear absurd. Roman historians have long
  taken it for granted

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Emotions

• What about good people?
• What about people w/o our benefits?
• Ps.14
• There never has been a significant example of
  morality apart from belief in God  Will and
  Ariel Durant

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2. Jesus Is The Son Of God

• Jews, Moslemsare wrong
• They appeal to
• Scripture
• Gnostic gospels
• Emotions
• View of Jesus at Judgment
• Loving Savior
• If Jesus is not the Son of God, the NT is false
  and our faith is vain, 1 Co.1512-19

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3. Plan Of Salvation

• Denominational people, good moral people They
  appeal to
• Scripture
• Ep.28-9, by grace alone, through faith alone,
  in Christ alone
• What about Ep. 526, Ro. 6, etc.?
• 2 K.5, a better way?

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Emotions

• A man on way to be baptized, hit by a truck
  (Jn.824)
• Dalton, Ga.
• 2 K.5
• Some commands must be obeyed completely, or else
  they are not obeyed at all!
• Some commands are relative (1 Th.49-10)

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Consequences have consequences

• If a person believes in one condition, someone
  can ask him about the consequences of his dying
  before he completes it
• If a person believes in unconditional
  salvationGods favoritism is behind it

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4. Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage

• Mt.193-910, disciples conclusion Gods law
  is firm and unyielding
• Some attack Gods marriage law by appealing to
• Scripture
• God let David keep his wife
• Bathsheba did not become Davids wife in
  adultery. After her husband was dead, they
  married (2 Sm.1126-27)

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2 Sm.1215 calls her Uriahs wife

• Uriah was already dead
• Mt.16
• David had a moral obligation to provide for
  Bathsheba
• If Uriah had lived, could David have kept her?

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God let David off easy

• God condemned David for his sin and cursed his
  house (1210-12)
• David escaped the death penalty (1213-14)but
  his child (and other children) would not escape
  (2 Sm.12 13 1833)
• Does Davids example prove that a man may keep
  the wife of another man if he murders her
  husband?
• Does Davids example prove that God accepts
  polygamy?

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Typical use of Davids example

• God does not require unscripturally remarried
  aliens to separate after they become Christians
  (H.H., p. 9)
• Was David an alien?
• If David proves anything, he proves that both
  aliens and children of God need not worry about
  MDR!

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Emotions

• No subject provokes more sympathy than MDR
• Ezr.9-10, the only emotions referenced in the
  entire passage describe the reaction to people
  who disobeyed Gods Law
• Not one word about the emotional pain of those
  who had to separate from their spouse and
  children!
• We are messengers, not legislators!

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Pro.1315

• The way of the transgressor is hard (NKJV ASV
  NASB)
• The way of the faithless is their ruin (NRSV)
• The way of the treacherous is their ruin (ESV)
• The problem is sin, not the law

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Mt.1911-12

• The disciples agree Gods marriage law is
  strict
• They never thought of changing it!
• Mt.1927-30
• Mt.1624-26
• Anything we sacrifice on earth is nothing when
  compared to heaven!
• Ac.276, 38
• Ph.3, Paul