Do you fear to answer Bible questions?

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Do you fear to answer Bible questions?

• No one should in pride seek to display their
  knowledge to be seen by men!

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Do you fear to answer Bible questions?

• No one should in pride seek to display their
  knowledge to be seen by men!
• It is possible to have knowledge by not have a
  right kind of heart. (1 Cor 81-3)

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Do you fear to answer Bible questions?

• 1 Corinthians 81-3 (NKJV) - Now concerning
  things offered to idols We know that we all have
  knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
  2And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he
  knows nothing yet as he ought to know. 3But if
  anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.

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Do you fear to answer Bible questions?

• Knowledge is not all there is to serving God. (1
  Tim 24 2 Tim 37)

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Do you fear to answer Bible questions?

• 1 Timothy 24 (NKJV) - who desires all men to be
  saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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Do you fear to answer Bible questions?

• 2 Timothy 37 (NKJV) - always learning and never
  able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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Do you fear to answer Bible questions?

• We as Christians should welcome Bible questions
  and Bible answers.

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Do you fear to answer Bible questions?

• We as Christians should welcome Bible questions
  and Bible answers.
• What if you do not know? You will study and find
  the answer! (Mt 44)

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Do you fear to answer Bible questions?

• Matthew 44 (NKJV) - But He answered and said,
  It is written, Man shall not live by bread
  alone, but by every word that proceeds from the
  mouth of God.

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Do you fear to answer Bible questions?

• What if the Bible contradicts my beliefs? Repent
  and teach others! (1 Jn 25)

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Do you fear to answer Bible questions?

• 1 John 25 (NKJV) - But whoever keeps His word,
  truly the love of God is perfected in him. By
  this we know that we are in Him.

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Do you fear to answer Bible questions?

• Some fear questions because they are sensitive
  about some things. (Gal 110)

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Do you fear to answer Bible questions?

• Galatians 110 (NKJV) - For do I now persuade
  men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I
  still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant
  of Christ.

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Can the church be found in history?

• I. If the Church of Christ is the one true
  church, then where was from 350 A.D the start of
  the Roman Catholic Church to 1840 the
  Stone/Campbell restoration? Does not Jesus say we
  are salt and light a shining city on a hill? So I
  will not accept the "They were underground" cop
  out.

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Can the church be found in history?

• What is the one true church?

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Can the church be found in history?

• The one true church is not a denomination but a
  description of all saved people in their
  relationship to the head, Jesus Christ. (Eph
  122-23)

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Can the church be found in history?

• Ephesians 122-23 (NKJV) - And He put all things
  under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all
  things to the church, 23 which is His body, the
  fullness of Him who fills all in all.

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Can the church be found in history?

• Those who are forgiven and have Jesus as their
  head are in this church or body. (Eph
  44-6, 1 Cor 1213)

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Can the church be found in history?

• Ephesians 44-6 (NKJV) - There is one body and
  one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope
  of your calling 5one Lord, one faith, one
  baptism 6one God and Father of all, who is above
  all, and through all, and in you all.

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Can the church be found in history?

• 1 Corinthians 1213 (NKJV) - For by one Spirit we
  were all baptized into one bodywhether Jews or
  Greeks, whether slaves or freeand have all been
  made to drink into one Spirit.

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Can the church be found in history?

• Has the one true church always existed since
  the 1st century?

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Can the church be found in history?

• Has the one true church always existed since
  the 1st century?
• The seed that produces the church has always
  existed (Lk 811, Mt 2435)

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Can the church be found in history?

• Luke 811 (NKJV) - Now the parable is this The
  seed is the word of God.

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Can the church be found in history?

• Matthew 2435 (NKJV) - Heaven and earth will pass
  away, but My words will by no means pass away.

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Can the church be found in history?

• It is likely then that have always been
  Christians alive on the earth.

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Can the church be found in history?

• It is likely then that have always been
  Christians alive on the earth.

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Can the church be found in history?

• It is likely then that have always been
  Christians alive on the earth.
• Must I prove this from history?

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Can the church be found in history?

• Some churches claim apostolic succession as
  proof they are from God.

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Can the church be found in history?

• Some churches claim apostolic succession as
  proof they are from God.
• Nowhere does the Bible suggest this or demand
  that Christians prove this as a sign that
  they are genuine.

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Can the church be found in history?

• Some churches claim apostolic succession as
  proof they are from God.
• Nowhere does the Bible suggest this or demand
  that Christians prove this as a sign that
  they are genuine.
• Outside of Judas replacement and then Paul, there
  were no other apostles.

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Can the church be found in history?

• Paul recognized that his situation was unusual
  and that the apostles would not have
  successors. (1 Cor 157-8 49)

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Can the church be found in history?

• 1 Corinthians 157-8 (NKJV) - After that He was
  seen by James, then by all the apostles. 8Then
  last of all He was seen by me also, as by one
  born out of due time.

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Can the church be found in history?

• 1 Corinthians 49 (NKJV) - For I think that God
  has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men
  condemned to death for we have been made a
  spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

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Can the church be found in history?

• Since there were no eyewitnesses since this time,
  there could be no future apostles. (Acts
  121-22)

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Can the church be found in history?

• Since there were no eyewitnesses since this time,
  there could be no future apostles. (Acts
  121-22)
• See the article A Few Make History.

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Can the church be found in history?

• We have the foundation of the Apostles and
  prophets in the Bible itself. (Eph 219-21)

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Can the church be found in history?

• We have the foundation of the Apostles and
  prophets in the Bible itself. (Eph 219-21)
• What is your attitude towards the apostles? (1 Jn
  41, 6)

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Can the church be found in history?

• 1 John 41 (NKJV)- Beloved, do not believe every
  spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of
  God because many false prophets have gone out
  into the world.

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Can the church be found in history?

• 1 John 46 (NKJV) - We are of God. He who knows
  God hears us he who is not of God does not hear
  us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the
  spirit of error.

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Can the church be found in history?

• Any churches claiming the Bible indentifies them?

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Bible Authority and Music

• In Ephesians 519 and in Colossians 316 we that
  asks both churches to sing Psalms hymns spiritual
  songs. That being said, and with John Hearing
  harps played in Heaven in Revelation. I Can not
  see how based on 2 passages both dealing with how
  to treat one another is the soul basis for
  forbidding instrumental music.

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Bible Authority and Music

• Now I understand the philosophy of Stone and
  Campbell was to speak where the bible speaks and
  silent where it is silent, however, are we not to
  follow the teachings of Jesus and not men?

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Bible Authority and Music

• Also, if you follow this out then you must greet
  each other with a holy kiss anoint the sick with
  oil and have the Elders pray over them and pick
  up snakes and drink poison, just to name a few
  that stand out as possible commandments, So why
  base a church tradition on such a foundation?

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Bible Authority and Music

• By the way I was always under the impression that
  we as Christians want to stay away from man made
  traditions and sick with what the bible says.

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Bible Authority and Music

• Must we have authority from God for everything we
  do we have the right to act when God is
  silent? Look at the repeated, emphatic response
  of Jesus!

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Bible Authority and Music

• Jesus whole life was focused on doing the will
  of the Father who sent Me. (Jn
  519-21, 30)

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Bible Authority and Music

• John 519-21 (NKJV) - Then Jesus answered and
  said to them, Most assuredly, I say to you, the
  Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees
  the Father do for whatever He does, the Son also
  does in like manner.

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Bible Authority and Music

• 20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him
  all things that He Himself does and He will show
  Him greater works than these, that you may
  marvel. 21For as the Father raises the dead and
  gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to
  whom He will.

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Bible Authority and Music

• John 530 (NKJV) - I can of Myself do nothing. As
  I hear, I judge and My judgment is righteous,
  because I do not seek My own will but the will of
  the Father who sent Me.

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Bible Authority and Music

• There was not a single thing Jesus did without
  the fellowship and authority of
  the Father. (Jn 828-29)

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Bible Authority and Music

• John 828-29 (NKJV) - Then Jesus said to them,
  When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will
  know that I am He, and that I do nothing of
  Myself but as My Father taught Me, I speak these
  things. 29 And He who sent Me is with Me. The
  Father has not left Me alone, for I always do
  those things that please Him.

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Bible Authority and Music

• Jesus expects us to have the same attitude
  towards His word as He did to the Fathers
  word. (Jn 1248-50)

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Bible Authority and Music

• John 1248-50 (NKJV) - He who rejects Me, and
  does not receive My words, has that which judges
  himthe word that I have spoken will judge him in
  the last day. 49For I have not spoken on My own
  authority but the Father who sent Me gave Me a
  command, what I should say and what I should
  speak.

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Bible Authority and Music

• 50And I know that His command is everlasting
  life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the
  Father has told Me, so I speak.

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Bible Authority and Music

• From these verses Jesus teaches us how to view
  and handle His word.

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Bible Authority and Music

• From these verses Jesus teaches us how to view
  and handle His word.
• If we do not have positive authority from Gods
  word then we do nothing!

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Bible Authority and Music

• God has given us all things for us to follow.

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Bible Authority and Music

• God has given us all things for us to follow.
• The respect we have for Jesus word is the
  respect we have for Jesus.

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Bible Authority and Music

• God has given us all things for us to follow.
• The respect we have for Jesus word is the
  respect we have for Jesus.
• Consider the implications of the inspiration of
  Gods word. (2 Tim 316-17)

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Bible Authority and Music

• 2 Timothy 316-17 (NKJV) - All Scripture is given
  by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
  doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
  instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of
  God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for
  every good work.

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Bible Authority and Music

• What does perfect mean? What does every good
  work mean?

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Bible Authority and Music

• What should we do when the Bible does not speak
  on a subject?

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Bible Authority and Music

• What should we do when the Bible does not speak
  on a subject?
• Some say it is allowable as long as the Bible
  does not condemn it.

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Bible Authority and Music

• What should we do when the Bible does not speak
  on a subject?
• Some say it is allowable as long as the Bible
  does not condemn it.
• Jesus taught us to do nothing when we have no
  authority!

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Bible Authority and Music

• What should we do when the Bible does not speak
  on a subject?
• Some say it is allowable as long as the Bible
  does not condemn it.
• Jesus taught us to do nothing when we have no
  authority!
• Contrast this with the Pharisees handling of
  scripture. (Mt 151-9)

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Bible Authority and Music

• Matthew 151-9 (NKJV) - Then the scribes and
  Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Jesus,
  saying, 2Why do Your disciples transgress the
  tradition of the elders? For they do not wash
  their hands when they eat bread. 3He answered
  and said to them, Why do you also transgress the
  commandment of God because of your tradition?

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Bible Authority and Music

• 4 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father
  and your mother and, He who curses father or
  mother, let him be put to death. 5 But you say,
  Whoever says to his father or mother, Whatever
  profit you might have received from me is a gift
  to God6

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Bible Authority and Music

• then he need not honor his father or mother.
  Thus you have made the commandment of God of no
  effect by your tradition. 7 Hypocrites! Well did
  Isaiah prophesy about you, saying

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Bible Authority and Music

• 8 These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
  And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is
  far from Me. And in vain they worship Me,
  Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

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Bible Authority and Music

• What has God instructed the church to do on earth
  under the authority of the New Testament?

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Bible Authority and Music

• We are no longer under the Old Testament law.
  (Col 214-17)

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Bible Authority and Music

• 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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Bible Authority and Music

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

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Bible Authority and Music

• Under the Old Testament God clearly showed His
  pleasure in some kinds of instrumental music. (2
  Chron 2925 Psa 150)

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Bible Authority and Music

• 2 Chronicles 2925 (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.

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Bible Authority and Music

• What do we find in the New Testament about
  Christians here on earth?

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Bible Authority and Music

• What do we find in the New Testament about
  Christians here on earth?
• (Matthew 2630, Acts 1625, Romans 159, 1
  Corinthians 1415, Ephesians 519, Colossians
  316, Hebrews 212, Hebrews 1315, James 513)

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Bible Authority and Music

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

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Bible Authority and 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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Bible Authority and 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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Bible Authority and 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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Bible Authority and 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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Bible Authority and 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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Bible Authority and 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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Bible Authority and 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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Bible Authority and Music

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

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Bible Authority and Music

• The book of Revelation uses various figures to
  teach about heaven that were never meant to be
  used as authority for local churches here on
  earth.

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Bible Authority and Music

• The book of Revelation uses various figures to
  teach about heaven that were never meant to be
  used as authority for local churches here on
  earth.
• Conclusion Lets open our Bibles and carefully
  examine our hearts and our
  practices! (Acts 1711)

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Bible Authority and Music

• Acts 1711 (NKJV) - These were more fair-minded
  than those in Thessalonica, in that they received
  the word with all readiness, and searched the
  Scriptures daily to find out whether these things
  were so.