Dangers Facing the Church

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Dangers Facing the Church

• Ephesians 610-18

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IGNORANCE
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Hosea 46

• My people are destroyed for lack
  of knowledge. Because you have rejected
  knowledge, I also will reject you from being
  priest for Me Because you have forgotten the law
  of your God, I also will forget your children.

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2 Timothy 215

• Be diligent to present yourself approved
  to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed,
  rightly dividing the word of truth.

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Colossians 19-12

• For this reason we also, since the day
  we heard it, do not cease to pray for you,
  and to ask that you may be filled
  with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and
  spiritual understanding 10 that you may walk
  worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being
  fruitful in every good work and increasing in the
  knowledge of God 11 strengthened with all might,
  according to His glorious power, for all patience
  and longsuffering with joy 12 giving thanks to
  the Father who has qualified us to be partakers
  of the inheritance of the saints in the light.

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NEGLECTFULNESS
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Hebrews 21-4

• Therefore we must give the more
  earnest heed to the things we have heard,
  lest we drift away. 2 For if the word spoken
  through angels proved steadfast, and every
  transgression and disobedience received a just
  reward, 3 how shall we escape if we neglect so
  great a salvation, which at the first began to be
  spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by
  those who heard Him, 4 God also bearing witness
  both with signs and wonders, with various
  miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according
  to His own will?

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Haggai 17-9

• Thus says the LORD of hosts Consider
  your ways! 8 Go up to the mountains and bring
  wood and build the temple, that I may take
  pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.
  9 You looked for much, but indeed it came to
  little and when you brought it home, I blew it
  away. Why? says the LORD of hosts. Because of
  My house that is in ruins, while every one of you
  runs to his own house.

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WORLDLINESS
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2 Timothy 49-11

• Be diligent to come to me quickly
  10 for Demas has forsaken me, having loved this
  present world, and has departed for
  Thessalonica--Crescens for Galatia, Titus for
  Dalmatia. 11 Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and
  bring him with you, for he is useful to me for
  ministry.

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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 lust of the flesh, the lust of
  the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the
  Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is
  passing away, and the lust of it but he who does
  the will of God abides forever.

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James 127

• Pure and undefiled religion before
  God and the Father is this to visit orphans and
  widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself
  unspotted from the world.

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BOASTFULNESS
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Matthew 61-4

• "Take heed that you do not do your
  charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them.
  Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in
  heaven. 2 Therefore, when you do a charitable
  deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the
  hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the
  streets, that they may have glory from men.
  Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.
  3 But when you do a charitable deed, do not let
  your left hand know what your right hand is
  doing, 4 that your charitable deed may be in
  secret and your Father who sees in secret will
  Himself reward you openly.

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COMPROMISE
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Ephesians 511

• And have no fellowship with the unfruitful
  works of darkness, but rather expose them.

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Galatians 211-12

• Now when Peter had come to
  Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he
  was to be blamed 12 for before certain men came
  from James, he would eat with the Gentiles but
  when they came, he withdrew and separated
  himself, fearing those who were of the
  circumcision.

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Jude 3

• 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.
• Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of
  Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am
  absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you
  stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving
  together for the faith of the gospel.

Philippians 127
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MATERIALISM
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Luke 814

• Now the ones that fell among
  thorns are those who, when they have heard, go
  out and are choked with cares, riches, and
  pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

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1 Timothy 66-10

• Now godliness with contentment is
  great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into this
  world, and it is certain we can carry nothing
  out. 8 And having food and clothing, with these
  we shall be content. 9 But those who desire to
  be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and
  into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown
  men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the
  love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for
  which some have strayed from the faith in their
  greediness, and pierced themselves through with
  many sorrows.

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INDIFFERENCE
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Matthew 1230

• He who is not with Me is against Me,
  and he who does not gather with Me
  scatters abroad.

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Exodus 3219-20

• So it was, as soon as he Moses
  came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the
  dancing. So Moses' anger became hot, and he cast
  the tablets out of his hands and broke them at
  the foot of the mountain. 20 Then he took the
  calf which they had made, burned it in the fire,
  and ground it to powder and he scattered it on
  the water and made the children of Israel drink
  it.

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2 Chronicles 3431-32

• Then the king Josiah stood in
  his place and made a covenant before the LORD, to
  follow the LORD, and to keep His commandments and
  His testimonies and His statutes with all his
  heart and all his soul, to perform the words of
  the covenant that were written in this book. 32
  And he made all who were present in Jerusalem and
  Benjamin take a stand. So the inhabitants of
  Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God,
  the God of their fathers.

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DOCTRINAL ERROR
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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. 2 And
  many will follow their destructive ways, because
  of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

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2 Timothy 113 21-2

• (113), Hold fast the pattern of
  sound words which you have heard from me, in
  faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.
• (21-2), You therefore, my son, be strong in the
  grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 And the things
  that you have heard from me among many witnesses,
  commit these to faithful men who will be able to
  teach others also.

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APOSTASY
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Hebrews 312-13

• Beware, brethren, lest there be in
  any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing
  from the living God 13 but exhort one another
  daily, while it is called Today, lest any of
  you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

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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, 2 speaking lies in
  hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared
  with a hot iron, 3 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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2 Timothy 43-5

• 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 4 and they
  will turn their ears away from the truth, and be
  turned aside to fables. 5 But you be watchful in
  all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an
  evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

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Devil Crossing!

• 1 Peter 58-9

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1 Peter 58-9

• Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the
  devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking
  whom he may devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast in
  the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are
  experienced by your brotherhood in the world.