Does It Make Any Difference?

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Does It Make Any Difference?

• Part 3
• What of name and authority?

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We have already noted

• The danger in false teachers doctrines
• What God says about good people
• Church founders
• Church beginnings

Considering that there IS a difference between
the New Testament churches and churches of men,
lets look a little farther.
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What about the Name?

• Names are used to leave impressions
• Sanitation Engineer
• Executive Maintenance Supervisor
• A story vs. a lie
• Hooker
• Gay
• Affair

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What about the Name?

• Often hear theres nothing in a name, tell that
  to
• Marion Morrison
• Thomas Mapother IV
• Noah Kaminsky
• Mark Vincent

John Wayne
Tom Cruise
Neil Diamond
Vin Diesel
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Ephesians 314-15

• For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
  15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth
  is named

God thinks names ARE important
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Isaiah 622

• The nations shall see your righteousness, and all
  the kings your glory, and you shall be called by
  a new name that the mouth of the Lord will give.

God promised His people a new name
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Acts 1126

• and when he (Barnabas) had found him(Paul), he
  brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met
  with the church and taught a great many people.
  And in Antioch the disciples were first called
  Christians.

God gave His people a new name
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1 Peter 416

• Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not
  be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.

Encouraged not be to ashamed, but to glorify God
as a Christian
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1 Corinthians 12

• To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those
  sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints
  together with all those who in every place call
  upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both
  their Lord and ours

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Romans 1616

• Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the
  churches of Christ greet you

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Ephesians 122-23

• And he put all things under his feet and gave him
  as 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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With Possession Comes Authority

• Authority defined the right to command,
• Who has it?
• The Pope?
• The Southern Baptist Convention?
• The Watchtower Society?
• Pentecostal prophets?
• Mormon President his 12 apostles?
• Lutheran Synod?
• Presbyterian General Assembly?
• General Conference of United Methodists?

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Matthew 2818

• And Jesus came and said to them, All authority
  in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Ephesians 122-23
And he put all things under his feet and gave him
as 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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John 1613-15

• When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you
  into all the truth, for he will not speak on his
  own authority, but whatever he hears he will
  speak, and he will declare to you the things that
  are to come. 14 He will glorify me, for he will
  take what is mine and declare it to you. 15 All
  that the Father has is mine therefore I said
  that he will take what is mine and declare it to
  you.

Gave His truth to the apostles
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2 Timothy 22

• and what you have heard from me in the presence
  of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who
  will be able to teach others also.

Apostles gave truth to faithful people
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Galatians 16-9

• I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting
  him who called you in the grace of Christ and are
  turning to a different gospel 7 not that there
  is another one, but there are some who trouble
  you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
  8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should
  preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we
  preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we
  have said before, so now I say again If anyone
  is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one
  you received, let him be accursed.

That truth was NEVER to be changed
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Matthew 158-9

• This people honors me with their lips, but their
  heart is far from me 9 in vain do they worship
  me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of
  men.

Mixing Gods will with mens commands makes
worship vain
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1 Corinthians 46

• I have applied all these things to myself and
  Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may
  learn by us not to go beyond what is written,
  that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one
  against another.

Not exceeding, even in the presence of prophets
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• The church of the New Testament is different from
  mens churches.

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2 Peter 13His divine power has granted to us
all things that pertain to life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him who called us to his
own glory and excellence, 
Jude 3 Beloved, although I was very eager to
write to you about our common salvation, I found
it necessary to write appealing to you to contend
for the faith that was once for all delivered to
the saints.
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2 Timothy 316-17

• All Scripture is breathed out by God and
  profitable for teaching, for reproof, for
  correction, and for training in righteousness,
  17 that the man of God may be competent, equipped
  for every good work

The word is all sufficient
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Acts 2032

• And now I commend you to God and to the word of
  his grace, which is able to build you up and to
  give you the inheritance among all those who are
  sanctified.

The word is able to build up and save
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• The New Testament church, the church of Christ
  stands alone among the churches of men.

Are you part of that body? A citizen in that
kingdom?