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I’m confused?
Stumbling blocks.
There are stumbling blocks that cause many not to obey the Gospel.
There are multitude of people trying to tell you you do this, don’t do that, they are a cult, they are not the true church and much the like.
There are conflicting doctrines (teachings) conflicting practices.
Jesus is the way out of religious confusion.
When we stay to the Word of God there is no division.
When we follow the ways of Christ there is no conflicting doctrine we are simply Christians who study God’s Word together.
Jesus wanted unity, Paul wanted unity and we know that God is not the author of confusion but of peace.
Jesus wanted unity that the whole world may believe in the Father and that the Father had sent Him.
Jesus wanted the world to believe the apostles doctrine
The early church did, and like the Israelites added to what God said people today have added to what God says, hence making doctrine that is not biblical.
There is no doubt that all of these different groups of people love Jesus but are they acceptable to Jesus and the Father?
I’m not the judge, but we have Gods Word to share with others the Truth, and the Truth is the Jesus of the Bible, and the doctrine of the Apostles.
Oh we are no alone in the division, we may even cause it at times by trying to share the Word without love.
We are not alone, the 1st century had issues too as Paul pointe out.
Christ’s desire was
they all may be one (Jn17:21)
Paul’s desire
That there be no divisions
Be perfectly joined together
In the same mind
In the same judgment
Same mind, makes me think of this.
then a few verses later
Php2:
Since we are to be unified, no division, and God is not the author of confusion what is?
What is the source of confusion?
Paul wrote this
Worldly, other versions say carnal or fleshly.
divisions are caused by things of this world and not of the Spirit.
These things, the works of the world, ofthe flesh, of carnality can keep you out of the kingdom of God as mentioned in a list Paul has:
Divisions; go hand in hand with
Sedition (N) - conduct or speech inciting people to rebel . . .
Or how about
Heresies (N) - belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious doctrine (Especially Christianity)
We don’t have to look far to see this do we?
It is possible to be simply a Christian today in spite of the religious divisions we see around us at times.
For Jesus is the way out of religious confusion
I. Jesus showed the way
In Jesus time, the time of His coming was the time of the Jewish people being God’s chosen people, but there were divisions among the Jews.
They were known as religious sects, or parties
Pharisee’s- zeal for traditions; considered themselves better more religious than rest
Sadducees - the aristocrats, worldly minded; thought of themselves as superior to the rest
Herodians - Jewish political sect in line with Rome - thought they were right and were more aggressive than the rest
This is the culture that Jesus came into the world, you would think that the seriously religious minded people would belong to one of these sects, but Jesus did not.
Jesus was simply an Israelite who came into this world under the Law of Moses not to do away with it, but to fulfill it.
He encouraged people to keep it and exceed the religious zeal (righteousness) of the Pharisees or you will not enter kingdom of heaven.
So this simply an Israelite that set a path and example for man to be reconsiled to God because we could not surpass the righteousness of the Pharisees, what would Jesus be today?
- Simply a Christian, not a part of any sect or denomination, but true to what a Christian is today as laid out in the scripture.
That is what the disciples were called: Christians
Barnabus had set out to find Paul and came to him and brought him back to Antioch and that is where Christians were first called Christians.
Paul wanted to reach people no matter place or position so he could win to the law of Christ, to come to Christ, Christ’s way.
- we too should be satisfied with the name “Christian” and be happy with just being simply a Christian in the Lord’s Church.
II.
The Lord’s Church
Jesus clearly tells us how the church was to be built and how many churches
Built upon the truth that Jesus is the Christ the Son of the living God He would build His Church!
The church is the Ekklesia, the called out, the assembled, so how were we called?
We were called through the gospel; those who were of obedient faith
2Th3
We were called through the gospel; those who were of obedient faith
Called out by the Gospel, called to act by faith and be added to the numbers those bveing saved
The Christians, the church started and existed in Jerusalem just as Jesus said.
The Gospel spread out and the 3000 grew
It was not easy, there were lots of tribulations; and you will face them too, but remember Christ already overcame the tribulations of this world
So at the preaching, came the faith, from the faith came the obedience and from the obedience the church was born and by the church there is no division when we are unified in Christ.
The words we use, the things we teach are the things of the Bible.
The things that were taught to us, just as Paul taught to his disciples like a youngman named Timothy
The word does not change, we don’t add to it, we don’t take from it, it is the whole counsel of God
The whole counsel is Jesus as the way of forgiveness, the way to the Father, the way the truth and the life.
Everything we need to take us to heaven and to lead others to the kingdom of God.
We hold the teachings, the doctrine of God, the authority and we share the written word with others, and in doing so we know how we ought to act in the house of God (we are the house of God.
Remember the called, called by the gospel, not by the ways of man, but by the ways of God through the blood of Christ, and we need to hol fast to it.
Remember we started today talking about being “simply a Christian” and the religious confusion that is out there we need to be about avoiding divisions and leading people to follow the truth as laid out in the scripture.
- follow the same instructions that they followed on Pentecost when the church (Ekklesia) was born
Repenting and being baptized, why?
Because you heard the message, the gospel
They believed the message
and the results I already mentioned (ref.
Act2:47) the Lord adds to the numbers; and then we keep, follow the apostles doctrine, the teaching, pattern as laid out in Act2:42
When we accept christ and are buried and raised up with Christ to walk in the newness of life (Ref: Rom6:3-4) then we are united, which means we are in unity with others all over the world like us that have obeyed the same teaching (doctrine) as laid out in the Bible.
We are
Churches of Christ (Rom16:16)
Church of God (1Cor1:2)
Body of Christ (1Cor12:27)
You are simply a Christian!
Conclusion: It is not hard to be simply a Christian, when we follow the teaching of Jesus as revealed by Jesus and the Apostles we have no religious confusion; no division we simply have simple Christians studying God’s Word to share the love of God with others.
Are you simply a Christian, have you obeyed the calling by the gospel?
Are you bringing unity through the Word and judgment and division?
May we follow the ways of Christ and do things His way and get His results.
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