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Title: Jesus is building his church
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Series: Baptism & Church Membership
Review: Ryan has slide - Kingdom of Heaven - Jesus - Church
Key: Authority
Illustration:
Belief on Authority
Believing things ‘on authority’ only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy.
Belief on Authority
Believing things ‘on authority’ only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy.
Ninety-nine percent of the things you believe are believed on authority.
I believe there is such a place as New York.
I could not prove by abstract reasoning that there is such a place.
I believe it because reliable people have told me so.
The ordinary person believes in the solar system, atoms, and the circulation of the blood on authority—because the scientists say so.
Every historical statement is believed on authority.
None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
But we believe them simply because people who did see them have left writings that tell us about them; in fact, on authority.
A person who balked at authority in other things, as some people do in religion, would have to be content to know nothing all his life.
- C. S. Lewis
Ninety-nine percent of the things you believe are believed on authority.
I believe there is such a place as New York.
I could not prove by abstract reasoning that there is such a place.
I believe it because reliable people have told me so.
The ordinary person believes in the solar system, atoms, and the circulation of the blood on authority—because the scientists say so.
Every historical statement is believed on authority.
None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
But we believe them simply because people who did see them have left writings that tell us about them; in fact, on authority.
A person who balked at authority in other things, as some people do in religion, would have to be content to know nothing all his life.
- C. S. Lewis
Galaxie Software.
(2002).
10,000 Sermon Illustrations.
Biblical Studies Press.
But how will the authority of Jesus be declared?
It will be through the seemingly strangest means.
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Great people in the kingdom — great people in the outpost of the kingdom (the church — are self-denying, cross-bearing servants.
How can we be sure of this?
(1) Jesus' path for building his church (v.
21) - a different path to authority
For instance, William Oncken, Jr., in a 1970 Colorado Institute of Technology Journal, gives an analysis of authority that suggests it is comprised of four elements:
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The Authority of Competence: the more competent the other fellow knows you are, the more confident he will be that you know what you are talking about and the more likely he will be to follow your orders, requests, or suggestions.
He will think of you as an authority in the matter under consideration and will feel it risky to ignore your wishes.
2. The Authority of Position: This component gives you the right to tell someone, “Do it or else.”
It has teeth.
“The boss wants it” is a bugle call that can snap many an office or shop into action.
3. The Authority of Personality: The easier it is for the other fellow to talk to you, to listen to you, or to work with you, the easier he will find it to respond to your wishes.
4. The Authority of Character: This component is your “credit rating” with other people as to your integrity, reliability, honesty, loyalty, sincerity, personal morals, and ethics.
Obviously you will get more and better from a man who has respect for your character than from one who hasn’t.
William Oncken, Jr., Colorado Institute of Technology Journal 22 (July 1970): 273.
Statement:
Jesus’ path to building a church of self-denying, cross-bearing servants is through the gospel.
Application:
Unbeliever: The reason you should choose Jesus as your Savior, to the exclusion of all others, is because of Jesus!
Christian: Your commitment to the body of Christ should be commensurate to the commitment Christ has to the body.
Illustration: Could you imagine if commitment to the body of Christ were on par with commitment to football practice?
Could you imagine a player who’s commitment to the team was like the commitment of many Christians to their church?
Who skipped practice?
Who did not play for the team but only for himself?
Who missed blocks for his quarterback?....
On the flip side, imagine winning a big football game.
Think of the excitement and joy that comes with the success.
One might say afterwards, “Wow, all of those long hours in practice really paid off.
Wow, playing for the team and not just for myself really paid off.
Wow! not missing the two-a-days really paid off.”
Is there not a greater joy experienced when God’s people are committed to the body?
Your commitment to the body of Christ should be commensurate to the commitment Christ has to the body.
(2) Jesus' problem in building his church (v.
22)
Statement:
Jesus’ problem in building his church is the Satanic thinking of well-intentioned men.
(rather than are self-denying, cross-bearing servants).
5291 To Destroy Louis XVII
Louis XVI and his beautiful wife were killed on the scaffold during the revolution.
Their son, who was already registered in the rolls as Louis XVII, was taken prisoner.
The people wanted revenge of a worse kind.
The child was not only to be kept a prisoner and forever deprived of his right to reign, whatever good in him was to be destroyed.
And so, they placed him under the tutelage of evil men who trained his mind to evil thoughts, his heart to evil designs, and his lips to speak all sorts of evil words.
But now and again, the unhappy boy would grasp for higher things and exclaim in anguish: “I can’t say it, I can’t do it, for I was born to be a king!”
Application:
The gates of Hell are closer to the kingdom than we initially thought.
With the fall of man came an infiltration of the human nature with sinful savors.
Unbeliever: Reason alone cannot satisfy your curiosity about Jesus.
Your own mind cannot contemplate sufficiently.
You must receive Jesus & Jesus alone if you will escape judgment.
Christian: The gospel of Christ is what causes you to win the battle over thoughts that devalue the church and commitment to the church.
(3) Jesus' plea for building his church (v.
24 - 26)
Statement:
Jesus’ plea for building his church is a plea for are self-denying, cross-bearing followers.
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