Christ Community Church of Pembroke Pines

Mathew 9 14-15

  Chrisitan Ethics

                                     Pt. 3 “True Tolerance”                               

                                              Romans 15:1-2

Patience (v.1)

Pleasing (v.2)

1 Cor. 10:24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor. 14:3 the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.

Phil. 2:3-4  3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Same idea.

1 Jo. 4:11,20-21  11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. .. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot[a] love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

1 Cor. 9:22; 10:33  To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some…  10:33 just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

1 Cor.10:27-32 27 If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience. 28 But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience— 29 I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience? 30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?

31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 32 Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,

1 Thess. 5:14  And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.

Truthful Triage:

Tactful Tips:   

Gospel Love (vv.1-3)

Gospel Conscience (vv. 4-5)

Saved (1 Tim 2:3-4)

Spirit-filled (Eph. 5:17-20)

Sanctified (1 Thess. 4:3)

Submissive (1 Pet. 2:13-15)

Suffering (1 Pet. 2:20-21)  

Saying thanks (1 Thess. 5:16-18)

Psa. 37:4-5 4 Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the Lord;  trust in him, and he will act.

Gospel Glory (vv. 6-8)

2 Cor. 5:15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

Matthew 6:22-24

22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.[a]

  True Faith- “How Do I Know I’m Saved?”

                                           Pt. 4 “Fortitude”                                      

                                    Colossians 1:21-23

God’s Preservation (vv.21-22)

Phil. 1:6  And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ  

Ro. 8:31,33,39 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be[i] against us?.. 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies….  39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Our Perseverance (vv. 22b -23)

Jo. 6:66-69 66 After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. 67 So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, 69 and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”

Job 1:20-22 20 Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. 21 And he said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” 22 In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.

1 Cor. 15:1-2 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain

Ro. 8:35-39 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,

“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;

    we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

True Faith- “How Do I Know I’m Saved?”

                                                Pt. 2 “Faith”                           

                                         Romans 10:9-10

Confession (v.9)

Mt. 16:15-17 15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

Jo. 6:67-69 67 So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, 69 and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”

Heb. 11:1,6 1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. … 6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Mt. 13:44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Confidence (v.10)

Jo. 1:12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God

1 Jo. 4:15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

Gal. 2:16 yet we know that a person is not justified[b] by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

Mt. 10:32-33 32 So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heave

The Opportunity of Freedom (vv. 35-36)

Jo. 6:51a-b; 7:37 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. … 37 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

The Guarantee of Freedom (vv. 37-40)

Deut. 7:6-b-7 The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples.. (unconditional election).

1 Jo. 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.

Church Life

“Persecution for a Miracle”

Acts 4:1-12

The Arrest (vv.1-4)

1 Pet. 4:12-14, 19 12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. 13 But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. 14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory[b] and of God rests upon you…. 19 Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.

The Interrogation (vv.5-7)

The Confession (vv.8-12)

Dan. 3:16b-18; 6:10 “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17 If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.[a] 18 But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”…. 6:10 When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.

Matt. 21:43-44 43 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. 44 And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”

Matt. 10:37-39 37 Whoever loves father or mother more than m

 Church Life

                                         “The Message of a Miracle”

                                                        Acts 3:17-26

Gospel Guilt (vv.17-23)

Amos 9:14-15 14 I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.

15 I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them,” says the Lord your God.

Zec. 14:4, 6-7, 9,16  On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley.. 6 On that day there shall be no light, cold, or frost. 7 And there shall be a unique day, which is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but at evening time there shall be light….9 And the Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day the Lord will be one and his name one.

16 Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.

Isa. 65:20 No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the young man shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.

Matt. 24:30,36, 44 30 Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory…36 “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only…. 44 Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

Gospel Grace (vv.24-26)

Gen. 12:3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”