Heritage Bible Church

4 Features of Direction that Reveal Your Path 1 - Where We've Been (chapters 1-27) 2 - Where We're Going (1-5) 3 - Who's Guiding Their Own Path? (6-9) 4 - What's the Other Path Look Like? (10-22)

The Apostle Peter wrote an admonition and prayer that expresses my desire for you. 2 Peter 3:17–18: You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness, 18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. To that end, we're beginning a new sermon series today, but not a sequential study through a book of the Bible. Instead, it will be a series of studies of crucial passages which help us learn how to take what we know and apply it in the most helpful ways possible. The goal: I want you to grow in your ability to nourish your soul from the word of God. Our first passage is 1 Timothy 1:5. The previous verses give the background. + In Ephesus certain ones + Teach a different doctrine + Pay attention to spiritual poisons + Speculate rather than being faithful to Scripture Then comes a phrase that is introduced by the glorious word BUT. The but is the Greek word that connotes both a connection and contrast. The connection is that there are certain ones who are altering sound doctrine and introducing spiritually poisonous ideas. The contrast is BUT the goal of OUR instruction is LOVE. 1 Timothy 1:5: But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. 1 - A Pure Heart 2 - A Good Conscience 3 - Unhypocritical Faith

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This year's final instalment of Provoke The Pastor focuses on three primary questions. There's a good chance you might learn a new word when we get to the final one. But I have a Labor Day special for you! Two questions that aren't in our sermon title. The answers are brief and simple to understand. 1 - (Bonus Question): Can an unmarried man be a deacon or elder? 2 - (Bonus Question): What about people who trust in Christ alone by faith alone but reject the natural meaning of Genesis? 3 - Cremation: Where in the Bible do we go to support cremation? 4 - Temptation: Does Satan have the ability to put thoughts in the mind of a believer? If I am indwelt by the Holy Spirit, how can Satan target my mind? What are his "schemes" against me? 5 - Intercalation: How did it come to be that some Bible translations include phrases or whole verses not in other translations?

Today we come to our second installment of Provoke the Pastor and the questions we'll be focusing on are primarily those of hermeneutics or Bible interpretation. We've repeatedly stated the importance of a consistent biblical hermeneutic which is able to be applied to every passage of Scripture from Genesis to Revelation. A methodology which does not need altered no matter which text of Scripture, which type or genre of Scripture, and which will always result in a consistent understanding of God's intended meaning to His church. New: I'm sure you must have answered this question before, but here goes again. In the Book of John 3:5 Jesus says, "Truly, truly, I say to you , unless one is born of water and the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." Does this say that Baptism is necessary for salvation? Old: My question is on the meaning of "permanent statute" in Leviticus 16:29 and 34. Using the hermeneutical rule of understanding the meaning of Scripture the way the audience would understand it, these verses seem to indicate that the annual day of atonement was prescribed for Israel to be perpetual. How should we understand these verses? Never: It's hard at times to tell in the Old Testament, who Jehovah or Yahweh is - Father or Son. With Lord = usually Son. With LORD = mostly Father. Does it really matter in most cases? Forever: A question arose during our discussion of Genesis as to the eternality of the Abrahamic Covenant.