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- Elders Rule By
- Leading (Hebrews 13:17
- Shepherding (I Peter 5:2
- Service (Luke 22:25-26
- Elders are servants of the congregation. They rule by serving.
- Warning and admonishing (I Thessalonians 5:12-13
- Acts 20:31 - Elders are to watch for the flock.
- Ezekiel 3:17 - The important duties of a watchman.
- Teaching (Acts 20:28
- Elders are to feed the flock the word of God. I Timothy 5:2
- Example
- Matthew 20:25-27
- Elders are to lead by example and not try to force decisions on the congregation.
- Matthew 23:8 - We are all brethren in God’s eyes.
- Elders influence the congregation by their behavior and should not do things that they wouldn’t want anyone else to do.
30 min - How We Got the Bible, Part 6
- The Old Testament was written between roughly 1500 B.C and 425 B.C.
- The New Testament was written between roughly 4 A.D. and 90 A.D.
- Asceticism - abstaining from physical pleasures in pursuance of spiritual goals. See Colossians 2:18-23.
- Gnosticism - belief that matter is evil and spirit is good. Gnostics believed they had special knowledge that allowed them to be good. See I John 4:1-6
- Docetism - belief that the body of Christ seemed real, but was an illusion.
- Pseudepigrapha - Greek for “falsely attributed.” There were many books in the First Century that were falsely attributed to trusted authors.
- I Timothy 5:18 as “Scripture.”
- II Peter 3:15-16 - Peter refers to Paul’s letters as “Scripture.”
- Origen of Alexandria
- By the 4th Century A.D., the canon of the New Testament is firmly set.
- We have over 5,000 manuscripts of the New Testament in Greek. The next closest writings are the Iliad and Odyssey. There are about 643 manuscripts of the Odyssey.
- Uncial - A form of manuscript written in all capital letters with no spaces or punctuation. This form was used to aid in checking for errors in the text because all the letters would always line up.
- Cursive - A form of manuscript written in standard form with spaces and punctuation.
30 min - Authority, Part 2
- God is to be the director in every phase of life, continued:
- Economical (the business world)
- Colossians 3:22-23 - Servants are to obey their masters and work heartily.
- Titus 2:9-10 - Servants are to be submissive and work in good faith.
- Colossians 4:1 - Masters are to treat servants fairly.
- Social
- Luke 10:30-35 - the parable of the good Samaritan
- We are to have mercy and compassion on people in need.
- This example deals with individuals - not churches.
- Ephesians 4:28 - Work with your own hands to provide for yourself and those you have responsibility for.
- Matthew 5:16 - Let your light shine before others.
- Spiritual
- Matthew 17:5 - God commands us to obey Jesus. Jesus is God’s spokesman.
- Matthew 7:21-23
- II Timothy 3:16-17 - Inspired scripture is profitable to man to make him complete and equipped for every good work.
- II Peter 1:3
- Jude 1:3 - The faith was delivered once for all to the saints.
- God has the right to direct man’s life and He alone has the right to choose the directions.
30 min - Resisting Our Narcissistic Culture
- Romans 12:2-3 - Do not be conformed to this world. Do not think more of yourself than you should.
- Philippians 2:1-11
- I must regard others as more important than myself (Philippians 2:3-4
- We have to be careful of the rampant self-promotion that exists in our culture.
- Job 38:1-7 - We must remember how small we really are.
- Proverbs 27:5-6 - Sometimes we need to hear criticism.
- Self esteem is not the problem - self-control is.
- Luke 17:3 - We need to be told what we are lacking.
- I must work hard as a servant (Philippians 2:5-8
- II Thessalonians 3:7-10 - We can not go along thinking we are just entitled to things.
- Philippians 2:12-15
- I must let God exalt me instead of exalting myself.
- Luke 14:7-11 - Don’t exalt yourself.
- Luke 18:9-14 - The tax collector showed humility in prayer.
- I Corinthians 4:5 - We should wait and let God exalt us.
30 min - What Can I Learn From a Hole in the Roof?
- True faith takes action.
- Mark 2:3-5
- James 2:14-17 - Faith without works is dead.
- I John 3:18 - Let us love in deed and truth.
- Is my faith shown by action?
- Physical wonders attest to Jesus’ spiritual authority.
- Mark 2:9-12 - Jesus used the physical miracle to prove that He had power to forgive sins.
- Isaiah 45:12 - The earth is God’s creation.
- II Peter 3:10-11 - If the Bible is right about creation, what does that tell us about its spiritual claims?
- A paralytic can serve God, and so can I!
- Mark 2:5
- Luke 9:57-62 - Jesus cut right through the excuses people tried to use.
30 min - How We Got the Bible, Part 5
- Prophecies
- Tyre (Ezekiel 26:1-14
- Nebuchadnezzar will destroy the mainland city.
- Many nations will be brought against the city.
- The debris of Ture would be scraped off into the ocean.
- Tyre would be a place for fishermen to spread their nets.
- Tyre would be built no more.
- Edom (Ezekiel 25:12-14
- Vengeance by the hands of God’s people (Ezekial 25:14)
- Cut off man from Teman to Dedan (Ezekiel 25:13
- Memphis vs. Thebes (Ezekiel 30
- Memphis’ (Noph’s) idols would be destroyed (Ezekiel 30:13
- Thebes would be split open (breached and broken) (Ezekiel 30:14
- The Apocryphal books
- The Hasmonean Dynasty
- The Herodian Dynasty
- The doctrine of purgatory comes from 2 Maccabees. Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox followers accept the Apocrypha and the doctrine of purgatory.
30 min - Authority, Part 1
- Elders don’t have authority (except for delegated authority) - they have authorization from God to do some things that others don’t. Deacons, janitors, etc. have authorization to do certain things as well.
- God created man; thus God alone has the right to direct man’s life. He has the right to choose how to direct and He has the right to choose the directions (Jeremiah 10:23. He is to be the director in every phase of life: domestic, civil, economical, social, and spiritual.
- Domestic
- Genesis 2:18-24 - Marriage is to be one man and one woman for life.
- Matthew 15:4-6 - Honor father and mother.
- Ephesians 5:22-33 - Wives submit to husbands. Husbands love wives.
- Ephesians 6:1-4 - Children are to obey parents.
- Colossians 3:18-21 - Commands for husbands, wives, and children.
- Hebrews 12:9-11
- I Timothy 5:8
- I Timothy 5:14
- Civil
- Romans 13:1-7
- I Timothy 2:1-3
- I Peter 2:17
30 min - Elders, Their Work
- I Timothy 3:1 - Men are not to aspire to the office of elder so that they can be in charge of things.
- Set proper example. I Peter 5:3
- Hold fast the Word, exhort and convince gainsayers - Titus 1:9
- Feed, tend, shepherd the flock - I Peter 5:2
- Feed the flock to edify - Acts 20:28
- Watch for souls - Hebrews 13:17
- Restore the fallen - Titus 1:9-11
- Correct gainsayers - Titus 1:9
- Oversee the flock
- Show hospitality
- It is not the work of elders:
- To be a centralized board to receive money from many congregations to do a big work.
- To build, maintain, or support human institutions for any cause.
- To oversee any brotherhood function.
- Brotherhood preacher training program
- Brotherhood becture
- When we think about elders, let us be sure we think about the local church, not the brotherhood.
30 min - What Should I Learn From Judas?
- I can be part of the effort for years and still choose to sin.
- Mark 3:13-19
- Luke 22:1-6
- James 4:1-7 - Sin is our own choice.
- A “small” vice can become my big downfall.
- John 12:3-6 - Judas had a problem with greed and theft.
- Matthew 26:14-16 - Judas’ “small” vice becomes a bigger problem.
- John 7:30 - Jesus had been in danger of arrest many times.
- James 1:14-15 - the progression of sin
- Matthew 5:21-26 - Don’t even allow sin to start!
- Matthew 5:27-28 - To stop adultery, stop lusting after women! Stop the sin before it can even get started.
- Matthew 15:19
- I Timothy 6:10
- I shouldn’t give up on myself
- Matthew 27:1-5 - Judas hanged himself when he saw what was happening to Jesus.
- Genesis 4:7 - Cain had the ability to master his sin, but did not do it.
30 min - How We Got the Bible, Part 4
- The Leningrad Codex and Aleppo Codex
- Guttenberg Bible, printed in Germany in 1455
- Biblia Hebraica by Rudolph Kittel
- Later editions become the textus receptus for the New American Standard Bible
- Septuagint and Masoretic Text
- Jerome creates the translation known as the Vulgate in Latin
- The Apocryphal books were all written in Greek in the time between the Old and New Testaments.
- Textual criticism
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Discovered in 1947, they are traditionally associated with the Essenes, a Jewish sect alongside the Pharisees andSadducees.
- The two copies of Isaiah prove to be more than 95% identical with the Masoretic text. The errors were primarily spelling and obvious slips of the pen.
- Canon of the Old and New Testament
- According to the Hebrew organization of the Old Testament, there were 22 books.
- The Apocrypha
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