Topics: Church Building, Temple, House of God, Man-made Tradition, Acts 17:24, God Does Not Dwell in Temples, Human Hands, Physical Temple Replaced, John 2:19, Early Church Went to Temple to Evangelize, Temple Destroyed in AD 70, House of God, Temple Called House of God, We Are Now God’s House, Hebrews 3:6, Hebrews 10:21, Constantine, 4th Century, Official Church Buildings, Romans Basilicas, Effort to Legitimize Christianity, Copied Pagans and Jews, Superimpose Hebrews 10:25 and Remember the Sabbath and Acts 20:7, Gathered on First Day is Not a Command Not at a Building Called Church, 7 Churches in Revelation Not Church Buildings, Groups of Ecclesia in Different Regions, Jettisoned Place of Worship, 1 Corinthians 3:16, 1 Corinthians 6:19, Worshiped Sun God, Made Sunday Official Holy Day, Put to Death Son and Nephew and Brother-in-Law, Claimed Title of Pontifex Maximus, Chief of Pagan Priests, Magic Formulas to Heal and Protect Crops, Constantinople Named After Himself, Adorned With Pagan Temple Treasures, 12 Monuments, 12 Apostles, Surrounded by Single Tomb, 13th Apostle, Declared Objects as Sacred, Copied Pagan Practice, Mother Obsessed with Relics, Cross and Nails of Jesus, Named Churches After Saints Copied Pagan Temples Named After Gods, Built On Cemeteries and Graves, Believed Were Holy Sites, Built Churches on Top of Peter and Paul and Christ’s Tomb and Place of Birth, Modeled after Basilicas, Longer Front to Back, Place of Government Functions and Civil Activities, Before the Cross We could not Be the Temples, Blood Made Temple Sanctified but Had to be Repeated, Dealt with Sins, Blood of Jesus Made us Sanctified Forever by Grace Through Faith, Dealt with Sins Once and For all, Hebrews 10:1 Those Worshipers Could Never Be Made Perfect, Hebrews 10:14 We Have Been Made Perfect, John 4, Spirit and Truth, Worship the Father Desires, Acts 7:48, Most High Does Not Dwell in Temples Built by Humans Hands, Nor Houses, House Churches are Not Church, The Church is a Living Organism

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Topics: Church Practices, Question Everything, Socrates, Socratic Method, Dialectic, Corrupting the Youth, John 7:19, Moses Gave the Law, None of You Keep the Law, Why Do You Want to K**l Me, Tradition of Men, Mark 7:9, Colossians 2:8, Gathering on Sunday, Building Called Church, Hebrews 10:25, “Church” Isn’t in Hebrews, Synagogues and Temple, No Pastor or Priest Preaching, Place of Animal Sacrifices, Remember the Sabbath, Sabbath on Saturday, Acts 20:7, Gathered on the First Day, This Was One Individual Meeting, Not a Description of Weekly Church Gathering, Constantine Began Sunday Worship, Worshiped Sun God, One Person in Charge, Matthew 20:26, It Will Not be Like this Among You, You Will Not Lord Over One Another, Gatherings Described in 1 Corinthians 11-14, Group Participation Encouraged, Everyone Gets Chance to Share, No Pastor Ever Listed as “In Charge”, Elders and Deacons Not In Charge, Reformation Put Pastors in Charge, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Elder is Mature in Any Faith, One Body With Many Members, Hebrews 13:17, Obey Your Leaders, Pastor Not in Hebrews, Leading them Away from Temple Work, Obedience of Faith, Formal Education, Preaching, Requirement for Formal Education in the Bible, 1 Corinthians 1:27, God Chose the Foolish, John 5:39, You Search the Scriptures, Did Not Choose Formally Educated According to the Law, Did Not Choose Priests, Choose Fisherman and Tax Collectors, Formal Education Began in 16th Century, Preach Means to Speak, Women and and Donkey Spoke More about God Than Anyone Named Pastor, Sermons, Sermon Not in Bible, Sermon on the Mount, Sermons Began Before Jesus, Sophists, Sophisticated, Philosophers, One-Man Monologues for Pay and Prestige, Early Church Was Greek, Clement of Alexandria, Sermons Bad Thing, Augustine and Chrysostom, Sophists Turned Christians, Eucharist Replaced Sermons, Greek Rhetoric, Deceitful Arguments, Constantine Loved Sermons, Pastor Never Gives Sermons, What’s Biblical is Everyone is Encouraged to Share, Tithing, How Many Times Are Believers Commanded to Tithe, How Many Times is Tithing in the Epistles, 2 Corinthians 9:7, Give Freely From the Heart, Not Under Pressure, Not Under Compulsion, Tithing Was Part of the Law, 23.3%, Not Money, Crops Produce Grain Spices Cattle, Tithing is a Curse, Galatians 3:10, Rely on Tithe is Relying on Curse, How Do You Keep the Lights On, Let Your Requests be Made Known, Trust God, Give-to-Get, Rely on God’s Grace Working Through the Body

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TOPICS: Fruit, Matthew 7:16, You Will Know Them By Their Fruit, Matthew 7:1, Do Not Judge Or You Too Will Be Judged, People Know Us By Our Fruit, God Doesn’t Know Us By Our Fruit, I Never Knew You, If you Judge Others You Will Be a Hypocrite, False Prophets Known By Fruit, Jesus Is Not the Messiah, Trees or Branches, John 15:5, I Am the Vine, You Are the Branches, Trees Followed the Law, Branches Trust Christ, Trees Self-Sufficient, Branches Can do Nothing on Their Own, Branches Know By Fruit of the Holy Spirit, Branches Don’t Produce Fruit, Bear Fruit, Known By Our Love, Judge Correctly John 7:24, None of You Keep the Law, John 7:19, Jesus Accused of Being Possessed, I Have Not Come to Judge the World but to Save It, John 12:47, You Can Tell Who’s Truly a Christian by Their Fruit, Branches Connected to Vine Not Bearing Fruit, Not Expressig Him, Branches Who’ve Forgotten Who They Are, Forgotten First Love, 2 Peter 1, Forgotten Cleansing Righteousness Holiness Sanctification, Even When We Are Faithless He Remains Faithful, 2 Timothy 2:13, Fruit Coming From Unbelievers, Good Appearing Fruit, Fruit Unto Death, Poisonous Fruit, Romans 7:5, Fruit of Death, Fruit Unto Death, Produced Through Behavior Modification Programs, Bore Through Law, Deadly Fruit, Non-Fruit-Bearing People Are Saved, Fruit-Unto-Death People Aren’t Saved, Produce Fruit in Keeping Up With Repentance, Matthew 3, Christians Are Not Known By Our Fruit, The Fruit of The Spirit, Galatians 5:22-23, Against Such Things There Is No Law, Legislate Fruit of The Spirit, We Are Not Fruit Inspectors or Fruit Producers, We Are Branches, Branches Don’t Judge other Branches by Fruit, We Rest and Trust the Vine, He Is Able to Bear Fruit Through Any Branch Who Trusts Him

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Topics: Revelation 3:16, Revelation 2-3, Revelation 3:15-17, Spit You Out of His Mouth, Spew You Out, Hot OR Cold, Hot Serves a Purpose, Cold Serves a Purpose, Lukewarm Serves No Purpose, Lukewarms, On Fire For the Lord, Cultural Christianity, Depart From Me, Mixing Law with Grace, Laodicean Hot and Cold Water From Neighboring Town, What Do You Do “For” the Lord, On Fire Competition, Luke 18, “I Fast and I Tithe,” Not Like This Sinner, “I Go to Church,” Comparison Game, Someone Is Always More on Fire, Not About Losing Salvation, Not About Losing Rewards, Hebrews 7:25, John 14:19, Matthew 20, Parable of the Vineyard Workers, Reward of the Inheritance, Colossians 3, Loss of Purposefulness, Loss Sight of First Love, Revelation 2, Abandoning Jesus, Jezebel Teaching Sexual Immorality, Licentiousness, Woman Teaching, 1 Timothy 2, Food Sacrificed to Idols, Lampstand Removed, Modern Church Has Forgotten Its First Love, Moralism, Principles, Law and Grace, King in the Church, Ignoring of 1 Corinthians 11-14, Give to Get, One Main Member, Not Encouraged to Participate, Roman Imperialism and Tradition of Men, Sermons, Cult-Like Gatherings, It Will Not Be Like This Among You, Matthew 20:26, Mark 10:43, Body Life Removed, Revelation 3:17, “You Say You’re Rich and Wealthy and Don’t Need a Thing,” “Wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked,” Distasteful to Jesus, Anti-Gospel, Not Forgiven, Not Righteous, Call Saints Sinners and Tell Them Not to Sin, Call the Righteousness of God “Not One Righteous!”, Try Harder, Put God First, Obey Pastor, What Is Purposefulness, Expressing the Fruit of the Spirit, Not Judging or Condemning, John 12:47, John 3:7, The World Stands Judged and Condemned Already Because of Unbelief, He Won’t Spit You Out, Even When You’re Faithless He Remains Faithful, 2 Timothy 2:13, Persuade others With the Love of Jesus, He Will Hold No Sin Against you, 2 Corinthians 5:19, Christ’s Ambassadors, Be Reconciled, 2 Corinthians 5:20, Be Hot, Be Cold, Be Purposeful, Be Yourself, Remember Your First Love and Express Him.

CORRECTION: I said Acts chapter 2 when describing Jezebel but I was talking about Revelation 2.

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Topics: John 13:1-17, Foot Washing, Repent of Sins, He Gets Us, Feet Washing in Old Testament, Ceremonial Washing, Humility and Servanthood, Luke 7:36-50, John 12:1-8, Exodus 30, Rest and Let Jesus Serve you, Serve One Another, Repeated Washing for Forgiveness, You are Clean, Except for His Feet, 1 Corinthians 6:11, You Were Washed, Judas Peter Thomas and John’s Sinning, Ministry of the Pharisees, Ministry of Reconciliation, 2 Corinthians 3:6, 2 Corinthians 5, Competent to Minister the New Covenant, Not of the Letter but of the Spirit, Persuade Others With Christ’s Love, Christ’s Ambassadors, Be Reconciled, The Will of the Father, Judas Betraying Jesus was the Will of the Father, John 6 29,40, To Believe In His Son, Condoning Sin, Affirming Sin, Only Serve Those Who Don’t Sin, Committed to People who Sin, Cooked Peter Breakfast, Give Your Life to Jesus, The Sheep Scattered, Zechariah Prophecy, We Had No Life, Born in Adam, Romans 5, Christ’s Life, Colossians 3:3-4, Go And Sin No More, None of Disciples Went and Sinned No More, 1 John 2:1-2, If Anyone Does Sin, The Woman Sinned Again, Grace of God Teaches Us How To Live Holy, John 3:17, Jesus Does Not Condemn But Save, Remove The Log From Your Eye, Be Great By Serving One Another, John 15, I No Longer Call You Servants But Friends, Express Christ, Wash the Feet of Friends and Foes, Lue 14, Count the Cost, Matthew 10, Jesus Didn’t Bring Peace But a Sword

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Topics: Matthew 7:9-11, You Who Are Evil, Good Gifts to Children, Bread or Stone, Fish or Snake, Give Good Things to Those Who Ask, James 1:17, Every Good and Perfect Gift, Father of Lights, Job 1:21, The Lord Gifts and Takes Away, Atheists and Supposed Apostates, Genesis 1-2, Creation, And it Was Good, The Fall, Hamaria, The Power of Sin, The Force of Sin, Genesis 4:7, First Death was Atonement, Romans 5, Sin Came Through One Man, Death Through Sin, Death Spread to Everyone, Genesis 3:15, Crush the Serpents Head, God Gave Dominion to Man, Son of Man, Son of God, 1 John 3:8, Destroy the Work of the Devil, Grace Reigns Through the Free Gift of Righteousness, 1 John 3:5, In Him Was No Sin, Appeared to Take Away Sin, John 10, John 11, John 14, Resurrection and the Life, Believes In Me Will Never Die, Eternal Life Through Free Gift of Righteousness, Miracles, Generational Curses, Cancer from Sinning, Those who are Healed Still Eventually Die

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Topics: Storms of Life, Matthew 8, Mark 4, Luke 8, Jesus Calms the Storm, Peace Be Still, Where Is Your Faith, Trust Jesus, Rest, Relationship Problems, Financial Problems, Work Problems, Health Problems, Reputation Problems, Hebrews 4:11, Strive to Rest, Healthy Boundaries, Don’t Take The Bait, Defending Yourself, Evil for Evil, Overcome Evil With Good, Be Yourself, Peacemaker, As Long as it Depends on You, Fuel For Gaslighting, Self-Control, Help Someone Else, Count It All Joy, Perseverance and Maturity, Know and Rely on God’s Love, 1 John 4, Remind Yourself of Promises, God Understands, His Grace Is Sufficient

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Topics: Acts 20:27, Acts 20:24-28, The Gospel of Grace, Preach the Word, Itching Ears, 2 Timothy 3, 2 Timothy 4, God Breathed, Wise for Salvation, Shrink Back, Hebrews 10:39, Hebrews 5, Hebrews 9, Law and Grace Mixture, Romans 5:18, Romans 6:14, Sin Preaching, Milk or Solid Food, Should be Teaching Righteousness by Now, Fear and Hell, Myths from Temple of Artemis, Too Much Grace, Titus 2:11-12

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Topics: Repent, Repentance, Unrepentant Sin, Repent of Your Sins, Hebrews 10:26, Deliberate Sins, Numbers 15:27, Non-Deliberate Sins, Wages of Sins, Romans 6:23, Reprobate Mind, Living by the Flesh, Sarx or Soma, Loss of Salvation, Remorse for Sins, Spit you Out, Depart From Me, Nobody’s Perfect, Flesh Takes Over

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Topics: Tongues, Speaking in Tongues, Acts 2:6-8, 1 Corinthians 14:1-40, Pray in Tongues, Unknown Language, Edification of the Church, Visitors will think You’re Mad, Romans 8, The Spirit Prays on our Behalf, Wordless Groans, Perfect Prayers, Learn to Speak in Tongues, Greatest Gift if Love, Pray with Your Mind, Prophesying, Prophets, Spirits of the Prophets Subject to Prophets, God is a God of Peace Not Confusion, 1 Corinthians 13, Tongues of Angels, Speak in Love, Greatest Gift 

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