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We're looking at the identity
of the church. We're seeking to understand what is the church,
who is the church? We've already dealt with those
two questions. And now we're going to deal with what is the
church to do? What is our purpose as a church? John McDuff, he said the gods
of the unregenerate soul are the world, self and sin. And he's right. But in the seeker
sensitive church, those three words have been ignored. You
don't hear anything like that mentioned. We're told that the
church today needs to be light on doctrine. And they need to
deal more with the felt needs of the individual and the few
or the unchurched. I read last week from the book
by John MacArthur, Ashamed of the Gospel, Let me read you again
something else he says in that book. He says, Today we have
the extraordinary spectacle of church programs designed explicitly
to cater to fleshly desire, sensual appetites and human pride. To
achieve this worldly appeal, church activities often go beyond
the merely frivolous. For several years, a colleague
of mine has been collecting a horror file of clippings that report
how churches are employing innovations to keep worship services from
becoming dull. In the past half decade, some
of America's largest evangelical churches have employed worldly
gimmicks like slapstick, vaudeville, wrestling exhibitions and even
mock striptease to spice up their Sunday meetings. And even, he
says, no brand of horseplay, it seems is too outrageous to
be brought into the sanctuary. And that's what's going on with
this whole desire and goal to supposedly reach people. But,
you know, James gives a stern warning about worldliness, doesn't
he? In James 4, he tells us adulterers and adulteresses, do you not
know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever,
therefore, wants to be a friend of the world and makes himself
an enemy of God. So there's a serious consequence
to worldliness. In fact, John echoes those similar
words in 1 John 2, 15. And 16, when he says, do not
love the world or the things in the world, if anyone loves
the world, the love of the father is not in him for all that's
in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and
the pride of life. It's not of the father, but it's
of the world. And the church today, and you
heard this 50 cent term that John MacArthur mentioned a few
weeks ago when we were watching the video on a Sunday night,
he mentioned the term pragmatism. You'll probably be hearing that
term again and seeing it. But a definition of pragmatism
is basically the notion that meaning or worth is determined
by practical consequences. And they use that as a guiding
philosophy of their life and a guiding philosophy of theology
and ministry. You know, whatever is of meaning,
whatever is of worth, it could be anything. You know, if it
works. And we'll use it. And I've told
people, I mean, before I became a pastor and hearing things like
this and watching churches copy what the church down the road
is doing, I'm saying, listen, just because it works there doesn't
mean it's going to work here. You've got a totally different set of
people down there. Those people have different needs than the
needs that are at this church. You know, that's how come no
two churches are alike. I mean, the only thing that we're
really alike in is that we started a lot of times at the same time. And some churches, you can go
in there and you can know about what time they're going to take
up the offering, you know, or what time they're going to sit
down or stand up or anything like that. But this whole idea
of pragmatism, it's as this guiding philosophy, it's got some flaws
to it. In fact, it's nothing short of
satanic. This is certainly how the devil
creeps into the church and seeks to lead people astray because
they get them focused on, well, whatever works. Instead of operating
on the basis that we got to go by the word says, you know, we
don't have the option of using whatever works, you know, because
what's going on in the secret sensitive church is that they're
using whatever will work to reach the world and they're using the
world to reach the world. Now, as I mentioned the last
couple of times together, we were dealing with that question,
who is the church? And we basically responded by
the church being believers. only, not a church made for unbelievers. That's the church of Satan, the
Satanic church, that's for unbelievers. But yet today, there are many
churches, again, that are going on that focus and that direction
that the church is for unbelievers. They might not come out and say
that, but the way that they're operating and the way that they're
giving their attention and their priority, they're giving it to
that issue. And, you know, the early church,
it began with what conversions. So, you know, it's not made up
of unbelievers, it's made up of believers. And we also saw
in the New Testament epistles that they are addressed to the
church and they refer to the church as being believers. Right.
Fifteen New Testament books begin their addresses by making references
to the audience as being believers, the church. So the church is
for believers, we're not to cater to the loss. to reach them or
to preach the gospel to them or to teach the word of God.
I was telling a couple that came yesterday. They were asking some
questions about our church, and I said, listen, one of the things
that we seek to do here is to only use one thing to draw people.
The word of God, I mean, we're not seeking to do anything other
than that, but to preach the word. And, you know, if somebody
is going to come and be a part of the church and they're going
to come for that reason, that basis, because that's That's
all we're going to offer. That's all we have to offer.
I mean, we can't even offer everything for every single age group and,
you know, in the church. But again, we have a different
philosophy there in how we're dealing with this. And so Paul
even said in Acts 20, verse 27, when he was talking to the elders
at Ephesus, he says, I have not shown to declare We're preaching to an audience
of one. When we sing, we sing to an audience
of one. If we don't sing or preach to
please anybody sitting in the pew, we only have one desire,
and that is to please God. And if we can please him who
sets a higher standard, then I think we'll do fine with everyone
else unless they come in here with totally unrealistic demands. John MacArthur further states,
this is a good statement here. He says, the truth of God does
not tickle our ears. It boxes them. It burns them. It first reproves, rebukes, convicts,
then exhorts and encourages. Preachers of the word must be
careful to maintain that balance. And a lot of times you hear people
crying out saying, you know, you're harsh. They always go
with that. And then they go, you're unloving.
And folks, If you deny telling people the truth, that is unloving.
If you don't tell them what they need to hear, then that's being
unloving. I'm more interested in telling
people what they need to hear rather than what they want to
hear, because not always what you want to hear is the kind
of stuff you need to be hearing. You usually need the opposite
being told to you. But unfortunately, preachers with their ear tickling
messages are all too abundantly available just because you see
a church that has a crowd, don't Don't don't think immediately
in your mind that they have that crowd because God has caused
that to happen. You could very much have your
tickling preachers in there and just telling the people exactly
what they want to hear. And, you know, you have this prosperity
gospel, you have this word faith movement and churches are are
huge that are part of that. That is not of God. And I wish
more people would say that Marvin Vincent, he writes this. In periods
of unsettled faith, skepticism and mere curious speculation
in matters of religion, teachers of all kinds swarm like the flies
of Egypt. The demand creates the supply.
The hearers invite and shape their own preachers. If the people
desire a calf to worship, a ministerial calf maker is readily found. And that's exactly what we were
talking about last week with The whole start of the Seeker
Sensitive Church, running around into the neighborhood doing surveys
and finding out what people would like to see in a church and then
going back and putting together that kind of a model for the
people you're trying to reach. And then again, we talked about
targets last week. Listen, we have one target. You
know what it is? When we're out away from the
church, we're targeting the lost. We're not targeting a certain
age group. We're targeting the lost. So that's going to cover
all kinds of age groups, right? And as far as inside the church,
who are we targeting? We're targeting believers. That's why we teach
the word. That's why going back to Acts
20, 27, we want to teach the whole counsel of God. So since the church is for believers
and we got to ask the question. What is the church to do, and
we're going to see that in Acts chapter two, in fact, we're going
to look at chapters two through eight, at least in this first
point, as we focus in on what the early church did, because
that's one of the ways that we can look at this, just go back and
see what the first church did. Now, let me just warn you that
some of the things here, you've got to come to the book of Acts
and realize that it is a historical book. It is many times referred
to as the acts of the apostles. Right. This is things that they
did. And we see their formation. We
see what they were told. We see their evangelism. You
know, we see their persecution. I mean, we see a lot of things
here and The book of Acts basically focuses on two individuals, Peter
and Paul. You have the first chapters that
dominate or where Peter dominates. And then after that, you have
you have Paul dominating the rest of the book. So we're going
to start right there and let's just simply start from the beginning.
What can you think of when you think of the first thing that
the church did? What do you think of? Preaching. Praise the Lord for
saying that. Because that word is becoming
scarce. You know, we want the ear tickling
stories, that's not preaching, that's storytelling. And they
preach the gospel. Look there in Acts chapter two.
He says there in verse 40, and with many other words, he testified
and exhorted and you back up early in chapter two. And you
see in verse 14, Peter standing up with the eleven. He raised
his voice and he said, and he's describing what took place there
on the day of Pentecost. You get down to verse 22 after
he goes through that whole prophecy right there of Joel and he begins
to preach to them. What is he preaching to them?
You murdered your Messiah. That's what he's preaching. Very
specific. Listen, if you were to analyze
this today, you would say, Peter, you're not being tolerant. Peter,
you're you're stepping all over the toes of people. You know,
you need to be a little bit more sensitive. You need to think
about their felt needs. Listen, the only felt need that
they thought about was the fact that they were sinners in need
of forgiveness. And there was only one way they
were going to get it. And that was through repenting and turning
to Christ, period. That's all. And again, we've
gotten away from this whole issue of preaching the gospel. Many
churches The pulpit stays out of the way half the time so we
can do dramas. Now, I'm not all down on dramas, believe me, I
like dramas, but I don't think that that should be the focus
of everything that we do. I think the focus of what we
do is to preach the gospel, preach the word of God. I mean, that
is our priority. I'm called to preach. I'm not
called to sing, though God's given me the gift and the ability
to do that. I'm called to preach. And we're even told to preach
the gospel. We're not told to sing the gospel, are we? There's
nothing wrong with singing the gospel. And you hear people say,
well, I went to this such and such concert and I got saved
at the concert. Well, listen, you got saved at the concert
because somebody preached the gospel. It wasn't that they just
got up there and sang songs, you know. Richard Baxter, a Puritan,
he said this, I preach as never sure to preach again. And as
a dying man to dying men, I preach as if this is my last sermon.
That's commitment. That's faithfulness. That's diligence. I mean, what would you do if
it was the last day of your life and you knew it? See, that's the only
thing is we don't know that when when is the last day of our life
here on the earth. So we always live as if there's a tomorrow.
We always we always look at tomorrow. In fact, many things that we
need to do today, what do we do? We procrastinate. We put
them off to tomorrow. I mean, we all do that. And truthfully,
I love having deadlines in my life because that just keeps
me from procrastinating in certain areas, but it all boils down
to self-discipline and things like that. Well, let's look at
this. We look at preaching the gospel.
We see that this was the priority of the early church. Again, you
look here in Acts chapter two and you see that it began on
the day of Pentecost. You remember in chapter one,
you're told. to wait there in Jerusalem for the promise of
the Holy Spirit. During that time, of course, they chose Matthias
to replace Judas. So now they're numbering 12 again. And so you have here in verse
one of chapter two, on the day of Pentecost, when they had fully
come, they were all with one accord in one place. They're
right there, about 120 of them in the upper room. They were
praying, which is a good thing to be doing. Suddenly there came
a sound from heaven. And here we're getting a description
of of how the Holy Spirit came at this moment and what was the
evidence of that. But let me say something here,
because this is something I've had to say to people that believe
in charismatic theology, that you've got to be careful when
you read some of this because you think that this is the norm.
And we could prove very easily that the evidence of speaking
in tongues as a result of getting the Holy Spirit is not the norm. First of all, we only have it
recorded in the book of Acts. If this was the norm, why is
it mentioned in the rest of the epistles? Especially first, second
Timothy and Titus, which are pastoral epistles, why isn't
it mentioned there? Because it's not it's not the
norm, this is this is not, you know, what takes place, you know,
in the beginning, it started that way. And when you study
the accounts of tongue speaking, I hate the word tongue speaking,
because It's so confusing, it doesn't really describe what's
taking place. Let's just use the term languages, because that's
the terms that this the supernatural language that was being spoken
by a person who had never learned in this case. And besides, if
you do a study of the people who possess the supernatural
gifts, you find only a small group of them were able to do
this. This was not something that you could wish for, just
like any other gift you couldn't wish for. You can't one day wake
up and say, well, I think I'll become a preacher. Well, if God
hasn't gifted you to become that, you won't become that. You know
what I mean? You'll drop out at some point
along the way because you'll find out, listen, it's not all
cracked up to what you think it is, what kind of little mentality
that you have in your mind. You know, many times we think,
you know, being a preacher is a really easy job. I haven't
found anything easy about it yet. The demands are very great. And I'm not minimizing any other
job, but I'll tell you this, it's the greatest job. It's the
greatest job in the world. You know, it's a wonderful opportunity
to somebody ask you, what do you do for a living? Well, I
get to go around, tell people how they can be forgiven of their sin
and go to heaven, have eternal life. That's what I get to do. That's
awesome job, isn't it? I mean, you think about it in
those terms, you don't go, well, you know, I'm a pastor of a church,
you know, today, even using the term to pastor, to tell someone
a little bit about credibility doesn't even work anymore because
there's so many pastors that have fallen by the wayside. Just
this. article Travis showed me yesterday, just devastating about
a local pastor. Well, we see here the priority
of the early church was preaching, it began right there on the day
of Pentecost, it started with the coming of the Holy Spirit,
you see that there, evidenced by the Holy Spirit coming. resting upon each one of them.
And he says there in verse three, there appeared to them divided
languages as a fire and it sat on each one of them. They were
all filled with the Holy Spirit. It began to speak with other
languages as the spirit gave them utterance. Again, tongues,
languages, known languages, you get into the pagan aspect of
it in First Corinthians 14. They were going back and forth.
You had some that were doing known languages, the legitimate
gift, and you have others that were doing this gibberish. And
the gibberish was paganism. They had brought paganism. They
brought their old lifestyle right there in the church. And see,
that's what you need to understand when you go through First Corinthians
14, the difference between the two terms that are used there.
And one of the ways to find out is that you've got the use of
the singular tongue and you have the use of the plural tongues.
And if I remember correctly in my study, hopefully I don't mess
this up, is that the the singular use tongue was speaking of the
true gift and the plural use is speaking of the gibberish.
But I'd have to go back and check the actual Greek terms that are
used there. But if I remember correctly, that's the way it
was. It was going throughout the passage. And you got here that
they were speaking other languages and that we went through, I think
it was last week, looking at the different nationalities of
these people, the different languages that they represented. And they
were hearing them speak the word of God, verse 11, the wonderful
works of God in their own language. So they were preaching to them
the gospel. They weren't just up there speaking to them in
their language and just tell them, say, listen, we've got
something to tell you. You know, they weren't just telling them anything.
They were preaching the gospel to them. Obviously, it was something
enough and enough of a miracle to draw the people together.
And who was abiding there that day? Jews. Jews. That's how come Peter, as a Jew,
speaking to them about their Jewish Messiah, the Lord Jesus
Christ, that's what he preaches to them. And so you get there
in verse 14. Peter stands up. He raises his
voice with the 11. He explains to them about this
phenomena that they are not drunk. It was only nine o'clock in the
morning. But he says what's taking place here is what the prophet
Joel said. And then he begins to quote that. But in verses
22 and following, he begins to preach to them about murdering
their Messiah. And so we see the priority of
the early church was preaching. It began on the day of Pentecost
with the coming of the Holy Spirit, with the preaching of Peter.
And listen, if you follow the book of Acts and you find that
whole priority continuing right there. And let's do that. Let's
at least look at this first point and let's examine the six more
chapters of this in the book of Acts. Go with me to chapter
three. And you see this continuing throughout the life of the church.
By the way, keep this in mind. From the very inception of the
church, the church has preached the gospel. From its very inception,
it has always preached the gospel. So if the church is not preaching
the gospel today, then they're not emulating what the early
church did, what the first church did, what God called them to
do. Right? If you're not doing what
God called you to do, you're in trouble. Don't run around
and say, God's blessed this and God's doing this. Listen, you
start tickling people's ears. You know, we could get crowds
if we really wanted a crowd. All we've got to do is just start
telling them what they want to hear. Start tickling their ears and start
doing concerts and having celebrities and start making celebrities
in the church. Well, again, you see it continuing throughout
the church because there's a chapter three, you've got Peter and John,
they go into the temple, there's a lame man, a lame man is expecting
some kind of Some kind of assistance there, Peter tells him that silver
and gold he doesn't have, but what he does have in the name
of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk and immediately he
rises up. So that right there is going to create a crowd, wouldn't
you say? And I'm sure that Peter and John
didn't have a little banner posted outside the temple that said
miracles nightly. I mean, this this as far as we know, was the
first miracle that they had done. Right. I mean, other than The
speaking in the languages, so it's a second miracle, the first
of the healing. And so obviously this drew a
crowd. Look there, verse 11. Now, as the lame man who was
healed held on to Peter and to John, all the people ran together
to them in the porch, which is called Solomon's, greatly amazed.
And so when Peter saw it. He responded to the people, men
of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why do you look so
intently at us as though by our own power or godliness we made
this man walk? It had nothing to do with this.
It's not about us. I like that. I mean, there's
a hat out that I think, if you like to wear a hat, I think it
says, it's not about you, Galatians 2.20. I was like, man, that's
a good one. He says, the God of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His servant
Jesus. Then you delivered up and denied in the presence of
Pilate when he was determined to let him go. But you denied
the Holy One and the just and asked for a murderer to be granted
to you and killed the Prince of Life whom God raised from
the dead of which we are witnesses. And his name, through faith in
his name, has made this man strong whom you see and know." Yes,
the faith, notice this, which comes through him. I like that. It comes through yourself. It comes through Christ. And
it has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of
you all. Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance,
as did also your rulers. But those things which God foretold
by the mouth of all of his prophets that the Christ would suffer,
he has thus fulfilled." What's he doing here? He's preaching. He's preaching the gospel to
them. We know that because he says
in verse 19, repent. And therefore, be converted that your sins may
be blotted out so that the times of refreshing may come from the
presence of the Lord and that he may send Jesus Christ, who
was preached to you before whom heaven must receive until the
times of restoration of all things which God has spoken by the mouth
of all his holy prophets since the world began. Again, he's
preaching to them the gospel right there in the temple. As
all the people are drawn together over this miracle. Listen, it
doesn't stop. Going to chapter four, it says,
verse one, as they spoke to the people, the priest, the captain
of the temple, the Sadducees came upon them. They were greatly
disturbed. They taught the people and preached to Jesus the resurrection
from the dead. And they laid hands on them and
put them in custody until the next day, for it was already
evening. However, many of those who heard the word, what happened
to them? They became the churched. They
became believers, they believed. They were no longer the end church.
So how do we reach the end church? We preach the gospel. We don't
go and do vaudeville. Vaudeville, as John MacArthur
sung about, and we don't have to do wrestling matches. We already
have them in the parking lot, don't we? Chan and Reed do wrestling
matches, but they're not doing it to draw people, right? They're
just doing it to be silly. You know, we don't have to do
anything. It's already done. That's what
I like. I mean, if you think about it,
John MacArthur said this a long time ago, and I think about it
often, we're like waiters. The food's already been prepared.
All we have to do is get it to the table. Don't tamper with
it. Don't mess with it. You're not
the cook. God is the cook, right? He has designed for us what to
tell people. And we just need to get it to
them. Don't tamper with it. Don't add to it, don't take away
from it. Go over to verse eight, after they're thrown into prison,
then they're brought before. Before Ananias, the high priest,
Caiaphas, John, Alexander. Says there that they had gathered,
they're brought before the rulers on the next day, the scribes,
the elders, so forth. And they said in verse seven.
And this is after they set them in the midst, they said, by what
power or by what name have you done this? And Peter, filled
with the Holy Spirit, I like that, he said to them, rulers
of the people and elders of Israel. Now, do you think that he's going
to just give them a simple answer? I mean, we've already seen that
they're taking every opportunity to preach the gospel, and that's
exactly what we need to be doing. Jesus had already told the disciples
be harmless as doves, but wise as serpents. And here you're
going to see him do this. First of all, he was filled with
the spirit. So you don't want to speak to anybody without being
filled with the spirit. Right. And he says, rulers of the people
and elders of Israel, if we this day are judged for a good deed
done to this helpless man, by what means he has been made well,
let it be known to you all and to all the people of Israel that
by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified,
whom God raised from the dead by him, this man stands here
before you whole. This is the stone which was rejected
by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone. Nor is
there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under
heaven given among men by which we must be saved." They didn't
hold back, did they? They certainly did not think,
if I say this, this is going to cause a reaction. It might
even cost us our head. But we do that, don't we? Somebody's
in the room. We know how they're going to
react. We soften the message. That's wrong. That's sin. I like in verse 13 that when
they saw the boldness of Peter and John, how did they have this
boldness? You go back to verse 8, they were filled with the
Spirit. That's how you get the boldness. You say, well, I'm
kind of scared to share the gospel with people. Well, you need to
be filled with the Spirit and you won't be scared. You need
to quit trusting yourself and your abilities. and start trusting
God and His abilities and what He can do. That's why Paul says,
I'm not ashamed to preach to you the gospel of God, for it
is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes. He
knew the power didn't rest in himself. The power rests in God. So you see it continuing throughout
the life of the church. You have Peter and John in the
temple. You have Peter and John before the religious leaders. Go into
chapter five. In chapter five, After the situation
here with Ananias and Sapphira, you have verse 11, great fear
came upon all the church and upon all who heard these things. I remember the first time we
had to do church discipline, somebody came up to me after
church and they said, man, this makes me fear. I said, that's
exactly what it's supposed to do, exactly what it's supposed
to do. And you read after that in verse
12, and through the hands of the apostles, many signs and
wonders were done among the people and they were all in one accord
in Solomon's porch, yet none of the rest dared join them,
but the people esteemed them highly and believers were increasingly
added to the Lord. Multitudes of both men and women,
it was added to the Lord. Believers just goes back to our
point, churches for believers. John MacArthur says, while the
unbelievers stayed away due to the fear of the consequences
of sin, there were multitudes who heard the gospel witness,
gladly believed and joined the church. That's how you join a
church. That's the way you should join
a church, not focusing on whether you walk or not, focusing on
whether you believe. Whether you're converted, whether
you repent of your sin, that's why we go through the process
that we do, because we want to do the best as we can to determine
if a person has done that. So that gives us great opportunity
to talk about that. Look also in chapter five. It
says in verse 17, now the apostles are before the Sadducees again,
says the high priest rose up and all who were with him, which
is the sect of the Sadducees. And they were filled with indignation.
That is, they were jealous. They laid their hands on the
apostles. They put them in the common prison. But at night, an angel
of the Lord opened the prison doors, brought them out and said,
Go stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of
this life. When they heard that, they entered
the temple early in the morning and taught. But the high priest
and those with him came in and called the council together with
all the elders of the children of Israel, and they sent to the
prison to have them brought. But when the officers came and
did not find him in the prison, they returned and reported, saying,
Indeed, we found the prison shut securely and the guards standing
outside before the doors. But when we opened them, we found
no one inside. Now, with the high priest, the
captain of the temple and the chief priest heard these things, they
wondered what would the outcome be? Then one came and told them,
saying, Look, the men whom you put in the prison, they're standing
in the temple and they're teaching the people. How about that? Again,
what's the priority? Preach the gospel, preach the
word. In fact, it's described here
as teaching. Because that's what it is. You're proclaiming the
good news of Christ, but you've got to teach people about the
good news of Christ, don't you? And then the captain, it says
in verse 26, went with the officers, brought them without violence,
for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned. When they
brought them, they set them before the council and the high priest
asked them saying, did we not strictly command you not to teach
in this name? And look, you filled Jerusalem with your doctrine.
And that's the that's the permitting permeating influence that the
church is to have. If you didn't get a chance to
hear MacArthur today, he's teaching on the parables and today he
was teaching on the parable of Levin. I encourage you to listen
to it. Talking about the permeating influence that we're to have. He says that you have filled
Jerusalem with your doctrine. You intend to bring this man's
blood upon us. And Peter and the other apostles answered and
said, we ought to obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers
raised up Jesus and you murdered by hanging on a tree. He's going
right through it again. He's preaching it right to him
again and again. Each time he's condemning them
for murdering their Messiah. He's going right back through
it again. He says, Him God has exalted to his right hand to
be prince and savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness
of sins. And we are his witnesses to these
things. And so also is the Holy Spirit,
whom God has given to those who obey him. And when they heard
this, they were furious. They took counsel to kill them.
Then one in the council stood up, a Pharisee named Gamaliel,
a teacher of the law held in respect by all the people, commanded
them to be to put the apostles outside for a little while, and
he said to them, Men of Israel, take heed of yourselves, what
you intend to do regarding these men. For some time ago, Thaddeus
rose up claiming to be somebody. A number of men, about 400, joined
him. He was slain, and all who obeyed him were scattered and
came to nothing. And after this man, Judas of Galilee rose up
in the days of the census and drew away many people after him.
He also perished, and all who obeyed him were dispersed. And
now I say to you, keep away from these men and let them along,
for if this plan Or this work is of men, it will come to nothing.
But if it's of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest you even be
found to fight against God. That's some good advice, wouldn't
you say? And they agreed with him. And
when they had called for the apostles, notice this, they beat
them. They commanded that they should not speak in the name
of Jesus. They let them go. So they departed from the presence
of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer
shame for His name. And daily in the temple, in every
house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ." What's the church to do? Preach
the gospel. Preach and teach that Jesus is
the Christ. Go into chapter 6. Of course,
you know, in the first half of this chapter, there was a problem
that arose for the Hellenistic Jews, the Greek speaking Jews,
they were being neglected in the daily distribution of the
food. So they brought that problem to Peter and the apostles and
they said, choose out among you seven men. And they gave the
qualifications of the kind of people to look for whom we may
appoint over this task. But we will give our attention
to prayer in the ministry of the word. And so they they did
that and they appointed the seven men. It says right after that,
verse seven, that the word of God spread and the number of
the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem and a great many
of the priests were obedient to the faith. And then from this
point, you begin to hear about Stephen. And you have Stephen
beginning in chapter six and verse eight and taking us all
the way through the end of chapter seven as he's preaching the gospel,
then you have false witnesses come up. And tell the council
what he's saying. They said lies about him. He's
brought before the council. Guess what he does before the
council? I want to encourage you sometime. Read chapter seven.
He preaches to the council. And he tells them that, listen,
you have ignored your history. Go to the end of chapter seven,
you can see how he ends this. He comes down to the very end. Let me just let me just start
verse forty four. He says, Our fathers had the
tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he appointed,
instructing Moses to make it according to the pattern that
he had seen, which our fathers, having received it in turn, also
brought with Joshua into the land possessed by the Gentiles.
And God drove out before the face of our fathers until the
days of David. He found favor before God and asked to find
a dwelling for the God of Jacob. But Solomon built him a house.
However, the most high does not dwell in temples made with hands.
As the prophet says, heaven is my throne and earth is my footstool.
What house will you build for me? Says the Lord. But what is
the place of my rest? Has my hand not made all these
things? And notice how he ends it. You
stiff neck and uncircumcised of heart and ears. You always
resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did. So do you. Which
of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed
those who foretold of the coming of the just one whom you have
now become the betrayers and murderers. What is he doing?
He's doing the same exact thing as the apostles did. He's telling
them, you murdered the Messiah, you murdered your king. Verse
53. They become murderers or they
become the betrayers and murderers who have received the law by
the direction of angels and have not kept it. And when they heard
these things, they were cut to the heart. They gnashed him with
their teeth. But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into
heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right
hand of God. And he said, Look, I see the heavens open and the
Son of Man standing at the right hand of God. And then they cried
out with a loud voice, stopping their ears. They ran at him with
one accord to cast him out of the city and stoned him. And
the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a young man named
Saul. And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and
saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. that he knelt down and
cried out with a loud voice, Lord, do not charge them with
this sin. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. Here's
your first martyrdom. You can't say Ananias' fire were
martyred. God killed them for lying. That was the first church
discipline. Now you have right here, you
see Stephen preaching before the people. He gave his life
for what he preached. Will you do that? Do you love
the gospel? Do you love Jesus so much that
you'd be willing to die for him? And if you immediately say yes
and you say that all in piosity, then why aren't you suffering
right now? I mean, think about it. You see, immediately as they
began to preach the gospel, they began to suffer for it. They
were holding back, they were telling them, you are murderers,
you betrayed the Messiah, you killed him. I mean, that's all
fresh because this hasn't been very much time since Jesus was
hung on hanged on a cross and then resurrected. You go into chapter eight and
you see that the church now, whole scale persecution turns
on the church. You see here, Saul was consenting
to his death. At that time, a great persecution arose against the
church, which was at Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout
the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles. Devout
men carried Stephen to his burial, made great lamentation over him.
As for Saul, he made great havoc of the church, entering every
house, dragging off men and women, committing them to prison. Therefore,
love that spite of this, those who were scattered, they went
everywhere doing what? Preaching the word. Nothing could stop
them. In fact, they think that by persecuting
them, that would stop it. But actually, what it was doing
is it causing it to spread. It was causing it to grow. Persecution
causes the church to grow, not die. And if you want to even
go further, church discipline causes the church to grow. Because
people can't stand hypocrites in the church, you hear that
all the time. I don't want to hear that church
full of hypocrites. We just say, well, come on, we need one more,
you know, because we know you played the hypocrite, too. We
all have. So you see right there, chapters
two through eight, the priority of the early church was they
preach the gospel. That was the priority. You know that this
became the priority of Paul. Go over to chapter nine, chapter
nine records his conversion. And you can read about that when
you have some time, but if you notice that after Ananias was
sent to him and he says there in verse 17, that he entered
the house, he laid his hands on him, and he said to him, Brother
Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road as he came,
he sent me that you may receive your sight to be filled with
the Holy Spirit. Immediately there fell from his eyes something
like scales, and he received his sight at once, and he arose
and was baptized. And when he had received food,
he was strengthened. And then Saul spent some days with the
disciples at Damascus and then noticed this. Immediately he
preached to Christ in the synagogues that he is the son of God. Immediately he did this. You
know what? Do you remember after you got
saved? What was the first thing you started doing? You started
telling people about what happened, didn't you? He immediately started
preaching the gospel to them. Sad that that fervor, that excitement,
that honeymoon love. You know, we've got to fight
to make sure that doesn't wear off, right? Then you get complacent and you
stop being obedient to the Lord and doing what God's called you
to do. But you see right here, following the conversion of Paul,
he began to preach the gospel. That's why he said over in Romans
1 15, so much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to
you who are in Rome also. He was always ready to do this,
and we didn't know from Romans 15 20 that he wanted to preach
where Christ was not named. You know, we easily go into territories
where Christ is already named. We build on other people's work.
Do you realize that? Paul didn't do that. Listen to
what he said. Romans 15, 20. And so I have made it my aim
to preach the gospel. Have you made it your aim to
preach the gospel? If you haven't, you need to repent. Simply put,
he says not where Christ was named, lest I should build on
another man's foundation. I mean, he was a pioneer. He went into places where Christ
wasn't named. We watched recently through the gates of splendor.
Have you seen that? It's about Jim Elliott and the
other men that were with him. Actually, we bought the DVD and
and they went into an area where Christ wasn't named. And they
basically paved the way for their family to go in there because
they didn't know that they were going to kill. Actually, one
of the men in the camp. lied to the leaders and said,
these men have come to kill us. And so the place where they were
at, the little beach area where they landed their plane and all,
and they had went in a couple of times, and this this guy that
they had reached out to, they even took him up in their plane,
but he ended up betraying them. Yeah, and they were dropping
gifts in there to them. And then all of a sudden they
they came up to him and they speared him to death. And they
found them later. But Elizabeth Elliott gives a
lot of information about what happened there. And again, she
wasn't the only one that went actually in there and befriended
the people. And lived among them. There's a message that you can
get off the Shepherds Fellowship website or we can actually have
to get it for you, but it's a testimony of Steve Saint. His father was
one of the men that was I think it was his grandfather that was
one of the men that was father or grandfather. I got confused.
Was it his father that was one of the men that was killed also? But anyway, it's a good good
DVD if you get a copy of that. So, again, the priority is preaching
the gospel. And, you know, even Paul had
pronounced judgment to himself if he didn't preach the gospel.
I mean, he was going into places where Christ wasn't named. He
wasn't building on another man's foundation. He was always ready
to preach. He always made this his aim.
And then he said this, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel.
Do you pronounce judgment on yourself if you don't preach
the gospel? So it was his priority. Of course, we know it is the
priority of Jesus. That's what he came here to do. He began
his ministry by preaching, didn't he? Mark 1, 14 and 15. Now, after John was put in prison,
Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of
God, saying, The time is fulfilled. The kingdom of God is at hand.
Repent and believe in the gospel. Jesus came preaching the gospel. That was the beginning of his
ministry. His entire ministry was centered on the preaching
of the kingdom. Look there in Matthew 4, verse 23. It tells us this is a summary
of Jesus's ministry. It says Jesus went about all
Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom,
healing all kinds of sickness, all kinds of disease among the
people. Then his fame went throughout all Syria and he brought them
all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments,
those who were demon possessed, epileptics and paraleptics, and
he healed them. Great multitudes followed him
from Galilee and from Decapolis or Decapolis. Jerusalem, Judea
and beyond the Jordan. The priority was he came here
to preach the gospel, to bring the good news. Just as he stood
there before his hometown and the synagogue and he reads. From
Isaiah, the spirit of the Lord is upon me to preach the gospel
to the poor, and right after he says all that, he puts the
book or hands the book to the attendant and he says today this
is fulfilled in your hearing and they freaked out. And they
ended up casting him out of the temple, they wanted to kill him,
they wanted to throw him off the cliff. We know this is priority because
he commanded his disciples to do exactly what he was doing.
He commissioned him, right? That's what we mean when we talk
about the great commission, the great commission is to make disciples
and you make disciples by preaching the gospel. Says Matthew 28,
19 and 20, go therefore, and you know, we've talked that many
times in the Greek phrase literally reads as you are going. Make
disciples, that's the main command, make disciples the only command
and the rest are part of symbols that tells you how to make a
command, you do that by baptizing and by teaching. So he says there. As you're going, make disciples
of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all
things that I have commanded you in law and with you always, even
to the end of the age. Amen. Mark 16, 15 says the same
thing. Go into all the world and preach
the gospel to every creature. Luke's version says the same
thing. This is what he said to them right after his resurrection
when he appeared to them. He says, Thus it is written and
thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer. and to rise
from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission
of sin should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning
at Jerusalem, and you are witnesses of these things." The early church preached the
gospel. Paul preached the gospel. Jesus
preached the gospel. What do you think our priorities
should be? What do you think the church should be doing? You
know, it doesn't take a Phi Beta Kappa to figure this out. If
you don't know who that is, don't worry about it. It doesn't take
much to figure this out. This should be our priority,
should be at the top of the list. Let me break this down into three
areas, it should be the priority for pastors. Romans 10, 14, how
then shall they call on him and whom they have not believed and
how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard and
how shall they hear without a preacher? What are we doing as preachers?
Preach the gospel. About the evangelists, Ephesians
411, he himself gave some to the apostles, some prophets,
some evangelists. Evangelists are what we commonly
term as church planners today. They went into a city where Christ
was not named, the Lord used them to lead people to Christ,
they stayed there long enough to establish the leadership,
and then they left and repeated the whole process. I am not an
evangelist in that sense. And a lot of us will say, well,
I don't have the gift of evangelism, therefore, I don't evangelize.
You know, there are many things in the list of spiritual gifts
that we may not be gifted in, but we're commanded to do. You
might not have the gift of giving, but you're told to give, aren't
you? So and then the last is believers. And it just goes back
to the Great Commission. But making disciples has given
specifically to the eleven that through them obeying that command,
and it just keeps trickling down through each generation, doesn't
it? So what did the church do? They preached the gospel. Now,
let me have you to go back into Acts, if you're not there, go
back into chapter two. And let's look at a second thing
that the early church did. What are you going to do with
all these new converts? Well, guess what? You're going
to baptize them. You're going to baptize them. And by the way, baptism always
follows salvation, it never precedes it. You go into Acts chapter two
and you look there after they were cut to the heart, they were
convicted, they asked what should they do. Peter said to them,
repent, let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus
Christ for the remission of sins, you shall receive the gift of
the Holy Spirit. And he testified with many other words, but if
you look at verse 41, it says, then those who gladly received
his word, the word gladly means they received it with pleasure,
with delight. And the word receive, apodecomai,
it means to take fully, to welcome it. After they had welcomed the
word. They were baptized. Now, There's some things about
baptism that we certainly need to understand, but I don't want
to go into a whole theology about that. We have some some things
about baptism that you can you can request from us where we
did a whole study on this. Jeremy's been debating a guy
on this whole issue. But if you go with me to Matthew
three, there's there's many things that we could point out there.
Matthew chapter 3, you have here John the Baptist. It says there
in verse 1 that he came preaching here. His whole life was to be
the forerunner of Christ, to preach the gospel. He paved the
way. And what was his priority? He preached. He told them to
repent. And notice this. He's preaching.
He's calling them to repent. And then it says in verse 5 that
Jerusalem, all Judea, all the region around the Jordan, they
went out to him and they were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing
their sin. This is why we we ask people
that are getting baptized to share their testimony. Because
that's what they were doing here, they were confessing their sins.
Now, listen, a baby can't do that. This kills infant baptism,
doesn't it? A little baby can't confess anything.
Baby can't understand anything. Only the baby can understand
is what it wants, and it really doesn't even fully understand
that. It just has a pull, a draw to that from its sinful nature.
It says here they were confessing their sins. Go with me to Acts
chapter eight. We mentioned this yesterday about
Philip. Philip there with the Ethiopian eunuch. Story begins
in verse twenty six, and you can read about that. He's reading
the book of Isaiah. And Philip asking, what is he
reading? Do you understand it? And it was the passage there
in Isaiah fifty three. It's mentioned there in verses
thirty two and thirty three that he was led as a sheep to the
slaughter, like a lamb silent before a shearer. So opened up
not his mouth and his humiliation, his justice was taken away and
who would declare his generation for his life is taken from the
earth and you can ask Peter or Philip rather. He said, I ask
you, of whom does the prophet say this of himself or of some
other man? And then Philip opened his mouth,
and beginning at this scripture, what did Philip do? He preached
Jesus to him. Again, we're going right back
to the priorities, aren't we? And it says, Now as they went
down the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, See,
here is water. What hinders me from being baptized? That Philip
said, if you believe with all your heart, you may. And he answered
and said, I believe that Jesus is the son of God. So he commanded
the chariot to stand still. But Philip and the unit went
down into the water and he baptized him. What was the requirement? Do you believe that Jesus is
the son of God? Believe with all your heart. Always follow salvation, never
proceeds it. Because you know what? Baptism
can't save you. Can it? There's a passage here
in 1 Peter 3, 21 that makes it sound like that it will save
you when it says there's also an antitype which now saves us,
baptism. And he's speaking of types there
because he had just been talking about those who were saved in
the flood. And he talks about the ark being
the type of salvation, if you will. And he says here, there's
also an antitype which now saves us, and it's baptism. But he
defines what he means. Not the removal of the filth
of the flesh. A lot of baptism, all it's going
to do is give you a bath. He says it's not the removal
of the filth of the flesh, but it's the answer of a good conscience
toward God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. So does it save
you? It always follows salvation and
you know what else is commanded. Peter said to Cornelius and those
who were there with him, he commanded them to be baptized in the name
of the Lord. So it's a command. All right, so we see here, what
did the early church do? Well, the early church preached
the gospel, that was a priority, so that the early church Priority
of Jesus, priority of Paul. We even see some added features
here, the priority of John the Baptist, priority of Philip.
And we see also that they baptize new converts. That's what you
do with them. And then we see something else
that occurs. Go back into the book of Acts, chapter two. What are
you going to do with these new converts? They come to Christ,
they're baptized and baptism again is a Symbolic, it's a picture
of the death, burial and resurrection, it's all for the old life on
with the new life. In fact, there was some things
in in history there that point out the significance of baptism.
It showed that you were repenting from your old life. But notice
in Acts 2 and notice verse 42, we see something else here, and
this is what you do with a new convert as well as a seasoned
convert. You teach them the word. It says in verse 42, and they
continued steadfastly, they, this is they, the three thousand,
the three thousand that God just saved, the three thousand that
he added to the church, right? They continued steadfastly, that
phrase right there, continued steadfastly, it's one word, means
that they persevered, they were constantly diligent. They were
steadfastly attended to. It means to give unremitting
care to a thing. They were giving total devotion
to the apostles doctrine. How about that? So we see just by the phrase
the apostles doctrine that the scriptures were taught. It's
the apostles doctrine. You know what, folks, we're still
teaching the apostles doctrine. We're teaching the doctrine of
Jesus. That's it. You come up with some
new doctrine. It's not of God. There are no new teachings. Gospel
is old, but it's new, isn't it? I like what someone said to Charlie
one time because they were calling their church new work, and it
made sense just, you know, in its formation stages. But the
person asked him, he said, well, you know, what about 10 years
down the road? And we're still calling it a new work. And he
said, well, listen, there's nothing wrong with that. The New Testament
is 2000 years old and it's called new. I like that. But the scriptures were taught,
it says that they continue steadfastly in the apostles doctrine. That's,
again, a direct reference to the scriptures. Let me give you
some verses that you can ponder on. 2 Peter 1, 19 and following
says this. Peter says, and we have the prophetic
word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that
shines in a dark place. Until the day dawns in the morning
star rises in your hearts, knowing this first, that no prophecy
of scriptures of any private interpretation for prophecy never
came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they
were moved by the Holy Spirit. You know what he's speaking of
himself? He's speaking of the other writers of scripture, of
the apostles that God used to pin the word. Ever in chapter three. Second
Peter, he says this verses one and two, Beloved, I now write
to you this second epistle and both of which I stir up your
pure minds by way of reminder that you be mindful of the words
which were spoken before by the holy prophets and of the commandment
of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior. Wow. Remember, in verses 14 to 16,
he says this in chapter 3 of 2 Peter, Therefore, beloved,
looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by him
in peace without spot and blameless, and consider that the long suffering
of our Lord is salvation. As also our beloved brother Paul,
according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you as
also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things in which
are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable twist
to their own destruction, as they also do the rest of the
scriptures, and he calls Paul's writing scripture. All of the
epistles, how many were there? Thirteen epistles, all of them,
Peter affirms them as scripture. So they taught the apostles doctrine,
that's what we're doing, we're teaching the apostles doctrine.
The apostles were the foundation of the church, weren't they?
Go with me to Ephesians 2, look there in verses 19 and following.
And you'll see what what Paul writes about the apostles being
the foundation there. Says now, therefore, you are
no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the
saints and the members of the household of God having been
built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus
Christ himself being the chief cornerstone in whom the whole
building being joined together grows into a holy temple in the
Lord, in whom you are also being built together for a dwelling
place of God in the spirit. So the apostles, the prophets
were the foundation. And they taught the word of God.
That's exactly what we're to do. People ask us why we teach
the word of God. Well, we're mandated in scripture
to do it. We're told to do it. Just hold
your place right there and go with me over to Titus. Well,
actually, before you go there, go to second Peter. I'm sorry.
Second Timothy. Second Timothy, chapter four. And Paul says to Timothy, I charge
you, therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ will judge
the living and the dead. It is appearing in his kingdom.
Do what? Preach the word. Be ready in
season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort with
all own suffering and authority. But the time will come when they
will not endure or tolerate sound doctrine. But according to their
own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap
or pile up for themselves teachers. and they will turn away or turn
their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables
or myths. But you be watchful in all things,
endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your
ministry. Go to Titus 2. Titus 2, verse
1, but as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound
doctrine. End of chapter 2. Speak these
things, verse 15, exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let
no one despise you. What's our priority? Preach. Preach the word. Baptize new
converts, teach the word. You know, the scriptures are
to have our greatest attention and devotion. Is to be faithfully
taught in the church, faithfully. And, you know, that's not what's
being raised up and that's not what's being promoted. We're
honoring people that are not faithful to the word, you know
that? We're honoring people that are not faithful to preach and
teaching. Says there in Acts 2 that they continued steadfastly
in the apostles doctrine. This provides the means for a
healthy church. If you don't preach and teach the word of
God, you're not going to have a healthy church. You know, the best way
to mature new converts is to teach them the word. You know,
our church has been made up, I mean, Not now, but when we
started out made up primarily of a lot of new converts. Really,
the biggest problems that we dealt with in this church was
immaturity. And that's just something that you got to work through,
right? You know, as people grow up in the Lord, they grow in
the grace and the knowledge of Christ, they begin to act more
mature. They begin to make the right
kinds of decisions according to the scripture and they begin
to recognize the authority of the word over their lives. See,
the leaders are to hold to a pattern of sound doctrine, and the reason
for that is so that they can guard the church against error.
You know, one of the qualifications for an elder is simply this in
Titus one nine. It says that they are to hold
that they are to hold fast the faithful word as they have been
taught, that they may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort
and convict those who contradict. So they are to know the word,
they are to know how to handle the word, because that's what
they're dealing with. And of course, we just look here in
chapter two of Titus there to teach the things that are proper
for sound doctrine. And listen, all the word is to be taught.
Nothing is to be withheld. That's why Paul says, I have
not shown to declare to you the whole counsel of God. So it's
all to be taught, every bit of it. So everything we do, it must
run in line with our purpose as a church, we are to preach,
we are to baptize, we are to teach the word of God with all
conviction, with all authority. It's the only way that believers
will be matured in the things of God. It's the only way that
unbelievers will come to the knowledge of the truth. Before
we close, let me have you to turn to first Corinthians 14.
There's something in there I want you to see. Now, you recall in chapter 14,
he's dealing with the problem and the abuse of the gift of
languages. But there's something that he
tells them, this is a illustration he gives them as to showing the
prophecy is to be preferred. over these languages. He tells
them in verse 22, chapter 14, that tongues are for a sign.
And he just told them what that sign was, he quoted from Isaiah
28 with men of other tongues, with other lips, I'll speak to
this people, and yet for all that they will not hear me. This
was a judicial sign of judgment of Israel. That's what it was
on the day of Pentecost of that day. That was God speaking, obviously. But he says their tongues are
for a sign, not to those who believe. But to unbelievers,
that's exactly what happened on the day of Pentecost. What
did it do? It drew everybody together. But prophesying, it's not for
unbelievers, but it's for who? Those who believe. This is what
we're to do. And prophesying is not for telling
future. The word prophemy, it means to
stand before and proclaim truth. That's what we do. Then he gives
this illustration. Therefore, if the whole church
comes together in one place and all speak with tongues and there
come in those who are uninformed or unbelievers, will they not
say that you are out of your mind? But if all prophesy and an unbeliever
or an uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by all, he
is judged by all, and thus the secrets of his heart are revealed.
And so falling down on his face, he will worship God and report
that God is truly among you. See what the priority is? Preach and teach. The word of
God. That's what we're to do as a
church. That's to be our priority. Now,
we're going to talk more about some of these things next time.
Father, we thank you for this time we've had in the word tonight.
Just pray that you'll take these things that we've talked about
and just stir our hearts and our minds with your truth. And
Lord, just continue to remind us, Lord, of what is our priority
as a church. God, I pray that we'll look at
this personally in our own lives as what we're doing individually.
Are we individually preaching the gospel? Do we have the priority
that the early church had, that Jesus had, that Philip had, Paul
had, John the Baptist had? All these people, all these examples
that we have in your word, God, what was their priority? And
Lord, I pray that we'll quit getting caught up in things in
our life and things that don't even matter for the kingdom of
God and just really begin to focus on preaching your word.
Lord, we thank you for this time together, and we pray that you'll
use this, this time we've had, in the days ahead. We pray that
in your name. Amen.
Ecclesiology (Pt.3)
Series Ecclesiology
Lecture #3 - SYS323 Ecclesiology (The Doctrine of the Church)
| Sermon ID | 13106174650 |
| Duration | 1:06:37 |
| Date | |
| Category | Teaching |
| Bible Text | Acts 2:40-42 |
| Language | English |
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