Christ Is The Answer – Paying The Price For A Pure Church

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      20000827 Christ Is The Answer - Paying The Price For A Full Church - Rev. Tommy Jones

 

Are you #shocked at the current state of in-person attendance in the #church?  The Bible says that as we get closer to the #EndTimes there will be a falling away.  That doesn’t mean we should stop growing the church.  But is there a proper way to do that?  What is church discipline?  Of course, all are welcome to come to church and hear about the sacrificial Salvation of God.  However, the Bible has something to say about immorality among the members.  What is wrong with a church tolerating sin?  What if that church celebrates their tolerance?  Have you seen church discipline in action?  It is rare if non-existent.  Could this be why the World hurls the insult of hypocrisy at the weakened Church?  What does Paul mean when he says to turn the sinner over to the destruction of the flesh?  Is that some Old Testament Leviticus style justice?  Is the ultimate goal of church discipline a pure church or a restored Believer?  Why not both?  Paul reiterates the message of Jesus that the Faithful are to judge ourselves and our church not the unbelievers.  

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Christ Is The Answer – Within The Family Of Faith

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      20000820 Christ Is The Answer - Within The Family Of Faith - Rev. Tommy Jones

 

There is no other institution quite like #family.  That can have a #good connotation or a #bad one.  The ideal model that #God set up in the beginning is a strong uplifting entity.  The church is a family that you can choose and join.  Do you have a father in the Faith?  Which lesson is better, a lecture or an example?  Brother Tommy often said that more is caught than taught.  What is the power that Paul says he will measure when he arrives?  Is there a proper type of discipline within the family of Faith?  

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Describing the Defeated

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Does #God ever #discipline the #ungodly?  How about His own?  What happens when we rebel against God?  What happens when we go to church but don’t live by God’s word?  Trying to live the Christian life in our own power is the definition of defeated.  What are the evidences that a Christian is living outside of God’s will?  Is there a warning against taking it easy or trimming away parts of the Bible to suit our desires?  How can we forget what God is like and expect not to be defeated?  Many of the actions God took against His people could have been attributed to the Devil, but the Lord actually did them to bring them back to Himself.  So, the next time you are going through trouble, ask yourself, ‘Is this the Devil trying to bring me down or the Lord trying to get my attention?’

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The LIVING GOD #CHASTENS

How does God’s #LOVE correspond to His CHASTENING?    Chasten is defined by Webster as correcting by punishment; discipline – to purify or refine by freeing from faults.  Psalm 94:12 “Blessed is the man whom Thou dost CHASTEN, O LORD, and teaches him out of Thy law”  I think Hebrews 12 gives us additional understanding on perfect love.  “do not regard lightly the discipline of the LORD nor faint when you are reproved by Him; for THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE CHASTENS, AND SCOURGES  EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES.  We had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?  For they chasten us for a short as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good that we may share His holiness.  Now no CHASTENING for the present seems to be joyous, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, will it yield the peaceful fruit of righteousness.” Isaiah 53 tells us of the Father’s chastisement of our sins covered by His son, Jesus’s perfect love.  “He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we ourselves esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted,  He was pierced through for our transgressions,  He was bruised for our iniquities; the CHASTISEMENT for our well being fell upon Him and by His scourging we are healed.  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”   What does Revelation 3 say to us?  “As many as I LOVE, I REBUKE AND CHASTEN;  be zealous therefore, and repent.  Behold, I stand at the door and knock;  if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with Me.  To him that overcomes will I grant to him to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in His throne.”