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Video: Confessions of a Nowadays Pharisee, Part 6
Posted by ProliferatingTruth on October 21, 2011
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Commitment: Attitudes which Characterize the True Follower of Christ
Posted by ProliferatingTruth on May 1, 2009
John 6:46, 49-69, esp. vv. 61 & 66
“When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? 66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.”
Introductory Thoughts:
* In Matt 13:3-9 and 18-23, Christ describes four kinds of people:
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The Fivefold Vocation of the Church
Posted by ProliferatingTruth on April 17, 2009
Christian Work:
The Fivefold Vocation of the Church
Passage: Matthew 16:18-19
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
I. The Church is to worship God and glorify Him on the earth - “Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31).
A. We are told to be holy and without blame before Him; this relates to our testimony before God. (Ephesians 1:4 - “He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him”/Philippians 2:14-16 - “Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; Holding forth the word of life”)
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