ONE DAY-
Luke
16:9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of
unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting
habitations.
https://youtu.be/0tgDvnYBDGs Teaching- Crow- Timons
https://youtu.be/EAAEJdvAruY Crow- Mike- Frankie [tattoo]
https://youtu.be/ypqc51gfXro Corpus Christi
I made all 3 videos
on Monday [9-19-16]
Talked about God’s calling. How if we are not faithful in
the small things- then we never get to the ‘big stuff’.
Crow surprised me- he told me he asked Mike about getting
the tattoo- ccom.
I’ve told the guys in the past- that it simply is a way for
the guys to identity with a Christian group.
Some of the guys have lots of tattoos- and ccom means Corpus
Christi Outreach Ministries.
So Crow asked Mike – who helps me in the ministry- if he
would give him one.
Mike is a great artist- and does tattoos.
Mike told him he needed first to get permission from me.
I said sure- if he wants- that’s fine.
On video number 2- you see Crow getting it.
Mike also offered to make the one I got [yes- I got the
first one on my left hand about a month ago] look better.
So after he got finished with Crow- he fixed mine up too.
You see both of them on video 3.
I invited the guys to spend the night- and we cooked dinner
and stuff.
All of it was unplanned- but that’s fine- often times God
uses us when we are available- open- to go with his leading.
On video 3 I covered lots of Church history- I added my old
teachings below where I covered this over the years.
ON VIDEOS-
1- Me teaching- Timons- Crow
.Unjust steward
.Don’t oppress the poor
.Crow- Shrek
.Mass verses
.ccom
[Verses below]
2- Crow- Mike- Frankie
[This video might get
muted- because Mike had the music on while doing Crows tattoo- but if you want
to see Mike doing the tattoo for Crow- you can still see that]
.Frankie
.Pray for all
.Crow gets marked
[Verses below]
3- Corpus Christi- Body of Christ
5 For
there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
6 Who
gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
.Frankie- Crow- Mike
.Pray for all
.One mediator
.Long walk
.Arts Cross
.Single life is a calling too
.Jesuits
.Ignatius of Loyola
.War room
.Entertainment or a Cross?
.Eunuchs
.Constantinople
.Vatican 2
.Anglican church
.Oxford movement
38 And he
that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
Matt.
PAST LINKS- [verses below]
NEW STUFF- On the video I taught some about
Francis Xavier [1506-1552] - one of the founding members of the Jesuit order
[Society of Jesus] along with Ignatius Loyola.
He met Ignatius at the University of Paris-
while pursuing an intellectual career.
Over time Ignatius example [and prodding]
convinced him to abandon his own plans to live a comfortable life and serve as
a scholar- and become a very effective missionary to the Far East.
Much like the story of John Calvin- who too was
persuaded to abandon his own plans to simply be a scholar- and to serve in
forming the community in Geneva.
Xavier arrived in Goa [India] and eventually
went to Japan.
The king of Portugal- John the 3rd-
requested missionaries for the areas Portugal was colonizing in India.
This century [16th] was one of
exploration and colonization.
In Japan Xavier had great success- the city of
Nagasaki was started to simply provide a place for all the Japanese converts!
There were reported miracles of healing under
the ministry of Xavier- and he became one of the most successful missionaries
from the Jesuit order.
Xavier came into some controversy- initially in
his missionary efforts he was ‘more conservative’ in that he tried to get new
converts to abandon all former cultural ties- in order to embrace the faith.
Over time- he sort of ‘mixed’ [called
syncretism] the eastern religious practices with the faith.
When the Dominicans and Franciscans saw what
was happening- they reported it to the church.
This became such a controversy among the
Japanese- eventually the priests were martyred along the road to Nagasaki.
A sad event indeed.
The Protestants neglected the Far East in their
missionary efforts- they were primarily trying to reform the church in Europe.
Yet Ignatius and his society were spreading the
gospel- in areas that never heard either the Catholic or Protestant message.
All in all- Xavier did a very effective job-
and is well respected by both Catholics and Protestants for the work he did.
PAST POSTS-
. ROMANS 8-10
VIDEO- [I cover stuff on the
videos that are not in the post- here are a few]
.Council of Trent- what did the
Church say?
.Do we get the final say- at the
Judgment?
.What are the Catholic virtues-
did Paul teach them?
.Augustine, Calvin, Whitfield and
Wesley.
.Infusion or Imputation? How bout
both!
At the bottom I added some quotes
from the Catechism of the Catholic church- to show that the official teaching
of the church DOES NOT TEACH SALVATION BY THE LAW- BUT BY CHRIST.
. REMINDER- This is a commentary
I wrote years ago- the videos are new.
.CHAPTER 8- FEW POINTS;
1-
Did God choose us to believe- or did we choose
him?
2-
When Paul says ‘he makes our bodies alive’ is he
only speaking about resurrection?
3-
Does God use difficulty- or is it to be rebuked?
4-
Was Paul a ‘hyper- Calvinist’?
(839)ROMAN 8:1-4 ‘There is therefore now no condemnation to
them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh [sinful nature]
but after the Spirit [new nature]’. Now, having proved the reality of sin and
guilt [chapter 7] Paul teaches that those who ‘are in Christ’ are free from
condemnation. Why? Because they ‘walk according to the Spirit’ the
‘righteousness of the law is being fulfilled in them’. Having no condemnation
isn’t simply a ‘legal function’ of declared righteousness, and Paul didn’t
teach it that way! Paul is saying ‘all those who have believed in Jesus and
have been legally justified [earlier arguments in chapters 3-4] are now walking
[actually acting out] this new nature. Therefore [because you no longer walk
according to the flesh] there is no condemnation’! This argument helps bridge
the gap between Catholic and Protestant theology, part of the reason for the
ongoing schism is over this understanding. After the Reformation the Catholic
Church had a Counter Reformation council, the council of Trent. They dealt with
a lot of the abuses of the Catholic Church, things that many Catholic leaders
were complaining about before the Reformation. They did deal with some issues
and reformed somewhat. To the dismay
[parts]
CHAPTER 6
ORDINATION AND THE BIBLICAL
MODEL OF ACCOUNTABILTY.
In the 1st
century Jesus showed up in the midst of a religious system that had a voice of
its own and refused to acknowledge anyone who did not submit to its authority.
This system [religious Judaism] not only resisted Christ and the disciples, but
would later resist the freedom and growth of the New Testament churches
established by the apostle Paul. The leaders of this system actually said that
they feared loosing the influence they had in society if the young church
continued to experience success. They were already showing signs of the
kingdoms of men resisting the kingdom
of God
Over the years
ordination has evolved into a ritual of licensing and certification from a
religious institution in order to be legitimate to function in church circles.
So the simple concept of all believers having the ordination of God [John 15]
has now developed into a system of approval that one must have in order to
function in the church [as a full time minister]. Now while I personally have
no problem with ordained ministry, we must see that what we call ordination
today is a more developed concept than was originally intended in the New
Testament. It can become wrong when we begin to limit the function of all
believers as ordained priests under God and use the modern concept of
ordination to de-legitimize those who don’t have it. The 1st century
Pharisee saw Jesus ministry as a direct violation of their understanding of
legitimate ministry. They were using law and religious regulation to exclude
people from feeling accepted in Gods society. Jesus way of doing ministry not
only violated the current standards of the day, but also opened up a whole new
realm of people who would be able to function in Gods kingdom. All who would
simply accept him and become a follower were now given legitimacy to spread
God's kingdom despite their unwillingness to submit to the system of their day.
This is what offended the religious mind of the 1st century
Pharisee. They spent years jumping through the hoops of religious protocol in
order to function as religious leaders, Jesus comes on the scene and bypasses
all their procedures and vests authority to do kingdom works to the common
people.
There was a
spirit present in both the mind and religion of the 1st century
Pharisee. They had an intellectual knowledge of scripture that focused on
particular aspects of scripture while never being able to comprehend the ‘body
of truth’. Their religious position in society gave them a greater degree of
responsibility to be able to understand that Christ himself was the goal and
result of all religious learning. In essence they were guilty of possessing a
special position in society and because of there unwillingness to loose the
‘honor’ that came from this position they committed the worst type of offense
that leaders could commit. They actually rejected the person of Christ in order
for there own personas to continue to be at the forefront. If you remember when
Paul speaks of antichrist [I am not saying here that present Christian leaders
are antichrist!] Paul says that ‘he sits in the temple of God
I want you to see that no matter how well we
know scripture, we really know nothing until the actual person of Christ is at
the forefront [Jesus being Lord]. When man persists in his pride to continue to
hold on to a position of attention in the Christian community that rightfully
belongs to Christ, he unknowingly is violating one of the most fundamental
truths of the church. What I want you to see, without getting too much into the
whole subject of antichrist, is that he wants the place that rightfully belongs
to Christ. In the Christian community Christ’s rightful place is the center of
our attention. True worship is Him actually being the focus and center of
attention. The unhealthy attention that we often see given to people’s
personalities is a subtle way the enemy uses from keeping Christ’s image and
person from being the center of community.
Recently there
was a Christian brother who fell in a very public way. It was a situation where
he admitted to certain sins [adultery] and it was very public. While I wont use
his name, he was a very influential leader in charismatic circles. He held the
title of ‘arch-bishop’ [I don’t understand why we do this stuff!] Well as usual
when word got out about his fall, people began to expound on why this happened.
Some explained that they thought it was because he wasn’t ‘accountable enough’
[he was archbishop to more than 200 churches!] We never seem to think that if
we allow individuals to be exalted above measure, that this itself is a
violation of the principle of New Testament leadership. Jesus said whoever
exalts himself will be humbled. Many times in Christian circles we don’t
realize that we are doing this!
We often blame
the fall on ‘lack of accountability’. True accountability is submitting to each
other in love. It is not some unnatural structure that we create. I have heard
it taught in the way that if some outside person is our ‘covering’ and they
call us once a month and yell at us, that some how this is being humble and
being accountable. You can’t be accountable without true friendship and
relationship. We often jump to the conclusion that when one of our brothers
fall that it’s a result of a lack of accountability, when it just might be that
we allowed them to be lifted up to a place where the Lord had to humble them.
[I don’t want to judge this man, I didn’t even realize I was going to share
this but during my prayer time early this morning I continued to pray for him
and some other brothers who have fallen, and then I felt the Lord permitted me
to share this!] When we allow leaders to attain honorific titles in violation
of scripture we are unknowingly placing them in a position where Christ must
humble them.
Let me mention here the
interesting phenomena of Christians [charismatic and others] seeing the ‘need’
for believers to revert back to ecclesiastical structures. During the Jesus
movement of the 70’s, as well as the charismatic movement, there were well
intentioned brothers who felt like the freedom of ‘simply following Christ’ and
the working of the Spirit were not enough to keep the movements from going off
track. They sensed the need to have ‘structure’ for the new believers. Jack
Sparks, a brother who felt this way, eventually reverted all the way back to
Greek orthodoxy and is an orthodox priest today in California . Others like Bob Mumford and Ern
Baxter became involved in the discipleship/shepherding movement which placed an
overemphasis on the concept of covering and being in submission to authority.
These men were well intentioned, but it is my feeling that there is a degree of
arrogance and elitism that causes people to believe that somehow through
establishing ‘structure’ that they can safeguard the new Christians who where
coming to Christ at this time.
The whole phenomena of reverting back to
previous church communities is nothing new. You had the ‘oxford movement’ after
the reformation where many Anglican scholars became Catholics after studying
the church fathers and other early sources and felt that the earliest Christian
witness was Catholic. You had cardinal Newman later on also becoming catholic,
or a Frances Schaffer jr. leaving evangelicalism in order to become eastern
orthodox. In all these scenarios these are good men who are finding refuge in
‘structure’. While I consider all of these faiths to be Christian, I believe
the error of this type of thinking is we seem to believe if we add structure to
new believers this will keep them from going off track. The ‘structure’ of the
New Testament churches was nothing like this. Their safeguard was in keeping
Jesus pre-eminent in their lives and living together in Christian love and
brotherhood. When a Paul or other Christian leader saw them getting off track
[Galatians/Corinthians] the answer was not more structure, but simply refuting
the error and re-presenting Christ. It was ultimately being able to trust God
to finish the work that He started in them.
CHAPTER 7
EXAMPLES FROM PASTORS AND
BELIEVERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
I recently did a
study on the whole phenomena of the house church movement. Many of the stories
I encountered while doing research went along theses lines. You would find
various groups of believers who felt disenfranchised with their roles in modern
church systems; they felt like they were professional spectators. The whole
concept of church became to them a place where you go to hear lectures. The
only one who finds fulfillment in expressing themselves are the professional
clergy [and a few rebellious prophets who could muster up the nerve to stand up
and speak!] but the overall sense was these people were simply filling roles of
listening to preaching week after week without ever truly functioning. Many of
these people left their churches to form house/cell type churches. There were
also many traditional pastors who saw this same restricting style of
contemporary church and also left the whole concept of professional pastor and
simply became a bi-vocational leader in a voluntary based movement of
believers.
Some of the
movements I studied were tremendous in their ability to rapidly spread
throughout regions without the drag of salaries, buildings and all the other
usual things associated with full time ministry. I find these movements to be
exciting and biblical. The whole idea of average believers advancing the kingdom of God
As you read the New Testament you never get
the feeling that Jesus or the apostles were going to areas to start some type
of meeting that they would get people to attend. They were being sent out to
spread the great message of Gods kingdom. All the sermons in the book of acts
focus on Jesus and his great work for us. After people in these various regions
came to the reality of Christ they were then considered to be the church. The
actual reality of Jesus living in them through his Spirit is the entity that
God recognizes as legitimate to carry out his works. There was no magical
element of organizing under a particular form that would then become the
‘church’. They were church by virtue of the fact that Christ dwelt in their
hearts by faith.
As these
communities spread throughout the earth they would have more mature leaders in
their midst who gave guidance and direction to the flock in a voluntary way,
but the concept of one professional minister who was hired to perform religious
functions for the community was absent from these New Testament ecclesias. The
whole mindset of ‘church-planting’ was simply the natural outgrowth of people
coming to know Christ. There wasn’t a separate calling to start churches apart
from the great commission to go and tell all people about this great gospel of
Christ. Apostles had a special gifting to help build these communities, but in
no way is this separate from the calling to preach the gospel. It is simply the
proclaiming of Christ to communities of people that holds the power of ‘church
planting’. And the thing that we’re planting is Christ in the hearts of people.
I think if we can get back to seeing things on these terms there will be less
of a pressure to go and make something happen, and more of a balance on Christ
in us, the hope of glory!
CHAPTER 8
ARE CHURCH BUILDINGS EVIL? [OR
THE GUY WHO WANTED TO CAST DEMONS OUT OF ME!]
Many years ago
before I really understood the truths of ecclesia and the communal aspect of
the church, I was introduced to the belief that the ‘church building’ itself
was wrong. I don’t personally adhere to this belief, but let me share the
story. While ministering as a new believer in Christ and learning ‘the ropes’
of ministry, I remember driving past a brother who was a street minister from Mexico . It was
unusual in the way he was conducting his street meetings. He would get
permission to use an empty lot and then set up actual church pews in the lot
without walls or any type of cover over it [even if it rained!]. Well one day
on my daily rounds of visiting people and witnessing for Jesus [because this is
what ministers are supposed to do, right?] I stopped by this brother’s lot and
figured I would bless him with some lunch and listen to him preach [I felt
sorry for the brother because no one else was attending his meetings]. After he
spoke I had a chance to fellowship with him. After hearing his thoughts I
realized it was on purpose for him to have no walls or cover over the pews
[these were actual church pews that were out there in the open!].
He shared with me the
verse in Hebrews [13:10 ]
where it says that those who worship at the sanctuary have no right to partake
of the altar of Christ [the cross]. He saw this as meaning
[parts]
[the above is a chapter from a book I wrote years ago-
here’s the book-] https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/further-talks-on-church-and-ministry/
[1484] ‘This is why I Paul am in jail for Christ, having
taken up the cause of you outsiders, so called. I take it that you are familiar
with the part I was given in God’s plan for including everybody… none of our
ancestors understood this, only in our time has it been made clear thru God’s
Spirit… this is my life work, helping people understand and respond to God’s
message. It came as a sheer gift to me, a real surprise, God handling all the
details’ Ephesians 3, message bible. As I said earlier in this study, the
‘mystery’ that God revealed to Paul was the reality that thru Christ all ethnic
groups would be on the same footing with God. This specifically related to the
religious belief of the day that the ethnic nation of Israel were the only ones
with special access to God. For Paul to have been preaching this message in his
day would be like us teaching that God’s plan for all people today- Jews,
Arabs, Palestinians, Iranians, etc., it would be like saying Gods purpose for
our day is to accept all of these ethnic groups as one group thru Christ. To be
frank about it, I believe many evangelicals today are not fully seeing the
reality of the Cross when they exalt the natural heritage of Israel as Gods
special people. Though I realize many of these teachings mean well [end time
scenarios and stuff] yet in practice they deny the equal footing that all
people have in Christ. Paul was preaching the great news that your
ethnic/cultural background no longer made any difference- thru Christ we are
all Gods special people. This does not mean that we are all accepted whether or
not we believe in Christ, a sort of religious syncretism, but it does mean that
the offer of Jesus is available to all.
[parts]
(1332) Been doing some reading on
church history/philosophy, it’s interesting to see the role that
theology/Christianity played in the universities. Theology is referred to as
‘the queen of the sciences’ and philosophy was her ‘handmaid’. They saw the
root of all learning as originating with the study ‘of God’. Many modern
universities have dropped the term ‘theology’ and call it ‘the study of
religion’. The study of religion is really the study of how man relates to God,
his view of God; this would fit under anthropology/sociology, not under
theology. Modern learning has lost the importance of the study of God and the role
it plays in all the other sciences. The classic work of Homer [8th
century BC] called the Iliad, has Achilles debating whether or not he should
‘stay and
[parts]
VERSES-
. I didn’t have time to add the verses- but as I reviewed the
videos- most of the pertinent ones I have posted on the last few weeks posts
already.
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Note- Do me a favor, those who read/like the posts- re-post
them on other sites as well as the site you read them on. Thanks- John.*
WHAT’S REAL? And HOLY SAVIOR
https://youtu.be/1xlAC-2CHPw What’s
real?
I made these videos in Texas. Then didn’t have time to write the
usual teaching. So I stuck them together and did the best I could.
ON VIDEO’S- note- I mentioned on the video the philosopher who
‘doubted everything’. I wasn’t sure if I got it right. I said ‘maybe Blaise
Pascal’- but it was Renee Descartes.
.Kill Muslims?
.Bruce Jenner- 2nd thoughts?
.Little people
.He eats with sinners
.Philosophy/Physics
.Arianism
.Islam and Christianity
.Abrahams kids
.Ishmael too!
God and Allah
.Chaz Bono
.End times war?
.In defense of cops
.Hung jury
.Columbus- Aztecs- Conquistadores
PAST POSTS [verses below]
. REMINDER- This is a commentary
I wrote years ago- the videos are new.
.CHAPTER 8- FEW POINTS;
5-
Did God choose us to believe- or did we choose
him?
6-
When Paul says ‘he makes our bodies alive’ is he
only speaking about resurrection?
7-
Does God use difficulty- or is it to be rebuked?
8-
Was Paul a ‘hyper- Calvinist’?
(839)ROMAN 8:1-4 ‘There is
therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not
after the flesh [sinful nature] but after the Spirit [new nature]’. Now, having
proved the reality of sin and guilt [chapter 7] Paul teaches that those who
‘are in Christ’ are free from condemnation. Why? Because they ‘walk according
to the Spirit’ the ‘righteousness of the law is being fulfilled in them’.
Having no condemnation isn’t simply a ‘legal function’ of declared
righteousness, and Paul didn’t teach it that way! Paul is saying ‘all those who
have believed in Jesus and have been legally justified [earlier arguments in
chapters 3-4] are now walking [actually acting out] this new nature. Therefore
[because you no longer walk according to the flesh] there is no condemnation’!
This argument helps bridge the gap between Catholic and Protestant theology,
part of the reason for the ongoing schism is over this understanding. After the
Reformation the Catholic Church had a Counter Reformation council, the council
of Trent. They dealt with a lot of the abuses of the Catholic Church, things
that many Catholic leaders were complaining about before the Reformation. They
did deal with some issues and reformed somewhat. To the dismay of the more
‘reform minded’ Catholics [with Protestant leanings] they still came down
strong on most pre reform doctrines. This made it next to impossible for the
schism to be healed. But one area of disagreement was over ‘legal’ versus
‘actual/experiential’ justification. The Catholic position was ‘God can’t
declare/say a person is justified until they actually are’ [experientially].
The Protestant side [Luther] said ‘God does justify [legal declaration] a
person by faith alone’. Like I taught before, both of these are true. The
Catholic view of ‘justification’ is looking ahead towards a future reality [The
same way James speaks of justification in a future sense- He uses the example
from Genesis 22, when Abraham does a righteous act] while the Protestant view
is focusing on the initial legal act of justification [Genesis 15]. Here Paul
agrees with both views, he says ‘those who walk after the Spirit [actually
living the changed life] have no condemnation’.
(840)ROMANS 8:5-13 Paul will teach the impossibility of the
‘carnal minds’ ability to submit to Gods law. Those who are ‘in the flesh’ [the
unregenerate nature- not simply ‘in the body’. We will get into these
distinctions in a minute] can’t submit to God. Society spends so much time and
effort trying to get the ‘lost man’ to do what's right. The prohibition
movement [outlawing liquor], the increase in the severity of punishment for
crimes dealing with drugs. Making the child kidnappers crime
[parts]
NEW STUFF- On the video I taught some about
Francis Xavier [1506-1552] - one of the founding members of the Jesuit order [Society
of Jesus] along with Ignatius Loyola.
He met Ignatius at the University of Paris-
while pursuing an intellectual career.
Over time Ignatius example [and prodding]
convinced him to abandon his own plans to live a comfortable life and serve as
a scholar- and become a very effective missionary to the Far East.
Much like the story of John Calvin- who too was
persuaded to abandon his own plans to simply be a scholar- and to serve in forming
the community in Geneva.
Xavier arrived in Goa [India] and eventually
went to Japan.
The king of Portugal- John the 3rd-
requested missionaries for the areas Portugal was colonizing in India.
This century [16th] was one of
exploration and colonization.
In Japan Xavier had great success- the city of
Nagasaki was started to simply provide a place for all the Japanese converts!
There were reported miracles of healing under
the ministry of Xavier- and he became one of the most successful missionaries
from the Jesuit order.
Xavier came into some controversy- initially in
his missionary efforts he was ‘more conservative’ in that he tried to get new converts
to abandon all former cultural ties- in order to embrace the faith.
Over time- he sort of ‘mixed’ [called syncretism]
the eastern religious practices with the faith.
When the Dominicans and Franciscans saw what
was happening- they reported it to the church.
This became such a controversy among the
Japanese- eventually the priests were martyred along the road to Nagasaki.
A sad event indeed.
The Protestants neglected the Far East in their
missionary efforts- they were primarily trying to reform the church in Europe.
Yet Ignatius and his society were spreading the
gospel- in areas that never heard either the Catholic or Protestant message.
All in all- Xavier did a very effective job-
and is well respected by both Catholics and Protestants for the work he did.
PAST POSTS-
. ROMANS 8-10
VIDEO- [I cover stuff on the
videos that are not in the post- here are a few]
.Council of Trent- what did the
Church say?
.Do we get the final say- at the
Judgment?
.What are the Catholic virtues-
did Paul teach them?
.Augustine, Calvin, Whitfield and
Wesley.
.Infusion or Imputation? How bout
both!
At the bottom I added some quotes
from the Catechism of the Catholic church- to show that the official teaching
of the church DOES NOT TEACH SALVATION BY THE LAW- BUT BY CHRIST.
. REMINDER- This is a commentary
I wrote years ago- the videos are new.
.CHAPTER 8- FEW POINTS;
9-
Did God choose us to believe- or did we choose
him?
[parts]
ATHEISM- APOLOGETICS [links added- long version]
https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/2016/06/20/history-of-everything-2/
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MY VIDEOS
I cover some church history on this post- here’s a study I
did in the past that gets more in depth.
https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/1st-2nd-corinthians/ On today’s videos I talk about Paul’s
teaching on being single- here’s my complete teaching on Corinthians where it
is found
[parts]
(594)
. Let me cover some church history. I have had
someone argue with me about the history of Islam. Not a Muslim, but a Christian
who was saying ‘why do you say Islam started in the 7th century, it
started around the 11th’. My answer was ‘Muhammad lived in the 7th
century’. Not to hard to see this. So I thought I should cover some history.
During the time of the rise of Islam, the Christian church was already dividing
from east and west. After Constantine [4th century Roman emperor]
consolidated the Roman Empire in the 4th century he set up the
capital city of the eastern empire, Constantinople [named after him]. As time
progressed the western church would take on the form of Roman Catholicism, the
eastern [Constantinople area. Modern day Turkey-Istanbul] would be known as
‘Orthodox’. Though the official split of eastern and western [Catholic-Rome!]
churches occurred in 1054 AD, yet the division started years before. The
official split is called ‘the great schism’ of the 11th century; it
would not be until 500 years later that the church would have her
‘reformation’. The official reason for this split was over a rather silly
thing. For centuries the Catholic church had an expression that said ‘the Holy
Spirit proceeds from the Father’ than they included ‘he proceeds from the
father and the Son’. Well the eastern brothers didn’t like Rome telling them
what to believe and used this as the official reason to ‘have the schism’. To
be honest the divisions were coming for years. After the Roman Empire
consolidated under Constantine, he tried to strengthen the eastern territories
of his empire and for centuries you had the struggle for which region would be
the most influential. At first you had 5 major areas that were divided under 5
main Bishops. As time went on the argument would be ‘which bishop has the most
say so’ and it was really a power struggle. Finally Rome said ‘the bishop of
Rome is the FIRST AMONG EQUALS [a term that many in the Protestant strain of
the discipling movement would later embrace] he holds Peters seat’ and this is
really where the divisions started. Eventually Muhammad would rise and Islam
would take control of the eastern capital. This later became the reason for the
crusades. The Catholic church wanted to regain the territories that she lost in
the east. The eastern churches are very much Catholic in many ways. They also
hold to a view of Christianity that sees man being ‘joined’ with God and
becoming pleasing to God thru Christ’s grace uniting with us and making us like
him. A perfectly scriptural view, but a different emphasis from the strong
intellectual power that you read about from the western fathers of the church.
The Catholic church is noted for her social action in ways that the eastern
church is not. So both of these communions have good things to bring to the
table. The Orthodox [eastern] churches would not be affected by the major
social and political upheavals that took place in the west. The Renaissance,
the Reformation and the Enlightenment had major impacts on western
Christianity, while not affecting the eastern church in the same way. During
the 13th- 15th centuries you would have ‘pre reformers’ rise up in
the western church. John Wycliffe, the great Catholic Priest who was at the
center of learning in France would become known for his translating the
scriptures into the common language. Then you have John Huss and John Knox [3
Johns, scripture says 3 fold cords are not easily broken!] who would have their
own influence in western Christianity. At this time you had whole movements of
believers who would be seen as neither ‘western or eastern’ but restorationist
[the restoring of the early practices and beliefs of the church] Peter Waldo
would be the Father of the Waldensians and in the 12th century you
would have the Albigenses in the south of France. These groups would be looked
upon as ‘cults’ [though the term was not used yet] by the traditional church.
So you can see how the church has been growing and reforming ever since the
first century. Even though we see many divisions that exist till this day,
there are strides being made for unity. The eastern and western church are very
close to‘re uniting’ once again. While I do not personally hold to the doctrine
of the Pope being the occupier of Peter’s seat, I also see him as a Christian
man who is striving for unity in Christ’s church. Some believe the whole
attempt for outward unity is futile. The more ardent Protestants see it as ‘the
one world church of the anti christ’ I reject that language out of hand. Well I
hope you got something out of this short overview of world history [real
short!].
[parts]
Part of the achievements of
Constantine was his development of the eastern half of the Roman empire- whose
capitol was named after him- Constantinople.
Over a period of years the early
Roman church fought over whose bishop would have more influence- the bishop of
Rome [Pope] or the bishop in the east.
Many bishops in the Catholic
Church have disagreed over the influence of one bishop being greater than the
others [the idea that all the bishops should have an equal voice at the church
councils is called Collegiality].
This has caused splits within the
Catholic Church thru the centuries [the last big one in the 19th
century].
Eventually the early church
split- and the Eastern Church separated from Rome.
The eastern empire [called
Byzantium- the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church] officially split in the
year 1054.
Now- in church history we call
this the Great Schism- even though the Protestant split which took place in the
16th century was greater in effect.
Okay- the Protestant reformers
split over various issues- I have an entire study on the blog about this.
But the main issue became what we
call justification by faith.
Over the centuries many good men-
and average church goers- lost the main message of the New Testament- which was
a message of being saved by the grace of God.
Many well meaning Christians were
struggling to do penance in a way that sort of earned them their salvation thru
works.
[parts]
ELI’S BOOK
ON VIDEO-
.Why did Paul work to support himself and others?
.Did I relapse?
.Will you pray for me?
.Baptist- Catholic- Orthodox
.House church?
.Should we tithe?
.Law or Christ?
.Bishops
.Church history
.Russia goes Orthodox
.Moscow the new Rome?
.The Papacy
.John of Damascus
.Icons
NOTE- It just so happened that I mentioned Istanbul Turkey-
and Moscow on this teaching- a day or 2 before the recent events. I posted a
short video yesterday about the downing of the Russian plane by Turkey. https://youtu.be/LLmMWnq8uQY
Brief overview- we [U.S.] are ‘in’ Syria because we are
supposed to be fighting terrorists- and nations that support them. Russia is
also in Syria to fight terrorists.
Russia is fighting all of them [including the ones that
Turkey supports- and backs- also called ‘rebels’- some of these groups we too
support- because even though they are similar to ISIS- yet we overlook it-
because they are fighting Assad [strange- I know].
Now- Turkey is also a member of NATO- meaning we will ‘back
them up- like one of our own’.
So- in our war against terror- we will also theoretically ‘go
to war’ against any nation that
[parts]
The whole phenomena of reverting
back to previous church communities is nothing new. You had the ‘oxford
movement’ after the reformation where many Anglican scholars became Catholics
after studying the church fathers and other early sources and felt that the
earliest Christian witness was Catholic. You had cardinal Newman later on also
becoming catholic, or a Frances Schaffer jr. leaving evangelicalism in order to
become eastern orthodox. In all these scenarios these are good men who are
finding refuge in ‘structure’. While I consider all of these faiths to be
Christian, I believe the error of this type of thinking is we seem to believe
if we add structure to new believers this will keep them from going off track.
The ‘structure’ of the New Testament churches was nothing like this. Their
safeguard was in keeping Jesus pre-eminent in their lives and living together
in Christian love and brotherhood. When a Paul or other Christian leader saw
them getting off track [Galatians/Corinthians] the answer was not more
structure, but simply refuting the error and re-presenting Christ. It was
ultimately being able to trust God to finish the work that He started in them.
[parts]
In the early days of the church-
in the 4th century- we had the rise of the Roman emperor/military
ruler- Constantine.
Part of the achievements of
Constantine was his development of the eastern half of the Roman empire- whose
capitol was named after him- Constantinople.
Over a period of years the early
Roman church fought over whose bishop would have more influence- the bishop of
Rome [Pope] or the bishop in the east.
Many bishops in the Catholic
Church have disagreed over the influence of one bishop being greater than the
others [the idea that all the bishops should have an equal voice at the church
councils is called Collegiality].
This has caused splits within the
Catholic Church thru the centuries [the last big one in the 19th
century].
Eventually the early church
split- and the Eastern Church separated from Rome.
The eastern empire [called
Byzantium- the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church] officially split in the
year 1054.
Now- in church history we call
this the Great Schism- even though the Protestant split which took place in the
16th century was greater in effect.
Okay- the Protestant reformers
split over various issues- I have an entire study on the blog about this.
But the main issue became what we
call justification by faith.
Over the centuries many good men-
and average church goers- lost the main message of the New Testament- which was
a message of being saved by the grace of God.
Many well meaning Christians were
struggling to do penance in a way that sort of earned them their salvation thru
works.
The Protestant reformer Martin
Luther was teaching the book of Romans [he was a scholar and a Catholic leader
in intellectual circles at the time].
During his teaching on the
epistle of Paul [Romans- in our bible] he came across a verse that said THE
JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.
As he mediated on the passage-
and the other themes in Romans that speak about being saved by faith and not by
works- he started a sort of mini revolution amongst the students and he became
a sort of favorite teacher in the area of Germany where he was teaching.
Over a period of time- thru all
sorts of religious and political machinations- he launched what we now call the
Protestant Reformation.
[parts]
VERSES-
Amos
8:4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the
land to fail,Amos 8:5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Amos 8:6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Amos 8:7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Luke 16:1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
Luke 16:2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
Luke 16:3 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
Luke 16:4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
Luke 16:5 So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
Luke 16:6 And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
Luke 16:7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
Luke 16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Luke 16:9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
Luke 16:10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Luke 16:11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
Luke 16:12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?
Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek oneto come. Heb13:14
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers andpilgrims, abstain from
fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Peter 2:11
But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of
stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have
committed much, of him
they will ask the more. Lk. 12:48
2 I
exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions,
and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
2 For
kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and
peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
3 For
this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
4 Who
will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
5 For
there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
6 Who
gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
7 Whereunto
I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie
not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
8 I will
therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and
doubting.
1st Timothy
34 Think not
that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35 For I am
come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her
mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
36 And a
man's foes shall be they of his own household.
37 He that loveth
father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or
daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
38 And he
that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
39 He that
findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall
find it.
Matt.
Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in
the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in
the seat of the scornful.
Psalm
1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate
day and night.Psalm 1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Psalm 1:4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Psalm 1:5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Psalm 1:6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it. Matt. 19:12
4 Now the
Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking
lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding
to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be
received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
1st
Tim 4There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
1st Jn. 4:18
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