ALL HE WANTS IS YOU

ALL HE WANTS IS YOU

NO ONE ELSE WILL DO

NOT JUST A PARTHE WANTS ALL OF

Y0UR HEARTALL HE WANTS IS

ALL OF YOUALL HE WANTS IS

YOU.

ALL HE WANTS IS ME

UN-RE-SERV-ED-LYNOT JUST AS PARTHE WANTS ALL OF

MY HEARTALL HE WANTS IS

ALL OF MEALL HE WANTS IS

ME

WOW!

WHEN IS IT RIGHT NOT TO BE NICE?

Evangelical Manifesto

Oz Ginness wrote a book several years ago called “A Call to Civility”

He felt nobody listened…. So he organized an Evangelical Manifesto… got famous Evangelicals to work on it for three years… and in May 2008 released it with big fanfare from Washington DC.

It was “light” on what Evangelicals believe … and “Heavy” on being civil in society.

Civility

The Manifesto encourages Evangelical preachers to not be “confrontive” ... But gracious and civil as they address national concerns… (like abortion, gay marriages, euthanasia, et al)/

He purpose seems to desire “Evangelicals” to separate from “Fundamentalists” (who take the scripture literally). Note: Many “extreme” liberal theologians signed on to the Manifesto.

The Manifesto was received by most as a big thud/dud.

Quote by Phil Johnson

“one of the greatest dangers of the political activism of the so-called “religious right” is this: It fosters a tendency to make enemies out of people who are supposed to be our mission-field, even while we’re forming political alliances with Pharisees and false teachers.”

When in DOUBT“WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?”

TO A SEARCHING SOUL: KIND, GRACIOUS, LOVING, CARING….

TO FALSE TEACHERS/LEADERS … (e.g. PHARISEES, SCRIBES, SADDUCEES)

CONFRONTIVE

JESUS CONFRONTATION WITH THE PHARISEES, SCRIBES, AND SADDUCEES

INTENSITY

YEARS OF MINISTRY

LETS READ THE PASSAGE TO STUDY THIS MORNING

GALATIANS 2: 11-14

WOW!

WHEN IS IT RIGHT NOT TO BE NICE?

BACKGROUND

AFTER THE STONING OF STEPHEN (AND MANY OTHERS) … ACTS 7 LARGE QUANTITY OF BELIEVERS LEFT JERUSALEM

FOR ALEXANDERIA ANTIOCH ROME

ANTIOCH

REVIEW (2 wks ago)

Gal 2: 9 “AND WHEN JAMES, CEPHAS (PETER) AND JOHN WHO SEEMED TO BE PILLARS PRECEIVED THE GRACE THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN TO ME (Paul) …..”

PETER AND JOHN WERE A____________THREE “JAMES” IN SCRIPTUREACCORDING TO ACTS 12:2 JAMES (THE BROTHER

OF JOHN … ) WAS THE FIRST APOSTLE TO BE MARTYRED (A.D. 46)

GALATIANS WAS WRITTEN ABOUT A.D. 50WHO IS THIS JAMES … WHO WAS A PILLAR?

JAMES

OLDEST ½ BROTHER OF JESUS (Gal. 1:19) AFTER RESURRECTION, JESUS APPEARED TO HIM (1

Cor. 15:7) HE WAS LEADER OF JERUSALEM CHURCH (ALWAYS

MENTIONED FIRST in LISTINGS) plus GAVE SUMMARY JUDGEMENT AT FIRST CHURCH COUNCIL AFTER ….PETER, PAUL & BARNABUS HAD SPOKEN (Acts 15:12-21)

TRADITION INDICATES THAT PETER AND JOHN APPOINTED JAMES

WROTE EPISTLE/LETTER OF “JAMES” TO THE “DISPERSED” .. PROBABLY THINKING OF MAJOR CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES AT ALEXANDERIA, ANTIOCH, AND ROME

REMEMBER: THERE ARE 3 GROUPS IN THIS WORLD

JEWS

CHURCH

GENTILES

SATAN’S STRATEGY

GET “JEWS” IN the CHURCH TO LIVE LIKE “JEWS” (I.E. BACK UNDER THE CEREMONIAL LAWS)

GET THE “GENTILES” IN THE CHURCH TO GO BACK AND LIVE LIKE “GENTILES” I.E. 2 PETER 2:13 “…THEY COUNT IT PLEASURE TO

REVEL IN THE DAYTIME. THEY ARE BLOTS AND BLEMISHES, REVELING IN THEIR DECEPTIONS, WHILE THEY FEAST WITH YOU. They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed…….” et al

SATAN’S PURPOSE

CONFUSE/DESTROY THE DOCTRINE OF THE GOSPEL…

AS “HE SOWS FALSE DOCTRINE” … HE MASKERADES AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT… (read 2 Cor. 11:13-15) .. Acts 20: 29-30 I.E. EATING SEPARATELY SEEMS LIKE SUCH A LITTLE

THING Satan used the Phar./et al to attack Christ

SHOULD IT BE CONFRONTED?J. MacArthur’s latest book (pg 70)

SEEMS LIKE SUCH A SIMPLE THINGWHICH TABLE YOU EAT ATGENTILE TABLE JEWISH TABLE

In Paul’s Eyes

Peter was attacking the gospel of GRACE by his behavior

Actually it was a case of what Peter was NOT doing

Remember, after Peters experience at Simon’s house in Joppa, Peter had begun eating (fellowshipping) with Gentile Christians (Peter understood the PLAN OF GOD FOR THE CHURCH)

SATAN STILL AT IT -- movies

Indoctrination…The Twilight Saga

(Remember Satan and the Demons appear as angels of light)In these movies witches and goblins and

war wolfs… are young attractive individualsIn Australia, young people are secretly forming covens….

God’s WORD tells us to strongly avoid

Paul Calls Peter to Rememberwhat James taught

“Faith without works is dead”…. i.e. genuine faith will ALWAYS result in life changing behavior.

(you say that you believe the gospel… so do the demons … they know it better than you, the difference is …. They have made no commitment to the truth (TO TRUSTING WHAT GOD SAID) … so they are eternally lost.)

(or saying it another way, your actions with let people know what you really believe… no behavioral change, YOUR faith IS NOT GENUINE)

Paul Spoke Directly to Peter in Front of All

Why? It was not just Peter that was not putting their faith to proper behavior … it was the whole JEWISH PORTION OF THE Antioch Church….

DID THE ANTIOCH CHURCH CHANGE?DID THE ANTIOCH CHURCH UNDERSTAND

THAT “IN CHRIST”, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JEW AND GENTILE… ALL ARE ONE?

Change in ANTIOCH BEHAVIOR

FIRST PLACE MENTIONED IN ACTS (11:19-20) WHERE JEWISH CHRISTIANS PREACHED THE GOSPEL TO GENTILES

NOT ONLY WAS THE CHURCH AT ANTIOCH, THE FIRST RECORD IN SCRIPTURE TO BRING JEWISH AND GENTILE CHRISTIANS TOGETHER IN WORSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP, BUT AS FAR AS IS KNOWN, IT WAS THE FIRST CHURCH TO SEND MISSIONARIES TO PREACH SPECIFICALLY TO GENTILES (ACTS 13:1-3)

FIRST CALLED “CHRISTIANS” AT ANTIOCH .. THEIR BEHAVIOR SHOWED

RESULT

CONTENDING FOR “THE FAITH” PROBABLY CAUSED GREAT “OFFENSE” … BUT THE END RESULT WAS AWESOME…. (ESPECIALLY SINCE MOST OF US HERE IN THIS ROOM ARE GENTILES).

THIS GOSPEL WAS BELIEVED BY MANY… AND PASSED DOWN GENERATION-TO-GENERATION TO YOU AND ME.

HOME CHURCH

PRAISE GOD FOR PAUL

CONTENDED FOR THE TRUTH… BY HIS LIFE (BEHAVIOR) AND WORDS … THO COST SOMETIMES VERY HIGH IT COST JESUS CHRIST HIS LIFE IT COST TEN OF THE APOSTLES THEIR LIVES

FRANCIS OF ASSISI: “PREACH THE GOSPEL ALL OF THE TIME, IF NECESSARY, USE WORDS”

So what?

WHEN IS IT RIGHT TO CONFRONT? PEOPLE WHO ACTIVELY TEACH SERIOUS ERROR –

ESPECIALLY DOCTRINES THAT CORRUPT VITAL GOSPEL TRUTH (2 JOHN 7-11)

DISCERNMENT IS EVERY CHRISTIANS DUTY: “TEST ALL THINGS, HOLD FAST WHAT IS GOOD. ABSTAIN FROM EVERY FORM OF EVIL”.. (I THESS 5:21-22)

JUDGE WITH RIGHTEOUS JUDGEMENT (John7: 24)

`JESUS FINAL WORD TO THE CHURCHES…. REVELATION 1-3

The silencing of false teachers was still one of our Lord’s primary concerns… even from HIS throne in heaven. HE addressed seven churches. ONLY two of the churches (Smyrna and Philadelphia), were commended for their faithfulness without any qualification or hint of rebuke. All five other churches received various measures of rebuke, based on how corrupt, unfaithful or spiritually lethargic they were.

A prominent theme in practically all Jesus messages to those seven churches is the issue of how they responded to false teachers and rank heretics in their midst.

Whether we like it or not

FINALLY 1st QUOTE FROM SPURGEON

Sermon on September 7, 1867“the Christian serves his Lord simply out of

gratitude, he has no salvation to gain, no heaven to lose… now out of love to the God who chose him, and who gave so great a price for his redemption, he desires to lay out himself entirely in his Master’s service… The child of God works (changed behavior) not for life, but from life, he does not work to be saved, he works because he is saved.”

Another Quote

AND

AMEN

AMEN