Sermons About Apostacy
The Call To Fight
Jude 3-4 In chapters 3 and 4, Jude dsounds the clarion call to every believer to earnestly contend for the faith. In this call, he answers four questions - the questions that believers must have answered to wage war on apostacy: 1. Who to fight? 2. How to fight? 3. What to fight for? 4. Why fight? In the war on apostacy, we are reminded by John MacArthur that the means by which we are to wage the campaign includes studying and obeying God's Word, proclaiming and defending His Word, encouraging the teachers of His Word, and training the next generation of keepers of His Word. Pastor Boys stated well the protocol that believers must follow to remain vigilant in the fight using God's Word. We must read to know, know to obey, and obey so as to stand up under adversity.
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Concerning the Lord's day
In order to hold on to ourfaith and serve our living God, we HAVE to do the following: 1) Pray to your God continually 2) Read the Word of God all the time 3) Be in fellowship with other believers 4) Serve God
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Philippians 3:17 - 4:1 - Stand Firm
Paul was in hard pursuit of a life glorified Jesus, and he wanted his readers to stand firm as he has expressed in Philippians 1:27 in that same pursuit. Standing firm is not always easy when one has to deal with the new atheism, a truncated Gospel, pluralistic religions and worldviews, etc. Even when Paul wrote to Timothy he called the church the "pillar and buttress of truth (1 Tim. 3:15). When the truth of the Gospel is faithfully proclaimed someone is going to get hurt at times. In standing firm, you cannot stand still. Christianity is a fight for your life. The Christian is like flying an airplane - you are either moving forward or you are crashing and burning. In order to stand firm without standing still, Paul calls us to the disciplemaking of imitation, to flee apostasy, to the assurance of heaven. We must stand firm in our pursuit of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Standing firm is not standing still.
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