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“Killing the Messenger” (Ac.22:21-23)

“Killing the Messenger” (Ac.22:21-23). Unpopular Messages: Jeremiah. (Jeremiah 19:1-2)

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“Killing the Messenger” (Ac.22:21-23)

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  1. “Killing the Messenger”(Ac.22:21-23)

  2. Unpopular Messages: Jeremiah • (Jeremiah 19:1-2) • Thus says the LORD: "Go and get a potter's earthen flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests. "And go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the Potsherd Gate; and proclaim there the words that I will tell you, (NKJV)

  3. Unpopular Messages: Jeremiah • (Jeremiah 19:3-5) • "and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will bring such a catastrophe on this place, that whoever hears of it, his ears will tingle. "Because they have forsaken Me and made this an alien place, because they have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with the blood of the innocents "(they have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or speak, nor did it come into My mind), (NKJV)

  4. Unpopular Messages: Jeremiah • (Jeremiah 20:1-2) • Now Pashhur the son of Immer, the priest who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD. (NKJV)

  5. Unpopular Messages: Jeremiah • (Jeremiah 23:13) • "And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: They prophesied by Baal And caused My people Israel to err. (NKJV)

  6. Unpopular Messages: Jesus • (John 10:31) Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. (NKJV) • (Mark 3:21) But when His own people heard about this, they went out to lay hold of Him, for they said, "He is out of His mind." (NKJV)

  7. Unpopular Messages: Paul • (Acts 22:21) • "Then He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you far from here to the Gentiles.'" (NKJV)

  8. Unpopular Messages: Paul • (Acts 22:22-23) • And they listened to him until this word, and then they raised their voices and said, "Away with such a fellow from the earth, for he is not fit to live!" Then, as they cried out and tore off their clothes and threw dust into the air, (NKJV)

  9. Unpopular Messages: Needed Today • (1 Peter 4:11) • If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. (NKJV)

  10. Unpopular Messages: Needed Today • (Revelation 22:18-19) • For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. (NKJV)

  11. Unpopular Messages: Needed Today • (Acts 20:27) • "For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God. (NKJV)

  12. Unpopular Messages: Needed Today • (John 6:53-55) Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. "Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. "For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. (NKJV) • (John 6:66) From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. (NKJV)

  13. Unpopular Messages: Needed Today • (Matthew 11:6) • "And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me." (NKJV)

  14. Unpopular Messages: Needed Today • (Luke 6:26) • Woe to you when all men speak well of you, For so did their fathers to the false prophets. (NKJV)

  15. Unpopular Messages: Needed Today • (2 Timothy 4:3) • For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; (NKJV)

  16. Several names the church is known by in the scriptures: • Body of Christ (Eph.1:22-23; Col. 1:24) • Bride of Christ (Rev. 21:9) • Church of God (Ac. 20:28) • Church of the Living God (1 Tim. 3:15) • Church of the Firstborn (Heb. 12:23) • Family in heaven and earth (Eph.3:15) • Flock of God (1 Pet. 5:2) • General Assembly of the Firstborn (Heb. 12:23) • God's fellow workers; you are God's field, you are God's building (1 Cor. 3:9) • Heavenly Jerusalem (Heb. 12:22) • What if someone simply identified themselves as Christians (Ac. 11:26)?

  17. How Should We React to Different Ideas • (Acts 18:25-26) • This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord, though he knew only the baptism of John. So he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately. (NKJV)

  18. How Should We React to Different Ideas • (Ephesians 4:1-3) • I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. (NKJV)

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