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Perfect Message Imperfect Messengers

Perfect Message Imperfect Messengers. Philippians 1: 12-18. Making the best of a bad situation. Inside – a captive, un-churched audience Outside – new ministers stepping up. Philippians 1: 12-14. Some good motives, some bad motives. Philippians 1: 15-18. Either way, Christ is preached!.

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Perfect Message Imperfect Messengers

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  1. Perfect MessageImperfect Messengers Philippians 1: 12-18

  2. Making the best of a bad situation Inside – a captive, un-churched audienceOutside – new ministers stepping up Philippians 1: 12-14

  3. Some good motives,some bad motives Philippians 1: 15-18 Either way,Christ is preached!

  4. Right motivesWrong message Wrong motivesRight message Wrong motivesWrong message Philippians 1: 15-18 Right motivesRight message

  5. Warnings about wrong messages Galatians 1: 6-9 II Timothy 2: 15-19 Let him be condemned!

  6. Warnings about message violators I Corinthians 5 II Thessalonians 1: 8 II Thessalonians 3: 6 Not living according to what was taught

  7. Warnings about messenger followers Matthew 23: 1-3 Do what they say, not what they do

  8. Perfect MessageImperfect Messengers “Indeed, we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.” Philip Yancey – Soul Survivor

  9. A dreadful contradiction Romans 7: 14-23 I Timothy 1: 15-16 “nothing good lives in me” I am the worst of sinners

  10. Imperfect Messengers “[the folly of God] to choose for his holy work in the world…lamebrains and misfits and nitpickers and holier-than-thous and stuffed shirts and odd ducks and egomaniacs and milquetoasts and closet sensualists.” Fredrick Buechner

  11. Perfect MessageImperfect Messengers Romans 2: 17-24 you teach others, but you don’t teach yourself?

  12. Perfect MessageImperfect Messengers I Thessalonians 1: 4-7 We modeled for youyou imitated usyou modeled for others

  13. Perfect MessageImperfect Messengers I Corinthians 11: 1 “Follow my example as I follow the example of Christ.”

  14. Perfect MessageImperfect Messengers Teachings through hypocritical liars I Timothy 4: 1-2 II Timothy 2: 1-2 Entrust to qualified teachers

  15. Imperfect MessageImperfect Messengers II Peter 2: 1-3 II Timothy 4: 3-4 False teaching will come – and we will put up with it, even encourage it!

  16. Perfect MessageImperfect Messengers Hebrews 4: 12-13 Motives will be exposedFalse teachers will be brought to justice Revelation 14: 6-7 The perfect message endures

  17. Perfect MessageImperfect Messengers “But what does it matter? The important thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice.” Philippians 1: 18

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