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Would One Know It If Jesus Removed the Lamp Stand?

Would One Know It If Jesus Removed the Lamp Stand?. (Revelation 2:5) "Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lamp stand from its place--unless you repent. (NKJV). Common Misconceptions

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Would One Know It If Jesus Removed the Lamp Stand?

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  1. Would One Know It If Jesus Removed the Lamp Stand? • (Revelation 2:5) "Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lamp stand from its place--unless you repent. (NKJV)

  2. Common Misconceptions About God & His Church

  3. Common Misconceptions About God • God loves you as you are.

  4. God Does Love the Sinner, But… • (Romans 5:8) • But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (NKJV)

  5. Common Misconceptions About God • A loving God would not allow/cause people harm.

  6. God Allowed Paul to Suffer • (2 Corinthians 11:24-26) From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep; in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; (NKJV)

  7. (1 Peter 1:6-7) • In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, (NKJV)

  8. (Hebrews 12:6) • For whom the LORD loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives." (NKJV)

  9. Common Misconceptions About God • God wants me to be happy!

  10. What Should Make a Child of God Happy? • (Proverbs 28:14a) • Happy is the man who is always reverent... (NKJV)

  11. Common Misconceptions About the Church • Christian preachers are more spiritual than other believers.

  12. Paul: “Chief” of Sinners • (1 Timothy 1:15-16) • This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all longsuffering, as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life. (NKJV)

  13. Common Misconceptions About the Church • The church is a safe place where you can always trust everyone.

  14. Exercise Extra Caution Since Our Guard is Let Down • (James 5:19) Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, (NKJV) • (2 Peter 2:1) But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. (NKJV)

  15. Common Misconceptions About the Church • No one in the church has the right to judge another in the church and no action should be taken against sin.

  16. (Matthew 7:15-20) • "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. "You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? "Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. "A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. "Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. "Therefore by their fruits you will know them. (NKJV)

  17. (1 Corinthians 5:1-2) It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles--that a man has his father's wife! And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. (NKJV) • (1 Corinthians 5:5-7) deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. (NKJV)

  18. (2 Thessalonians 3:6) • But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us. (NKJV)

  19. Common Misconceptions About the Church • Christians should never say anything that might offend someone or hurt someone else’s feelings.

  20. Speaking the Truth in Love • (Ephesians 4:14-15) • that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head--Christ-- (NKJV)

  21. Friendly Fire • (Proverbs 27:6) • Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. (NKJV)

  22. Common Misconceptions About the Church • If you are a Christian you need to locate and identify with a church that you will like.

  23. A Faithful Church • (Revelation 3:8-9) • "I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name. "Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie--indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. (NKJV)

  24. Withdraw From the Disorderly • (2 Thessalonians 3:6) • But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us. (NKJV)

  25. (Acts 18:25) • 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. (NKJV)

  26. Emphasis on Personal Purity • (1 Thessalonians 4:1-8) • Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual…(cont.)

  27. Emphasis on Personal Purity • immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit. (NKJV)

  28. Can We Ignore Commands Concerning Marriage? • (Luke 16:18) "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery. (NKJV) • (1 Cor. 6:10) “Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers… will inherit the kingdom of God.

  29. Loving Christ = Keeping His Commandments • (John 14:15) • "If you love Me, keep My commandments. (NKJV)

  30. What True Belief Means • (1 John 2:6) He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. (NKJV) • (2 John 1:9) Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. (NKJV)

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