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False Christs - Matt. 24:24 False prophets & apostles – 2 Cor. 11:13-15; 1 Jno. 4:1

COUNTERFEIT FAITHS! 1 Peter 2:9-10. False Christs - Matt. 24:24 False prophets & apostles – 2 Cor. 11:13-15; 1 Jno. 4:1 False brethren - Gal. 2:4 False teachers - 2 Pet. 2:1 False churches - Rev. 2:5 False gospels - Gal. 1:6-7. 1. COUNTERFEIT FAITHS! 1 Peter 2:9-10.

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False Christs - Matt. 24:24 False prophets & apostles – 2 Cor. 11:13-15; 1 Jno. 4:1

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  1. COUNTERFEIT FAITHS! 1 Peter 2:9-10 • False Christs - Matt. 24:24 • False prophets & apostles – 2 Cor. 11:13-15; 1 Jno. 4:1 • False brethren - Gal. 2:4 • False teachers - 2 Pet. 2:1 • False churches - Rev. 2:5 • False gospels - Gal. 1:6-7 1

  2. COUNTERFEIT FAITHS! 1 Peter 2:9-10 • Christians must not fellowship, endorse or join up with religious and/or moral error! – 2 Cor. 6:14-18; 2 Jno. 9-11 • Reprove, oppose & avoid it! - Jude 3; Eph. 5:11; Rom. 16:17 2

  3. 2 Cor. 6:14-16: WHAT… SIN DARK BELIAL UNBEL. IDOLS RIGHT. LIGHT CHRIST BEL. TEMPLE SIN DARK BELIAL UNBEL. IDOLS RIGHT. LIGHT CHRIST BEL. TEMPLE or FELLOWSHIP? (metoche): “partnership, sharing” COMMUNION? (koinonia): “sharing in common” ACCORD? (sumphonesis): “a sounding together” PART? (meris): “a part as distinct from the whole” AGREEMENT? (sunkatathesis): “a putting together or joint deposit, approval” 3

  4. It Makes A Difference That We Are Different! 1 Pet. 2:9-10; 2 Cor. 6:14-18 • Our Religious Affiliation Makes A Difference, 2 Cor. 6:14-16; Gal. 1:6-9; Rev. 22:18-19; Jude 3 • -Because Christ built and saves HIS church -- None other!(Matt. 16:18; Acts 2:47; Eph. 5:23) 4

  5. We Are Different From The Denominations! • How to be saved (H,B,R,C,B: Jno. 6:45; 8:24; Lk. 13:5; Rom. 10:9-10; Mk. 16:16) • -Infant baptism (original sin) • -Faith only (sinner’s prayer) • -Holy Ghost experience (tongues) 5

  6. We Are Different From The Denominations! • How to worship God (Jno. 4:23-24; Acts 2:42; 20:7; Eph. 5:19) • -Instrumental music • -Ceremonial (liturgical) • -Entertainment (performances) • -“Traditional & Contemporary” 6

  7. We Are Different From The Denominations! • Work of local church (Acts 6:1-4) • -Social gospel (Scouts, recreational facilities, auxiliaries, etc.) • -Business (Hospitals, clinics, schools, orphanages, restaurants, etc.) • -Politics (campaigns, etc.) 7

  8. We Are Different From The Denominations! • Holy lives (Tit. 2:11-14; Rom. 6:1-2, 15-18; 1 Pet. 1:15-16; Col. 3:17) • -Situation ethics (no absolutes) • -Immorality (homosexuality, abortion, adultery, immodesty, alcohol, etc.) • -Conscience your guide • -What feels right must be right 8

  9. We Are Different From Many Churches of Christ! • How to be saved • -Christians in all the denominations: • “There are sincere, knowledgeable, devout Christians in all the various denominations.” • (Rubel Shelley sermon, “Is Unity Possible?”, 1983, cited in Behold The Pattern, 274) 9

  10. We Are Different From Many Churches of Christ! • How to be saved • -Don’t need to understand baptism is ‘for the remission of sins’: • “I see no reason to think one has to under-stand ‘for the remission of sins’ in order to be baptized scripturally, for I do not think there is one right reason for being baptized. I would say one must be baptized for a right reason in order for his baptism to be acceptable…” (“I Just Want to Be a Christian”, Shelley 144; in Behold The Pattern, 277) 10

  11. We Are Different From Many Churches of Christ! • True Worship • -A “Holy WOW”: • “Worship is a mysticism…an existentialexperience…Worship needs to be an encounter experience…an encounter with God, that you have had a holy WOW… worship is spontaneous and unavoidable… it’s the holy WOW.” • (Rubel Shelly, cited in Behold The Pattern,308) 11

  12. We Are Different From Many Churches of Christ! • True Worship • -Instrumental music: • “Our example is not being like the first century church…The first century church is not an example for us to follow…Based on my studies, instrumental music has nothing to do with the worship of God. We don’t know what they did in the first century church.” • (George Huff, Sun Village Church of Christ, Little Rock, CA, Feb. ’02) 12

  13. We Are Different From Many Churches of Christ! • True Worship • -Instrumental music: • George Huff affirms he could worship with mechanical instruments of music “BASED ON THE SILENCE OF THE SCRIPTURES” … “Musical instruments are just like circumcision, they avail nothing one way or the other…I just don’t preach on it…Talking to me about instrumental music in worship is like talking to a wealthy man about a penny lying on the floor.” • (George Huff, Sun Village Church of Christ, Little Rock, CA, Feb. ’02; Discussion with Micky Galloway & Gailen Evans) 13

  14. We Are Different From Many Churches of Christ! • True Worship • -Tuesday Night Communion: • “…Tuesday night, October 5, 1999…Highland Church of Christ in Abilene, Texas publicly proclaimed its ecumenical ties…There was a full blown band on stage…an all woman quartet entertaining the audience. Added to this was hand clapping, and hands raised in the air with arms, and bodies swaying back and forth.” (“Walk to Emmaus, Tuesday Night Communion, and Other Matters”, Royce Williamson) 14

  15. We Are Different From Many Churches of Christ! • True Worship • -Tuesday Night Communion: • “…The communion was administered by Eddie Sharp, and another man. Mr. Sharp would break the bread, and give it to the participant who would go to the next man, and there dip it into a large cup of the fruit of the vine, and then partake of the soaked bread. That is Catholicism through and through.” (“Walk to Emmaus, Tuesday Night Communion, and Other Matters”, Royce Williamson) 15

  16. We Are Different From Many Churches of Christ! • Work of the Church • -Social & recreational arrangements • -Fellowship meals, church meals, fellowship halls, gyms, etc. • -Secular education • -Business enterprise • -Support of human organizations 16

  17. We Are Different From Many Churches of Christ! • Live Holy Lives • -Social drinking: • Jesus “walks down the familiar stairs, strolls through the door and has a seat on the barstool adjacent to Norm.” • (Mike Cope, “Jesus Might Fit in at Cheers,” Abilene Reporter News, May 16, 1993, in Piloting the Strait, Miller, 368) 17

  18. We Are Different From Many Churches of Christ! • Live Holy Lives • -Social drinking: • Romans 14 is used to say that this should not be a matter of fellowship among Christians. • (Rubel Shelly, cited in Piloting the Strait, Miller, 368) 18

  19. We Are Different From Many Churches of Christ! • Live Holy Lives • -Homosexuality: • “A Cappella Chorus” formed in Houston, TX in 1979, claimed to be a “fellowship” of “gay and lesbian members of the Houston area Churches of Christ.” • (Piloting the Strait, Miller, 368) 19

  20. We Are Different From Many Churches of Christ! • Live Holy Lives (Homosexuality): • “Many of the people with AIDS who have come to Mr. (Larry) James (preacher, Richardson East Church of Christ) for counseling have been gay men. The minister said he does not believe homosexuality is a sin, ‘it’s a given – people do not choose it consciously…he said he believes it’s wrong to act on those feelings…Those who are comfortable with their lives, however, he leaves alone.” (Piloting the Strait, Miller, 368) 20

  21. ONE man for ONE woman FOR LIFE! Gen. 2:24-25 Matt. 19:4-6 Only ONE Exception for Divorce! Except (IF & ONLY IF) for fornication! Matt. 19:9; 5:32 God’s Marriage Law -Not Under Bondage (James D. Bales) -Rethinking Marriage, Divorce & Remarriage (Jerry Bassett) -The Divorced & Remarried Who Would Come to God (Homer Hailey) 21

  22. Christianity Magazine April, 1989, page 6 “The teaching in Romans 14, then, speaks to the practical circumstance in which we find ourselves. Good men disagree. We don’t like it and our consciences are tested by our disagreements, but they remain a fact of life…. “Does that mean, then, that we should wink at sin? No. It means that we acknowledge that we are not always certain about sin…” 22

  23. Christianity Magazine April, 1989, page 6 “…Of course, in my own mind, when a brother violates scriptural teaching, he sins. If I say you are wrong, I say you sin (or you consent to it). There are no big and little sins, no relevant and irrelevant instructions…” 23

  24. Christianity Magazine April, 1989, page 6 “All of God’s instruction are equally important (though, as we shall see in subsequent articles, all may not be equally clear) – whether dealing with the identity of the church, the Christian and war, the behavior of women in the assembly, or marriage and divorce….” Jno. 17:17; 8:32; Eph. 5:17 24

  25. Christianity Magazine April, 1989, page 6 “…Disobedience is disobedience, and sin is sin. So, the statement that I make when I work together with a brother with whom I disagree is that, despite our disagreement, ‘to his own master he standeth or falleth’ (verse 4).” 2 Corinthians 6:14-16 25

  26. Christianity Magazine May, 1989, page 6 “It is obvious that Christians sometimes disagree about scriptural instruction, even in matters of considerable moral and doctrinal import. In spite of these disagreements, we work and worship together, leaving many matters of individual judgment in the hands of God. That behavior… is, I believe, the issue addressed in Romans 14 (see article number 3).” Romans 14:1 & 2 John 9-11 26

  27. Undermining InspirationRom. 3:4 (2 Tim. 3:16; 1 Cor. 14:37) • Days of creation in Genesis 1 are ages, not 24 hour days(Psa. 33:6, 9) • Bible says: • -“…evening and morning…”(Gen. 1:5, 8, 13) • -Jewish work week –Exo. 20:9-11 27

  28. Undermining InspirationRom. 3:4 (2 Tim. 3:16; 1 Cor. 14:37) • Some brethren now say: • “Now, I think we run intoa problem when we say must,'one of these views must be correct. And I've got a good brother friend who said one place that these must be long ages, and I can't say that.But on the other hand, I can't say they must be 24 hour ages.” 28

  29. Undermining InspirationRom. 3:4 (2 Tim. 3:16; 1 Cor. 14:37) “Not to bewishy-washy, not to compromise on any biblical truth, but to saythere arejust some things so difficultthat Imay not be able to draw the same conclusionyou’ve drawn on thoseand then to give that opportunity for people.” (Ferrell Jenkins, “Making Sense Of The Days Of Creation,” Florida College, February 8, 2000) 29

  30. We Must Investigate Before We Associate! “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.” (Ephesians 5:11) 30

  31. We Must Investigate Before We Associate! “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. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.”(2 Jno. 9-11) 31

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