Review:
Prov 24:16
For the Love of Unity:
- Avoid offending people. (Acts 15:19-29)
1 Corinthians 10:32 - - Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God...
Quick Test: If you answer NO, then NO, don’t do it, don’t say it, don’t post it on Facebook!
- Is this respectful towards their opinion?
- Is this motivated by love?
- Will this bring peace and encouragement?
- Celebrate Salvation. (Acts 15:30-31)
- Be an Encourager. (Acts 15:32-35)
Romans 14:1 - - As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
Romans 14:15 - - For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.
Romans 14:19 - - So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
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Open your Bibles with me please to the book of Acts in chapter 15.
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If you're visiting with us, we've been going through the book of Acts.
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And I want to get you caught up on where we have gone so far.
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In Acts chapters 1 through 12, we saw that Jesus had promised, clear back in the beginning, Acts chapter 1 verse 8, Jesus said, "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses." And really that verse serves as the foundation for the entire book of Acts.
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It serves as the basis of why we're here doing what we're doing today.
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You know, that we were given the power of the Holy Spirit so that we might be witnesses for Christ.
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We started this year, kicking off the ministry year, with Acts chapter 13 and 14.
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We followed the amazing story of Paul and Barnabas and Mark on a mission trip.
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And then we saw they got back just in time for an attack on the church.
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But there were people that claimed you had to obey the Old Testament law in order to be saved.
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Paul and Barnabas went to Jerusalem.
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They had a big church meeting with the apostles to settle the issue once and for all.
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We talked about this last week.
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Their verdict was salvation is through the grace of Jesus Christ alone.
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that keeping the rules and the rituals of the law are not required for salvation.
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You know, sometimes I read the Bible and I think, "What does that mean for me today, and how can I apply this to everyday life?" Or, "What does this look like in the context of where I live now?" And sometimes it's just so obvious.
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In this passage we looked at last week, you remember?
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These Gentiles were saved and then all of a sudden these people came down and said, "Unless you're circumcised, you aren't saved." And all of a sudden they're like, "Well, am I really saved or am I not saved?" And it turned into a big thing at the church.
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And that stuff still happens.
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Several years ago, I was at this big meeting at this church camp that included a bunch of different churches.
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And our church, at one of our weeks of camp, one of the counselors had a kid approach and say, "Hey, what do I have to do to get saved?" And the counselor said something like, "Well, you have to believe in Jesus Christ and ask Jesus into your heart." Well, at this meeting, some people, some officers of the camp were outraged.
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They said, "You told that kid all they needed to do was receive Jesus, and you didn't mention anything about baptism.
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And it turned into this thing where there was name calling and fighting and like one guy got fired.
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And it was just, and I'm sitting in this meeting going, could you imagine if like some unsaved person like walked in the room and thought, this is the church.
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These are the churches.
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Oh, this is what you want me to come and be a part of.
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It was, you guys are on the same team.
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It was disgusting.
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And I told the camp president as much immediately after the meeting.
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I said, "There needs to be some massive repentance happening here." I said, "What about this meeting was Christian? Do you see the irony here?
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We're called to love one another.
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We're called to show the world that we belong to Jesus by the way we love one another.
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And this is how we conduct business.
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Shameful. Shameful." this horrible story, Pastor Jeff. The reason I'm telling you this, it was the exact same situation in Acts. You had these people coming along saying, "You can't be saved unless you keep the rules, unless you do this." And you, you know what I believe about baptism. It is, it's an important act of obedience. It's a reflection of what Christ has done in your heart. But baptism does not save you.
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Okay? But this narrative plays over and over.
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Somebody's going to come along and tell you that Jesus isn't enough.
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If you want to go to heaven, if you want to be saved, you have to keep my rules.
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And it destroys unity in the church.
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So for the love of unity, if you have an outline, I want you to jot some things down this morning.
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This is part two of our message from last week.
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If you missed last week's, it's available on our website.
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But if we're going to have unity in the church, for the love of unity, number one, I want you to write this down.
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Don't you want this church to be unified? I do.
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Don't you want our church to have a unified relationship with other churches in our community?
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What a blessing it is for me to see.
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Ken Chevalier is here with us today on vacation from Northway, and he just came to worship with us. What a blessing that is.
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What a blessing that church has been to me and to Harvest Bible Chapel and how many people we've baptized with them up there.
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But what a blessing to have our brother from Northway worshiping with us today.
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How many people love unity? All in favor of unity?
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Okay, so you have to have a part in that.
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So how do I do it? What's my part?
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Number one, I want you to write this down.
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Avoid offending people.
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Picking up from where we left off last week, James, the half-brother of Jesus, is still speaking here.
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Look at verse 19.
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They already said, "Look, you don't have to keep the Old Testament law to be saved." We gave all the reasons for why last week.
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Now we're getting to the nitty-gritty here.
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James says, "Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.
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For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him.
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For he has read every Sabbath in the synagogues.
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"Then it seemed good to the apostles and elders "with the whole church to choose men from among them "and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas." Remember, Antioch is where this problem started, where the people said, "You're gonna get circumcised "to be saved," and the whole thing started, and they sent the representatives down, Paul and Barnabas, "Let's get an answer." They're like, "We need to send the answer back." You with me?
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It says, "They sent Judas, called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers." With the following letter.
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"The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia." Okay, Syria and Cilicia were part of a Roman district and Antioch was the capital of the district.
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In other words, if this letter were being written today to our geographical area, it would say something like, to the brothers in Pittsburgh and Allegheny and Beaver counties, same kind of thing, all right?
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Greetings, since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions, It is seem good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth.
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For it seem good to the Holy Spirit and to us To lay on you no greater burden than these requirements.
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You abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality.
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If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well.
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Like, whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on, stop, stop, stop, stop.
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Hang on.
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Okay, so last week for 35 minutes, We timed it.
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Pastor Jeff, you stood up and told us that keeping the rules doesn't save anyone.
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That's true.
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You're like, okay.
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Then why did they just like give them a bunch of rules?
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Like what's up with that, right?
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Like they're like, you don't need rules to get saved.
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And then they gave a bunch of rules.
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Listen, listen very closely or you'll miss it.
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This is not a salvation issue.
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Look at verse 29 again.
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He says, if you keep yourselves from these, and we're gonna talk about the rules.
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He says, "If you keep yourselves from these, you will..." What?
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What does your Bible say?
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"You will do well." Does it say, "You will be saved"?
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Does it say, "You will go to heaven"?
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Does it say, "Your sins will be forgiven"?
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He says, "You'll do well. These are good things for you to do." This is not a salvation issue.
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This is about fellowship.
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This is about unity.
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Listen closely.
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This is about Gentiles keeping credibility with Jewish non-believers and keeping unity with Jewish believers who lived their whole lives under the law before receiving Jesus Christ.
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In other words, this was the verdict.
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Jews, don't trouble the Gentiles with your legalism.
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Okay, you grew up in a very ritualistic mindset.
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Don't trouble the Gentiles with your legalism.
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But then they turn around and say, "Listen, on the other hand, Gentiles, don't trouble the Jews with your freedom." You see that?
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Why? Because it's about unity.
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The problem was the church was about to be doctrinally and racially divided.
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See, these Gentiles would have come out of idolatry, and the things on this list that he gives, these are things associated with idolatry that obviously would have troubled the Jews because of their upbringing in the law.
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So the point in this letter is saying Gentiles avoid anything connected to idolatry that might offend the Jews, believing and non-believing for the sake of unity and for the sake of evangelism.
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That make sense? Okay, what things? Oh, there's four areas.
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Jot these down. I'm going to go through these quickly.
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The first thing, things polluted by idols. Things polluted by idols. That was a huge New Testament times issue. You can read about this Romans chapter 14, 1 Corinthians chapters 8-10.
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Big issue.
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What was going on here?
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There were animals that were sacrificed to idols.
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And then they would take the meat from that animal and sell it in the marketplace.
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And you can understand why that was such a big issue for the church, right?
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Because you have some people in the church that were like, "Don't touch that meat.
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That meat was sacrificed to the idol.
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We as a church should have nothing to do with that meat." Right?
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But then you'd have people on the other side that were like, a hamburger's a hamburger, right?
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A boogeyman doesn't live in the burger.
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I'm not scared that I'm going to have a demon go in my belly when I eat the burger.
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It's just me.
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It's just me.
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What's the idol?
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The idol's nothing.
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The idol's nothing.
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It doesn't matter if you eat the meat.
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So then you'd have the people, you can't eat that.
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That was sacrifice.
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It's just a burger.
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There is this whole big thing, right?
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And so much of the New Testament addresses that issue.
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Like, how should you handle that?
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We'll talk about that in a second.
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Second thing, fornication, in particular in this context, it was very much a part of pagan worship.
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They had temple priestesses that were actually prostitutes.
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Again, something very much tied to their old way of living.
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And the apostles were like, "Yeah, stay away from that.
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Everybody thinks it's a good idea? Yeah, I think it's a good idea." And then numbers 3 and 4 on the list, he talks about things strangled and blood, again, part of the idolatry, but something else that would have really troubled the Jews, especially because of their dietary laws.
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just jot down Leviticus 17 talks about that.
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We saw what a huge issue that was.
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Remember in Acts chapter 10, the Lord says to Peter, "Kill and eat." And Peter's like, "Absolutely not, Lord.
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No way, never will I eat anything unclean.
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I never have in my life. I never will." That was just so ingrained to them that there's things that you just don't eat.
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And even for Peter, it was an issue.
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This whole dietary thing, they're like, just things strangled, blood, stay away from that. You know, about a month or so ago, in a message, we discussed people being offended by everything.
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You remember that? We live in a day that people are offended by everything, whether it's political or, you know, the silly flag on the roof of the Dukes of Hazzard card. You remember that whole thing? That was a whole thing for like 15 minutes, like country divided over the Dukes of Hazzard.
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Those were some strange times.
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The people are offended by everything.
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And it's true.
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We shouldn't be people that are offended, really, by anything.
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We should expect wickedness and offense and evil from the world.
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We shouldn't be people that are caught up in all these offenses.
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But here's the point today.
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nor should we be intentionally offensive people.
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In other words, people are going to be offended, but that doesn't mean they have to be offended by me.
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Now there is a natural offense in the gospel.
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You can't get around that.
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It's offensive when you tell people, hey, look, you know what, you're a sinner by birth and by choice.
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And we all are.
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There's an offense to that.
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That's going to happen.
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But, but listen church, if people are offended by you over a conviction matter, over a non-salvation matter, they're not going to hear you when you try to witness to them.
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And some people have said it.
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"I don't care who I offend." How many people have heard people say that?
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"I don't care who I offend." You've heard people say that?
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I'm telling you this with as much love as I can muster, that that is an extremely immature attitude.
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It just is. It's immature.
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"I don't care who I offend." Really?
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So you're willing to risk an opportunity to witness the gospel of Jesus Christ to someone because you want to stand up for some minor or silly issue?
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Is it worth losing your witness?
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Is it worth losing that person's ear? Is it really worth it?
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1 Corinthians 10.32 says, "Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God." Paul says, "You should always take the higher road.
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You should always look at how can I not be offensive in other things so that I have the opportunity to share the gospel." If you're trying to evangelize and you're offending the person that you're trying to reach over some non-essential issue, they're not going to hear you.
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If you're insisting on your freedom in some matter in the church, but you're offending somebody, you're eroding unity.
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That's why I look at your text again. Look at verse 21.
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This is kind of a weird verse.
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I had to read through this a few times before I really got what he was saying.
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He says, "For from ancient generations, Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he has read every Sabbath in the synagogues." What he's saying is, you're going to be witnessing to sensitive people with a long-standing tradition.
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That's what he's saying.
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Like this, "Moses and the Law of Moses." you're going to be going. There are people that have lived their entire lives from birth through decades of living. That's all they've ever known.
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And these people are everywhere. Is it worth offending them? Is it worth offending them? Is it worth losing your chance to witness? And even some Christians, even though they are free in Christ, there are some Christians who You have a delicate conscience in matters that are tied to their upbringing.
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I'll give you a couple examples.
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Let's say you have some Catholic friends.
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Let's say you have some Catholic friends who you know do not know the Lord.
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And it's Lent.
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And they want to get together on a Friday night, and you invite them over to your house.
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Are you going to serve them meat?
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No.
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"But what are you talking about?
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I can eat whatever I want.
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But are you willing to offend them?
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As soon as they walk in, like what do we have?
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Like roast beef?
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With a side of chicken?
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We have hamburgers as an appetizer?
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Really?
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Or even somebody, maybe there's somebody in the church that just recently came to Christ from a very Catholic background and maybe that's still an area of sensitivity in their lives.
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Like, I've never eaten meat on Friday during Lent.
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Are you going to try to, like, force that on them?
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Say, "Look, that's your old life.
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You don't need to worry about that now." You willing to violate their conscience?
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Instead of, as we all need, loved through the growth, right?
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We're all in this process of growing in Christ, and some of us are at different places.
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We need love through that.
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Another example, let's say you're invited to a barbecue, and you know a lot of the people at the barbecue are part of a recovering addict group.
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Are you going to show up with a case of beer?
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They go, Pastor Jeff, I'm free in Christ.
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I'm allowed to have a beer if I want.
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That's true.
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You can. You are not going to lose your salvation if you have a beer. That's absolutely true.
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But is it worth offending those people whom you're trying to reach by showing up with a case of beer?
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Is it worth it? Is the beer that good that you're willing to offend or violate somebody's conscience?
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I don't think it is. I don't think it is.
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Another example, as you know, last November, a group of us went to Thailand to do some mission work, and Barnabas was here speaking a couple weeks ago.
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How incredible was that, right?
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But before we went to Thailand, they said, "Hey, here's some things you've got to keep in mind.
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One is you don't point at people with your feet, because they consider that extremely rude." Meaning like, you've got an armful of stuff, and like, "Well, who's the guy in charge?" Like, "Oh, that guy." you know you don't do that they consider that like extremely offensive and so they said don't put it people with your feet and they say when you go into somebody's house you take your shoes off and uh... they say you always eat what's put in front of you i was given a tip that i learned the hard way you have to eat slowly because if you're like really hungry and they put the food in front of you and you're like and you eat it all, as soon as it's empty, they fill it back up immediately.
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So you have to eat slow, otherwise they're going to stuff you like a Thanksgiving turkey.
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So when we went over there and they gave us these rules, they weren't like, you know, Jeff, understand that your salvation is in jeopardy if you violate the rules.
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Why did they give us those rules?
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They gave us these rules so that we wouldn't offend the very people that we're trying to reach.
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And that's why these rules are given here.
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So, when in doubt, I want you to jot a couple things down here.
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We're going to have them on the screen.
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When in doubt, if you're like, "Man, I..." Before you open your mouth, before you do something that you aren't sure if it's going to hinder your evangelism or hurt the conscience of a brother or sister in Christ, I'm just going to give you a quick test.
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This is all from Scripture.
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I'm going to give you three questions, and if you answer no to any of these questions, if you answer no to any of these questions, then no, don't do it, don't say it, don't post it on social media.
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And I want to talk about that specifically because some of you are social media people.
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You have opportunity to offend people on social media?
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For some people, they do it like they get paid by the post.
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"Oh, I can't wait to - all the people I'm going to offend with this!" And you find some political meme, "Oh, that's going to make some people mad!" Okay, what are you proving?
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You know how to share a picture, great, but is it worth offending people you're trying to reach?
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Sometimes I'm just not sure. I'm going to give you a test.
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This is all from Scripture. It's all specifically from Romans 14.
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We'll just talk about posts, right?
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Like social media posts.
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Is this respectful towards their opinion?
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Is this post respectful towards other people's opinion?
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Romans 14, 1 says, "As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions." So, we're not going to be talking about Don't quarrel over opinions. Everybody's got opinions, okay?
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And everybody who loves Donald Trump isn't an ignorant redneck, and everybody who voted for Hillary Clinton isn't a baby murderer, okay? It's a little more multi-layered than that, okay? But we get on there and have to assert our opinions on these things, and we're going to offend some people. Is it really worth it?
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Is it really worth it?
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Another question to ask, is this motivated by love?
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What you're about to say, what you're about to type, can you stop and evaluate yourself and say, is love motivating what I'm about to say?
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This comes from Romans 14, 15.
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For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, getting back to that whole food sacrifice to idol thing, but you can apply this in so many ways.
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He says you are no longer walking in love.
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If you're offending someone, you're not walking in love.
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He says, "By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died." Is this motivated by love?
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Third question to ask, will this bring peace and encouragement?
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Some people just like to get on social media, and it's like throw a can of gas, throw a match, and walk away.
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Like, they love to stir things up.
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But is that the mature way? Is that the Jesus way?
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Because according to God's Word, Romans 14, 19 says, "So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual up-building." So if you answer "no" to any of those questions, don't say it, don't do it, don't post it.
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All right?
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So for the love of unity, avoid offending people.
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Number two, for the love of unity, celebrate salvation.
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Look at verses 30 and 31 with me.
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"So when they were sent off, they went down to Antioch.
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And having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter.
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And when they had read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement." Could you imagine the anticipation at Antioch?
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There's this big fight that breaks out, and all of a sudden I'm not sure if I'm saved or not, because these people said just Jesus, and then these people said Jesus plus the Old Testament law, and now I'm wondering if I'm even saved.
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When are these people getting back?
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How long have they been gone?
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Could you imagine the anticipation?
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And can you imagine the joy when they heard the news?
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You don't have to imagine, it's right there in the Bible.
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It says they rejoiced because of the encouragement that they got from this letter.
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Rejoice. Rejoice in what?
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Rejoice in this truth that salvation is a done deal in Jesus Christ.
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Haden Full.
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When Jesus was on the cross, He didn't cry out, "It is mostly finished!" "Almost done!" He declared. "It is finished." 100%! No more sin, no more guilt, no more shame, just a glorious new life in Jesus Christ.
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Does that bring anyone here joy today?
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As a church, the finished work of Christ must be our rallying point.
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It must be the only flag that we put up.
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It must be our only focus.
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That's why we do things like the Lord's Supper that we'll be celebrating here in just a couple of minutes.
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Because it brings us back to our focal point.
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That's why we baptize.
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That's why we sing to and about Jesus Christ.
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That's why we dig into the Word.
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That's why we strive above all things to be a vertically minded church, because Jesus is our unity.
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As the old saying goes, "The ground is level with the cross." There's so many differences of the people in this church and other churches.
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There's so many differences in what we celebrate.
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These glorious things that we have in common.
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Tony, are you a sinner saved by grace?
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Me too! We have that in common, brother!
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Isn't that fantastic?
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That's awesome!
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Darren, do you need God's Holy Spirit to guide and empower you every day?
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Me too! Isn't that awesome? We have this stuff in common.
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Jane Auer, are you not yet perfect, but you're growing in Christ, and you can see in your life that Christ is continuing to change you constantly.
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Is that your experience?
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This is awesome, man. Me too.
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We got so much in common.
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You know, how about Mark?
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Do you mess up sometimes?
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And you're thankful that you're forgiven in Jesus Christ?
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This is just weird. Me too.
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Me too. Do you see all of these things that we have in common?
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That's why we get together and celebrate these things.
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We celebrate salvation.
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And then finally today, be an encourager.
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Be an encourager.
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Look at these last few verses.
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It says, "And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many words.
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And after they spent some time, They were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.
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Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, many others also.
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Look at verse 32.
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Judas and Silas took the opportunity, as I would commend to you, number three in your outline, be an encourager.
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Be an encourager.
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Church is a place where you should come expecting to give.
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The problem is some people come expecting to give the wrong thing.
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Give complaints, give criticism, give negativity.
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What if instead, just what if, imagine what this church would be like if every single person who came decided ahead of time, "When I go, I'm going to give encouragement." Because every single person in this room is struggling with something.
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People are one step away. Do you realize this?
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People are one step away from financial ruin.
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There are people in this room who are one step away from ditching their marriage.
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There are people in this room that are one step away from overdosing on something. There might even be some people in this room that are one step away from attempting suicide.
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That's why this has to be a place of encouragement.
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This has to be a place where no matter how badly the world has knocked you down and then kicked you while you're down, you need to know and we need to make this place a haven, A time out from the world.
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This needs to be a place where I celebrate that I'm loved by God, and I celebrate that I'm loved by God's people.
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Church, I, speaking personally now, I need your encouragement.
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And others need you to be an encourager.
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And as we strive to not offend our brothers over matters of conviction, as we strive to rally around the gospel of Jesus Christ, as we strive to be intentional about coming here to build people up, we're going to experience unstoppable unity.
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Speaking of rallying around the gospel, we're going to celebrate by receiving the Lord's Supper in remembrance of Him.
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But today, let's close out our time around His table, celebrating the unity that we have, the glorious gift of His Son.
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Let's pray.
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Father in heaven, thank you for the grace that you give us.
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Father, it's my prayer for our church specifically today that we would seek to be intentional about some things.
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When we let our guard down, when we sort of let the flesh govern us, we love offending people.
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We know how to do it.
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We know how to push the right buttons.
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We know how to do it.
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God, I pray that we would be intentional about watching our words so that we're not losing our witness by being intentionally offensive.
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Father, I pray that we would be intentional about celebrating our salvation.
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It's easy to go to a church and criticize what you don't like, what your preferences are, and how the thing you like isn't being met.
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But Father, I pray that we would come to celebrate our salvation.
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We were sinners on the fast track to hell when you intervened with your love and your grace and took that penalty for us.
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Let's celebrate that salvation.
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and Father, let us be intentional about encouraging.
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It's easy to tear down.
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It's easy to become self-focused and to think that I'm the main event of church and people should sort of cater to me.
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Father, I pray that we would come looking for somebody else that we can lift up.
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That this place would actually be a haven.
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This place would be a time out from the world where people know they're going to come.
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They're going to be encouraged by you and by your people.
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Fathers, we gather around your table.
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We do this in the spirit in which Jesus had given it to us.
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We do this in remembrance of Him.
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And as we've studied these last two weeks, there is not a thing that we can do to save ourselves.
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No amount of law-keeping, no amount of baptisms, No amount of ritual or good works, none of those things can save us.
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We are saved solely by the finished work of Jesus Christ.
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Our faith is just accepting the work that you've already done on our behalf.
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So Father, let us come to your table today in humility, and in celebration, and in thanksgiving for the salvation you purchased.
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We praise you in Jesus' name.
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Thank you.
Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read Acts 15:19-35
If rules don’t save (Acts 15:1-18), why did the apostles give Gentiles these 4 rules?
What are ways we as a church can ensure the Gospel of Jesus Christ remains our focal point?
What are some ways Christians can be offensive with their freedom in Christ in our day? What would you say to a fellow believer who is offending someone with their freedom?
Breakout Questions:
Are there any areas where you tend to offend people and don’t care? What changes do you need to make?
