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In honor of Father’s Day & in keeping with simplicity, I would like to open with some dad jokes:
"What do you call a factory that makes okay products?"
"A satisfactory."
"What did the janitor say when he jumped out of the closet?"
"Supplies!"
"Have you heard about the chocolate record player?
It sounds pretty sweet."
"What did the ocean say to the beach?" "Nothing, it just waved."
"Why do seagulls fly over the ocean?" "Because if they flew over the bay, we'd call them bagels."
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Paul preached the gospel in Corinth in the early 50s AD during his second missionary journey (Acts 18:1–18).
When opposition grew fierce there, the Lord Jesus spoke to him in a vision assuring him that he had ‘many people’ in the city (Acts 18:10).
With this encouragement, Paul stayed on for eighteen months, ‘teaching them the word of God’ (Acts 18:11).
God used Paul’s ministry to bring about the birth and establishment of the church in Corinth.
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Life Principle - We Share The Gospel Simply & Rely On The Holy Spirit
Life Point- Simply Share The Gospel
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We have been talking about the wisdom of God vs. the wisdom of the world.
We learned how the Greek’s saw the message of the cross as foolish and the Jews saw it as a stumbling block.
Paul reminds the corinthians of how he came to them in our scripture.
How did he come?
He came contrary to what they thought they wanted.
Christianity by-and-large today has become a place for people to get their wants met, not their needs.
They say, what do people want?
What will draw them?
That’s real simple.
Tickle their ears and provide programs for them.
You will start to get people in your church that way.
What is happening?
In some churches today we have rank heresy being taught.
God is not a genie that you rub the lamp.
He is not a mathematical formula that you do one thing and you guaranteed to get what you want.
Yet too often this is what people treat God like.
As a Christian you are in relationship with God, and it isn’t a partnership of equals.
you are the slave, He is the master.
You can argue with Him, but it won’t do you any good.
You can say you aren’t going to follow the plain teaching of scripture, but you will pay the consequences.
In other churches, to bring people into their organizations, they will leave the Bible out of things.
Begin to walk in ambiguity.
Begin to teach in such broad terms that it offends no one.
Worst of all they have taken the simplicity of the Gospel out of the center of their preaching.
They have put in human wisdom and human ideas into the place of scripture.
I know of a pastor right now that taught what it means to be a member of a church.
He did not use much scripture, if any at all and the cross was not central.
Evangelism was not central.
The simplicity of the Gospel was not mentioned.
Sin and the dealing with sin through the shed blood of Jesus Christ was not brought up.
What does this kind of preaching do to the church?
It robs it of God’s power.
The Gospel is simple.
Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
But you see, that is not a comfortable thing for people.
They get offended by it.
Why?
1) You are telling me I am totally depraved and reprobate and there is nothing good in me?
Yes, that is exactly what I am saying; scripture even tells me what the evil works of the flesh are.
It also tells me that if my life is characterized by these things, then I am not a true believer.
That is offensive.
Most people will get mad and leave if you keep giving them that message.
They want to go to church, make some friends and go out and party with one another.
Don’t say it doesn’t happen in Baptist Churches either.
I have a lot of examples where people will post on facebook where they went drinking with other members of those churches.
Some of them are even on the praise team at their local church!
Don’t tell me I am living in sin!
I don’t want to hear it!
This attitude is pervasive in so-called Christianity, in so-called churches today.
I can tell you right now of a man who has 11 children.
I know this man He was deacon at a church.
He even came and asked me if it is morally wrong to download music off the internet and not pay for it.
Of course I said, it is morally wrong.
It is stealing.
To which he agreed.
He didn’t like the way his pastor handled a situation and rather than talk to him about it he stopped attending services and only came to Sunday School and Deacon’s meetings.
A few years go by and this same man who had a moral conviction about stealing music, has been caught in adultery and divorces his wife.
A man with 11 children, abandons her and moves out of the house and in with the mistress.
Last I heard he went to and now goes to a church where his conscious is salved and then he eventually married the mistress.
Don’t tell me I don’t know all the circumstances, you’re right I don’t.
Don’t tell me that was OK for him to do.
It wasn’t, for a man who claims Christ that is wrong.
Yet, it happens all the time in a lot of churches.
I know of a pastor who committed adultery and rather than resign he held a vote for retention.
The sad part is that just under 50% of the church wanted to keep him, with no time off and no plan of restoration.
He ended up divorcing his wife, married the mistress and is pastoring a church again.
Right here in Lake County.
You’re right God does have forgiveness, and cleansing.
However, when a pastor does that he is to resign and never be in public ministry again.
I don’t care that he is a good preacher or teacher.
I don’t care that he is charismatic, engaging and fun to listen to.
When we look at the qualifications of a pastor, they are all character based except for one.
That is, he must be able to teach.
2) You are telling me that there is nothing I can do to get out of this depravity all on my own?
You mean I deserve to die and burn in hell?
Yes I am telling you that, and yes we all deserve damnation.
You and I need a savior.
That is why Jesus came.
He came to pay your sin-debt that he didn’t owe.
So that you could be clean before Him.
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