July
19, 2009
Audio
sermon
Video
sermon
How To Live Peaceably
With All Men?
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Well, almost with all men, anyway...
Part II - Kindness
If it be possible, as much as lieth
in you, live peaceably with all men.
Romans 12:18
Let us therefore follow after the things
which make for peace,
and things wherewith one may edify another.
Romans 14:19
Does this mean we must then...
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Compromise?
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Put out a false testimony from ourselves when we still know what is right?
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Be a hypocrite to those who know we know what is right?
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Not try to grow in judgment?
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etc.
Does this include:
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evil communications?
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those who won't endure sound doctrine?
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those who preach a false doctrine?
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those who hurt, abuse, contend, strive, etc.?
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those who try to take away your peace attempts?
Do we no longer have to avoid, have no company with, etc.?
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No!
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Note: that if it not be possible - or if doesn't lie within you
- then Paul says to avoid, have no company with, etc.
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Do we hide behind charity, kindness, etc. and not step up as Paul tells
us to in the 'hard' situations?
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Do we hide behind not wanting for meat to destroy the work of God?
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Or are we willing to:
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Discover; Decide; Depart; Despise; Destroy; Deny; Prayer; Tears; Grace
& Truth; Avoid foolish and unlearned questions, genealogies, contentions,
etc. (unprofitable, vain, gender strifes and more questions, etc.); Follow
after the things made for peace, may edify one another; Speak those things
which become sound doctrine; Avenge not; Mercy; Charity*, (unfeigned faith,
pure heart, good conscience or just vain jangling); Hold fast; Endure hardness;
Consider what Paul says; Bear the infirmities of the weak; be gentle; Study;
Be apt to teach; In meekness instruct those that oppose themselves; Please
not your own self; Longsuffering; Patience; Maintain good works; Continue
in the things thou has learned and has been assured of, knowing of whom
thou hast learned them; Reprove; Speak. and exhort. and rebuke with all
authority; Be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel; Avoid*, etc.;
Deliver to Satan...
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*Charity - suffereth long; is kind; envieth not; vaunteth not itself; is
not puffed up; doth not behave itself unseemly; seeketh not her own; is
not easily provoked; thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity; rejoiceth
in the truth; never faileth - but today, is not 'above' a rightly divided
KJB - follow after charity, but rather that ye may prophesy!
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If your heart is not pure, if you do not have a good conscience and you
do not have an unfeigned faith, then you are just vain jangling when you
talk about charity to someone else.
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If you have to 'tell' someone you are offering a charitable situation,
then it isn't charity!
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Charity towards others is between you and God!
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**avoid, withdraw from such, not strive, neither give heed, purge, reject,
be not partakers, mark, note them, have no company, put away from yourselves,
cast off, have no fellowship, etc.
Here are the 'general' notes
for tonight's introductory sermon on "kindness."
Little mentions of being 'kind' to others in the Gospels, as far as
the word 'kind' goes, anyway.
We look to these verses and preach on them appropriately considering kindness.
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I Corinthians 13:4
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keeping in mind I
Timothy 1:5 and the vain jangling that
exists when most folks brag and preach on their charity!
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II Corinthians 1-13
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It seems it is all about Paul, but then in verse
13 we see that all is also applicable to us!
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Ephesians 2:1-7
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Ephesians 4:29-32
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Colossians 3:12
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Titus 3:1-7 with emphasis on verse
4
Tribulation thoughts, NOT to be preached TO us today, but we sense these
things growing closer which can only mean...
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II Peter 1:7
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III John 1:6
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Jude 12
Let the peace of God rule in our
hearts!
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts,
to the which also ye are called in one
body; and be ye thankful.
Colossians 3:15
Sermon
notes from King James Bible Church of Touchet, WA
Pastor
- Mike Paulson
www.scatteredchristians.org
The
entire King James Bible is written FOR us, but it is not all written TO
us!
We
learn from the "For" and we try to apply the 'TO!"