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From Western South Dakota
Where the Prairie Meets the Badlands

A Pheasant in the Sandhills Prairie area, Lower Brule Sioux Reservation

August 7, 2011

Paul's Manner of Life

Part XXI

The Harder Stuff

But... ... FULLY known ...???
But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose,
faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
II Timothy 3:10

...After hearing parts I-VI...
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Romans 12:18

When you know it will cause you and / or your family to...
a... stumble,
b... not be edified,
c... do something or be around something that isn't expedient,
d... could put a power over you / family,
e... do something that is just an occasion for the flesh,
- then eventually you must:
Speak
Exhort
Reprove
Admonish
Rebuke

However, if those don't even work, then we should...
...do something about it...
...but not 'to them' - 'to you!'
It affects others, but you will be doing it to yourself!

The Christian life is about pleasing God with what pleases God, not what pleases us!
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus,
that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God,
so ye would abound more and more.
I Thessalonians 4:1
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak,
and not to please ourselves.
Romans 15:1
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will,
according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
Ephesians 1:9
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Philippians 2:13
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
II Timothy 3:4b
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth,
but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
II Thessalonians 2:12

There comes a time to grow up; a time to quit thinking about ourselves!
Paul's teachings show us how!
Ephesians 4:14; Grow up with solid doctrine and stand!
I Corinthians 13:11 - Put away childish things!

But this is the hard stuff - this is the stuff that shows your sincerity as a Paul following Christian!

If we live to please God and not ourselves, then for the sake of the truth and a true testimony of that truth,
and knowing that we are not ashamed of the testimony of the Lord nor of Paul,
there comes times that we need to:

But remember I Corinthians 5:9-13.

We can't go out of the world to stay away from the lost, etc.

But... put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

And who is that wicked person? The brother that..., not the world!

Note on extortioners: many pastors today are extortioners these days when they preach the Great Commission and Peter, etc.

The threat of chastisement, Christ's rejection and withdrawing fellowship with you, God's judgment affecting your health, income, family, etc. is used to scare folks to 'do right' when it comes to the church business and activities.

avoid

Romans 16:17: Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
II Timothy 2:23 - But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
Titus 3:9 - But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

All things are lawful, so what is there to strive about the law?

I Corinthians 6:12 - All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
I Corinthians 10:23 - All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

Yet the law does have a purpose!

I Timothy 1:8 - But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

Galatians 3:24,25 - Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

withdraw from such

II Thessalonians 3:6 - Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
I Timothy 6:3-5 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

... more continued in next sermon!

M Paulson
Kadoka, South Dakota

Where the Prairie Meets the Badlands of Western South Dakota

Just trying to do the work of an evangelist by teaching & preaching Paul's gospel of & from the Risen Saviour!
web site - www.scatteredchristians.org
email contact - kjb1611@goldenwest.net

The entire King James Bible is written FOR us, but it is not all written TO us!
We learn from the "For" and we learn to apply the 'TO!"
These writings of Paul are directly from the Risen Saviour to Paul...
...and then to us through the King James Bible by the Holy Ghost!