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Another
Sermon for the Starving Bible Believing Christians All Over the World Wide
Web
2005
- Touchet Baptist Church, Touchet, Washington - Pastor Mike Paulson - 2005
Expounding
the way of God more perfectly - Acts 18:26
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with the Scriptures Rightly Divided - II
Timothy 2:15
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"Puffed Up" BB Christians
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Continuing what our general preahcing thought today - "Who do we think
we are, anyway?" - let's look at what the Book says about being puffed
up with pride, etc Are Bible Believing Christians beginning to live
on their own self-designed and redefined religion as they slowy creep away
from the final authority they used to claim in their KJB?.
Pride: Inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit
of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, accomplishments, rank
or elevation in office, which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance,
reserve, and often in contempt of others' insolence; rude treatment of
others; loftiness; ostentation.
Puffed up: to be proud to be swelled up with conceit
Dealing with the difficult days and lives so many Christians have in
their testimony these days:
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Are we our own architect of our own misery?
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Going to accept your lot in life - Proverbs 16:33"The
lot is cast into the lap;..."-
or are you going to allow God to get you out of it - "...
but
the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD"?
Not willing to allow God to work in your life?
(review from SS lesson)
Ephesians 4:12,13 -
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the
edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of
the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man,
unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Colossians 4:12
- Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always
labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete
in all the will of God.
I Thessalonians 3:10
- Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and
might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
II Timothy 3:17-
That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
Colossians 3:14 - And
above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Philippians 3:12 -Not
as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow
after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of
Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:3 -
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect
by the flesh?
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Look at yourself in a higher plane than you ought to?
True, we are a great
work of God since we trusted Christ!
But we have not arrived yet - we have not landed yet! We have
plenty of building
left to do!
PS - if you don't think you are very prideful, then you are probably
more prideful than you want to realize. We have been TAUGHT to be
prideful - USA - Homeschooled - church - KJB, etc.
This looking at ourselves more than we should...
So you have a sincere faith - and do you 'avoid the stain of unconfessed
sin"
Do you believe that now that you are pure, then all things are pure
to you and what you do will alwyas be pure in God's eyes, etc.?
Where do folks get this present purity concept today?
Over claiming - wrongly dividing and over application of
Philippians 4:8; I Timothy 1:5,19; 3:9; 5:22; II Timothy 2:22
Do not condemn yourself
Romans 14:22
Pride of life is of the world
I John 2:16
Pride in yourself - like the wicked?
Psalm 10:4-6
Don't think too highly of folks!
I Corinthians 4:6,7
Why do we still need teachers, preachers, etc.
I Corinthians 4:17-19
Why do folks get angry back at us? or these messages on GC, Music,
KJB, etc. I am not angry at them for their answers... etc.
I may not want to talk anymore about it - or debate, etc.
2Tm:2:23: But
foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
Ti:3:9: But
avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings
about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Don't 'rejoice' at another's fall!
I Corinthians 5:1,2
also see Galatians 6:1,2
We have knowlege? in part in that reference
I Corinthians 8:1
Today? the Book has it all!
Do you believe that or is Bible Believing not what it used to be?
Conceit?
For I would not, brethren, that ye should
be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits;
that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the
Gentiles be come in. Romans 11:25
Proverbs 18:10-12 -The
name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and
is safe. The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall
in his own conceit. Before destruction the heart of man is haughty,
and before honour is humility.
Proverbs 26:4,5 -
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Proverbs 26:12
- Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of
a fool than of him.
Proverbs 28:11 -
The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding
searcheth him out.
WE TEND TO FORGET...
WHO WE WERE...
WHO WE ARE...
HOW WE GOT HERE...
WHERE WE ARE GOING...
WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO US BETWEEN NOW AND THEN...
WHAT IT IS GOING TO BE LIKE THEN!
Colossians 4:25