MAY 27, 2015

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"BE YE STEADFAST, UNMOVEABLE, ALWAYS ABOUNDING IN THE WORK OF THE LORD..."

1 COR 15:58

"BE READY ALWAYS TO GIVE AN ANSWER...”

1 PETER 3:15

"WHY TARRY? ARISE AND BE BAPTIZED, AND WASH AWAY THY SINS...”

ACTS 22:16

"FEED THE CHURCH OF GOD WHICH HE HAS PURCHASED WITH HIS OWN BLOOD”

ACTS 20:28

"IN TIMES PAST YOU YE WALKED ACCORDING TO THE COURSE OF THIS WORLD..."

EPHESIANS 2:2

"BUT OF THAT DAY AND HOUR KNOWETH NO MAN...”

MATTHEW 24:36

"BAPTISM DOTH ALSO NOW SAVE US...”

1 PETER 3:21

"BURIED WITH HIM IN BAPTISM..."

COLOSSIANS 2:12

1 Peter 3:21

The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

CHAPTER 5

HERE IS WHAT EPHESIANS 2: 8-9 says

8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

WHAT IS THE CONTEXT OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2?

EPIPHANY?

EPIPHANY?

(SUDDEN AND PROFOUND UNDERSTANDING OF SOMETHING)

EPIPHANY?

(SUDDEN AND PROFOUND UNDERSTANDING OF SOMETHING)

IN MIKE’S CASE: THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTEXT AND THE DANGER OF WRESTING THE SCRIPTURES.

OTHER VERSES RANDALL QUOTED IN CHAPTER 5:

2 Timothy 2:15Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

OTHER VERSES RANDALL QUOTED IN CHAPTER 5:

Ephesians 2:15Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;

OTHER VERSES RANDALL QUOTED IN CHAPTER 5:

Ephesians 2: 10-22

(EXPLAINS THE CONTEXT OF THE CHAPTER)

OTHER VERSES RANDALL QUOTED IN CHAPTER 5:

Galatians 5:4Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

OTHER VERSES RANDALL QUOTED IN CHAPTER 5:

James 2:24Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

OTHER VERSES RANDALL QUOTED IN CHAPTER 5:

James 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

OTHER VERSES RANDALL QUOTED IN CHAPTER 5:

James 2:19Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

OTHER VERSES RANDALL QUOTED IN CHAPTER 5:2 Peter 3:16As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

CHAPTER 6

The Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

ACTS 2: 47

And he is the head of the body, the church:

COL 1: 18

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

EPH 5: 23

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

EPH 4: 4

IS THE CHURCH A DENOMINATION?

IS THE CHURCH A DENOMINATION?

DENOMINATIONS ARE DIVISIONS OF THE ORIGINAL BODY THAT CHRIST GAVE HIS BLOOD TO PURCHASE

IS THE CHURCH A DENOMINATION?

DENOMINATIONS ARE DIVISIONS OF THE ORIGINAL BODY THAT CHRIST GAVE HIS BLOOD TO PURCHASE (ACTS 20:28)

HOW MANY ARKS DID NOAH BUILD?

WAS ANYONE SAVED OUTSIDE THE ARK?

HOW IS THE LORD’S CHURCH SIMILAR TO THE ARK?

20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

HOW IS THE LORD’S CHURCH SIMILAR TO THE ARK?

HOW IS THE LORD’S CHURCH SIMILAR TO THE ARK?

ONE ARK – ONE CHURCH

HOW IS THE LORD’S CHURCH SIMILAR TO THE ARK?

WOOD & WATER

HOW IS THE LORD’S CHURCH SIMILAR TO THE ARK?

DOOR ON THE SIDE (GEN 6:16)

HOW IS THE LORD’S CHURCH SIMILAR TO THE ARK?

DOOR WAS OPEN UNTIL GOD CLOSED IT.

HOW IS THE LORD’S CHURCH SIMILAR TO THE ARK?

PURPOSE OF THE ARK AND THE CHURCH

HOW IS THE LORD’S CHURCH SIMILAR TO THE ARK?

PURPOSE OF THE ARK AND THE CHURCH

TO SAVE

HOW IS THE LORD’S CHURCH SIMILAR TO THE ARK?

GOD SENT THE SAVIOUR

HOW IS THE LORD’S CHURCH SIMILAR TO THE ARK?

DIMENSIONS:

HOW IS THE LORD’S CHURCH SIMILAR TO THE ARK?

DIMENSIONS: THE LENGTH OF THE HUMAN BODY IS SIX TIMES ITS BREADTH FROM SIDE TO SIDE, AND TEN TIMES ITS DEPTH OR THICKNESS MEASURING FROM BACK TO FRONT.(300 BY 50 BY 30)

Acts 2:47

47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

Colossians 1:18

18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

Ephesians 4:4

4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

Ephesians 5:2

2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.